Reply To: 3rd vs 2nd

[Mike]

The one thing that has been noticeable is that assaults are not as good of an idea as they once were.  Unless you need to gamble on a decisive result, advancing to point blank range and using shooting is more efficient.  The negative benefit of assaulting is compounded when the defender is in cover.  Still some armies like the Japanese with big squads and “fanatic” can still pull off the assault.  In our recent, games my 15-man Japanese squads assaulting my opponents 10-man squads continue to crush them though the Japanese squad can be pretty wrecked afterwards.  Also, you tend to see more heavy weapon and artillery platoons, tanks are a bit “nerfed” with their reduced machine gun fire. Anyway, these are our impressions.