Unit Breakdown Penalty

[2-81 Armor]

A question regarding Unit Breakdown Penalties. As I try to get my head back around Bulge '44, I seem to recall there are penalties when a battalion is broken down into separate companies. Faster disruption for example. However, I can't seem to find any documentation regarding that.

Can anyone please enlighten me?

Thanks,
Mike

Mike,

As far as I can recall, you're correct about this. It can be a handicap in some games because of the scale and situation in some scenarios that almost require units to be broken down. Some people (Tazarron with "Bolt Out of The Blue" for DF '85 comes to mind) have attempted a work around where company-sized units are designated "KG" when they created scenarios. This works to eliminate the penalties, with the downside that once a Battalion composed of KG's is broken down, it can never be recombined.

I also dimly recall (and might be wrong) that the only game in the Tiller operational series that does not impose penalties on companies and platoons is ME '67. I seem to remember this was done intentionally by JT in order to accommodate the flexibility of Israeli units, and was a modification he did to the game .exe file. This is from some discussion here years ago when the game was new, and had just been released, IIRC. Again, I could be wrong, and better informed people I'm sure will correct me.