Anybody else ever feel this way?

[Jeff Conner]

It sounds like you are firing your weapons one at a time, at least from your description. While there might be reasons to do this (such as firing an AT weapon at a tank while firing your other weapons at infantry), if all of a squad's (or stack for that matter) weapons are going to be fired at the same target hex, they should be fired together. The calculations are the same, but if you fire them all together, you only create one trigger for opportunity fire, you are more likely to receive a result that will reduce such opportunity fire and if your result reduces the morale of the target, you are less likely to receive opportunity fire.

One other thing that you should be aware of is the effectiveness of both the weapons and the squads in your defensive position. In your example, the unit has just rallied from disrupted to normal. This suggested that it has been in action already. If the effectiveness of either, or both types of units has been seriously degraded, it might be time to withdraw rather than stay and fight. Just because a unit has normal morale does not mean everything is right with the world.

Jeff