Japanese OOB omissions.

[Mobhack]

Read Don's post - the last sentence.

A member of the now-gone OOB design team tried this once. Result was hundreds of little tiddly mortar icons on the AI's baseline. AI does not move mortars. 10-hex range is less than useless, even in the defence, with likely 3 move delay to bring down indirect fire, and the AI rarely fires mortars direct if it has LOS but will plot for indirect.

You have been told before that tiddly mortars are sometimes available in the artillery page for some armies (e.g. a 2 inch section) or you can Mobhack your own for human-only use (the AI has fits with them).

There will be no rifle platoons with silly little tiddly-mortars inside of the rifle platoons. Tiddly mortars and grenade dischargers are DF weapons in the rifle sections in the SP series games.

I have used the 2 inch mortar as well, so I know how useless the things are in reality.

Cheers
Andy