phil stanbridge Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 I'm playing a single mission and I have 3 x 60mm mortar squads setup and ready to fire. I have a platoon leader (2nd platoon) with LOS to the target yet I can only command one of the mortar squads to fire - why would this be the case? Bizarrely I can command the Weapons platoon mortars to fire but I cannot control my own 2nd platoon mortar - yet all three are in the same area. Edit: Okay, I established that one of the mortar teams was GREEN and needed to be moved closer to the platoon commander. This worked, but there is still something a bit odd about this. Two of the three squads have eye contact with the platoon commander - and one team doesn't - but the team that doesn't is the team that is in the middle of the three. So they *should* have eye contact should they not? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guachi Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 Is it possible they are at the limit of seeing? I think, but I'm not sure, that establishing command can also take a bit and it's not instantaneous. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunnergoz Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 Am I wrong in thinking that they need voice contact, not just eye contact? How else will they adjust fire - hand signals are too easily misunderstood or missed entirely. Edit: Nevermind. I was thinking of what I read earlier in the wartime Army manuals on the subject, which specified voice contact between spotter and firing mortar units. The game just wants a working C2 link. Many of those army manuals predate widespread use of handheld radios, by the way, but that's what most units trained on until mid-1944 when the radios started getting issued. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Springelkamp Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 http://storage.kennispuntmei1940.nl/images/greb/foto/hires/fo/foto_meinen_07.jpg 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
womble Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 I think HQs can only provide a last lind for directing the fire of their own platoon/company/battalion. Like ammo sharing. Vehicles with radios, however are 'promiscuous'... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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