Normandy Patch Update

[ComradeP]

Being a hex-based wargame, it is indeed similar to a boardgame, but that's both a weakness and a strength of the game.

"Realistic" is not a clearly defined set of conditions. If a wargame is supposed to model the real war, units would advance very slowly and would in many cases not follow your orders as they might lead to unacceptable losses.

You would need to change the whole system as currently:

-Units take unrealistically high losses.
-Combat is abstracted, units fire from hex to hex not to units at a certain range in meters.
-Vehicle and gun combat is fairly abstract.
-All units belonging to a certain formation act as artillery spotters, regardless of how likely it is that they would have had a radio with a direct link to the artillery units they spot for. There are no navy or air force liaisons, nor artillery observers.
-General supply, fuel and ammunition deliveries are heavily abstracted.
-Transportation assets are abstracted.
-The impact of terrain is abstracted into a percentage modifier.

and so forth.

Instead of changing the disruption and broken mechanic, because it is felt it isn't realistic, you could also ask for more realistic (as in: lower) losses so units are less likely to disrupt or break, or ask that any other point listed above or some other point is changed. It's a path without a clear end where "realism" is achieved.

Something like an increased chance to disrupt when taking more than a certain number of losses or losing more than a certain percentage of remaining strength might be a more elegant solution than a radicaly overhaul of the system.

This is a game at its core, not a simulation, and even wargames that come closer to simulations, like the Command Ops series, include numerous unrealistic aspects. Logistics tend to be abstracted in virtually all wargames, the focus is on the fighting.

I have issues with certain mechanics that make the system less consistent, like how direct fire results against units composed of men are calculated directly whilst vehicle and gun losses are abstracted through a die roll, but not with the system as a whole.