German firepower

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Are you receiving those casualties at long range and/or during opportunity fire from the Mg42's?

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In most cases it is short range. The process goes like this: The British infantry move a hex forward in the forest > They receive OP fire from the Germans > Brits get disrupted, losses and retreats (most damage is done by MGs) > in that state their own return fire (enough action points for 1 shot) is ineffective. During the following turn the German player finishes off the rest until the adjacent hex is empty again. Then the process (for the same hex!) would start again. Most of the times the German player would even have enough AP left to start with OP fire once more (This is were the 3 shots become extremely powerful, you fire twice in your own turn and still there is one devastating shot left for OP fire).

If the Germans happen to be in a trench it is even worse, one can imagine.

I wouldn't mind if this happened occassionally in a scenario, but in this case this happens all along the line. Historically however the British managed to get through the Reichswald with less losses than the Germans, even if their losses were high.
Other solutions we thought of, besides reducing the # of MGs were to give the Brits an enormous amount of smoke so that they at least have some chance to keep the hex occupied and call in artillery (that however is not historical either, but seems valid in the game).


It seems the British infantry cannot fight these type of battles on even terms. Germans seem to be much better advancing through forested areas against opposition it seems, although I haven't tried that here but remember it from other scenarios.

Any ideas to deal with this scenario design wise are more than welcome.