France '14 Update 1.03 Released

[Mr Grumpy]

As you can see from the amount of info in the first two posts that there is still a lot of tweaking and refining going on for F14 and the FWWC series, as well as a new title in its advanced stages of testing.

If you read through the changes the most obvious to have a noticeable effect is "Broken units have full movement allowance and Disrupted units have 2/3 movement allowance" this change was brought in to encourage players to retreat when necessary without having to leave their broken/disrupted units behind to be destroyed by the attacker, many players were trying to "stand and die" to cover for these slow moving units in an attempt to save them, only to end up losing even more units in the attempt.

"Optional Surrender" is now a default optional rule (the first time you play a scenario with 1.03 you will need to click the Opt rule "default" button to enact this change), so retreating your broken units is even more important than before as any assault on them will remove the entire unit.

"Artillery units without indirect fire, "field guns", that are not in a bunker, redoubt, or fort that are fired on have a disruption effect that is ten times that of normal"
As a "small unit" it was difficult to disrupt FG units under the Alt fire system that FWWC uses, this new change should remedy this issue and prevent FG units resisting assaults when not stacked with an infantry unit.

"No Towed Unit (a unit that must be in Travel Mode to move) has a ZOC" no more blocking bridges with small MG/FG units by straddling the bridge with a ZOC forcing the attacking units to use the forced bridge rule, now a MG/FG unit will need to be stacked with an infantry of cavalry unit to block a bridge in this way.

"Restoration of eliminated HQ units takes twice as long" in the FWWC series any unit outside the HQ command range or with no HQ drops one level of morale, so don't allow your HQ's to be destroyed!