Set up for Katushya's

[Dog Soldier]

It has nothing to do with the unit being truck mounted rockets. I think you have the optional artillery set up rule on in your Smolensk 41 game.

Check the pdt file for S41 (F4 while in the game) and you will see the Russian artillery setup percentage is only 20%, the worst of any side in the entire series.

Only a masochist or pure historian would play S41 using the artillery set up optional rule with a live opponent. While it might give the right feel for historical purposes, it makes playing the Russian side like being the pinata at a party. Good luck hoping to avoid the bat!

In S41 the best weapon the Russians have is their artillery. So if you really want to use the artillery setup OR in S41, expect to send your artillery racing for that next MLD you are constructing with the copious amounts of reserves the Russians have in the game. As in the historical campaign, that next MLD better be at least a day away from the currently crumbling MLD and the Axis forces to give your artillery a chance to be set up when the Germans arrive.

The other option is to fire your artillery over open sights in LOS of German units. They will not be terribly effective that way. Nor will they live long. Expect a visit from the NKVD at your command center when the Germans pause at the end of the scenario. :cheeky:

Dog Soldier

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Alchol or incompetence or perhaps some of both :conf:. For some guns I can almost understand the slow set up time but the Kats are just very simple launchers mounted on the back of Studabaker trucks. Just doesnt make sense.

Consider instead the officer who goes off in front of the battery to observe the terrain and approach of the enemy, is never heard from again. In game terms the battery does not "set up" for indirect fire.

Dog Soldier