RE: [WW] Adjusting Artillery Fire Question

[Wes Anderson <wes.anderson@lucasfilm.com>]

WM decision. Personally, I would let me people know they missed their target
point since as a spotter they are surely aware that one target point is as
good as another when shelling since the rounds WILL deviate. Also as a
spotter they are trained and would surely know what a fair deviation from a
target point was in order to protect their troops. It's a man without
forward observer and artillery that calls in the f'ed up fire mission, not
the guy who knows what he is doing.

Again though as to whether you let them know anything more than where the
shell lands is up to you. My simple statement is how the rules work. DC to
determine target spot then shell impacts deviate from that target spot.

Wes



-----Original Message-----
From: Bobby Farris [mailto:BJ@redbow.net] 
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 11:51 AM
To: weirdwars@gamerz.net
Subject: RE: [WW] Adjusting Artillery Fire Question



> Behalf Of nvdoyle
> That looks to me like if the spotter makes the check, the -impact- 
> point deviates some, and if he doesn't, it deviates even more. What a 
> failed roll does is deviate the -target- point. The last sentence is 
> important in the para above. Artillery check made or not - it seems 
> that the spotting rounds -impact- with deviation. But all subsequent 
> rounds use the -target- point, not the impact point.

Which, after this dicussion, leads me to believe the best way of handling
this is to have the spotter roll in a way that he doesn't allow him know the
result of his roll. This way, when the spotting round lands, he doesn't know
if the artillery is right on target or off target.

Makes spotting for artillery pretty difficult.


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