FO's or On Map Guns?

[Ratzki]

The Soviets out produced the Germans by more than four times as many mortars and the Germans split their production between fronts. Which says we probably don't have enough Soviet mortars portrayed in our scenarios. It also says they could afford to use them for direct fire 4 times as much as the Germans could.

I agree entirely, I just did a quick calculation with stats for a Russian Rifle Division in early '41. I took the total number of 82mm Mortars and 76mm Guns and then just divided by 3 to break down by regiment and then by 3 again to come up with what might be an acceptable number for a Battalion sized battle. I came up with a 76mm 4 tube FO at Division level, a 76mm field gun, and 8x 82mm Mortars spread through the Regiment. All this for just 3 companies of infantry. I did not include the 120mm Mortars, or larger artillery. Russian divisions did vary by equipment from one division to another, but I think this would be not far off as a rule of thumb for one Battalion, as far as light artillery is concerned.
Yes once you get to 105mm, it must make one heck of a boom when the shell hits. The American priests were pretty soft skinned, I would think that they avoided H2H encounters with enemy armour.
There was a video with audio somewhere on the net filmed by some Taliban that are on the recieving end of some American 105mm shells. I will see if I can find it, the first time I listened to it with the headset on, I found myself ducking every now and then. Very impressive, the sound scares the crap outa ya.