Low Ammo OOB

[2ndLt_Fjun]

It's more of a feeling I got that smoke wasn't as heavily used in the real WW2 as it is in the SPWW2 game. The Camo version is indeed much better but still every turn ends with lots of infantry smoke grenades going off to cover every unit in sight (I'm quite good at it myself.. :) ). I've read plenty of books and extremely seldom found that kind of tactics being used. Came through it a couple of times for bunker busting (often pioneers/special units), smoking up the entrances and then moving in to blow it up, but very seldom as it is used here in infantry to infantry fighting. Arty smoke is also used now and then. Also have some experience from my time in the army, and usually the smoke cleared very fast and never lingered the way it does in the game to completely obscure vision for that long.

And it's also to get some sort of real feeling to it due to the "I go You go"-system limitations.. your infantry can charge forward, shoot wildly, and then cover up in smoke without any chance for your opponent to do any harm back during the next turn. I kind of like z-fire because it gives machine guns the importance they had for real (even though some aspects are "gamey"). I think reducing smoke ammo would give reading terrain and LOS bigger importance, which I like.