Re: Treebursts
A tree-burst might be dangerous in the small area nearby but the overall presence of trees will still soak up the blast and splinters in terms of the general area.
A mortar bomb going off in your particular room of a building is rather unpleasant for you, but the walls make it far less so for your section mate next door, too.
Your open-topped slit trench is an unhappy place to be if a round lands right inside it by chance too. That's for you, but not the rest of the platoon. But being in trenches means that rounds which do not land inside are overall less lethal.
Thus woods and buildings are both treated as reasonable cover and occupying a trench is also good. Statistically, less casualties are received from being in them overall. A few guys will be "lottery winners" but overall most will not.
Andy
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