FWWC - Shrinking fire values

[BigDuke66]

Sure but it doesn't simply seem to be a modifier like in the Civil War or Napi series, for example in the Napoleon series the density starts to kick in at 1200 and runs up to 1800 at which point the modifier is +50%.

I don't see it this way in the FWWC series.
I think the passage I quoted is they way it works in game, so basically you fire, a random unit is chosen that get the full fire value while the other units get fire value proportional to the size.
One has to see how much fire value a unit can generate and how much fire value is distributed in such cases, I assume that all together much more fire value is distributed when firing on such a stack simply because the other targets get some fire proportional to their size.


Anyhow all this doesn't kick in here, just try it for yourself single unit vs single unit(preferably the target unit should be one that can't fire back like a MG unit in travel mode) and turn "On Map Results" off and you see each time you fire the fire value is lower than with the previous fire.


Besides that the Fire Value seems also variable sometimes, I tested a unit in the Nancy scenario(hex 56,10) and it fires at the stack south of it either with a fire value of 646(hits the infantry)/46(hits the MG unit) or 323(hits the infantry)/92(hits the MG unit).
Not sure why the Fire Value changes, especially since the casualties are already randomly generated between the high and low combat results.

Anyhow repeat it by firing on the single unit South-West and there it generates 642 Fire Value so you see that you can end up with more Fire Value generated for firing on a stack than when firing on a single unit but that is likely only because the way the additional fire value is assigned to the other units in a stack that are not the major target.