Feature requests

[Dog Soldier]

My thoughts are there are further issues to consider in this proposal:

1) Place all
For PzC the reinforcements rarely, (if ever) come under defensive fire when they arrive.
Not so for PzB, especially the airborne or seaborne troops.  These can enter under intense defensive fire.  It might be best not to bother in PzB with this kind of feature due the longer ranges and unlimited defensive fire would not give you the result you are looking for.
Even in the largest scenarios in PzB Kursk or Normandy, I can place all the units arriving in less than a minute using the currently dialog and double clicking my way through it.
That is based on my observations of the game playing ant not on a detailed knowledge how the code would handle it.  If the system were to still place every unit in succession one at a time, all the defensive fire that would result would not save the player any time anyway.
If all the units could be dropped en masse in one placement, would the proper defensive fire opportunities be cheated?

2) Some way to disable defensive artillery fire support for artillery units through the opportunity fire dialog.

Setting the opportunity fire dialog to never should be exactly what is done to have any unit hold fire until it is discovered by the enemy's recon elements or by an assault into the unit's hex.

Just to clarify the situation ComradeP is addressing, is the circled setting in the image below what you are using for a single battery?  First highlight a single unit, then open the opportunity fire dialog to set a fire order for the unit. If you do not select the unit first you will get a very different result.


I ran very extensive tests of the artillery firing functions in Kursk.  David and I worked out all the issues to our satisfaction.  If you set the opportunity fire dialog for the artillery to never, it should not fire in the defensive fire phase and give up its position.
I was satisfied this was working, though my testing was log ago in Kursk and should have carried over to Normandy.  I will take a look at this again.  If you have a game save file where you saw this behavior of the gun firing anyway, send it to Strela and me for review.

Dog Soldier