Leader Bug?

[TheGrayMouser]

As far as I know, its not supposed to

There are two types of modifiers for melee combat.

One are modifiers that directly increase or decrease the # of effective men: so melee bonus attributes per unit( new with the P&S engine) 25% bonus when Heavy cavalry(and dragoons its seems) are attacking, cavalry charge multiplier, the “has no bayonets” PDT flag. There may be a few more I missed.
These are all expressed as %’s

The second type referenced in the manuals are never expressed as %’s and just called “modifiers” ie 40/20 20/0 etc. These are the leader bonus, flank/rear attack bonus, terrain modifiers, has held shot prior to melee modifiers etc etc. What they actually do, I think , Is based on a very short paragraph in all the manuals, be it Nap, Civil war EAW’s etc.

Basically the attacker causes a range band of 20-100 casualties versus the defender, and the defender causes a 40-160 range band versus the attacker! As one can see, the game engine is biased heavily toward the defender. That is why there are quite a few “attack only’ bonus type things, as , all other things being equal, you need generally twice as many effective “men” to win a combat.

Anyway, I believe these second type of modifiers , somehow, modify the end ranges of these casualty bands. I experimented with this by testing 100 man size units with absolutely no modifiers and introducing 1 modifier a time to see if I could get a pattern on the casualties caused and inflicted but I would never be able to get a sampling size large enough to really figure it out.