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Got 2 questions for the mechanics of field artillery operations in Southern Storm:

1. In my opinion, the modelling of field artillery operations in Southern Storm must have a close relation in concept with AFATDS (Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System, the successor of TACFIRE), it almost completely reflect the sensor-to-shooter theory. Am I correct?

2. FSCC decision making. I guess there must be a weight-based evaluation which determine if the collected fire support requests are eligible to be processed to be the fire missions. If so, is the weight static or dynamic? Could you list some of the priorities that may dominate the decision making? Is there also a deconfliction measure which is to do the negotiation between multiple priorities?

Just so curious about this.

For #1, we try to have the spotting to shooting loop as close to the Cold War chain of information travel and timing as possible and also show the differences between NATO and WP operations.

For #2, several variables are used to select targets and support forces to engage said targets. Size and type of target matter, type of munitions and the number of tubes for the shooter, presence of air support, soft factors, weather, target movement, and mission availability all play a part.