I've got a quick question about Artillery ammunition counts. I have searched and gone through the advance copy of the manual but couldn't find the answer to this - so my apoologies if this has already been covered elsewhere.
In all previous Combat Mission titles - indirect fire assets such as an off board mortar or howitzer would be depicted as having a set ammunition count showing the different types of ammunition available. However, using one type of ammunition was always to the detrmient of the other.
So for instance, if I had a mortar that had 160 HE rounds and 24 Smoke Rounds and if I fired all of my HE rounds in an opening salvo at the start of the scenario - that Gun would then show as "empty" for the remainder of the scenario despite the fact it should still have 24 smoke rounds which hadn't been used yet.
Now, being an old Gunner myself, I know full well High Explosive and Smoke projectiles are not interchangeable so it's always sort of mystified me as to how using all of my HE rounds somehow meant all of my smoke rounds were inherently used up too, even though they were never fired. Likewise, I could never figure out what this might be abstracting if it wasn't just a game limitation.
In any event - what I'm wondering is with the introduction of precision munitions in Black Sea, which are going to be inaddition to the HE and smoke rounds they may be stocked with, is whether artillery ammunition is counted/used the same way as seen in previous CM Titles ~or~ whether all rounds are now individually tracked?
Meaning - I have 50 HE Rounds, 10 Smoke Rounds and 5 Precision Rounds - If I use all 50 of my HE rounds, will my guns still show as empty ~or~ will they now correctly show that I have only used up my 50 HE rounds and that I still have my 10 Smoke Rounds and 5 Precision Rounds left to use?
Little_Black_Devil got a reaction from Jimmy Carter in Has the way Artillery Ammunition is counted changed in Black Sea?