The Competition & Teaser Thread

[ComradeP]

Steel Panthers uses, IIRC, a 50 meter hex scale. A single tank could indeed cover a hex with smoke, but keep in mind that only late war German tanks had grenade launchers/smoke dischargers and other vehicles would depend on smoke ammo or smoke grenades thrown by the crew.

Before you say "5 tanks would be able to cover a 250 meter area in Steel Panthers": yes, but it's only 50 meters deep, which is why I agree with the decision to limit smoke to artillery only. Considering that the unit could be anywhere within the 250x250 meter hex, it wouldn't be realistic if it could cover the entire hex. Like Dog Soldier said, it would also be too complicated to track what units have smoke cover and what units don't if all it would mean in game terms is a slightly reduced chance of being hit.

Obviously, there's still some suspension of disbelief abstraction involved probably as I'm guessing 1 artillery piece could deliver the same amount of smoke as an entire battery, namely 1 hex worth of smoke.

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I forgot to ask, Strela, but regarding this comment of yours:

This has been fixed by having LOS only blocked by units that are 50% or more than the stacking limit.

So if you have a (stack of) unit(s) that's more than 50% of the stacking limit in size in front, followed by some other unit, and the unit/stack in front "sidesteps" allowing the unit behind it to fire before the first echelon unit/stack moves back to its position or back in front of the other unit, the defender can only ever target the second echelon unit with automatic return fire (if any)?