Moscow 42 Default vs. VMs Optional Rules

[BigDuke66]

Besides the rules mentioned, some test showed that more is necessary because of the asymmetric force layout.
I compared M42 to M41 and while in M41 the battalion was the main unit and companies were an exception often only depicting recon units that had no real combat value, it is different in M42.

In M42 companies are much more common, no German infantry regiment without the usual AT & IG companies, no Panzer Divisions without companies depicting the various tanks or companies of infantry in APC whiel the rest of the battalions go only by truck, Aufklärungs-Abteilung(recon element of a division) now usually with 3 companies depicting the various movement types of horse/bicycle/motorized and on some divisions even as armored cars and motorcycles.

The problem now is that this leads to battalions going against companies in direct, indirect fire & air strikes. AFAIK the PC series has nothing to even the ground here like the Steel Panther series has were smaller units get less easy to kill, but I guess that is OK on the scale that is depicted in the PC series. Still the problem is that one can easily kill companies in M42 that in M41 were part of a battalion and by that were all but easy to kill.

Maybe others can say something about it but some tests showed that especially the AT companies can simply be killed by bring artillery on them for some turns, and that is seems rather silly when you have a handful of guns stacked with an infantry battalion and the infantry goes unharmed while the AT assets get wiped out.

Only solution to me is to use the some alternated optional rules:
- Alternative Indirect Fire Resolution
- Alternative Air Strike Resolution
- Alternative Direct Fire Resolution
The first 2 rules will distribute the fire value of an attack to all units in the ratio of their strength.
The 3rd will still allow selecting targets but the fire value of the selected target, while being over proportional compared to its strength ratio in the hex, will bring much less fire onto small companies.
Overall these 3 should help to let companies survive longer.