Thermal Imaging and Smoke Dischargers

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Originally Posted by lansoar

thank you.

To elaborate, my question would be, is using smoke dischargers offensively to create a "smoke shield" (which in the game is typically the 3 frontal arc hexes in relation to the unit's front axis), a valid tactic? (aka allow the tank to sit behind the wall of close in smoke and continue plugging away at the enemy until it dissipates while the enemy is unable to reply if they are not equipped with TTS)

My impression as far as the game SP has always been concerned, is that it's a bit of an absolute and thus represents a huge advantage to the side that has TTS. If the depiction is 'accurate' I would assume that such a tactic would be taught/used in real life.

Thx!

We used it or were trained to use them more for defense purposes against ATGM or a bunch of grunts creeping up or if really out numbered by enemy tanks and running low on ammo. That’s how I remember our training on the M1A1. For offensive purposes we’d call in for battalion smoke screen, to mask our movements and shoot n scoot to the mlr using speed, we only used our thermals in the day if there was a lot of smoke.