Cult.44
Senior Member
How do folks decide what SAN to use for a scenario?
With the scenario I'm working on for MwT IV, I kept the SANs low. The defenders are members of a British searchlight regiment and so are second-line troops. There were no references to snipers in the source material and I'm guessing the searchlight troops didn't employ trained snipers. So should it have been SAN 0? I figured while they may not have trained snipers, the searchlights did have time to settle into their position and some soldiers may have served that role. Also, the way snipers are abstracted in ASL, it seems like that along with trained snipers, the rules might also represent occasional opportunity fire from the rank and file, i.e., a rifleman who's a pretty good shot gets a chance to take out an officer or NCO. I decided on SAN 3 for the British. Is this reasonable?
The German attackers are part of the probing edige of a panzer division on the move and so would have little time to set up snipers or familiarize themselves with the terrain. I decided on SAN 2 for the Germans. This seems in line with a lot of other scenarios.
With the scenario I'm working on for MwT IV, I kept the SANs low. The defenders are members of a British searchlight regiment and so are second-line troops. There were no references to snipers in the source material and I'm guessing the searchlight troops didn't employ trained snipers. So should it have been SAN 0? I figured while they may not have trained snipers, the searchlights did have time to settle into their position and some soldiers may have served that role. Also, the way snipers are abstracted in ASL, it seems like that along with trained snipers, the rules might also represent occasional opportunity fire from the rank and file, i.e., a rifleman who's a pretty good shot gets a chance to take out an officer or NCO. I decided on SAN 3 for the British. Is this reasonable?
The German attackers are part of the probing edige of a panzer division on the move and so would have little time to set up snipers or familiarize themselves with the terrain. I decided on SAN 2 for the Germans. This seems in line with a lot of other scenarios.