Normandy Patch Update

[nim8or]

David, I would say then that the Getting Started file should be changed to educate people. In the Kraut Corner area there is only one hex where the  Americans can affect Kraut corner with effective fire. Nothing like that is mentioned. Neither is the fact that most fire in bocage territory is so reduced (50%).

Just learning to more and fire is not enough when there is only one hex where fire is effective from.

I agree with Gerry. I've been trying to fully understand combat results and modifiers and while making progress, I'm still not there. I set up a small test scenario to test combat results on various terrain (without improvements, bunkers, etc.) and when looking at the combat results (disabling on-map results) I still can't make the numbers total up, or perhaps they do I just don't understand what the display is telling me. For example, results from the 3rd Mech Corps firing at a disrupted squad in an adjacent hex (clear firing into grass so -5% mod):

Target unit: Unknown, 3rd Mechanized Corps
      Loss of 3 men to target unit
      Range = 1 Modifier = -5%
      Fire =  33 (mod 50%)

What does the (mod 50%) mean? 50% higher?

(Fantastic game BTW - I'm just trying to understand the mechanics)