F 14 Anomalous Combat Results

[jonnymacbrown]

Last year I was defending a hex with valuable troops who came under normal bombardment and suffered losses way out of proportion to anything that had happened in the game previously. I was forced to give up the hex as it kept happening.

Yesterday, in a different game, I had something similar happen: I got driven out of a hex and wanted to retake it. I bombarded the enemy (two full 1000 man battalions of the 19th Reserve Division), disordered them and assaulted with 1000 C rated Corps troops with 9 assault factor. The CRT was attacker loses 54 defender loses 960 with the attacker loses the assault. Next I went in with Zouaves; 1200 men A rated 11 assault and drove the enemy away but with a normal result; attacker loses 55 defender loses 90. I completed my move and sent the turn back to my opponent. However perplexed I opened the game again and tried the same assault with similar results; only this time the Corps troops had a normal result and the Zouave assault was c. 50/900 and they lost it, just like in the original turn; the loser winning 50/900. I sent the file to a friend and he tried it on his computer; same kind of results. I've been playing a lot of F 14 the past year and I've never seen anything like this. Any thoughts? jonny :conf: