New S42 Campaign!

[Liquid_Sky]

I notice that in games where their is lots of terrain, the battle is more attritional, and when you have games where the terrain is open, you get mobility/isolation....

For example, I am on turn 220 in Normandy, and the line is a pretty solid one from one end of the map to the other, most of it in Bocage (90% defense with TRENCH). The result is the attacker (either allied or German) has to take some punishment with assaults to weaken the defense in order to finally take it in an assault. Losses favour defender. The German bunker defense in Kharkov is the same....the russians throw themselves at it repeatedly, until you can crack one or two of them, which allows you to outflank the others....again...takes time, and losses. And sometimes you just get too beat up to take the bunker. And it takes many turns to move few hexes forward.

I am not sure if the HQ command value will make a big difference. If the value is low, I will just mass the unit more. If the unit is massed, it doesnt matter too much if even 1/3rd of the unit is disrupted....they can at least soak up defensive fire.


I am thinking that the big killer in PzC is fatigue. Perhaps if the Russian battalions formed up into (large) Regiments, they would suffer greater amounts of fatigue for being in combat, or be too unwieldy to use if combined. For example a regiment could break down into 3 - 400 man Battalions. Or be one 1200 man Regiment. Probably quite a bit of work in the editor though.