The Competition & Teaser Thread

[Strela]

In regard to artillery; who can be used as a spotter? Hopefully not every unit can spot as that would not be very realistic, particularly with smaller platoon sized units that would almost certainly not be equipped with radios.

Jim,

It's dependent on the level of the 'artillery' piece. If its a Divisional gun then yes, technically all units in the Division can call the fire in. That said, artillery uses the alternative artillery rule from PzC. That means each artillery piece can only fire once but can hit all units in a hex. There is actually a surprisingly small amount of artillery fires in game as most artillery starts at a minimum at battery strength and usually at full battalion (12 guns). Mortars and direct firing infantry guns do not use the alternative artillery rules.

There is also a number of flags in the OB that allow the designer to turn on or off whether a mortar only supports it's local organisation or the next level up. For example the HW Company mortars mentioned previously would only support the HW company unless the flag is turned on. Then it would support the whole battalion.

Finally regarding spotters there is a very nice feature added into the Artillery Dialog that allows you to highlight spotting units on the fly. Simplifies life a lot.....

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I'm wondering about supply. Can units run out of ammo? What about reupply? Many was the time a unit could fire through their ammo in a short period of heavy combat.

Yes units can run out of ammo and go low fuel, artillery can go low availability. That said this is WIP currently and less of an issue at this scale than at a PzC's scale. See the note above regarding isolation.

David