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| Wishful thinking; Imperial Guard Forward Observers | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: 29 Mar 2015, 03:26 PM (382 Views) | |
| CXLVII | 29 Mar 2015, 03:26 PM Post #1 |
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Warrant Officer Second Class
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It's about 6 years now since I built the first of my artillery pieces, earthshakers, for my guard army. At that time you could only have single guns as one heavy support choice, not batteries of three, but I went ahead and built three of them anyway, and a few more have followed since. At the time I thought they would make a good three gun battery. Today, we are allowed gun batteries, even basilisk batteries, which is good. We have a Master of Ordnance, but he is only good for orbital bombardments from imaginary weapons. BUT, what I now feel is missing is the forward observer, (something a real army actually has), lets say an officer with a radio man with him and also another radio man attached to a battery. How would this work?....... The observer has a direct line of sight to a target, lets say the first marker placed scatters wide, the observers ballistic skill gets deducted to shorten the scatter. If this is still off target then the next, and subsequent markers start all over again as the fall of shot is corrected, until a hit is achieved. One observer should only correct one battery per turn in this way. I thought about command type squads and orders but the new orders don't give the kind of correction needed, also this and vox castors would tend to tie the observer within 12 inches of the battery, to me at least this is too close and almost pointless, far better to add a bit of distance and let the observer direct indirect fire. Let's say 30pts for a junior artillery officer and two radio men, one he keeps with him, the other gets attached to a battery on a one per battery basis, plus 10pts per additional radioman to attach to extra batteries if needed. If any radio man becomes a casualty then the radio link gets broken. He could have a transport vehicle (centaurs, Trojans, chimeras and salamander scouts all would comply, just for starters), this would also make sense if he was directing SPG batteries, mobility with mobile guns so to speak. This is just an idea that's really is just wishful thinking, It would need a lot more tweaking just to create a house rule out it. Will it ever happen? Probably not in the near future, but who knows? What do you all think? |
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| commissarsmith | 20 Dec 2015, 10:03 PM Post #2 |
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I had a similar idea when the master or ordnance was released except I was thinking more of a platoon level advisor, say 0-1 per army, who you would attach to a platoon command squad but I like the idea of attaching it to a specific battery. Also was thinking or other advisors at the time, such as adjutants who allow a reroll for a failed order (consultation or advixe between them and platoon leader) |
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