The Competition & Teaser Thread

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I'm not certain what the issue is?

Not entirely sure if you're referring to what GerryM and Liebchen mentioned or what I mentioned.

I think the game models sloping terrain fairly well even at a 1km scale, but I feel line of sight being blocked by a vertical obstacle shouldn't be treated in the same way as it being blocked by sloping terrain as vertical obstacle like a group of trees blocks the entire "cone" of the line of sight, not just a small part of it.

What you mentioned. The point I was trying to make is that PzC Moscow '42 has 50 metre elevation differentials. The highest obstacle in a hex in 10 metres high. To be honest I'm not certain on the actual mechanics, but assuming a height determination is done at the centre of a hex then its easy to see a 100 metre hex from a 50 metre hex that has an intervening hex that is 60 metres high (50 metre base +10 metres for obstacles).

Two questions about opportunity fire and the spotted/hidden mechanic:

-When you explained that a unit will "override" the opportunity fire settings the player dictates if spotted, did you mean: if fired upon, considering that you imply there's no automatic detection when a unit is spotted?

-To further that point: if there's no automatic detection of whether a unit is spotted, how does the release mechanic for fixed units work? Does the fixed unit need to spot something himself, for example, instead of being spotted like in PzC (so the other way around of the PzC system)?

Firstly, this is a brand new feature that we are still trying out all the variants.

I just setup what you suggested. Two hexes with a fixed AT gun & infantry platoon in each that are concealed and a concealed enemy recon in visual range of one of the two hexes containing fixed units. The Fixed AT gun & infantry are set to never fire in AOF.

If I move no one in turn one, no units are revealed and no units fire BUT the fixed status is removed from the units that are in the vision of the hidden recon. This I believe is a bug as no unit has been spotted by the unfixed unit.

If in turn two I move a unit adjacent to the hidden units and they do not fire & reveal themselves. The other fixed unit un-fixes itself, which is ok as a revealed enemy unit has moved into visual range.

If I fire one of the hidden AT guns in its turn, it is revealed to the other player. Having removed its concealment it will subsequently fire at any targets in the defensive fire phase ignoring AOF because its been revealed.


So to answer your questions;

There is not meant to be any automatic detection by a unit when it is spotted by a hidden enemy unit. I am not certain that is working correctly as certain actions such as unfixing should only happen when a 'revealed' enemy unit is in sight in my opinion.

Units will not ignore AOF unless they have definitively been spotted or have fired themselves and removed their concealed status.

I will write up a bug report and double check I understand how this was intended to work.

Thanks for the question and I'll reiterate again that this is new code and we're trying to understand all its nuances.

David