firing at hex with multiple targets

[PawelM]

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.

Yes this is exactly what i meant.

If we go further, in real battlefield situation the firing unit does not select target based on the unit association. When in the game in the case of direct fire a player makes a decision which platoon is targeted. I think one thing which would make firing at a hex with multiple targets more realistic would be to make the attacker choose the type of units to be fired at, i.e. Rather than a specifix platoon. This would be close to real battlefield.

Such a selectio of target by type ( and not by platoon) would allow the losses inflicted by a direst fire to be randomly distributed among the platoons of the same typ currently in the hex. This would also allow to remove the problem i was trying to highlight in my previous post.

does anyone agree tha such a method of selecting direct fire target by type rather than platoon is more realistic as well as the fact that losses are randomly distributed among the targets of the selected type occupying the same hex?