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[Plain Ian]

Actually it boils down to one thing in the situation where the defender already starts disrupted. Can the defender Disrupt the attacker to prevent him losing the hex? The answer is no since not only is his assault value halved there is also a morale penalty which might drag down the assault value.

So I guess I'm wrong to complain about the 0 range hard attack value given to VGD units in the game since it really doesn't come into play with assaults against disrupted units.

Here are the 2 units involved in my assault.



The pictures shows a full strength 212th Fusileer Bn but I've assumed that it probably has 550 men. I read the rules on assault several times and there are lots of things still unclear about how assault works. However its a pretty simple assault to work out (1 unit v 1 unit, no hexside terrain or special hexes involved) so I think I've worked out the factors correctly.

Looking at the final factors it looks like US Tank Bn's Final Assault Value of 1755 is not enough to Disrupt the Fusileer Bn, but the Fusileers value clearly is. I also note that the Fusileers Hard Attack adds an extra 1100.

I might be simplifying this a bit as there are differences in Defense strengths for both units, but I don't think 4 makes a great difference? I could be wrong? The assault Value is multiplied by the number of vehicle/men/gun involved and I would have thought this would apply to Defense Strength as well but I couldn't see this in the rules???


Ok what if the US tank Bn had not been disrupted but had been attacked by say a Volksgrenadier Bn from the 212th rather than the Fusileer Bn? Well this is what I see.



Again I've adjusted down the German units men figure to 590 as I believe this is a reasonable figure for his strength. He hasn't really lost much.

Well the US armour assault value now looks better, not as good as a C Morale German Fusileer Bn (admittedly almost full strength) but hopefully good enough to Disrupt the attacker......because if it doesn't I'm pretty sure the Volsgrenadier Bn will Disrupt the armour.

The 0 hard attack value adds a massive 3,540 to the assault value. (6x590)

Of course this is all theory and maybe I've read the rules wrong? Anyone out there using VGD units to assault US Tank Bns out of hexes?

By the way Rick if this is totally wrong let me know and I'll remove it. I don't want to mislead anyone wih my half baked interpretation of the rules.