3 things I'm tired of

[Herr Straße Laufer]

I now know how to exploit the rule, but it still strikes me as gamey and unrealistic and I'm embarassed to use it, kind of like overrunning HQs with empty halftracks

My experience since then has shown a lot more unreasonable outcomes - is that better than "silly"? - from the original assault rules than from EA. HSL, I get that your sample set and your view of what's reasonable differs. Don't mean nothin'. I don't need to be right, and you can't prove me "wrong" nor vice versa. Nothing to bicker about.

I hope we are not coming off as bickering. We just disagree based on our individual experiences.
Mine first was a lone German machine gun platoon that the game engine die rolls made into a superman machine gun platoon.
Yes, the Mg was in a town and in an IP. But, it was attacked over and over for about eight turns by an entire battalion of British infantry supported by artillery & engineers. Each turn it would be disrupted and disrupted and disrupted and disrupted and then assaulted multiple times from multiple hexes. Each turn the 15% die roll would save it and it would regain it's morale. By the ninth turn I had finally reduced it's strength enough for it to go away.
I honestly find that more unrealistic than a company of Panthers wiping out a company of T-34's.

And, although I do not know the exact situation (of your half track example) I do not see anything wrong with a platoon or two of armed half tracks overrunning a HQ. But, that is just me.
I think that HT's also are good to go overrunning AT guns too. Another of my experiences involved disrupted AT guns that could not succumb to being overrun by armor and bren carriers.



HSL

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:) panther example given by askari reminded me one how once I managed to capture tdisupted is-2 tanks using sdkf AA which has assault factor of 1. :)

I think this occurence of course with EA Off shows what a ridicule can one achieve. I personally prefer silliness of a singlr platoon withstanding assault from a batallion rather heavy tank captured by a truck with 40mm ish. AA gun :)

I suppose this is just personal prefernce what one consider as more ridiculous :)

You would not have that happen if personal ROE's were in use?
I do not allow opponents to assault armor with half tracks unless accompanied by infantry and/or armor. And, if you read my personal ROE's you would need more than light armor to assault medium or heavy armor.

"Ridiculous" and "silly" are words I would avoid.
Because the game engine's flaws can be overcome with personal ROE's?
EA as part of the game engine cannot be overcome? You ride the vagary of the one die roll.

And, as I have always said, the game has lasted for many years beyond it's intended shelf life. Many more of those years were pre-EA.
I'll go to my dirt nap believing that EA was a mistake.



HSL