Alternate Artillery Rule

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Hi All,

Have been experimenting with this and finding that it does a good job at representing final protective fire etc. It also forces the attacker to think twice before he stacks multiple battalions in a hex.

What I am confused about is the rationale for the attack strength. The help file says that the attack factor is doubled and multiplied by the number of guns and the result is applied against all units in the hex. An artillery piece only fires once per phase.

Why would the factor be doubled? Wouldn't it make more sense to leave the factor as is and double the number of guns and apply the result to all units in hex?

The current way suddenly makes guns much more effective against armour etc because a hard factor of 5 suddenly becomes 10.

Any one help with the rationale for the current rule?

Thanks,

David