A Fire Direction Center (FDC) quickly consolidates the fires of heavy and light weapons in order to unleash a truly heavy bombardment upon a known target. Located with the corps or divisional big guns, they also coordinate the fires of non-artillery weapons into the overall fire support plan.
In Flames Of War
Linking to FDC:
The Fire Support Net is a communications net that gives any unit with the proper
training, artillery registration, and radio sets the ability to link with an
FDC team.
Supporting Fire:
The FDC connected numerous other types of weapons as well as normal artillery
batteries into the Fire Support Net. This allowed many different types of
weapons to fire in Coordinated Bombardments
Coordinated Bombardment:
Once a target was identified, an FDC team could direct additional artillery
batteries and supporting gun platoons upon that target to ensure its
destruction. Additional indirect fires were added until the “Area Well
Covered” message was received from the observer calling the fire.
Big Guns:
US Artillery contained many ‘Big Guns’ to effect counterbattery artillery
fire. These big guns gave them additional kill capabilities when supporting
Coordinated Bombardments.
- Deployment L: Can be deployed at the late stage of war
About Flames of War:
Flames of War is a tactical miniature wargame produced by Battlefront Miniatures.
Re-create the tension and excitement of real battles using a vast array of elements including infantry, tanks, artillery, terrain and aircraft.
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