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Originally Posted by Griefbringer
In my experience, up to 5 hexes away from the platoon command unit tends to be safe distance for maintaining contact. Farther away than that, and you might be running into troubles with maintaining contact.
On the other hand, bunching your artillery pieces too close to each other tends to make them more vulnerable to enemy counter-bombardment.
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The voice command radius is in the 5 hex range.
And IRL, artillery pieces set up about 10-15 meters apart since there was just one radio (or telephone), at the battery command post. The BCP handled the fire requests and corrections, calculated solutions on the arty board, and then shouted fire orders to the guns (post-war, tannoys could be used to save on throat lozenges and in the 70s we had FACE to do the computations rather than a fancy slide rule. Mortars still used a fancy circular plotting board/slide rule combo).
The SP series has always treated individual guns more or less as if they were each a battery command post. Which is of course, simply bonkers.
(Andy, grumbling and muttering while recalling days of joy pushing 25 pounders around waterlogged Otterburn ranges as an army cadet in the 70s
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Andy