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[Ricky B]

I'm not sure, it's one of those things that you would expect everybody to know, but in practice most people don't or have forgotten.

Initially I also thought the number of casualties was the primary modifier for how likely a unit was to disrupt, but that's not the case as far as I know either. Firing more often can result in more disruptions than firing as a stack. When firing as a stack, your main advantage is less return fire.

For losses inflicted I think its raw attacking strength that is the factor. All the units attacking strengths are added up, then modified then this is used to generate the loss inflicted. Whether this gives the same effect of each unit indivdually firing I don't know?

I'm not the best reader of the manual and although I've played PzC on and off for quite a few years I've always thought that the Disruption test was based on casualties as some kind of % of total unit strength. So if you have 10 casualties out of 100 thats 10% and you'd roll based on that? 1 man would be 1% and you would roll on the 1% column so to speak. All modified by Morale etc. 

So I guess do you make the defender roll once on the 10% column or roll multiple times on lower columns for each individual unit? However if you chose the second option you do risk triggering opportunity fire. 

I'm sure someone will check over whats being said and make corrections. Either that or I'll read the manual......

Fire by a stack of units is still resolved unit by unit, NOT as a combined fire value. You can see this by turning off on map results, and the dialog will show each unit firing and causing losses. The big advantage over firing one at a time is all get to fire before any defensive fire - and the stack may trigger opp fire to the same level as a single unit firing, so it may reduce defensive return fire but I am not sure, there may be more defensive fire against a stack? Still I will fire a stack all at once for my sanity more so than to gain any advantage, as firing a stack of 4 units can be 3 combined shots, or 12 separate shots, and I just don't have the patience to go through 12 shots.

And actually there is a disadvantage to combined shots, although with delayed disruption reporting it was very limited. But by firing a single unit at a time, the shots can be spread against more defenders, and that would result in at least a chance of more defender disruptions that 3 combined shots would give. Without delayed disruption reporting, after each shot the fire can be directed at a different target if disruption occurs.

Rick