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[evan]

It makes sense and I agree with your point that units sometimes take more fire and casulties than you would like before fleeing.

I suspect that pinned means exactly that, the unit is pinned and likely to take fire going foreward or retreating.

The other issue around this is smoke dischargers on tanks. One good hit and the Polish and British tanks I've being dealing with disappear in a smoke screen. My german tanks don't seem to do the same thing. So is this historic or a programming matter? Did the Germans have and use smoke dischargers/ grenades and at what stage of the war if at all?

(Sorry if this is too much of a diversion but....)
Evan

[Charles22]

Some vehicles have them, and others do not. Whether every nation behaves the same way when they do have them I don't know.

[Marek_Tucan]

Every nation treats smoke dischargers the same way, but AFAIK Germans used frag grenades for close-in defense rather than smoke shells in their discharger-like apparatus (that terrible abbreviation on late-war tanks).

Brits did use external smoke dischargers and late tanks had AFAIK internal 2in mortar for smoke laying.