ORIGINAL: Peter Fisla
UP844,
Keep in mind that you are in GERMAN Defensive fire segment, which means no British units will fire in this segment. Not sure what happened in the British Fire Segment.
I see my previous statement might be misunderstood, so I will rephrase it:
In the British Fire Segment, the A*** leader and the two Airborne squads in 20,22
did not fire at all.
Firing the 51mm mortar does not prevent firing the squad inherent firepower, nor does firing the inherent firepower prevent firing the mortar, so why should the mortar prevent the squad from firing? When I played the British side, SS squads with Panzerfausts were more then happy to fire with their inherent FP when the PF was out of range or ineffective.
Anyway, why didn't the other squad fire? With a *** leader directing its fire and providing an overall negative fire modifier, it still has a decent chance to hurt the adjacent stack [&:][&:][&:]. I think an adjacent A** leader with 3 SS squads should be #1 on anybody's target list.
I will provide a saved game the next time this happens.