The Competition & Teaser Thread

[Strela]

One question about the infantry gun units attached to the regiment. Do the 2-gun units realistically do any damage or do they need to be combined to achieve any real effectiveness? Maybe some playtesters have some thoughts on that.

Also, thanks fro the visual OOB charts. They look really good.

Al,

Personally, if I can combine guns I do it at every opportunity. In the bulk of cases I set them up combined in a scenario.

One important (possibly contentious!!) comment is that we made the infantry guns for both sides direct fire only. We did this fairly late in the piece but we did it for two reasons. Firstly, both sides doctrine used them very close to the front line as direct support for the infantry whether on the attack or defence. Secondly, it removed a huge number of units from the artillery dialog. This sped up both play in the game as well as ensured players moved these units forward with the forces they were attached to.

This motivation of streamlining the artillery dialog resulted in combining indirect fire guns/mortars wherever possible. Players can obviously though break units down whenever required.

David