Russkies in Oklahoma!

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(Spam master? Good thing I'm a monty Python fan!)

Technically, the reference is to the e-mail practice rather than the canned meat product beloved by the 1944-5 Red Army and unhinged Britons. (Although one has to wonder how exactly the latter usage evolved into the former.) Still, I have the sneaking suspicion that you've been called much, much worse. ;) Perhaps by myself a time or two, in fact. Possibly last night, actually ...

But now for something completely different; the LOS thingie. LOS can sometimes shift a tiny bit. Has to do with rounding off in the code; if the LOS skirts the edges off a couple of wooded hexes for example, do they count as blocking LOS or not? The way the code calculates whether there is a LOS or not can be influenced by the tiniest of effects (0.499 becoming 0.501 so to say).
Can also happen with partial smoke effects. What happens is that each hex has a partial smoke score depending on smoke generating effects taking place in it. When that score gets high enough you see the wispy, barely there, thin smoke appear and as more partial smoke points are generated it gets thicker and thicker.
But it also mean a hex can have a partial smoke score without any visible smoke on the screen yet. Normally that's not a problem but if there are several of such hexes you can lose LOS.

That's sort of what I figure must have happened. I frequently see LOS contract after a single round fired from a tank's main gun; the small increment of smoke tipped the formula under a borderline value to see that far.

But the only round fired twixt time point A and B was the RPG round, and they generally are minimal smoke generators in my experience. As in, I can't ever recall an RPG generating smoke, or spotting one from the smoke signature, etc. Must have been an extraordinarily borderline value.

While you're at it: Have I just been oblivious to the fact that ground attack planes won't follow a V flight path? It occurs to me that there's often no replay after the attack run (if no ground fire occurs), so I might have missed this little detail a few dozen times.

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