Dellinger327 Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 Winds from the North in a certain stock battle. 3 squads 100m away and to the South. 10 dead from friendly fire. What say you? 120 meter drift? Really? This is dissapointing... oh well. Didn't know 60mm motars drifted off target that much. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
womble Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 Were they the spotting rounds? Spotting rounds can be way off target. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadgerDog Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 Were they the spotting rounds? Spotting rounds can be way off target. Good point ... Also, don't know about the 60mm, but I trained on the 81mm, so I'm curious as to what the distance of the firing mortar section from the target land point? Regards, Doug 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 Experience level of the mortar crew would make a big difference with wild rounds. If they're on-map you can click on them and check. If they're off-map I believe there's an experience marker in the upper right corner of the artillery selection. I've got the game open and see a green triangle for a 105mm artillery battery. Which I think is good. Where's my manual? Playing a game in CM:Afghanistan recently I had a friendly green SU-22 pilot kill a third of my on-map forces in a single straffing run. Ouch! :eek: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Canadian Cat Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 <snip>marker in the upper right corner of the artillery selection. I've got the game open and see a green triangle for a 105mm artillery battery. Which I think is good. Where's my manual?<snip> pp 103 of the manual: Matchup - in the upper right hand corner is a symbol representing how well the Spotter and Support Asset are matched for each other. There are five states, color coded as follows: Excellent (green circle) , Good (green triangle) , average (yellow square) , poor (red triangle) , and bad (-) .. The better the match the more efficient and effective the results will be. So not gun crew experience but the match up between the spotter ant the gun crew. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dellinger327 Posted September 8, 2011 Author Share Posted September 8, 2011 They were not spotting rounds... it was fire for effect. I guess lucky for me, the mission was set for light & short and my guys are along a bocage row. Green circle is the 'marker' and they are on map assets. Winds in the conditions report are 'light'. Really weird, first time it's happened. The rounds dropped parallel to the east from the HQ that requested them and that was along my occupied bocage row. One thing I noticed was the two lines that are drawn when selecting the artillery mission in progress is white and not green? My mortars are quite a bit behind my right flank of the attack, like 400-450 meters... maybe the distance they are traveling is making the wind even more of a factor? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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