Axis morters in M44 - not acting as morters??

[Glenn Saunders]

The reason this unit is designated as Arty and NOT Mortar is because in teh game engine, since Normandy, Mortars are designated a REGIMENT Support weapon. This means your could have a mortar in an Inf or PzGr Regiment and it would fire support ONLY for units of the Regiment it is part of and NOT other Regiments of the same division.

So, because this mortar unit is not part of a regiment other than teh unit itself, if we made it a MORTAR unit there would be NO Arty spotters for it - because the spotters are other units of the Regiment, of which the only units are other Mortar units of the same formation.

When you think about it - the purpose of or ARTY SETUP has less to do with the time it takes to put the guns in line and more about the time it takes to establish Comms with the front line units for the purpose of calling down the fire. You would think that within a Regiment these lines of comm would be in place right away.

So having to SETUP this unit is not a bad thing.

The only side effect I saw when I did this was the unit won't make a MORTAR Sound when it fires.

Glenn