<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Peaveyyyyyyyy:
I can't say I've bothered to check the figures or run any tests, but the above posts might be ignoring something:
Surely, in addition to ROF and scatter, we should consider the increased effect of the larger cal stuff.
I'm guessing here, but surely these puppies get a lot of 4:1 oddds happeneing when they make contact with the soft infantrymen. You can get a direct hit on a squad with an 81mm mortar, and it might kill 1 or 2, or just make them cower for a bit.
Hit 'em with 150mm and you'll panic the squad, possibly rout it, in addition to the casualties (which may indeed be proportionate to the blast).
Also, big blatters are MUCH more effective demolishing buildings. (They take less time)<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
I have to agree with this. I started doing some experimenting along these lines recently. While 105's and 150's have more shells, the effect per turn on the enemy is much greater for the larger guns. Units get suppressed 50 meters or so away when you call in the big guys and one shell can take out whole squads with a good hit and route/break units with a close hit. This just doesn't happen with the 105's or even the 150's to the same degree.
This all started when I was given an 8 in. gun spotter in a QB. I thought I got screwed at first due to the low number of shells but then I saw what that baby could do! I was defending a flag with a rag-tag group of partial units and managed to get the spotter in place just as the biggest wave of Germans moved in to storm the position. I thought I was going to loose the flag for sure but then the shells started falling. I had just lost my forward defense (a partial platoon) to close assault by about 7 squads plus support (HQ and MGs). The Germans were all in a wooded region (2 tiles) when ONE treeburst from the 8 in. gun hit the area and killed everyone in the area! That was about a company of Germans! Unfortunately, there were other Germans in the area that were hell bent on taking that flag but the 8 in. shells landing in the area completely suppressed their assault. After a couple turns of shelling all Germans in the assault (several hundred meter wide front contining several companies of men) were running for their lives.
Gotta love those big guns!!!!!!!
Alan