Alternate Scenario fire values

[Andrew]

"It looks like if I change this formula then the minimum hard attack for all guns of 105mm or less (except for a few mountain guns) will change to 2 and the 150mm will change from 2 to anywhere from 3 to 5. Also, some other guns will exceed 5, in particular the rocket type artillery should see a large increase (saturation fire I guess?)."

Sounds like a good step forward!!!!! Glad I had my little rant. I will do a bit of digging around to find some accounts illustrating my point. Problem of course is that it will be annecdotal evidence vs the more quantitative approach in the revised DB.

Was actually wondering about direct fire too but didn't say anything. Would USA 105's using DF on tanks be a "1"? Re 25 lb'ers, I have read of infrequent encounters (in the desert mainly) where 25lb'ers did fire over open sights at tanks with good effect I understand, so annecdotally the 5 sounds good. For the soft AF, the 25lber was only 95mm if I recall so if using the weight of shot it was roughly proportional with the soft AF for say a 105mm (which I don't recall of the top of my head) sounds OK.

An increase from 1 to 2 doubles effectiveness doesn't it? Sounds significant to me!

Anyway, sorry for causing the extra work and thanks for being open to discussion. I think it is worth revisiting the numbers.

Cheers
Andrew