From: jferro@blue.ece.cmu.edu (Jonathan R. Ferro)
Newsgroups: rec.games.board
Subject: Re: More Patton's Best ?'s

boatlou@aol.com (BoatLou) writes:
> 1. Shouldn't Artillery Support and Airstrikes be performed before
> Advancing Fire?

Since it isn't specified anywhere, I have always done so.

> 2. Should rain start/stop be determined from 0500, from sunrise, or
> from the start of the scenario?

I take the rule to mean that rolls for rain change occur on
"hundred-hours" boundaries, but that you don't start checking until
after the scenario starts.  I think it is equally reasonable to use
"full hours since scenario start" instead.

> 3. If all enemy units are eliminated before the ambush check in step
> 4.65 what should the sequence of play be?  (e.g. Check for Ambush - if
> so, roll for Random Events, then again for 4.77?, If no Ambush just
> roll for 4.77?)  Also, in the General article 25-3 in the PB Q&A board
> it states to jump to 4.77 immediately after enemy units are eliminated
> after an ambush.  Why can't crew operations be conducted (buttoning
> up, MG advancing fire, etc.) in preparation for adverse Random Events
> in 4.77?

In my opinion, having never seen this Q&A, you still roll for the ambush
(4.65).  If it occurs, roll for the ambush random event (4.652b), then
do one full round of operations (which goes fast since there are no
enemy units) (4.71-76), and roll for another random event at the end
(4.77).

> 4.  How many Airstrike counters are in the counter mix?  One?

My set has two.

-- Jon