F 14 Anomalous Combat Results

[jonnymacbrown]

First thought, with the defender losses in the "lost" assault, is that the defenders "lost" but were unable to retreat due to stacking limits, thus losing an extra 50% of their strength on top of the assault/melee losses.

Easy way to check, the defender will ALWAYS give up the hex if they are disrupted, and at least one attacking unit does NOT disrupt, and the defenders have a hex to retreat to - the hex is either out of enemy ZOC, or occupied by a friendly unit with room under the stacking limit to move into.

At least this is true if there is no bug, and I have never seen one. Anyway, in this situation, assuming it applies, if the defender is disrupted, and the attacker didn't disrupt but didn't move into the defender hex, then it should be because the defender couldn't retreat from the hex so suffered the extra 50% loss - so check the attackers to see if they disrupted, if not, then you have the reason. If they are disrupting in the failed attack, then something odd is happening to cause thehuge defender losses.

Rick

Both defenders were disrupted before the attack. They had a retreat hex, and did retreat when finally assaulted by the Zouaves. jonny :conf:

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"the hex is either out of enemy ZOC, or occupied by a friendly unit with room under the stacking limit to move into."

Ok I see the problem now: The attacking Germans were over-stacked to the rear; so the 2 full battalions of defending Germans had, in effect, no retreat hex. Thanks for the help! jonny