Artillery plotting??

[Mad Russian]

1) The FO must stay in good order the entire time. He cannot have been disrupted, broken or even pinned. You cannot voluntarily hide him either.

True,but from my knowledge if the FO is disrupted,the arty strike will be canceled,not fall in some other undesired place.

2) the FO must see the SPOTTING ROUND!!!! If for some reason the spotting round falls out of LOS then the mission is sent to random impact.

Again,i believe this is slightly incorrect.I thought the FO must have los to the targeted place when the spotting round lands,and not to the place where the spotting round fails?

3) He must see the impact area the entire time from plot, to spotting round to impact as well. If smoke/dust of any kind gets between him and the impact area it will break the impact area and make it random.

And for the third time i must disagree The FO must have los to the target only when the spotting round lands.Not before and i believe not after as well.You can for example,plot the strike without having los to the target and the arty strike will land as desired if at the moment when the spotting round will land you have los.

You can disagree if you like.

I was explaining why the rounds he fired may be falling on his own troops.

I'm open to another suggestion.

Tell me this then..if only the impact area is important why does CM have spotting rounds? To adjust the fire. If the FO can't see the spotting round he can't adjust the fire. SO, no LOS to the spotting round and you go to random impact.

At least that's been my experience. Maybe you have another reason that his fire is landing on his own troops and his FO can see the impact area?

I seem to be a bit confused by your post...in the first part you say that the spotting round doesn't have to be seen and then in part 3 you say it must be?

Good Hunting.

MR