experimental rules in MBT

[klanx171]

I dont plan to biff spanners into the works but I do know that in real life many units do not have FOOs, FOOS are obviously specialist units and I spent a lotta time in the bush and i never saw one, we called it in ourselves as many infantry units do and did, FOOs were useally assigned at battalion level and only lower if the arty boys had them to spare or felt that there would be a need for pin point fire. Also as a point One battery would have one FOO, lesser concentraions of guns would be run upstairs to battalion (not common) or useally assigned to a company comander.

The point Im making here is that the average soldier (at least in NZ) can do fire orders, or at least relayed the fire orders back to base where the FOO sat with aheap o radios and switched channels to route calls, much like a switchboard, I assume soldiers in other parts of the world can do the same and so while I use FOOs ingame as they are faster and seem to be more accurate they are not a requirement for artillery in real life

This is even more so in cities or close quarters where a FOO has little or no more use than any one else calling in the shots as it will be guess work.

Again Im makin point to reality here, not to any particular rules you guys are making, I can definately appreciate rule changes but this seems to me to be a bit of an add on, also in games why shouldnt we plaster different parts of the board at random with arty, In the game we are GOD so to speak, we are not the grunts or the company commander but the gnereal at least, should we not be able to call in fire where we want (the ruskies in WW2 often did, sometimes overrding those on the ground)???

I think that as with grumbler talking about CnC this is for when its CnC on, as the realism is a need to mamage forces in a realistci way is required but non CnC games there are hordes of other aspect which are bending if not breaking reqality, such as tanks more than there useally were, often more arty than there were, the super heavy stuff like 150mm and above was rare yet we use it a lot, always the best tanks coz if you take less your nailed by your opp etc etc.