Something is "Wrong" with EA

[Mr. Guberman]

Kat,
To me, it sounds as if things are working correctly.
First: If I recall correctly, each strength point of infantry, actually, represents 6-9 men (half squads).
Second: Soft vehicle (armed) defense strenths, I believe, are too low anyway.
Third: Huib's point...of a "meat chopper" on a jeep, scything across 125 meters (let's halve the diameter of the hex assuming the jeep is in the middle) of open ground...would deter the best of troops...
Fourth: God forbid, if the firing unit is armoured...as the "old" assault rules assume that all of the attacking units would have assaulted with sticky bombs or crawled onto it ("them" actually) like fire ants. In CS, "assault", is an abstraction of a number of possible incidents.
Fouth: Being a combat veteran...assaulting any heavy weapon across open terrain reminds me of "charging into the mouths of the cannon"...and I cringe.
Give it chance. I do believe you will come to enjoy it. Personally, I think the original assault rules (hence the tactics, then habits developed) were innaccurate. Once one understood how to "disrupt, surround and assault" it became formula...one could mathematically postulate the outcome (let's not go into "shoot and scoot" as represented by CS). In my oppinion, it was terribly unrealistic.
Hope you do enjoy playing the scenario, though.
Cheers
Curt