[Rules] Lets talk about Smoke baby

[plloyd1010]

My first gripe is there is not enough smoke in the game. Smoke appears to have been utilized much more than APL lets on, especially to attacking forces. Enough of that.

I am reasonably sure that the rule is intended to be used as your first interpretation. That interpretation would be consistent with most SSRs about smoke availability.

Your new opponent has back-doored into a peculiarity of how the rule is written. While the number of turns is limited, the number of increments is not. So on a given "smoke turn", according to the rule as written, all available batteries could be firing smoke. With your example, with rule as written, there could be 4 smoke concentrations fired, because you are only using smoke on 1 turn. As Rocky often said, "Hokey Smokes!"

You opponent has a more practical interpretation, but that creates a bookkeeping issue.

(Is this opponent treadasaurusrex?)