(02-28-2014, 01:58 PM)armyduck95 Wrote: Does anyone else think it odd that AFVs and weapons systems that couldn't normally be put up in a building, but the benefit of extended LOS in a town hex? I get it that a spotter certainly could help, but still... just thinking
Concur with Vince. As I understand it, spotting from a town (or woods - this goes back even to Doug McNair's St. Vith: the Fall write up), can only assist BF, not DF or ATF. For BF, the unit still fires and is targeted at its "firing" elevation, but can itself spot from the trees/town/church spire (in BN). With DF and ATF, the unit fires, spots, and is spotted at its firing elevation.
So, for example, a mortar at 20-m in a woods hex could spot (from 40-m effectively) a unit in clear, 0-level terrain over an intervening 0-level woods (20-m effective), but could not itself be spotted by the ground level unit (the mortar itself is at 20-m). Again, with the caveat "as I understand it," this is an exception to the general rule of if-I-have-LOS-to-you-you-have-LOS-to-me. I like this rule (or, to be cautious, interpretation) because it gives an advantage to BF from "the high ground" and makes counter-battery fire against such positions dependent upon one pushing some leaders (at least) forward to spot.
