Quick Question - Off Board Artillery & Defensive Fire

[Strela]

All,

John is working through the bug list I sent him.

One of the 'bugs' we have highlighted is that off-board artillery never fires in the defensive fire phase. Essentially it is only usable in the phasing players turn.

I was not aware of this until recently.

I have been asked to get players opinions (quickly) before we enact any change. If we allow off-board artillery to fire in the defensive fire phase, it will probably favour the Allies as they tend to have more artillery (much of which is off-map).

Personally, I believe this should be allowed as essentially the same spotters and communication nets were used whether the artillery is on or off-map. If I had known of this variation we would have probably put at least all divisional guns on map and had corps & naval guns off map, reflecting their lesser amount of flexibility.

Let me know your thoughts (quickly!)

David