The Banzai

[Mike Abberton]

I havén't played RS much (mostly as allies) and never experienced a Banzai attack (as far as i know)
but is the succesrate of a banzai attack with EA on, the same as regular assault with EA off??

regards
Remko

I haven't used it much with EA on, but I suspect it will make them harder to use against good troops (USMC, USA, UK troops with good morale). Using them against low-morale KNIL, UK, US, Chinese, Irregular troops could be devastating, though, since you can successfully assault low-morale, non-disrupted troops with EA on.

I do agree with the others that the Banzai, as modeled in the CS series now, is not historical. Way too calculated and too effective right now.

To make it more accurate, it would probably have to be a scenario-wide setting (i.e. banzai all the time from the beginning) to simulate that these were usually pre-planned large scale events, not tactical spur-of-the-moment-type decisions.

Then you could remove the free movement bonus (maybe give them "free" double time movement each turn or something), halve (or more) their defense value, halve (or more) their direct fire factors, and increase (+50%?) their assault values. With these rules it should only be vaguely useful in dense terrain or at night, just like in real life. And even then, the troops would die in droves, just like in real life.

It would be interesting if Banzai'ers had a chance to penetrate the enemy line on a successful assault (i.e. skip over a defended hex rather than retreat the troops in that hex) if there was an open hex on the opposite side, but that's probably not worth the effort to code.

Mike