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I'm thinking of making it so that towed guns are immobile or else only move one hex at a time when they aren't being transported by a transport subformation such as horses, trucks, halftracks, etc. It seems sort of unrealistic to drag a gun what must in game terms be a hundred miles or more (or whatever a hex may amount to). What do others think about immobile guns that can only be moved by transport? Would it make the game too hard or would the AI fail?

Thanks.

Can towed guns move more than one hex now without transport?

Chuck

Towed guns have artillery move, I think they can move 2 hexes in roads, not sure.

@Gary, @Bombur

I think this is reasonable in one month turns. If I have an artillery unit that needs to be somewhere else a farmer is going to be missing some draft horses for awhile.

Chuck

Hi cpdeyoung, part of the reason I want to make towed artillery immobile is to provide a little more incentive to produce self-propelled artillery in the mod I'm working on. So if an attacker disables some of your transport in your towed artillery group it will immobilize your artillery. With SP artillery you wouldn't need to worry about that plus SP has some armor protection to withstand attacks. Trying to give SP some useful bonuses in the game.

I love SP artillery, and will take all I can get. More power to you, Gary.

Chuck