JonS Posted October 5, 2001 Share Posted October 5, 2001 I've been messing about with on-map artillery recently, and came across a weird anomally. The following is a full list of all the artillery which can be placed on-map, and which may have smoke rounds: Allied US 76mm AT Gun US/French 105mm M2A1 Howitzer US Para/UK Para 75mm M3 Pack Howitzer US Para 105mm M3 Pack Howitzer German (various branches) 75mm Infantry Gun 150mm Infantry Gun 75mm PaK40 AT Gun 88mm PaK43 AT Gun 88mm PaK43/41 AT Gun 88mm Flak 75mm Howitzer 105mm Howitzer 105mm Recoilless Rifle The reason I noticed was when I was messing around with the 25pdr Gun-Howitzer. When placed on the map it can't have any smoke. "That's odd" I thought, so I checked all the others. Now, given the nature of the 25pdr smoke ammo (possibly not suited to short-ish range direct fire), this may have been a deliberate omission. Does anyone know if this is the case, or if it was merely an oversight? In the grand scheme of things its not a biggie as - to the best of my knowledge - the Royal Artillery had gotten over its brief, Rommel inspired revivial of using direct fire, and there weren't any instances of them being used that way in either Italy or North West Europe. Seems odd though. Regards JonS P.S. I'm not going all uber-British on you, I'm just curious. [ 10-04-2001: Message edited by: JonS ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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