Mortars in SB

[jmlima]

If I am correct, Mortars suffer from the effectiveness drop as they are used same as most other weapons in SB. The effectiveness drop of SB weapons has been a sore point off and on over the years and I have come to appreciate it, and live with it as it is a decent abstraction for combat stress, injury, weapon issues, rate of fire reduction, etc. That said, for weapons such as Mortars where the unit is generally behind the line of contact I would think the Status (effectiveness) should only be affected by counter or direct fire...but use should not affect Status. Instead, I would prefer to see a limit on the number of rounds available...guess the same would go for any indirect arty. What do you guys think?

Indirect arty should only be designed as off map support, so loads and effectiveness do not really apply.

Discrete ammo tracking would be useful, including for vehicles, but alas it's not there, so...