Counter battery fire question

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Counter battery fire is one of the truly "C'est la guerre" aspects of the game. If you leave off map batteries idle they CAN fire.... and they MAY fire....but they MAY NOT fire and you as the commander have no control whatsoever so you need to decide to use the batteries for fire missions or leave them idle on the hope the stars and planets will align and they will give the enemy trouble..... it's always been that way and always will. You can never be SURE at the start of the game what benefit or not they will give you because this randomness is the only way to simulate the science of detecting enemy batteries position and getting your guns trained on it and doing enough damage to silence it......for how long?... you don't know because RL commanders don't know either....did you actually destory the guns of drive the crews into their trenches and the same is true of your PBEM opponent or the AI....it's a crap shoot in the game just as in RL