Fire Mission question

[paulo]

Maybe I'm doing something wrong but I noticed that if I want artillery to switch from HE rounds to smoke I have to call in a new fire mission and have to wait 2 or 3 turns. You would think it could be done faster. I'd appreciate any feedback on this. Thanks.

[troopie]

Originally Posted by paulo

Maybe I'm doing something wrong but I noticed that if I want artillery to switch from HE rounds to smoke I have to call in a new fire mission and have to wait 2 or 3 turns. You would think it could be done faster. I'd appreciate any feedback on this. Thanks.

From my experience (in training only) calling in real fire missions (mortars only), the delay is because the smoke rounds are kept in a different stack. They have to put the HE rounds away and get the smoke rounds. At least that is the way it seemed.

troopie

[Aeraaa]

You dont have to; just as in calling new fire mission with HE rounds, if you want to send smoke, click on the artillery unit in the bobardment screen(this will send you to the hex that was previously bombarded) and instead of using HE rounds, click on the smoke ammo. Voila! Fire mission with smoke rounds next turn. You can even adjust the fire mission, just like with HE rounds(just remember, first click the smoke button and THEN adjust, otherwise you'll do a normal HE fire mission...)

[paulo]

Thanks a lot! Its ok now, I was hitting the smoke button last instead of first.