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Panzer Leo -> (7/16/2003 3:27:22 PM)
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Infantry is tougher because of two reasons:
- 60% searching helps infantry and small guns more then it does vehicles. Spotting infantry (or small guns) is something one should take more care of then it used to be...otherwise you'll stumble around without knowing what's going on.
- The increased Morale values (+15), lessens a bit the suppression, that mainly infantry suffers from (but not dramatically) and also increases the ambush chance a bit.
Example: a Panzerfaust team had an average assault chance of 40-45% success in disabling or destroying a vehicle. It Now should be somewhere at 50-55%.
The same applies to all assault chances.
What I wanted to achieve with these changes:
More realism :D
The reduced searching is supposed to have one specific effect, namely to slow the battles down.
Speed of vehicles has always been an issue, but I didn't like the approach to reduce them, as they're pretty realistic right now (vehicles simply can travel these distances, if they want to).
But if spotting becomes a major issue, one rarely can afford to just speed through enemy lines...move cautious, keep eyes open, then you will see the enemy.
Also it should encourage to use direct fire on a hex, rather then on a seen target. Normal combat often consist of just throwing some rounds into the vecinity of a suspected enemy...usually the less trained the troops, the less they actually aim at a real target, but rather fire into the direction of landmarks, obstacles a.s.o.
So use this feature...you may not see an AT-gun, but you saw the hex it fired from...pump a few HE rounds in it and suppress the gun...it also becomes easier to spot then...
so if US scouts don't spot an AT-gun position at 200m, I would think they are moving pretty fast (maybe even on a vehicle)...if they speeded up from somewhere and just jumped of a Halftrack, I think it feels right they don't see it immediately :)
A second effect of the higher morale is, that infantry does stay in the trenches...you will see elite units go down to 3 or maybe even 2/1 men (if they do not disperse), without throwing smoke and fleeing in panic over an open field just to get mowed down...(ofcourse some still do, but it's much less frequent now).
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