tabpub Posted April 22, 2003 Share Posted April 22, 2003 Caveat: If this is old news, don't flame me, I don't read this board as much as I used to and my memory is shot(just ask the wife)... Double caveat: I am using 1.02 During a scenario I was playing, I inadvertantly ordered a spotter that was in the process of calling a FM to embark on a HT. A couple of turns later, I was looking for the FO(cuz I was wondering "What the hell happened to the FM!") and found hime lounging in the HT. There he was with the FM timer stuck on 2 min. Now I personally had never noticed this before so I have tried it out with a couple of 81 radio spotters and 2 ht's. Created flat map with hill, turn 2 targetted spotters to either side of hill, fire missions commenced. On target. Mounted spotters in tracks, drove foward, dismounted. The one that was reading "firing" had shells coming down almost at the same time his feet hit the ground and they were on target. The other that was reading 28 sec counted down and hit on target also. Now you would say, "So what? What is the utility?" One, it is a easy way to "hold fire" on a suspected postition without the constant "adjusting". When the enemy arrives or is spotted, just hop out of the track and "BOOM". But, I digress. The next test was a little different. Set map up with woods covering the center of the board with 2 lanes thru it. a spotter and HT at each lane. Scads of trucks on the other side for targets. One spotter started countdown, mounted, HT moved forward never losing LOS, dismount, rounds on target. The other spotter mounted after intial target, but then I had the HT move behind the woods to break LOS and then back to the lane to dismount.... rounds were on target. Remounted, went behind woods again and back. Dismount, rounds on target. Meanwhile, the first spotter ran into woods himself to break LOS and then moved back. Rounds on target. In fact, the only time the rounds were OFF, was when that first spotter did an adjustment after that, the rounds were about 200m short! In conclusion, this could be a handy way for an attacker to plot artillery, advance with protection from SA, and have rounds arrive in a shorter time. I am going to see what the effect of plotting out of LOS intially and then driving into LOS are....That would be the real cats meow. Same Bat Time, Same Bat Channel.... [ April 24, 2003, 12:55 AM: Message edited by: tabpub ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabpub Posted April 22, 2003 Author Share Posted April 22, 2003 Ok, I built a ridge thru the middle of the map, 2 81 radio spotters and tracks, vs lots of truck targets. Both spotters put down targets on the trucks which are out of LOS. One mounts up immediately to drive to the top of the ridge while holding fire. The other waits for his fire to begin before mounting. The waiting one has his pattern fall a little long and right, about 50-75m each way. Not too bad for blind. The one that drives up and dismounts with LOS now has his pretty much right on target. I would be happy in game conditions on target. This particular FO continues this barrage for a turn, and then green adjusts his remaining ammo with no problems. The waiting FO that started firing and then mounted now arrives on the ridge. He was at 78 rounds when he was in the track. From jumping out to the end of the turn he was at 54 rounds remaining. Those 24 rounds landed at the old spot, as He could not adjust while in the track. He green adjusts and this fire falls short and right, luckily catching some trucks in the beaten zone. The last shoot was 12 rounds, that once again was off, this time by about 100 long and 100 right. So, the jury would still be out on whether or not this is useful. I do find it odd that the one spotter seemed to have such difficulty adjusting,and the other not. Perhaps it is the fact that he began his "intial" barrage w/o LOS and then he suffers this penalty for all adjustments forevermore? That would explain why most peoples solution for a "missed" target is too start completely over. Now, the spotter that targeted but held fire until reaching LOS, never seemed to have a problem.... I will leave this to others to mull over. It struck me as interesting, but now I have other things to get to, and I have enough info for now. I will leave it to anyone else that is interested to delve further. I did save some files, drop me a line if you would like to look at them. Ta. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgtabell Posted April 23, 2003 Share Posted April 23, 2003 Bumpety Bumpety,,,in fact I would post this exploit on the CMBB forum to get noticed. SgtAbell 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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