Re: No smoking bug
June 1944, USA, I think the 5th scenario in band of brothers campaign.
Happened to all my 105s and 4.2 inch mortars.
There's an 88 and some infantry at the south of the map and I ran out of shells trying to take the thing out.
So i wanted to separate the big gun from supporting infantry with smoke... I could see ammo but it wouldn't fire the damn smoke.
Didn't the old bug work like you had to run out part way through a stonk before it occured or is my memory playing up.
Cost me a bunch of casualties on experienced core anyhow.
Something else I noticed.
In an earlier game I had some 4.2 inch mortars next to ammo trucks. I moved them as it's the one where you get infiltrating counter attacks. Anyhow. Mortar ran out of ammo and the bang icon was blanked out on the arty screen.
Despite sitting next to the ammo truck for turn after turn unsuppressed, the mortar didn't get any ammo. That wasn't disastrous like the smoke one though.
Oh, something else. An OOB thing. I may be mistaken on this one. I thought I saw a message indicating german infantry firing a pzfaust 100m in that scenario. They were firing 2 hexes anyhow.
Nov 1944 date of introduction and scenario june 1944.
In Normandy, they had mainly 30m and the odd 60m. I would have thought you'd need 100m before 2 hex range but maybe it's edge to edge or something.
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