Artillery smoke availability

[chuckfourth]

Hi Don
Personally Id be happy to lose the nebelwerfers smoke capability if it makes it easier to removed smoke capability from the rockets "class" as a whole. But I guess someone else would complain. Nebelwerfer is a bit odd in this sense as it was developed as a substite for heavy artillery which the germans werent allowed to have according to the treaty of versi, to disguise this "cheating" the weapon was called smoke thrower, Personally I think it was not particularily useful in this role and probably not used as such very often. Reasons being its limited range, inherent inaccuraccy, and massive smoke signature making counterbattery a real problem. For this reason they, like most rocket units are designed to shoot and scoot, which is not what you want if you want your smoke screen to have any sort of persistance. I think it is a much lesser evil for the nebelwerfer to have no smoke issued than the alternative of every rocket unit in the game having AFAIK nonexistent smoke rounds issued.
Best regards Chuck.

[Mobhack]

taking smoke shells away from the nebelwerfers would be rather silly, as that was a primary design goal for the things, as well as gas (most armies that had specialist gas units tended to call them "smoke" units). Even if they ended up as HE chuckers more often than not, the smoke shell was still available.

e.g - lone sentry

The Nebelwerfer 41 can fire three different types of projectiles: high-explosive shells, incendiary projectiles, and smoke projectiles.

The high-explosive shells include those with supersensitive fuzes and those with delayed-action fuzes. The latter can penetrate reinforced cover. Because of their fragmentation and concussion effect, high-explosive shells are used primarily against personnel. It has been found that the concussion has not only been great enough to kill personnel, but occasionally has caused field fortifications and bunkers to collapse.

The incendiary projectiles are psychologically effective, and under favorable conditions can start field and forest fires.

The smoke projectiles are used to form smoke screens or smoke zones.

[This Die Wehrmacht article naturally does not discuss the possible use of gas-charged projectiles.]

Also Lone sentry second article

And finally - I found some reprints of the US Army Intelligence Bulletin at this site - may be of interest
WW" Intelligence Bulletins

Cheers
Andy