Rethinking Smoke

[Blackcloud6]

I wrote to Dr. B some months back about the smoke rule to determine whether the rule is meant to allow each artillery unit/increment to fire smoke the number of turns allowed, or if the player only gets the number of turns, period.  I got a vague answer, unfortunately, I cannot find it at the moment. I used to think the former was correct but now I am leaning to the latter, that it is simply the number of turns a player get smoke.  Thus, in a 14-turn game, the player gets two turns of smoke.

But then, who get to fire in a a "smoke usage" turn?  One gun, or all of them?   The rule reads:

"Limited Ammunition: Each side in a scenario has a number of turns of smoke equal to 10 percent of the turns in the game, with fractions rounded up. So, a 12-turn game allows for two rounds of smoke/illumination, while a 36-turn game would allow four turns. To track usage, place either a Smoke or Illumination marker under the firing unit to indicate one usage or note off-board artillery's usage on a piece of paper."

I almost thing that all of them get to fire in "smoke usage" turn, however, the use of the word "rounds" in the second sentence, makes me take pause.