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[Plain Ian]

Well, A/B quality or not, the Germans do have to drive around a lot in costly (in terms of MP's) weather conditions, so they're likely to suffer from breakdowns even though it may not look like it. What are the parameter data breakdown values for the campaign?

Parameter breakdown is set at Allied 10 and Axis 12. I must admit that I have noticed allied units 'disappearing' when I start to move them so yes you are right the Germans will be suffering a bit more than me.
I did try to calculate the chances of Peipers King Tigers breaking down from moving 1 hex per turn in Woods and it was reasonably high at 33%. Will have another go at working it out.

Artillery is never truly strong in PzC, aside from high calibre rocket artillery. Artillery units are good for trying to disrupt units through small numbers of losses, but they're unlikely to kill anything by themselves. The historical situation of artillery causing most losses will generally not occur. Direct fire and assaults are more costly to both attacker and defender than artillery fire.

I think artillery not being strong enough is a common complaint on the Blitz. I would be happy if they kept the losses the same BUT made Disruption MORE likely. A bit like Air Interdiction. That way artillery would slow down or prevent enemy movement and attacks, rather than kill every last one of them. Making them more vulnerable to ground fire as well.

It's surprising how well air units perform, they must be using a different calculation of defender strength because a Stuka unit causes far more losses than a Nebelwerfer unit even though they have similar soft attack values (at least in Panzer Battles, not all OOB's based on the McNamare values actually use the same unit values for some reason). A good 6 plane A quality Stuka strike on defenders in clear terrain can kill 20-30 men, a 6 Nebelwerfer barrage can be considered good if it kills 6 men or so.

Yes air strikes are devastating. Especially Air Interdiction. My experiences from playing Sicily left me traumatised as the Allied player. I didn't move by T mode during daylight.
Thats the effect I want.