[WarInEur] Is there anybody out There?

[sgminfo]

Richard Wilson wrote:
> Just changed mail readers and while there was never a high volume, 
> there was usually something everyday.
>
> On another note, will the use of attrition also be incorporated into 
> combat results so that the losses are(or can be ) spread out if ou 
> want them to.
>
> Any chance that the demo will have this incorporated so we can see 
> what it acts like?
>
> thanks
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You may need to elaborate a little bit more...

But taking it as I am assuming you mean...

Attrition does impact as part of the combat results, the units 
withstanding attack suffer a 16% attrition impact, regardless of result. 
Attackers also suffer some disruption, albeit less.

Being on the receiving end of an attack is an extremely disruptive 
affair, and disruption due to artullery preparation on your forward 
positions is 'noticable', i.e. you get bashed around a bit even if you 
see your attacker off. Note this effect is tunable, so if you do not 
agree with this, you can adjust the effect,

However it can be pointed out, low odds continous attacks are now not 
just a pointless exercise. Provided you are prepared forthe losses, the 
effects of contiinuous pressure on theenemy become noticable after being 
on the receiving end of such attacks.

And as for the demo, I believe it is up on thedecision games site...so 
see for yourself!

Have fun...

As a note on attrition...it is deliberately a gloss on the normal combat 
system. At the moment is is a fixed known event,
I felt that to add variable attrition would cause a twofold (*) issue, 
that at present it is not fair to judge, or test.

If people findthat it works, and works to their taste, then a later 
incarnation of CWIE might be persuaded to take it a stage further, but 
for cwie to be cwie, the essential character of combat resolution needed 
to be maintained.

*
1.Fixed results are a gloss on the variable crt and die rolls, so we 
still have a pseudo randomised result.
2.Had we gone to a variableattrition result then we are a very long way 
down theroad to effecting a second method of combat result, that would 
be competeing with the CRT, indeed to lay a fair claim to beginning to 
supercede the ordinary results. Attrition was intended to be a transient 
effect overlaying the dynamics of battlefield resolution. It casts no 
permanent spell on units, and this , as designed, intended it to provide 
no permanent effects on the units,

:-)
-|steve|-
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