German off map counter battery advice wanted!

[Narwan]

Did some more digging into this range thing for offmap arty. It's abstracted too. It's not direct representation for actual range like for onmap units. It doesn't have to be as each offmap battery can hit any hex on the map. It's only use is for determining offmap CB capacity against other offmap batteries. So a range of 220 for an offmap battery doesn't mean the guns have a max range of 11000 meters, it just means it can CB fire against batteries with a range of up to 219. That's why the offmap ranges start at 200 and slowly work their way up (there seems to be a max value it can have too so they all have to be measured into a narrow range of values).

Offmap batteries are categorized into groups and given a 'range' corresponding to the general category. So types with the same 'range' in the game can have a different range in reality. Why? Well if a type had just 500m more range than the enemies types it would mean it needed to be in exactly that uppermost 500m range for it to be able to fire on the enemy without the enemy being able to fire back. So if that gun was given a longer range in the game it would gamewise be assumed to ALWAYS be in that 500m interval distance. That would be silly. So guns are placed into general categories.

As to the 17cm K18, I've seen 4 different max ranges for it sofar after a bit of searching all apparantly depending on which of four types of ammo are being fired. So it does indeed look like the range in the game is linked to a specific ammo type (and not the one with the biggest range).
A super longrange CB variant of the 17cm offmap battery with more range but a lower HEK and WH size in addition to the one already in the game would seem to be a viable option (especially as this task was what the type was originally intended to do) but the german OB is already filled to capacity so another unit would have to go make room for it. Not something the designers are eager to do, I'm afraid...


Narwan