Problems with hit percentage calculation

Veeman · #1 December 10th, 2007, 05:58 AM

First of all, thanks to the dev team for an amazing game! I discovered this gem a while ago and have been completely hooked since. Also, the community seems very friendly and 'serious' in a good way, which is something I appreciate a lot. OK, now to my question:

I've had a few strange experiences related to the hit percentage calculation. This is what happened yesterday while playing a PBEM game of scenario #7 in the WinSPWW2 (standard download version 2.5) scenario list.

My Russian 122mm 31 howitzer (unit L0, located at 50,39) spotted several Ferdinands on top of a hill, moving at 6km/h, at a range of 1200-1300m. One of them seemed like a good target, as its side was exposed to the howitzer and the estimated hit percentage was 31%. I did not fire right away, but cycled through a couple of my other units first to see if they were in a good firing position also. However, when I returned to the howitzer and targeted the Ferdinand again, the hit percentage had dropped drastically to a mere 5%. This was not due to any gameplay events such as increased suppression after taking enemy fire etc., as I did not take any action except scan the units' chances of hitting their targets.

One more thing I should probably mention is that in the beginning of the turn the howitzer's suppression was at 2, which was lowered to 1 after a successful rally. This was done before the abovementioned occurred.

Now, as a newcomer to the game I can't tell which of the two hit percentages reflects the reality better, but I know it should not have changed just like that. Might this be a bug?

Attached to this message are saves from the beginning of the current turn and the previous one as zip files. I'm player two, and the password is "r87swe". I tried to replicate the error, but did not succeed as I got a hit percentage of 5% right away.

In an earlier PBEM game I had a similar experience while playing on the Russian side against the Germans; when I targeted an enemy tank with my T-34, the percentage was around 50%, but upon firing it suddenly dropped to 9% and obviously resulted in a miss. I wonder if I'm doing something wrong?