Question on tactics: Assault, assault and assault

[Cole]

Gordon,

I put your example of the half tracks finishing off the ISIIs down to this. The 1 assault factor of the half tracks does not represent them charging into the battle and destroying a IS2 by using well placed machine guns shots. Instead I take it to mean that there were half tracks in the area of the skirmish that helped support the assault in question, even by just helping to maintain a perimeter or helping with MG fire that kept the IS2's buttoned up. You just happened to bring more to the fight and those half tracks might of been the proverbial "stick of straw that broke the camel's back".
At the CS level it has to be abstract. To really play "historically" we would have to play Squad Leader.