Artillery same hex and cumulative smoke

[Jagger2002]

More NOOBIE questions.

If I drop artillery on a hex containing both enemy and friendly troops, should I expect significant friendly casualties or just assume accuracy is such that my troops won't experience friendly fire?

Are the smoke effects on LOS cumulative? If I put three smoke barrages in the same hex at the same time, is the smoke barrage three times as effective as one smoke barrage? Is it more difficult to target a unit through 1 smoked hex or 2 smoked hexes? Or is one smoked hex just as good as any number of smoked hexes?

[CapnDarwin]

1). Any units in a hex getting hit with artillery is subject to both readiness loss and subunit loss.
2). The current game engine only considers that the hex is smoked so more than one marker/mission may only effect how long the hex stays smoked. I need to verify that though.

Smoke blocks non thermal sighted units LOS passing through a hex and units in a hex have a degraded LOS in and out.

[Jagger2002]

Thanks!

So equal chances of any unit suffering damage if in a hex hit by artillery? It is not more likely that the enemy will be hit?

I now see the advantages of assaulting into a enemy occuppied hex when the other side has plenty of artillery.

[CapnDarwin]

Technically, a larger unit (one with more subunits) has a greater chance of taking losses and type of subunits matter as well. Tanks being more resilant than grunts.

[SwampYankee68]

You also have to figure that even with accurate artillery, in a 500-meter hex, a barrage of rounds that has a kill radius of 50 meters (and splash damage twice that) has a good chance to injure friendlies. A barrage targeted at a hex next to one occupied by friendlies is considered "danger close", so Calling a mission in on a hex occupied by your own troops is not something you would normally want to do...

[Jagger2002]

I will certainly call artillery into a hex when all I have is some infantry remnants being pounded to dust by about 20 T-80s... [;)]