Monitor Program 4 units

[HobbesACW]

Hi folks, I noticed that the Monitor Program 4 units have a hard range of 4 and a soft range of 10. This limits their indirect fire range to 4 hexes. All other units that are capable of indirect fire that I have examined have the same range for hard and soft targets. This is also the case with the Monitor Program 5 units. Is this a bug with MP 4 units?

Chris

[Jason Petho]

Thank you for pointing this out!

I will take a look at it and update for 1.40.

[HobbesACW]

Thanks Jason. I was also surprised to see that both monitor types have a soft defense of 10 while ATCs have a hard defense of 6. From the little I have read so far it seems that the monitors were quite well armoured in a very similar way to the ATCs.

Chris

[HobbesACW]

I also just noticed that the ASPB is considered to be a soft target. Maybe there is a reason for this that I don't understand? Just curious.

Chris

[Jason Petho]

The armour value would equate to about a 2, which doesn't help its survivability, especially against recoilless rifles and RPG's, that's why they were made as soft targets, to soak up the hits better.

[HobbesACW]

Thanks Jason. I just found out that the Monitor Program 4 units can actually fire indirectly out to 10 hexes when a target is present in the hex. If firing at an empty hex they are limited to a 4 hex range.

Chris

[Jason Petho]

Oh that's good!

I can see about making it indirect fire.