The Commander Series Forum

So I am playing a solo game, AAR to follow, and the following came up: Would the US use fascam to deny the Russians an objective? The US is attempting to stop the Russians from gaining a major objective, occupying a town, so they decided to use fascam. The Russian force is all infantry and the mine clearing troops have all been destroyed.

Also can fascam be deployed in nonclear terrain.

Would they? As in, is it part of an American battle plan from the "real" world? Answer - yes. That's pretty much the point of FASCAM: area denial. I doubt it would be hugely effective if fired on a built-up area, since a proportion of the mines could be expected to fall in inaccessible areas like rooftops or such, but they could be dropped on the approaches to the objective to deny or channel the enemy's advance. But if the situation were particualrly dire, and you had pre-plotted artillery sheaves for your mine rounds and needed to keep a vital objective at bay, well... fire away.

If it's a question about whether it's "cheap" to allow the US player to use a weapon the Russian can't answer, I think it'd be a matter of how the game was laid out to begin with. If he simply didn't protect his minesweeping units and then had to face a FASCAM attack, well, that's just kind of a tough break.

Ruleswise I'm not totally sure - I have to dig out my CWC and check. My instinct is to say that you COULD, but it wouldn't be terribly effective.

The FASCAM mines could definitely be use on the approaches to an objective. They would not be deployed over an urban area.

When we did exercises my brigade would often use FASCAM to trap the OPFOR in a kill zone.

Thanks all. I have "redeployed" my FASCAM to the edge of the village. I read an "abstract" last night that suggested the same.