JTS Melee Calculations

[phoenix]

Just looking through this, LarkinVB and TheGrayMouser. You want the attacker in melees to be more favoured? Really? I am always bothered that the thing that seems most unrealistic about the entire series is that there is a strong incentive to melee all the time rather than form a line and fire, yet forming a line and firing was what was mostly done in Napoleonic battles and there was always - naturally - quite a reluctance to roll the brutal melee dice. So I'm always inclined to think that almost anything that encourages people to melee less, as the default attack method, must be ok. Most PBEM games I've played have consisted of both sides marching up and - mostly - heading straight into the melee. Maybe my sample is biased, but that's my experience of the games. I think it accounts for why in the game casualty numbers regularly seem so much higher than historical casualties.