Damage dealt to small units

[Jeff Conner]

And while I do have better things to do on a Sunday morning, I am procrastinating. I ran the second half of my test and again was a bit surprised by the results. Instead of using a stack of two panzergrenadier platoons, each of 45 men, to assault a single gun in a bunker, I assaulted with each platoon individually. I expected the results to be similar or even better than for the combined attack, but this was incorrect. Only half of the time was the bunker cleared by the two assaults. Gun losses were down too, as the gun survived 66% of the time. German losses were about the same. The increased ability of the combined assault to clear a bunker of a single gun was statistically significant at the 95% level. I'll have to do some more testing when I want to waste time to see if there is any difference when assaulting more than one gun, which is a much more likely scenario to be found in a game situation.