Failed attack - is this a bug?

[Streptokok]

Is this a bug or am I really too weak to route HQ unit?
No casulties on either side for 2 turns?

Ground combat at 93,34

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 2592 troops, 12 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 93

Defending force 1262 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1

Japanese adjusted assault: 61

Allied adjusted defense: 22

Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), experience(-)
Attacker:



Assaulting units:...
4th Mongol Cavalry Division...
1st Ching An Tui Brigade...
3rd Manchukuo Cav Brigade...
...
Defending units:...
17th Group Army...

"if at first you dont win, shock them" doesnt seem to work either:

Ground combat at 93,34

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 2592 troops, 12 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 93

Defending force 1262 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1

Japanese adjusted assault: 70

Allied adjusted defense: 22

Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), leaders(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+), fatigue(-)



Assaulting units:...
1st Ching An Tui Brigade...
4th Mongol Cavalry Division...
3rd Manchukuo Cav Brigade...
...
Defending units:...
17th Group Army...

[Mynok]

Interesting. Looks fishy to me. Have you tried putting one of your cav brigades on Reserve and set to Pursue to see if you can just completely eliminate the pesky thing?

[JWE]

No. Not really fishy. It's an artifact of how the code works. When you load a scenario, certain variable registers are loaded. When you save the scenario and return to the main game menu, those registers remain loaded. So you can run a savegame a hundred times, and get the same result every time, because the registers remain loaded.

If you want different results, simply exit the game altogether. That clears all the registers - "then" reload the savegame, and everything will be different.

[Mynok]

I read it that ran two consecutive turns? Did I miss something? [&:][&:]

No. Not really fishy. It's an artifact of how the code works. When you load a scenario, certain variable registers are loaded. When you save the scenario and return to the main game menu, those registers remain loaded. So you can run a savegame a hundred times, and get the same result every time, because the registers remain loaded.

If you want different results, simply exit the game altogether. That clears all the registers - "then" reload the savegame, and everything will be different.

Excellent info!!! That is important for testers to know!

[Streptokok]

I know all that, but this is from 2 turns.
Deliberate 2:1...
Shock 3:1...

Manual says when you have +2 odds enemy unit gets kicked out of the hex?
And still dont understand how the hell both sides didnt get any casulties/disablements?

[pompack]

I have a weak cav unit fighting an almost non-existent Chinese unit in bad mountains. Win every attack and sometimes I even inflict a few casualties (probably FOW vapor however). I take no losses and over the last month the experience of the unit has gone up, but I don't think I will ever get that last guy in the back of the cave [:D]

[Jonathan Pollard]

When you attack a ground unit not in a base, is the fortification level of the defender displayed in the combat results?