Scenario Design Questions

[76mm]

On average, my artillery knocks out more tanks than AT weapons as the Soviets because the 76mm AT gun isn't that good not to mention the 45mm, for the Germans it's different as their artillery is generally less powerful and/or less numerous than Soviet guns and their mid war AT guns are excellent.

Rocket units tend to have good HA values, at least in Panzer Battles, so they're more likely to knock out tanks than gun artillery.

At some point, you have to wonder about some of the values in the McNamara database. I thought that rockets in particular were most effective against troops in the open, and not so much against bunkers or tanks. Might make sense to tweak arty and rocket hard values down?

In my opinion, the difference between a bunker and a trench is too significant currently, particularly for low morale units like most Soviet units. In trenches, they will just disappear when attacked by a good German force. In bunkers, they can hold out.

hmm, in the alt pdt file for Minsk at least, the "modifier" is the same for trenches and bunkers (30), although bunkers have a defense value of 5, whatever that means.

If you're tweaking with the extent of the variability of the high/low fire values, or significantly decrease defence values, your result is likely to happen. In a stock scenario, with the McNamara (sp?) database values for units, casualties are likely to be low per turn.

I tweaked the Fire Lo/Hi values, didn't touch the defense values. As you say, before I changed those values, casualties were very low.

When you say that Soviet rockets don't seem to have much effect, do you mean the "old" Katyusha's without a minimum range or the "new" more powerful Katyusha's with a minimum range?

Old Katyushas--I'd added the min range but forgot about the increase in soft attack value--indeed, it went from 25 to 44.