firing at hex with multiple targets

[Askari19]

As the situation Pawel describes occured - repeatedly - in our last game, I know just what he's talking about and it is a very good point. I had several platoons of M4A1's reduced to one tank each over the course of the scenario. They were at times stacked together, and received fire from AT guns, Sturmgeschutzen, infantry panzerfaust, and 88's in conditions where I would have expected (and indeed had previously experienced) multiple losses from a single fire. But of course, regardless of the die roll, where one platoon = one step, I never lost more than one step to a single fire action, thanks to the game mechanic of direct fire targeting a single unit. There are drawbacks to running about with a bunch of one-step platoons, but they certainly help you weather a storm of fire.