Feature requests

[ComradeP]

s I think I may know what is causing this.

A unit that is recon spotted may begin to fire in it's own defense from that point on - despite being unaware it has been recon spotted. This only happens when a ground based recon does the spotting (not recon aircraft). This will happen even if the fire range is set to never. It will only fire at a unit in it's LOS from my experience to date

I talked this through with John and he was concerned that by forcing a unit to maintain the never status after being spotted might create some screwy situations. The assumption was that usually once spotted a unit would be fired on and it would normally drop the op fire rating.

DogSoldier you can test this with the Kursk test file I sent you today...

David

I've had another instance where an artillery unit that I specifically told not to fire, fired during the enemy turn, and it didn't involve recon spotting.

The unit was spotted by counterbattery fire, so maybe that matters, but it's very annoying to have artillery expose themselves to counterbattery fire spotting when you tell them not to fire.

Some scenarios have defending artillery units close to the frontline for unclear reasons, like in the Operation Epsom Day 1 game I'm currently playing, and it increases losses from counterbattery fire. It could be that the positions are historical, I just find it odd that the Nebelwerfers and even the howitzers are located just ~3 kilometres from the initial frontline.

With interdiction at 15%, it's costly to move them and with high counterbattery spotting chances due to how close they are to enemy units, it's costly for them to fire. Without being able to tell them not to fire in a way that "sticks", the units will take severe losses even more quickly.