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Originally Posted by Richard_H

Back live. SP Mortars to start with:-

Class 38 – SP Mortars

Switzerland 626 & 770 (Bison) are in this class, but they appear as fortifications. The following units (2 Bison) are Class 156 (Off-Map Heavy Artillery). They have Speed 0, so they aren’t SP-ing anywhere in a hurry. Typo?

Switzerland 760-765 are also Speed 0, and are called ‘Moerser Festung’, or Mortar Fortress. If the oob designer wanted to distinguish them from vanilla bunkers, they could be changed to Class 152.

Richard H

I would appreciate the advice more if the "adviser" understood the game better. These units were added in this way as an acceptable compromise because they are special bunkers and therefore need armour ratings. UC 152 is an infantry class and therefore does not accept armour ratings and this is why all of those units are stationary "SP" mortars because they need to work as mortars and they need armour and that class covers that critera and was not being used.

Also, given they have the range to operate off map they are available for that use as off map arty and none of them are "SP" at all that's just the best class available to use and we all knew they weren't "SP-ing anywhere" when Peter added them to the Swiss OOB but thought, given the names of the units and Icons used that would have been obvious.

Originally Posted by Richard_H

France 429 – should this be classed as a Heavy Mortar?

It saves using up four slots using class Mortar(Sub Type B) just to make an 81mm mortar unit UC 152 for four years to cover the Legion Spt Pl that it was intended to cover. The "error" was sometime in the past somebody pushed the start date for all French Hvy mortars back to 1946.



Don

[Richard_H]

Don

I have never set myself up as an 'advisor', these were merely thoughts about an oob which I suspect even you will admit is somewhat out of the ordinary. It is nothing to do with my understanding of the game, indeed I would be surprised if many people realised what the situation was until you explained it.

Let me put it clearly: I don't have to do this exercise, but thought it might be of assistance, as Andy also suggested. However, your attitude does not put me in the frame of mind to continue to try and save you a considerable amount of hard work.

Richard H