Choose your targets

[Charles22]

Imp: I may be incorrect, but I think you're mistaken in believing that a unit with not enough range for it's attacker (meaning the attacker is within maximum gun range, but not within the player's adjusted range) will engage it when fired upon. I quite often have my infantry take a good beating from enemy infantry because other units have spotted it before I thought they would, and they don't return fire. I often reduce their range to only 1 because I am trying to entrap tanks. Now maybe there's an exception to what you say for AFV's but I doubt it. And it's not like my infantry are so damage in the intitial or subsequent attacks that they're incapable of responding dur to suppression. You assessment, evenb if true, is partially incorrect in that it's possible the unit that is intially being fired upon, does not respond due to it not spotting the attacker, but being spotted itself. A good example of this is a unit being fired upon by a sniper - it isn't possible to respond when the attacker isn't seen.

Note also, if you have seen very many infantry battles, just how many of them turn towards their attacker and don't fire. It seems to me that they do so because they just spotted the attacker, which in some cases would mean they should fire back immediately, or, if not then, then the next time they are attacked from the same unit. Note how they also turn towards the rear of the side's forces when they go into that sort of pre-retreat mode (but are actually listed as retreating), where they haven't got around to moving from the original hex. I know that last point sounds a bit goofy if you haven't noticed it, but a lot of time the attacked will face the opposite direction before physically retreating to another hex.