Night Distribution Percentage

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I'd be happy to hear the pros & cons for including it in any future updates, but to be clear, I believe only the movement impacts are currently in the PZC series.

Guys, thanks for the feedback.  But I think the quote above is the crux of the issue, because as far as I can tell, the "movement impacts" of night assaults are not actually included in PzC.

I just ran a test from some saved night turns.  In the test, I ran 23 "successful" assaults (ie, the hex was taken) involving 46 attacking units.  In those assaults, *none* of the A or B units were disrupted after moving into the hex; two C/D level units were disrupted after the move, but I'm not sure it was because of the move (eg, they might have crossed a fatigue threshhold, etc.).

This is consistent with my overall experience--night assaults simply do not disrupt units (at least, any more than day assaults).  

I don't think that this is realistic...I think that any night assault, successful or not, taking the hex or not, would have a *very* high chance of disrupting a unit...perhaps a high-quality unit should be able to pull off an assault without disrupting every now and then, but not often.  Or if FWWC works in some other way (I don't have any of those games), at least have PzC work like FWWC, which sounds better.

Also, as to one of Ed's points, I don't think that radios (or the lack of them) is really the issue--the issue is that it's dark out there--regardless of how well "coordinated" you are, moving (much less attacking) in the dark is inherently very difficult, even for highly-trained units.  I don't think there should be any real difference between WWI and WWII games on this issue.  

Would be interested to hear if other players have different experiences or opinions of night assaults... Not the end of the world either way, but I at least want everyone to understand how night assaults currently work, so that a fix is at least considered...