Tactics, Time and Steel Panthers

[Suhiir]

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Originally Posted by Suhiir

They have 3 tubes, not the 2 of the 81mm section and so deliver a nice set of bangs. But really only useful for firing through the cris period of the break-in and not bothering to resupply with reload units. Use the available bombs for the one phase of battle, provide a ride to scoot to and away. The extra 1000m range is what elevates them over 50mm pill throwers like Soviet and GE 50mms. A nice to have thing, not vital. Maybe actually a useful boost if you are defending against a Japanese attack though where they are exposed in the open and hence solving your range problem for you, and you have FDF gold spots placed out. Yep, in the defensive case the USA 60mm mortar could be a lawnmower.

One thing I've found 60mm mortars to be VERY useful for is to drop them on OPFOR units in near contact with your own. Since they tend to suppress rather then kill and fire at the end of the OPFORs turn when your turn starts you can rally any of your unit that were suppressed and have a distinct advantage when you fire on/assault the OPFOR.