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The thing is, the guns that "Historically" provide the smoke screens are generally the guns people buy when they want to make smoke screens anyway. I cannot imagine anyone buys 203mm arty just to lay smoke.

There was no change for 3.5 because there was no time to do the proper amount of necessary research on how smoke is used and by what guns / rockets / mortars post WW2. There will , however be a change made to winSPWW2 because the information was more easily found so we'll see how that change is accepted. If you look at the number of people who have viewed this question and compare it to the number of people who have voted to express their view the conclusion is this isn't really much of an issue one way or the other but we'll see how the WW2 change is accepted ( or not ) over the summer.

As to adding ON/OFF switch to preferences I can tell you that it's far. FAR easier said than done and must be made to work not only for regular games but also secure PBEM so that both sides are treated equally and that requires "creative" programming. It's not just 5 lines of code that would need to be added to make that work. More like 100x that. Just to put it in perspecitve WinSPMBT now contains 13299383 lines of code ( thirteen million 2 hundred and ninety nine thousand, three hundred and eighty three lines of code )

Don