Turret crew and Fire Control

[DRG]

In the French OOB in regards to any May 1940 Tank/Tankette unit ......


All UC 12 "Light tanks" have 1 FC
All UC 13 "Medium tanks" have 1 FC
All UC 59 "GunTank" have 1 FC
All UC 104 "CS Cruiser Tank" have 1 FC
Two of the four UC 105 "Infantry Tank" have 1 FC the Char B1's have 2
Both Char2C UC 105 " Super Hvy tanks" have 2 FC
Some of the UC 121 Tankettes have FC 2 but they are MG armed
All UC 122 "Support Tankette" have 1 FC
All UC 124 Light Infantry Tank have 1 or less FC
All UC 131 "cavalry tanks" have 1 FC
All UC 132 "Light Cavalry Tank" have 1 FC

"Excessive" fire Control for French tanks in 1940 in SPWW2 is NOT an issue..... ROF...maybe worth looking at

[lansoar]

You read my mind.

I don't have an issue so much with accuracy, but the ability to fire the # of shots, especially reaction shots....had me kind of going....huh.....that 1 man must sure be busy doing all that yet maintaining situational awareness.

[lansoar]

perhaps another factor to consider in terms of AFV stats: values in the Encyclopedia.

I'll list one tank in particular. The S-35. A formidable vehicle in terms of firepower and armor. It has a FC rating of 2, which would seem to conform loosely with a "two man" turret crew for WWII AFVs. But it has a turret with only one crewman. (gunner/commander(and loader)). That limitation poses a significant challenge for the vehicle vs. a turret with 2 men (commander and loader), which itself is at a significant disadvantage vs a turret crew of 3 where the roles are all separated (commander/loader/gunner)


I'll do some tests with FC 1 for the S-35. Might prove interesting.

[DRG]

Originally Posted by lansoar

perhaps another factor to consider in terms of AFV stats: values in the Encyclopedia.

I'll list one tank in particular. The S-35. A formidable vehicle in terms of firepower and armor. It has a FC rating of 2

NO it DOES NOT.

Which version of the OOB's are you using??

Click on INFO in MOBHACK or at the bottom of the Encyclopedia page. The current verion reads March 2022. You are playing with OOB's that are at least 4 years out of date !

The last OOB's with the S-35 with 2 FC were released in 2018


There are two (2) Somua S-35's in the French OOB ( 2022 ) in two different Unitclass and they both have FC 1 as does the PzKw 35-S 739f in the German OOB

Go DL the latest patch you are commenting on issues that no longer exist

Put another way you are complaining about things that were fixed nearly a half decade ago

[lansoar]

You are right.

Only, I downloaded the free version off the website a couple nights ago running on my Win11 VM. I assumed the free version was the same version as the purchased version only with less features. (my home PC has the paid versions installed....but I do a lot of work these days off my laptop. For the record my views were derived from scenarios played using the paid version of WinSPWW2 with recent updates)

I'll run up the paid versions and look again at the OOB. Sorry for the confusion.

thx