82mm MTRS - Bogadukhov

[ComradeP]

Due to the way gun units are represented in the game, they're a lot weaker than their historical counterparts. Artillery is not what causes most casualties.

I meant that the unit itself is too small to do much when broken down or unable to combine. They're usually 2, 3 or 4 gun units, which means 20, 30 or 40 men worth of firepower. Combine them to a 8 gun/80 men unit and they will at least do something.

The McNamara ratings for guns and vehicles might make sense based on their calibre and relative effectiveness, but in game terms they're weak compared to infantry.

The 82mm's have the same SA rating as motorized PzG units, but they can only fire twice and they're smaller. That means they cause fewer losses.

Furthermore, artillery fire is modified by unit size in some way. That means fire values against small units will be low.

I just ran a test with an 8 gun mortar unit and an 80 men PzG unit (weakened 96 men unit, the infantry casualty fire modifier was 93%, so it fired like a 89 men unit) firing at a ~30 men AT Rifle platoon. The mortar fire value was 8. The PzG fire value was 61.