Night Distribution Percentage

[ComradeP]

It's never a "free" move, as it still requires a target to assault and suffering assault losses and related Fatigue.

It sounds like a very situational issue. For example: a high quality attacker assaults a frontline weakly held by low(er) quality units at night, requiring the defenders to reposition and thus Disrupt from movement.

Could that be an issue? Sure, but the question is if this happens because of a lack of automatic night disruption or is the expected result given the difference in unit quality in the example. High quality forces also tend to be better at firing than assaulting.

Though I can see why night assaults are disruptive for large masses of men in WWI, night turns cover 4-6 hours instead of 2 for daylight turns, so progress is already very limited compared to day turns. As any rule is an abstraction that covers a lot of possible situations, it covers situations where a night attack would be very difficult (a densely forested area with significant elevation differences) or not that complicated (a carefully prepared artificially illuminated attack on fox holes in the open in front of your line). If an assault lasts 1-2 hours per normal rules, abstracted by movement points required, there's still 2 hours for units to figure out where everybody is before the start of the next turn. Or for a careful 4 hour night attack.

I think a nighttime Blitzkrieg against a strongly held line isn't likely to succeed if it wouldn't succeed in daytime.

Though I feel the night time disruption percentage is a bit too punishing for low quality forces and forgiving for high quality forces currently, I would be against automatic disruption for night assaults post-WWI.

I rarely assault anything at night aside from Disrupted Isolated defenders. I can see that there could be situations where no automatic night disruption can cause issues, but they're uncommon.

The additional Fatigue will over time be a problem for high quality formations, and it's quite risky to exploit a breakthrough at night even along a road.