ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58
ORIGINAL: BBfanboy
The defenders were in good defensive terrain and at least one of their units was not in Combat/Defend mode or Reserve (likely in Move mode).ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58
So what does this mean:
Ground combat at 81,33 (near Lanchow)
Allied Deliberate attack
Attacking force 1258 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 29
Defending force 13470 troops, 123 guns, 84 vehicles, Assault Value = 484
Allied adjusted assault: 0
Japanese adjusted defense: 1588
Allied assault odds: 1 to 99
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), op mode(-)
Attacker:
Unfortunately, because the AI cannot divide by 0 (the defender's AV), the assault odds get the default 99:1 odds.
What's your point? I think everyone agreed that the Terrain bonus affects the outcome.
But it's also just BS in the design. Ten years in and people are STILL debating the Land reports. GG was too clever by half with his hide-everything mania. So I get a Leadership (-) in my CR. OK, what does that mean? Can I do anything about it? Which leader in the stack got the (-)? How much did it matter? Is it worth changing him? I don't know any of that because it's all black-box and all I'm doing is riding in the backseat watching the scenery go by.
You hit the nail on the head and echo my views exactly. Why present sufficient information to identify that something went wrong or right, but insufficient information to act on it appropriately.
The combat reports are something I could rant on about all day, to be fair. In game of the breadth and detail of AE, it's quite disappointing that you're forced to resort to MkI eyeball to get the breakdown of losses individual units in an engagement.
Maybe it's just me having played to many AGEOD games, where combat reports give you a wealth of detail about engagements.