atry not on target

[McIvan]

Where the spotting round falls bears no resemblance to where the barrage will fall.....which makes intuitive sense when you think about it, because surely the spotting round is fired so that fire can be adjusted from it.

The only thing that matters in CM is that the first spotting round is actaully fired. Thats at 1 min for med/heavy arty and at 30 sec for lighter stuff. If that is fired, your mission will be on target.

Ignore the second spotting round fired at 30 sec by med/hev arty, it's just a meaningless bit of game fluff.

Once your barrage is off target, I don't believe adjustments make a predicatable difference, but they do offer the chance to deviate randomly back to approx the right spot. Personally I cancel, wait and re-target.