SCOUTING

[Mike Abberton]

Another great use for the negative reinforcement would be opening barrages where a commander might have a lot of artillery (regimental, divisional, corps or even army level assets) for an opening barrage to prep an area, but he wouldn't have all those assets for the whole battle where they would be unbalancing.

It would be great to have "negative" smoke rounds for the same reason, to represent smoke barrages tied to those opening barrages, but not present with local assets for the whole battle. That way you could give somebody a large amount of smoke to start with, say 100 for talking purposes, and on turn 5 you loose 90 smoke rounds when the divisional arty drops out that represent "non-local" smoke rounds, and if that drops you to zero smoke or negative no smoke for the rest of the scenario. That way you give your initial assault troops a lot of smoke to cover themselves, without allowing engineers to smoke up turn after turn after turn during the rest of the scenario.

Also, since I am assuming that any negative reinforcements (units or smoke rounds or whatever) would be scenario dependent, so they don't disrupt existing scenarios.

Good idea, KKR.

Mike