Mortar Indirect Fire

[Andrew Kurtz]

How is Indirect Mortar Fire supposed to work? I cannot get the mortar to fire in Overlord Begins. I have assembled to Mortar but see no options for indirect fire with leaders.

 

[Zac]

Do the leaders have LOS to an enemy unit?

 

[Andrew Kurtz]

Yes, just retried. I have a leader adjacent to an enemy. Unshaken, has not been used this impulse. Mortar shows assembled. Mortar in clear hex and in range (between 2-9 hexes). I also tried with a leader 3 hexes away (visibility is 3 per scenario rules). In both cases, the enemy units were spotted.

What should I see? Should I be able to pick the leader and see an option to call for an indirect mortar strike?

 

[Tom Proudfoot]

For mortar support weapons, if I recall correctly, you just use the squad with the weapon to fire as though it was a direct shot. Then if it actually has to be an indirect shot, it marks an appropriate spotter with the Ops Complete marker (doesn't have to be a leader, does have to be adjacent to the unit with the weapon, see 1.6.5).

 

[Andrew Kurtz]

I will retry by picking the mortar squad - but so far that has not seemed to work either. I get "No LOS" I believe (even with a leader with an LOS).

 

[Andrew Kurtz]

Nope - nothing I do seems to allow the mortar to fire indirect. Can't figure out what I should be seeing.

 

[Barthheart]

Can you post some pictures of what you are seeing? It might help us understand the problem.

Also, hit the F3 button in game at the point you are having trouble and submit a bug report. That way Tom can look at the code and make sure everything is working correctly.

 

[Andrew Kurtz]

 

[Andrew Kurtz]

See above. Mortar Assembled. Leaders have unit sighted.. No option for Indirect Fire from Leader or Mortar.

 

[Andrew Kurtz]

Also, hit F3 and reported at same point

 

[Marechal]

edit: deleted as I misread which mortar you are trying to fire.

 

[Andrew Kurtz]

To be clear, mortar is assembled and the unit furthest from the enemy - between 2-9 range though.

 

[Stéphane Tanguay]

Mortar SW can only be fired indirectly if a friendly unit adjacent to said mortar SW has LOS to the target. Only Squads, Half-Squads, Crews, Advisors, Leaders, Heroes, and Scouts not yet marked with a Moved, Fired, Ops Complete, Assault Move, Low Crawl, Stealth, Hit & Run (H&R) or
Melee marker can direct the Mortar’s fire. See 1.6.5 in the Rules.

Not to be confused with Mortar WT (18.1), which requires a Leader/Scout/Advisor to be fired indirectly.

In your case, your mortar SW does not have LOS (outside of visibility range) and no adjacent friendly units able to "direct" the indirect fire.

 

[Andrew Kurtz]

OK - so that information gets me closer. See below. The mortar is in the northern most hex. I have a leader adjacent. They have not yet been activated. The Germans have been spotted and are in LOS and visibility (night - 3 hexes).

I see no method of firing the mortar. The leader shows no option. The mortar shows no option. I ever tried activating adjacent hex with no luck. Given the situation below, how should I be able to first the Mortar SW indirectly?

 

[Stéphane Tanguay]

My guess is that the computer does not allow you to fire the mortar because it is not in visibility range (it should not mattered, since an adjacent friendly unit is in visibility range). As Tom explained, you would normally simply fired the mortar SW-toting squad without LOS and it would mark an adjacent unit that have LOS to it but, in this case, it consider it cannot be fired. This is a bug specific to this night situation I think and I bet it would worked if it was day.

 

[Compass Rose]

This is a bug specific to this night situation I think and I bet it would worked if it was day.

Since this is a bug, should he send in the game file at the current turn to LnL support so they can look at it? If so, what is the email address?

 

[Tom Proudfoot]

He did, I got it. Just haven't gotten around to looking at it yet.

 

[Stéphane Tanguay]

Since this is a bug, should he send in the game file at the current turn to LnL support so they can look at it? If so, what is the email address?

You simply have to press F3 in game. This will open a window where you can type your comments and this will be sent , along the game file, to the dev.

 

[Andrew Kurtz]

Sent

 

[Compass Rose]

You simply have to press F3 in game. This will open a window where you can type your comments and this will be sent , along the game file, to the dev.

OK Thanks!