Wiped out passengers

[Hawk Kriegsman]

One needs to remember that this is a turn based simulation. The combat results are a simulation of what happened over the turn.

No unit ever stayed exposed to gunfire for 6 minutes, whether mounted or unmounted. They hit the deck, dove for cover, etc.

That cannot be modeled in the CS. CS is not that type of game.

When a loaded truck, passengers on tanks, etc gets attacked multiple times in a turn they are in actuallity being attacked by all the units during the 6 minute turn. The limitations of the game engine sees this fire being resolved of course one unit (or stack of units) at a time by the player, eventhough it is a composite of what happened over the 6 minutes.

So when a platoon of loaded trucks wanders into enemy fire you get an accruate result. The platoon of trucks gets wiped out.

What you are assuming is that every single man sat there and got killed.

That is not in actuallity what happned. What happaned is more along the lines of this (a 3 SP loaded truck platoon with 2SP of infantry per truck):

1st Truck SP: the truck takes a direct hit killing / wounding all on board. Lose 2 SP

2nd Truck SP: the driver of the truck and 2 SP of infantry panic and exit the truck without the majority of their weapons, ammo and equipment, which renders them ineffective on the battlefield. Lose 2SP

3rd Truck SP: truck hit with a couple men in the 2 SP of infantry wounded; the other unwounded men get the wounded onto makeshift stretchers and head for the battalion aid station. Lose 2 SP.

If you take the time to accept that the game is a abstract suimulation of what occurs over 6 minutes on the battlefield you would realize the hundreds of little things that happen that the game cannot and should not model.

Thanx!

Hawk