PB Kursk '43 South impressions/discussion

[Dog Soldier]

We found in testing that the double jeopardy of low ammo and isolation was causing pillboxes and bunkers to be easily reduced. I was able to reduce a strongly held fortified position, a pillbox in a village, in about two turns. This was way too fast. Soviet Guards who start with 'C' quality, if losing the two steps in morale become 'E' morale. An assault by an equal number of German infantry at 'A' morale had too big an advantage. The attackers rarely failed on the first assault. The loss of half the defenders, and the fatigue the remaining defenders acquired would leave them at over 100 fatigue. They were easily mopped up the next turn by several platoon sized assaults. In an hour the fortification was cleared. Not much of a delay for the attackers.

Therefore, Strela came up with the rational that for the period of PzB scenarios, less than a day, there was sufficient ammo loads to avoid the low ammo used in PzC. In PzC the time of a turn is longer and the units larger to have the low ammo effect.
This worked much better. Hope that explains why we dropped the low ammo requirement.

Dog Soldier