CM / PC Casualty Disparities

[Steel God]

I think Ivan hits the nail pretty squarely. I'm not a cm player, but have played 100s of SP games (similar scale to CM) and very rare indeed is the player who isn't unrealistically aggressive. The scale in PzC and MC games being battalions the game engine is instilling some measure of realistic combat loss in it's "die rolls". But even so, in testing I always found players were more aggressive and losses could easily be higher than in real life.

Unlike CM and SP, PzC games do reward players who pull their units out of action and rest them because you have days and weeks of a game to manage, not just hours and minutes.

I played a moderated campaign of SP once (not at Blitz) called Red Snow and when equipment was lost it was not available for the next battle. It seriously changed the way people played SP and caution, cover, recon all became treasured habits.