Automatic Hit?

[clrice100]

What is an Automatic Hit? In the screenshot below, the axis sub vs allied heavy fleet torpedo attack, there is an automatic hit adding +12 to the attacking die roll. I find nothing in the manual about an automatic hit. This is a huge attacker modifier resulting in a damage point by itself.

In addition to this, there is an Evasion Mod of -1 for the heavy fleet due to the fact is was previously fired upon. This I understand but how does this -1 get increased to -4 in the defense roll?

I am having a hard time understanding combat results in this game. They don't seem to be according to the manual. I reviewed all of the documented changes in the patches to see if something was changed from the original rules but found nothing to explain this.

[rjh1971]

Page 72 of the manual

[clrice100]

I thought it might be the critical hit, but since I have seen it several times in the early stages of my first game, and since it is only a 5% chance, I wasn't sure. I guess I have just been unlucky. Would have been nice if it was labeled "critical hit" and not "automatic hit" in the combat results.

Any idea why the fired at -1 Evasion Mod results in a -4 to the defensive factor? Or is there an additional -3 from some other modification?

[rjh1971]

ORIGINAL: clrice100

I thought it might be the critical hit, but since I have seen it several times in the early stages of my first game, and since it is only a 5% chance, I wasn't sure. I guess I have just been unlucky. Would have been nice if it was labeled "critical hit" and not "automatic hit" in the combat results.

Any idea why the fired at -1 Evasion Mod results in a -4 to the defensive factor? Or is there an additional -3 from some other modification?

Can't understand that either, may be Joel Billings could answer this one, try sending him a pm. Wanderinghead has been gone mia for a loooong time, same as Jan Sorensen, those where the expert fellows.