How do you improve PzB???

[Bayes]

Hi Xaver,

The village + trench is actually more effective than what you indicate because it HALVES damage. Also, the result is modified by the 25% quality bonus of the german infantry. As an example, a "raw" damage of 10 men for each part would change to 12.5 lost men for the russian infantry, and to 5 lost men for the german one. I.e., the russians will lose 2.5 times more men than the germans.

Also note that the "damage roll" ranges from 20 to 100, so variability in lost men is quite large. If you prefer less variability, you can turn on:

Optional Fire Results – when this rule is selected, each combat fire result is calculated as the average of two normal fire results. This has the effect of reducing the variation in results.

Would that help?

Bayes

Maybe after play more the game i am with Comrade, i notice the defensive bonus work "worst" than in PzC.

For example a german infantry platoon in a village+trench 20%+30% defensive bonus suffer practically the same as a soviet infantry unit in open.

I see fire combats between german infantry B level with 9 soft attack with +50% defensive bonus VS soviet guards C level 5 soft attack where germans lose 2-3 soldiers and soviets 3-5... not specially valuable the defensive bonus... maybe the problem is that units in terrain with good cover BUT only with soft bonus (no bunker or pillbox hexes) suffer a lot of "average" 1 casualty in any attack when in PzC you see more non effect or fatigue attacks... and well, lose 1 soldier is not the same at PzC level than in PzB level.

Armor for me has the problem in how is modeled... i think a good improvement is remove the actual range system and use the model from Nap/EAW/ACW where you have x firepower at y range, much better than use a formula to reduce from the hard attack, i think is better like in other wargames use firepower hex by hex and use the slot used by the range formula to control how letal is the gun used... for me gama needs be more Steel Panthers in tank combat and less PzC, this sure solve the problem with units made of 3 or less tanks/guns (they are practically useless, only a full company stack can do something) and increase the feeling of play a semitactical game... apart made disapear some strange things like 3 empty hexes between a tiger unit and a T-34/76 unit where the T-34/76 destroy tigers and they are the only units in a range of 10 hexes...WTF!!!

Game is now a 1.0 version and is excesive PzC, maybe for my taste now is son of SQB and PzC but needs in future be itself and leave PzC and SQB limitations.

Dont understand me bad, i like the serie but needs evolve in their own way