CM / PC Casualty Disparities

[Ricky B]

To me, it is all a factor of scale. A tactical game, with many units facing each other in the front lines, basically, represents just a part of a battle represented in PzC at the operational level. So having 80 vs. 20 tanks, and only seeing maybe 5-6 tanks knocked out on a side, is due to the operational level, related to dispersion, sight lines, etc. Not all these tanks are going to see each other and be firing for the 2 hours.

Also, the CM games, at least, allowing large sized forces to fight it out in a short time, may not be providing a realistic look at the tactical combat either - probably a combination of both factors. Take a big battle such as Kursk, with thousands of tanks on a side, and you won't be seeing 50 tanks being killed per hour for an entire day. I would guess that total losses per day averaged around 150 for both sides, maybe 200.

Rick