atry not on target

[Colonel Talvela]

Here's what most likely happened in that situation.
The "spotting round" (before fire for effect is called in) has landed out side the spotters view. Therefore the art. observer was unable to call in a correction. The result is a random barrage, etc..

I am pretty sure it doesnt have anything to do with where the spotting round lands. It has to do with the FO's LOS to the target spot the instant the spotting round lands.

much more details here - battlefront discussion

[Tanker]

Question:
In a QB i bought a soviet regular spotter (75mm 100 round) In the game i targeted it (blue line!!) and waited the full 5 minutes. After this time rounds started impacting some 300 meters behind the target!
After the minut playtime i retarget it some meters (green line) and waited again. Amazing/frustrating again 300 meters miss! Now i'm almost out of round and got not a single round on target. Someone an explanation for this???:conf:

greets Owl

If this is happening in our match OWL I'd like to say I'm sorry but I can't.:P

[Soldier]

[Colonel Talvela]

The spotter calls in the co ordinance for the exact spot, where he wants the barrage to land, as he figures them to be from his map, etc. The artillery battery fires one spotting round for the spotter to double check whether they are on Q or not.
When or if the spotter sees the round land, (usually missing the intended target area) he calls in a correction, usually in yards/meters and compass direction east south etc.

Now if that spotting round lands out of the spotters sight, he can not possibly make this correction. The artillery battery officer will use the co ordinance given to him and fire at full effect. Ussually missing the intended target by far and wide..
Now that is my "amateur" understanding of how it works.. :-)

maybe in RL that is how it works - but not in CM.

[Soldier]

Don't have the manual to check on that, but you're probably right.
The CM game treats such issues in a very general way. A simple percentage is usually applied, irregardless of whether the spotter sees the spotting round land or not.. :-)

[JonnyEnglish]

I think in CM, the spotting round falls in the centre of the impending barrage - usually at the end of a turn replay. If it's woefully off then you've got a chance to cancel the fire order & start from scratch.

This from Treeburst on the Battefront 'tips' forum:

http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/ultim...7;t=002018

[McIvan]

Where the spotting round falls bears no resemblance to where the barrage will fall.....which makes intuitive sense when you think about it, because surely the spotting round is fired so that fire can be adjusted from it.

The only thing that matters in CM is that the first spotting round is actaully fired. Thats at 1 min for med/heavy arty and at 30 sec for lighter stuff. If that is fired, your mission will be on target.

Ignore the second spotting round fired at 30 sec by med/hev arty, it's just a meaningless bit of game fluff.

Once your barrage is off target, I don't believe adjustments make a predicatable difference, but they do offer the chance to deviate randomly back to approx the right spot. Personally I cancel, wait and re-target.