Question on Alternative Assault Resolution

[TJD]

Well, no, I never said that the chipping away power in regards to infantry was higher -- I was referring to tanks and anti-tank guns (which I don't think there is many of either in the Troina scenario). I don't think you could utilize the infantry to shoot and disrupt units in bunkers to any good effect in the stock game, regardless of the values, at least not that I am aware of anyway. Also, what usually differs higher in regards to the infantry in the _Alt over stock game is the assault ratings.

The AT and Tank Hard Attack values are the same in both the stock and Alt versions of this scenario. The Assault values of the tanks are 7 in Alt and 9 in stock. There are actually quite a few tanks and AT guns here.

I wasn't referring to using infantry using HA in fire attacks against bunkers. That's not possible anyway. I was referring to their HA values in assaulting bunkers. As I understand the rule, the HA value is used when assaulting hard targets like bunkers. Per the manual: "if all the other side’s strength is made up of Hard Targets, then the effective Assault value of the unit is the same as its Hard Attack value." Certainly, Range 0 infantry have to use HA in assaulting bunkers under the Alt rule.

So, though it's true that the general Assault values are higher in the ALT version, that seems to be of limited relevance to the bunker question.

I'm not trying to quibble here. I'm relatively new to the games and and am trying to understand this Alt rule and why so many players seem to regard it as canonical - whereas to a novice like me it seems a severe handicap vis a vis bunkers. The point that both you and Rick have made, namely, that what the Alt rule takes away is balanced by higher values elsewhere in the bunker-assault equation, doesn't seem accurate, at least in this specific scenario.

I have to wonder if I'm not making some basic conceptual mistake here.

Anyway, thanks for the education, guys!

Tim