German firepower

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Another couple of thoughts:
1) Bear in mind CS losses will not translate directly to actual casualties (KIA, wounded). They will include MIAs, units that lose a commander and simply stop functioning for the period of the scenario, units that are broken up and have to re-group, etc. [Of course one would expect loss ratios to be roughly maintained]
2) Attacking tactics will count for a lot. In the picture that you posted the unit in the top right circle should probably have advanced into the hex to their SW instead. It has an existing emplacement which reduces the attacker by 25% plus it is uphill of one potential attacker's hex which further reduces the attacker by 10%. If each adjacent hexes has 6SP of mg platoons in the expected loss would be reduced from 1.6SPs to 1.2SPs (btw, if that hex had been smoked as well then the expected loss falls further to .64SPs, not 500% but close to 300%)

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