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| Author: | Gary McClellan [ Mon May 10, 2004 1:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Ethics of Indirect Fire |
Gents, with the "Indirect Fire" option on some guns that we first saw in F&I, I've found myself doing something I'm not entirely comfortable with. For example, I'm currently fighting Gen. Walter in a campaign scenario at Montreal, and if you remember, there is (on the large map, not just the Plains Map) a large forest to the SW of the city. Currently, we are having a right brawl in the woods down there. I have 4-5 guns or sections that are capable of indirect fire in the area, and I've been firing them, generally firing 2 hexes deeper than his troops, so that any "shorts" fall on Dierk's front line.. and hopefully picking up either his second line, or his rally points for routed troops otherwise. Not so much that I want to keep hammering his routers, but that I want to be sure I don't "short" onto myself. Well, I freely admit doing this, but it leaves me somewhat bothered. No doubt that those large guns could indeed fire random projectiles, and that those shells would quite often hit nothing but air. However, even with the scatter, we have a precision of shooting that is ahistorical. I mean, how would my gunners who are a good 10-12 hexes from the woods know how far my troops are into the woods (5-6 hexes in most places), in order to target their shots so perfectly. Have I done Gen. Walter a grave injustice? |
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