Night Time is the right time for sleep? Are you kidding??

[Marquo]

I have been reading about the time that various large WW2 offensives began, and very early morning ~ 3am is not too uncommon. Also remember that fatigue in PzC terms is not physical fatigue, rather Combat Fatigue, the physical and mental wearing down of men and vehicles.

Definition from the manual:

"Combat Fatigue refers to a much more persistent state that accumulates through combat. Combat Fatigue reduces the fighting ability of the unit until it reaches the point where its will to fight has been lost. As such, Combat Fatigue is not relieved through short periods of rest, but rather takes much longer periods to recover from. "

Logical extrapolation based upon the definition of fatigue in the Users Manual is clear: movement, digging trenches, etc at night should not lead to combat fatigue, which really should only "accumulate through combat (vide supra)."
Expansion of the vehicle breakdown rule would be a nifty way at modeling overall fatigue. I propose that all units have an attrition/breadown modifier so that whenever they move, dig a trench, build a bridge, fight there would accumulation of some fatigue, day or night. This would circumvet the illogical situation where a combat unit moves several kms, assaults an enemy and accumulates absolutely no losses or even fatigue. The only way to avoid attrition is to remain perfectly still, otherwise all movement incurs risk and consequence of vehicle breakdown, broken limbs, etc.

PzC fatigue should occur during the day as well as night.

Marquo :stir: