Guest Scott Clinton Posted May 20, 2000 Posted May 20, 2000 How to explain this... I set my mortars up in woods behind my weapons platoon HQ, with my Company HQ right behind the mortars. The mortars were close enough to be in command of the weapon platoon's HQ but because my Company HQ was closer they drew command from the Company HQ. I tried to spot with the weapon platoon HQ and it would not work. When I moved the Company HQ away out of command range they drew command to thier weapon platoon HQ and could fire normally using the weapon platoon HQ's LOS. Should it be this way? Is it something that is 'On the List?' I could forsee times when my support elements would 'bunched' with my Company HQ in the rear and you would really want LOS for indirect fire coming form other (all?) nearby HQs. Did that make sence? ------------------ Please note: The above is solely the opinion of 'The Grumbling Grognard' and reflects no one else's views but his own.
Guest Scott Clinton Posted May 22, 2000 Posted May 22, 2000 Sorry to harp, but I think this might be a real bug...and it may have been 'missed' in the volume of traffic around here. ------------------ Please note: The above is solely the opinion of 'The Grumbling Grognard' and reflects no one else's views but his own.
Guest Big Time Software Posted May 22, 2000 Posted May 22, 2000 Hi Scott, Yup, it was lost in the mad mass of postings This is how it was designed to work. Higher HQ always takes command over Team Weapons (in this case mortars), no matter what. The fact that in this case you happen to have a Platoon HQ for the Heavy Weapons teams means nothing the way the game is coded up. Reason is that a Platoon HQ is a Platoon HQ and a Team is a Team. To make an exception for the situation you found yourself in is about the only time this matters. We are not planning on changing this in the near future as it would be pretty involved code wise. Steve
Guest Scott Clinton Posted May 22, 2000 Posted May 22, 2000 No problem. It is no big deal to work around as long as I know it is there. ------------------ Please note: The above is solely the opinion of 'The Grumbling Grognard' and reflects no one else's views but his own.
Juardis Posted May 22, 2000 Posted May 22, 2000 So tell me Scott, did your mortars fire at the target designated by the Co. HQ? In other words, did you have multiple arty batteries raining down death on the target designated by your Co. HQ? If so, then in VOT, I could see where one target designation by the Co. HQ (for example, the concrete pill) would cause all offboard arty and all on board mortars to fire at that spot depending on the proximity of the Co. HQ to the other spotters/HQs. True? Or do spotters for offboard arty act independently of the HQs? Regards ------------------ Jeff Abbott
Guest Madmatt Posted May 22, 2000 Posted May 22, 2000 Spotters are independant and do not fall under the rules of Onboard Indirect Fire. Whatever they see they can target regardless of wheter they are within a HQ's C&C... Madmatt ------------------ If it's in Combat Mission, it's on Combat Mission HQ! CMHQ-Annex, The Alternative side of Combat Mission Combat Mission HQ CMHQ-Annex Proud members of the Combat Mission WebRing [This message has been edited by Madmatt (edited 05-22-2000).]
Guest Big Time Software Posted May 22, 2000 Posted May 22, 2000 Hi Scott, Yeah, that is my feeling about it too. In theory it would be nice to have the Heavy Weapons Platoon HQ take priority, but since you will not often have the sort of situation you described, it isn't worth coding up. Like you say, so long as you KNOW that is going to happen you can (easily) avoid having a conflict between HQs. Steve
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