Dug-in Infantry, Artillery Bombardment, Kills and Casaulty Reports

[RightDeve]

First thing comes in mind: if that is a scenario battle you're playing, probably the designer had set enemy's infantry toughness to 170% maybe, and reduced quite a good amount on your Arty Effectiveness value.

150 - 203 mm are quite big warhead sizes, and as you say sustained bombardment, normally is enough, not only to kill a few but to rout them running toward the edge. But often the "random dice" roll favors some souls, and despite being a direct hit, they're not even suppressed, while those two hexes away get two casualties & retreating.

Yes, ours or enemy's squads getting casualties from arty don't always get the casualty-message, just the visual-display shows reduced men.