game Preferences settings

[Aeraaa]

Originally Posted by Suhiir

About the only setting I regularly change is "Infantry Toughness" which I set at 150%. I find them too fragile at default settings.

I was wondering about loweing the morale of both sies to about 40-50. In that case, infantry teams will get pinned and retreat from contact much easier, firefights will last longer, casualties from infantry firegights will be more realistic.

[Suhiir]

Originally Posted by Aeraaa

I was wondering about loweing the morale of both sies to about 40-50. In that case, infantry teams will get pinned and retreat from contact much easier, firefights will last longer, casualties from infantry firegights will be more realistic.

Obviously I tend to think they take more casualties then is reasonable. I rather wish increasing toughness didn't also result in them being harder to pin/retreat but frankly it doesn't seem to have near as much effect on that (and I may be wrong) as it does on casualties.

Infantry is pretty hard to kill these days. Long gone are the days of lines of infantry blazing away at each other from point blank range or charging out of trenches into massed machineguns. Look at things such as the total casualties taken on D-Day, or the grand total taken during the entire Vietnam war.

[Imp]

Originally Posted by Aeraaa

I was wondering about loweing the morale of both sies to about 40-50. In that case, infantry teams will get pinned and retreat from contact much easier, firefights will last longer, casualties from infantry firegights will be more realistic.

Lowering morale could possibly give the player a big advantage over the AI.
Easier to get units to run & I am guessing rallying would be more difficult.
A platoon & preferably a machine gun will wipe out a routing Company in 2-3 turns on standard settings if covering the avenues of retreat. MG just handy if they are grouped to keep them running.