Opportunity Fire - will not work

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Also, please read this thread;

https://www.theblitz.club/message_boards...?tid=70960


There are a number of deeper considerations for opportunity fire. I have not played the Campaign Series for a long time and though the interface is the same there maybe some material differences in execution.

ComradeP does a good job explaining some of the key considerations for opportunity fire. The first is that if you are spotted, no matter what you put the op fire to, it will over ride it. Keep in mind this setting is essentially for the defensive fire phase of the other players turn and is telling the AI whether to reveal a hidden unit and fire. If you're not hidden than you will potentially fire.

The other wrinkle is that the second player cannot adjust his op fire values until his turn and some units may have potentially fired during the first players turn (revealing themselves), leaving the second player with no control to adjust. The only way to fix this is to get out of LOS and the op fore values will then take effect. The problem here is, what is out of LOS? The enemy may have a hidden unit that can see you so you never know. The code does know this and will flag you as spotted but you won't use it.

Getting op fire during a scenario is a lot harder than you think.

Read the thread and then see whether some of the conditions mentioned apply to the situation you're seeing. (there are more threads - search 'opportunity fire' in this forum).

David

David