The Competition & Teaser Thread

[Strela]

1-if i dont understand bad now units are allways hide until they shot or you recon them... well, recon spotting is 100% effective or it can fail because there is certain parameter to control how it works (i think is not the same spot a company hide in a forest than spot a platoon in a village apart the diferent cover values in terrain).

Firstly, here is the definition of Recon Spotting;

With one or more recon units selected, this command will attempt to spot enemy units within the Line-of-Sight of the selected units at the cost of 1/3 of the movement allowance of the units. The probability of spotting the enemy units will depend on the distance from the recon unit to the enemy unit, the terrain that the enemy unit is in, the strength of the recon unit, and its quality and fatigue.

So line of sight is required and nothing is guaranteed. Importantly the action of Recon Spotting will usually reveal the Recon unit. If a player has left a recon unit forward to observe it is better to adjust its ratings to 'Never' for all categories to prevent it firing and revealing itself.

The other important point is that units are only hidden if they are in 'cover'. Finding cover is not always as easy as you'd expect and it's harder the more units you're trying to conceal.

2-if you move close to enemy without spot and you try move into an occupied hex you assault them or you simple cant enter in hex??? in first option you assault with full value or suffer some penalty??? and in second option enemy shoot you when you spot them???.

The way the game currently works is that the moving units will attempt to assault if it has enough movement points. If there is insufficient movement points then it is blocked from moving into the hex. The disadvantage is that if the player chooses to complete the assault they have no idea what unit(s) it's assaulting with the risk that the odds could be devastatingly bad. The only softening fire that could be used on the hex would be artillery and that is 1/4 for attacking an 'empty' hex. Cancelling an assault is possible, but the player has no idea what is in the hex unless the opponent reveals the defenders. I rationalise the above as the knowledge that something is in the hex but what will not be revealed until either player chooses to press the attack.

3-Raiders... something stupid, if you shot over a vehicle with raiders what value is used in attack over them??? you shoot a tank (hard target) but raiders are soft targets... you use both attack values but hard over tank and soft over raiders???

Soft attack values are used on the Tank riders while the hard attack values on the vehicle. As mentioned earlier in the thread, there is unlimited defensive fire. Each hex moved the firing unit will decide to shoot at either the vehicle or the riders and use the appropriate attack value. All of this can be modified by the AOF matrix. In the example given above, AT Guns would only shoot at the vehicles not the riders.

4-and again talking about raiders, what type of targer is a tank unit with raiders in OF??? is hard target because there are tanks or is soft??? i think in mortars, you have them set as never attack tanks but tanks have raiders and you have medium range here... the clasic tactic of separate infantry and tanks, how works here oportunity fire???.

Explained in three above I think. In the example you quote the mortars would only target vehicles with infantry riders and not tanks without.

As far as the 'Final Countdown', as they say in the software industry... "Two Weeks"!!

David