Smoke screens?

[Daz01]

Hi All
I have been playing CBMN for a while now and seem to have got to grips with this game, But one thing i can not work out is smoke rounds.
You ask the guns to fire smoke to cover you and as for long or max, But when they do drop smoke they seem to only do it for one round and then stop?.
Most games they seem to only lay around 4-6 smoke rounds and never seem to stoke the smoke screen, why are smoke screens so short, unlike art rounds that seem to drop for more than one round.
Is there a way way to get the guns to fire more and longer smoke screens?.
Daz

 

[Richtig]

Just a guess, but have you looked at their ammo? Often the number of smoke rounds is very limited...

 

[Nathangun]

Then there's the wind strength and direction.

 

[RagingBunny]

Richtig probably has the right answer. Mortars carry only 6 rounds of smoke or so, if any at all. My experience is that only the batallion level artillery (105mm and up) actually has enough smoke rounds to put down a meaningfull smoke screen.

I don't know about WW2 but if I remember it correctly from my days as a gun bunny, a 200 meter smokescreen requires three guns to fire a smoke round about every 30 seconds. So you'll understand why the 6 smoke rounds of the average on map piece of artillery does not give you a very durable smoke screen.