Question on combat values and fire values

[Rabbit]

No problem. It is a great question because it highlights just how important those adjustments can be. Because weapons lose their effectiveness every time you use them, you can quickly understand why it is often better to hold fire when your firepower is halved or quartered due to adjustments.

For instance, it rarely makes sense to have demoralized units fire their weapons because their Fire Value is automatically quartered. Rookie players often just keep firing away with Disrupted/Pinned/Demoralized units, whereas veterans understand the value of often retreating those units to regain their morale. Likewise you need to be mindful of when you leave Ground Mode on offense because you are doubling the Fire Value of any enemy units firing against you.

You can easily get mired in the math (for instance, trying to determine exactly how many casualties are expected to occur in a particular combat scenario), but it greatly helps to know from a high level what causes your firepower to get halved or multiplied.