Combat Details

[Mr Grumpy]

I have been playing these games for years and I have never needed to know the mechanics to that degree of detail to enjoy them, once you have played a few games you get a feel (or an expectation) for how many casualties a particular unit of a certain size with a certain combat value will cause on average, sometimes you are surprised when it is higher and disappointed when it is lower depending on the "dice roll".

The modifiers as explained in the manual are easy to understand and you can certainly see them coming into play as your unit goes "low ammo" or fires while "digging in" and casualties being lowered by features in hex's with negative fire modifiers as an obvious examples...........

So I don't think anyone can answer your question for either PzC or PzB, but that certainly should not impact on your enjoyment of the games, what you need is a feel for the games that you can only get from playing them.