Fredrock1957 Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 In testing a scenario I am working on in author-test mode, I have a German FO on floor 6 of the 8 story cathedrel. I was getting more Arty than I anticipated raining down on my men. When I clicked on the FO he was coordinating 5 Fire Missions (4) 81mm On-Map Mortars, and one 120mm off map... Now that is pretty cool.... 3 were area fire, 1 was point, and 1 was linear... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisND Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 FOs can coordinate an unlimited amount of fire missions, AFAIK 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MG TOW Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 Kinda like that FO Tac officer in We Were Soldiers 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 FOs are noble of purpose, pure of heart, brave, and handsome. No task is too great, and no burden too heavy. FOs are Gods who walk among men. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sivodsi Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 FOs are noble of purpose, pure of heart, brave, and handsome. No task is too great, and no burden too heavy. FOs are Gods who walk among men. Speaking from an entirely objective point of view, natch. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrailApe Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 In our niche in NATO we call the FOO's that's why, although I quite like some of their stuff, I could never buy a Foo-Fighters CD - just goes against the grain. Mind you these FO's in the game mist have brains the size of planets to handle what they are doing. I've done a few multi-battery missions in a peace time training environment, ok as long as you are hitting one target, but these lads are able to run multi battery missions over targets scattered all over the place. Must have the ability to turn their necks like Owls! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackcat Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 I have tried in CMSF and more lately in CMBN to use on FOO to control multiple missions. What I found was that although the missions could be plotted to run in parallel they actually happened sequentially (i.e. spotting rounds on the second didn't start to fall until the first was, at least, into the FFE stage). Thus the delay in getting rounds onto target could actually be much longer than using a second spotter with an inferior request time (e.g. a platoon HQ). Given TrailApe's comments I now wonder if my experiences were clouded by some other factors, though quite what I can't think (LOS and all the indicators were good). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrailApe Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 i.e. spotting rounds on the second didn't start to fall until the first was, at least, into the FFE stage Blackcat, You might be right, I tend to get too close to the action to make rational observations. Lot's of explosions going on and I go all gooey. Something to test tonight methinks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackcat Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 ... Lot's of explosions going on and I go all gooey... Typical of the RA! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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