Extreme assault?

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With Extreme Assault OFF, assaulting makes sense when the enemy is disrupted, and surrounded by friendly ZOCs. As long as one attacking unit survives the assault undisrupted the defenders will be captured.

With Extreme Assault ON there are very few circumstances where assaulting makes more sense that simply shooting. This is because the new assault rule relies, finally, on a single Morale Check. Even if you defeat the defender in the assault combat and give him -5 for the check, let say he starts at 8 and is in a village - then you still only have a 40% chance. Plus, in my experience the attacker seems rarely to win the assault (the CRT is unpublished and thus its pretty hard to decide whether it works as advertised). However, there are some circumstances where assaulting is better than firing.
1) Early war infantry versus tanks. For example, a 6SP French infantry have a attack factor of 2 vs Hard and an assault value of 4. Lets say it is faced by a 3SP PzKpfw IIID with front armour 3, side armour 1, and defence strength 3.
Assume that the tank is in open so that the infantry can assault twice or fire twice. Then assaulting twice will do an expected loss of 1.2, firing twice will do an expected loss of .6, and moving to get a side shot and firing once will do an expected loss of .9
Note: When assaulting, the enemy will get a free attack against you (as part of the assault process) in this case 3@6:7 EL=0.18

2) When fighting an enemy who starts with low morale. Remember, that morale is lowered whenever a unit fails a morale check. Thus, once a unit starts losing Morale it will lose morale faster. If a unit starts with a low morale it is therefore easier to push it lower, and when it reaches 3 or thereabouts asaults are more likely to succeed. However, bear in mind that when a unit reaches 0 morale it disintegrates. So shooting at the morale 3 unit a couple of times is likely to destroy it without an assault.

3) Attacking pillboxes with early war infantry (see 1 above)

4) Trucks, wagons, etc. Always good for an assault.

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