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Author Topic: Many Rivers to Cross CoC campaign Holland 1940 (updated 19 07 22)  (Read 8105 times)

Offline TacticalPainter

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Re: Many Rivers to Cross CoC campaign Holland 1940 (updated 19 07 22)
« Reply #60 on: July 20, 2022, 01:48:07 AM »
Great campaign and write ups as ever but ... play the period not the rules.  How can you launch a 150 mm shell into a terrace house with a friendly squad stood next to it.  I know there is nothing in the rules against this but it is somewhat unreasonable to not expect friendly fire casualties from such a thing.

This is a weakness of these rules in general actually.  As great as the narrative they generate there is no friendly fire considerations at all.  So you can amble within 1 yard of a mortar barrage and be perfectly safe.  Likewise you can have troops adjacent to 150 mm HE target and have no effect.  Stood behind a target being shot at with an MMG? - no worries!

What about something like this?  If a friendly unit is obviously in the firing line then for each 1 rolled on the to hit dice it strikes the friendlies instead of the target.  So the bigger the stonk the more likely you are to hit a friend

You have a good point. It wasn't entirely without risk, with four sixes in the HE roll there's a chance that building could have collapsed immediately with the squad underneath it. Nonetheless I get your point and I've never been comfortable about the way you can creep right up to a barrage.

Offline Digits

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Re: Many Rivers to Cross CoC campaign Holland 1940 (updated 19 07 22)
« Reply #61 on: July 20, 2022, 06:59:00 AM »
Yes not a fan of that tactic either…..there should be an element of risk if you do I think.


Offline CapnJim

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Re: Many Rivers to Cross CoC campaign Holland 1940 (updated 19 07 22)
« Reply #62 on: July 20, 2022, 05:08:38 PM »
Great report.  The Dutch put up quite the scrap!

As for artillery, We've been using Fistful of Lead: Bigger Battles for WW2, and it includes a reasonable possibility of scatter for arty and mortars, etc.  Trying to drop them danger close can come back to bite you...and I think that's appropriate...
"Remember - Incoming Fire Has the Right-of-Way"

 

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