Question for custom scenario designers

[XLVIII Pz. Korp]

J2D,

Re: Engineers. The German engineers have a very deadly hard attack of 18 at a range of 1 while their Soviet counterparts were never issued AT equipment by the designers. Consequently Soviet Engineers attack hard targets at a humble strength of 1. Believe the Germans are intended to be combat engineers while the Sov's are construction. (?).

Re: T-34's at pointblank. Very possible and at times likely. You do not mention what the terrain is where the IP is positioned. Since it is a VP hex I'll assume it's probabaly at least a village. Now lets look at the modifiers. A T-34 fires with a soft attack of 11 at a range of 1. An improved positions reduces the attacker's fire by 25% to 8.25 which in turn will be reduced by the other terrain in the hex, I assumed a village which modifies fire to 70% effect reducing your 8.25 attack to 5.77, fractions lost, and a final attack of 5. Note less than half of your original 11. Are the defenders Wehrmacht or SS? Defense strengths of 7 or 8? Are they stacked with a leader?.... he raises everyones morale reducing the chances for disruption or retreat. So ultimately each of your 7 SP's of T34's is making a die roll on probably a 1:2 table with only a 25% chance for any effect. And you may in fact be having an effect (causing morale checks) but the defenders are just not breaking.

Hope that helps a bit.