That discussion brings me to another question related to all this. I read the rules 3 times but I am still no sure how infantry casualties are handled. Everything like Units below 50% are rendered combat ineffective until amalgate with another company and other stuff is clear. But I still don't know the way how the casualties are counted.
I assume after the battle is over in the review map someone has to click through every squad of a company and count the casualties (at least in RT you can see that at a glance). So you know the head count for a company at the beginning and at the end and therefore know the percentage the unit suffered casualties. Is this the way this will be handled?
If this is the case this brings me back to the Core Unit File. And I didn't mean it in the way Dutch did. What I mean is purchasing all units of a Army in the scenario editor and save it. That is the Core Unit File. When creating one of the occurring battles you simply load the core unit files of both armies and just delete all units not active in the fight. This applies to all battles fought in a turn. Load file, strip off the units not fighting and go. After the turn is complete all casualties off all fight can be edited to the core unit file. For example Company X/1st Batallion down to 70% and so on.
That way you have the best possible continuation of the forces involved. Stuff like names of Units (you just have to rename them at the beginning), names of soldiers and most off all experience, motivation etc. are carried over from turn to turn.
As for typical settings or regular setting I am fine with both with a slight favor to typical. Both ways have their advantages and disadvantages.
Regular for every unit is the most balanced as units have always the same price.
Typical setting feels more real and should boost immersion as adds depth to the operation. But maybe leads to some asymmetrical force sized although I believe that with 65000 points each this should be more ore less straightened out. But the danger is there. I for myself have no problem with that. For me it's not the competition that interests me most it is the experience of a rolling operation. Use what you have and make he best of it.
@PhilM : Typical setting are most influenced about the service branch of the unit. For example Waffen SS and Fallschirmjäger give you a mixture tending to the more skilled units with just some inexperienced ones. But in RT there is basically just normal Army and therefore the mix more to the average. BF got that quite good and I have lots of experience with Huge and up battles with typical settings. So there will be definitely not just crack King Tiger roaming around. A good mix with a slight tendency of better German units. But the Russians get more instead. Not always a bad choice.
Very long text short. It is Odins call
Please, can we all use the open forums to answer queries. Cheers.
