Extreme assault?

[zeiss]

only problem is I don't assault very much any more because of it,

Exactly. Assaults become few and far between with Extreme Assault on. Instead there are a lot more lengthy short-range firefights. The attacker can seldom afford the extra time for this in the shorter scenarios.
It's also not unusual to actually kill or retreat all the enemy units before the assault because the assault hex needs so much prepping.

Extreme Assault is currently on 11 and almost removes assaults from the game, it would be nice to have it (or a new assault setting) toned down to 7 or 8..

Since the beginning of version 1.03 (remember that debacle) we've had nothing but "justification", belittlement, personal attack, and silence from the Matrix team.

You forgot the WMDs and the links to Nazi-Germany.. ;)