Question on Alternative Assault Resolution

[TJD]

True, but this all goes hand-in-hand. With the Alt values over the default ones, then typically hard attack strengths and assault strengths will be higher. So, your chipping away power should be greater,

Exactly, Ed, your values are designed (or not but that is how they work anyway) to work with the alt assault rules so it balances things.

Referencing again the Troina scenario, it's worth noting that the Hard Attack values for infantry and engineers are actually much higher in the default scenario than in the Alt version. In the Default version, Infantry and Engineer are 4 and 5 respectively; in the Alt, they are 1 and 3. So the balancing that you refer to, Rick, doesn't seem to occur in this scenario, and what Volcano Man calls a higher "chipping away power" in the Alt values is actually markedly less in this instance.

I realize that Volcano Man says that these values would only "typically" be higher in the Alt version, so perhaps Troina is a one-off. I'm curious why it is. Is it WAD?

Thanks!

Tim