<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Joe D.<br/>
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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: SeinfeldRules<br/>
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... There's a reason Field Artillery is called the "King of Battle" in the American military.<br/>

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Did Stalin call it "The Queen of Battle"?
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<r> so, grenvill, what is the &#1077;xact story that is being told by Joint Munitions Effectiveness Manuals?)) does it tell us that prone infantryman in the woods with shells exploding above him and producing a lot of secondary fragments is less vulnerable than prone infantryman in the open snow ...

<t> tree bursts are fine by me<br/>
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a bit earlier today i had a discussion with another bftb player who wondered why infantry in the clear is less vulnerable to area fire than same infantry in the woods.<br/>
i replied somewhere along these lines:<br/>
1. a prone soldier presents a much ...

<r> In the Annex E of the BFTB manual in the Area fire collumn it says that targets in the forest/wood terrain are 15% more likely to get hit by area fire than targets in the clear(if we drop all teh other factors like deployment etc). Am I reading this right? Could someone explain what the reasons ...