Night Distribution Percentage

[Volcano Man]

Ah yes, units will automatically disrupt in night assaults, even successful ones (but they will take the hex though). I just verified it with A quality units and in several successful assaults they all disrupted.

My first thought here and now when I read the comments was that a successful night assault's advance would be treated like a normal move, but this is no the case.

IIRC, the behavior is that if the Night Disruption percentage is non-0 value (ie. a value between 1-100%), then assaults units will cause disruption when the units advance. I recall now that the rationale is that an assault would be much more disruptive than just simply moving, so the advancing units will become disrupted if Night Disruption is active (which it is active, if the value is non-0).

That said, keep in mind that when Night Disruption was introduced for the first time in F14 and the FWWC series, there was not a probability associated with it: it happened all the time as if the value was 100%. Later on, a probability was introduced, and quality modifiers as well, which makes sense to me - because now I like using a non-100 (but high) value in FWWC. However the original behavior to always disrupt in assaults has remained. Now whether or not a successful assault should be treated as a normal night movement, with a normal Night Disruption check, well, that is another matter for discussion and difficult to say.

I would be perfectly fine if the behavior was changed that way, but as it is now, the rule is working as it was *originally* designed (back before there were probabilities and quality modifiers), but I can also see how it should behave the way that it does currently, because night assaults are very confusing and disruptive situations.