Moderators: Joel Billings, Sabre21
ORIGINAL: Cannonfodder
Pelton, these are not raw recruits you are attacking. You are attacking a slightly entrenched GUARDS RIFLE CORPS with supporting tanks, probably led by a decent commander (assumption). You have only small numerical superiority...
I think you should be happy with that ratio...
ORIGINAL: ComradeP
Here we're completely on the same page, for a change, Pelton.
I've been reporting/complaining about high losses post-1941 for almost a year now, and the problem is in most cases high ROF elements causing silly amounts of losses (that goes for both sides, you don't want to know how much damage 4 FlaK Vierlings can do currently) partially due to engagement ranges almost always dropping to 50 meters for most elements (even SPAA).
It's the primary flaw of the combat system from my perspective, now that routing seems to be a bit more costly to the defender (but I'd still like some sort of chase/pursuit phase for AFV's) and Axis retreat losses for high morale units have been decreased.
As corps are loaded with mortars and SMG squads, they can inflict serious losses. There's not really any counter, aside from letting the Soviets attack you instead of you attacking them, or not attacking more than 3 Rifle divisions/1 Rifle corps.
As such, attacking can be suicidal for the Axis on the long term, even though the addition of Hiwi's has made things a bit easier.
Please don't quote me out of context on this, as I'm not saying that the combat system is broken post-1941, I'm saying that high ROF elements and rapidly decreasing engagement ranges cause issues with the combat system.
There's no easy way to fix this, as prolonging combat would require that the supply system is completely overhauled (not a bad thing per se), and that takes time.
Certain elements are, and have always been, performing much better than their historical counterparts whilst others, particularly machineguns and AFV's often perform poorly. Due to the rapidly decreasing engagement ranges during combat, MG's don't get to fire often and AFV's mostly soak up hits (still a good thing, though), they tend to cause only a small percentage of the casualties, regardless of how many are involved.
You can see both of these things for yourself when you watch a battle in high detail.
Battles tend to go something like:
-Air support arrives and can in some cases cause significant disruption.
-Artillery fires only a few shells, another problem.
-Medium ranged elements fire, mortars fire for the first time.
-Mortars fire again, short-medium ranged elements fire.
Attacker casualties are still fairly low at this stage, but rapidly mounting due to the mortars.
-Enemy infantry elements fire, Rifle squads have an extremely variable performance, but SMG squads nearly always go on a killing spree.
-Your infantry elements fire, provided they have decent morale/experience they will cause a fair amount of casualties. Your own high ROF elements cause high losses.
-Defenders retreat/rout or hold.
ORIGINAL: ComradeP
There's no easy way to fix this, as prolonging combat would require that the supply system is completely overhauled (not a bad thing per se), and that takes time.
I mean, if battles have twice as many phases, decrease ROF by half.
ORIGINAL: ComradeP
I mean, if battles have twice as many phases, decrease ROF by half.
That would still mean the relative advantage of high ROF elements would be the same as it is now.
