Artillery plotting??

[Mad Russian]

Actually the impact zone for artillery is the last thing that affects where it lands.

There are only three things that govern if an artillery plot lands where you want it and seeing the impact area is not one of them.

1) The FO must stay in good order the entire time. He cannot have been disrupted, broken or even pinned. You cannot voluntarily hide him either.

2) the FO must see the SPOTTING ROUND!!!! If for some reason the spotting round falls out of LOS then the mission is sent to random impact.

3) He must see the impact area the entire time from plot, to spotting round to impact as well. If smoke/dust of any kind gets between him and the impact area it will break the impact area and make it random.

I'm guessing from what you said about the results your FO didn't see the spotting round.

AND you can NEVER adjust a random artillery mission!!! You must completely replot it from the beginning or it continues to fire right where it landed the first time.


Hope this helps.

Good Hunting.

MR