Fog of war

[RERomine]

Originally Posted by Cross

You have also committed your guns to a target location where the enemy may not even appear.

Always a risk with artillery unless you are plotting against an immobile or pinned down target. The way I view it, if the arty has nothing better to do, it might as well be plotted against something. If nothing shows up, they don't fire, no ammo wasted and no need to relocate.

[c_of_red]

I agree with Cross and use the 'hovering' arty EVERY game.
I was thrown off the Blitz for proving Weasel to be wrong on this issue.
My theory is that if it is a technique (AKA tactic or trick) used in the real world and I can cite instances and give historical references to it's use, it ain't gamey.
Other players go by the Sgt Rock rule, which is if they didn't see it happening in Sgt Rock, then it is gamey.
Oh well, different strokes for different folks.

[c_of_red]

I seem to remember reading that the more units in a hex, the greater the chance of ONE of them getting hit by shell fragments. Also you can damage your own unit by same hex combat with grenades, HEAT rounds from AT weapons, etc. So there is at least one subroutine that "looks" at unit density in a hex. You might want to try that. Set up a test and buy 100 snipers, put them in a hex, if you can and then direct fire a 100mm shell into that hex. Then run and hide before the UN shows up with a war crimes warrant.

[RERomine]

I don't doubt they can be hit, if you know to fire there to begin with. If the "sniper convention" is in a hex and no one moves, would the likelihood of them being spotted be increased by the shear number of them in the hex. It would be hard to target the convention if you don't know where it is.

[Suhiir]

To the best of my knowledge the unit size of each individual unit stacked in a hex is checked individually for spotting purposes. There is no cumlative effect. However multiple units in the same hex mean more checks to see if someone is spotted so there is in effect a sort of cumlative effect.