Rolling Barrages

[John Watson]

Can you clarify something on rolling barrages please?
1. You place the initial target squares
2. On a roll of 3+ any target square can creep forward another square (up to a mx of 3 squares)
3. Deviation is applied after step 2.

Have I got this in the right order or does deviation takes place after step 1?
Also does deviation apply to all squares hit or only to the original 5 target squares?

John

[Nick]

My understanding is that Deviation should be after step 1.
The 3+ rolls to extend take place after, with no further deviation chances.

Nick

[sukhe_bator (Neil)]

Nick's analysis makes sense in the real world.
After the gunners have registered their target they would adjust elevation in increments along the same line of fire to land the shells further forwards...

[Moggy]

The problem with this in RL was the need to move the guns forward once max effective range was reached then trying to acurately gauge what elevation to fire at when you probably wouldn't be able to see the impact area. Of course once guns developed to ranges where you wouldn't normally see the impact this became redundant but was then relied on for a "best guess" until observers could re-register fire which is always hard in a barrage situation.

From account I have read (WW1 onwards) it was that time when you own artillery stopped briefly while moving forward that Infantry of both side took cover. They were not nicknamed drop-shorts for no reason!    (Apologies to any Gunners out there)

Derek

[martin goddard]

Good question John

Page 39 in the SB rule book.

"The initial placement is subject to the usual deviation rules"

This means
1. Place the barrage markers
2. Carry out deviation for each marker.
3. For each marker carry out forward creep.

Hope that helps


martin

[John Watson]

Thanks Martin.