CV too high?

[Darojax]

Greetings!

I am not entirely sure if this is a bug, but I have never seen anything like this after playing WitW for years:

3 Allied Armour divisions attacking, 2 fairly weak axis divisions defending, with 21st Panzer Division committed as reserve. The battle takes place in clear terrain, fortification level 1. My opponent has informed me that the 21st PzD had ~85 ToE with no support units attached and also well rested.

Since reserve units do not receive fortification defense bonuses in clear terrain, how can the defending value be as high as 895 (CV value at 90) ?

This looks like some sort of bug to me? I can provide save game files and passwords in a PM if anyone would like to take a look.

Thankyou!

Edit: Also "RESERVE 21st Panzer Division is committed to the defense (12)" is displayed during the committment phase. For testing purposes I did some battles again a few times and at one point the 3rd PzGrDv (under the same corps) is committed. It should be another rested, decent ToE unit:

Comparing the units this looks very abnormal to me.

[Joel Billings]

If you have a save and can email it to 2by3@2by3games.com, I'll try to take a look. It could be a display bug since the end value dropped so drastically, but I suppose it could be more. Given the men and guns in the battle, it doesn't look like all that unusual a result in terms of losses and final odds.

[Darojax]

Thanks! Mail sent with a few allies saves. Axis saves will be sent asap.

[Darojax]

Just an update:

This issue is currently looked into by the developers.

[Joel Billings]

We believe this pre battle number being so high is based on fog of war adjustments and the fact that the 21st Panzer Division only had a detection level of 2 before the battle. This causes the pre-battle number to be severely inflated. The final, after battle CVs for both sides are the only items that are not fogged and are accurate. These also include the actual leader die rolls and impact off losses and disruption on the units in the combat. The Panzer Division had a real strength of about 160 (16 CV) in the battle going in.

The 3rd PzGd division had a detection level of 4 and we think that it happened not to be carrying around as big of an FOW inflated CV value.

Thanks for sending the saves so we could take a look.

[Darojax]

Alright, good to know it's most likely only a cosmetic issue, that makes me feel a bit better. : )

And thanks for taking a look.

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