Area Target Type vs. Infantry Target Type
JRvanMechelen: There are two good reasons for using the ATT over the ITT. First with the ATT you gain acquisition against concealed units. The acquisition can be transfered to the ITT when concealment is stripped (bracketing).
For the same reasons that the shot at a concealed unit in +3 TEM is so bad on the ITT, at long range the ATT can be better than the ITT just because there is some chance of getting a hit. This doesn't usually arise in ETO scenarios, but it is important in the desert.
Rodney Kinney: I'll volunteer my rule of thumb. Calculate the DR you would need to obtain a NMC if you hit using the ATT. If one less than that same DR would give you a hit on the ITT, use the Infantry Target Type.
Patrick Manlig offers us:
Use ATT if:
- the target is concealed and you want acquisition.
- you want to get acquisition against an empty hex.
- you're firing at an AFV that you cannot otherwise harm. (Sherman 75 vs. KT front - not even a CH will do!)
- you want to fire at several Locations within the hex at once (but you must have LOS to each affected Location).
- you're firing at infantry beyond 12 hexes.
- you're firing SMOKE.
- you're firing a mortar.