Artillery setup

[Dog Soldier]

Setup status per the optional rule refers only to indirect fire. The rule is meant to consider time to place the guns in service with sufficient ammunition for a fire mission, positioning forward observers and establishing communications between the FO's and the battery.

Firing over open sights at a target in LOS is not odd at all. Check the pdt for the title. Some sides have a penalty (less than 100%) modifier for indirect fire. Firing at a target over open sights while the target is in LOS allows full fire effect.

An example would be Russian artillery in Smolensk 41. It can take a long time for a Russian battery to set up. There can be many times when the German advance breaks the line and brings Axis units into LOS of the Russian artillery.

It would be odd indeed to see those guns sitting idle and not firing at German units advancing on their position, either defensive fire or offensive fire in the Russian turn should the player wish to do so. As long as they are "Available" status, they should be able to blaze away to disrupt the advancing enemy.

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