D85 Thermal sights question

[JDR Dragoon]

At VIS 2, the TIS bonus and the penalty for firing at 2 hex range cancels each other out. In other words a unit w. TIS will hit as hard as if it was adjacent, while the opponent (provided he has 2 hex HA range) gets doubly penalized (halved for firing at 2 hexes, then halved again for firing at a TIS unit). The real winners here are Guided units, who retain their full HA at range and then gets the 50% TIS bonus. Suddenly those small 10-12 vehicle ATGM companies get some real punch. The AH64 Apache is especially deadly, since it has HA 45, range 3 and TIS (and VIS 3 might conceivably be encountered a lot of times during the day, meaning that it will hit w. HA 45+50%!). As for visibility, I have had MC games w. VIS of 2 and even 1, even during daylight hours (inclement weather etc.)