[Mobhack]

formation 433 in the German OOB is not used by the AI, nor is 434.

Formation 104 in the Italian OOB, is funnily enough, not ever used by the AI.

Formation #9 in the Soviet oob is not used by the AI.

The USA 60mm mortar has a 2 kilometer (40 hex) range, and is therefore usable by the AI, sometimes. It is just borderline useful for a human player, too - at least in the defence.

All these formations were added by OOB designers in the past, and some of these, as I have stated, ended up in the AI pick in past years, resulting in floods of tiny little one-tube mortar elements that sat about on the enemy start line doing nothing useful, other than soaking up the max number of units (and filling the bombardment screen with frankly useless units as well - do you really want to have to page through 3 or 4 pages of mini mortars (none in range of anything) to get to your real arty? Would end users really like to have to move 20 or 30 of these things all the way across the map, just so they can get within 500 metres, and wait 2 turns to unload their 24 odds itty-bitty bombs, then become even more useless items?!?).

Little "commando mortars" are therefore best left in SP as direct-fire "grenade launcher" type weapons within the rifle sections - as with the German heavy infantry sections for example. As has been pointed out to you again, and again.

There may well be other formations including micro-mortars depending on whatever OOB designer's "bright idea" (tm) at the time managed to sneak in. I think one of the OOB designers had such tiddly mortars in each platoon of one of his designs, possibly German - and that was fun for the AI, or any human player who had to deal with the hordes of the things - not. All are worthless in game terms. Any such still in there, are left for use by any human player insane enough to want to do so. Hopefully, any such are not used by the AI pick, and I have managed to weed the crazy things out!. Adding new Japanese (or any other) formations with such useless (in game terms) items, would be just as pointless, and only of interest to the deranged, masochistic, or obsessive-compulsive "train spotter" type player.

As I said to you before - use the existing formation #88 "light mortars" if you want to use these things as mini mortars. Or, you can use Mobhack to edit yourself some sort of formation that suits your ideas of reality, as has been pointed out to you in the past.

This discussion is now closed.

Andy