|
RE: AT fire in an assault hex
I am not sure if I understand your example so I will reword it. Please correct me if I misunderstood it.
The Germans have three good order in an assault hex and a reduced, good order Tiger II in an adjacent hex. The Soviets have a demoralized FA1, a demoralized T37, and a disrupted T26 in the hex. We'll assume none of these units have activated yet this turn.
Case 1: The Soviets get the next activation and activate the all three units to recover. If the FA1 and T37 do not recover, they must exit the hex. The T26 remains in the hex and thus the Germans do not get a free shot at the FA1 and T37 as they exit the hex. All Soviet units are marked Moved/Fired.
Case 2: The Germans get the next activation and activates one INF unit which exits the hex. The Soviets activate something not in the hex. The Germans activate again and move the Tiger II into the assault (it started adjacent) and have it and the two remaining INF units assault the Soviets on the Assault table (Note 1). I assume the only effect is the Soviet T26 is demoralized. All Germans units are marked Moved/Fire. The Soviet player activates all three in one activation units later in the turn (Note 2) and all three failed to recover and must exit the hex. The Germans get a free shot. The three German units may combine their Direct Fire value and have that attack affect the three exiting Soviet units. Or, from the last sentence in 12.12, the German units may add the Direct Fire value of the two German INF unit to the Anti-Tank value of the Tiger II. The latter option is better for the Germans because the reduced AT value of the Tiger II tank is still 11, four higher than its reduced DF value of 7. Note the free shot is done on the Assault combat table regardless of the option chosen.
Note 1: This is my personal interpretation of 12.4 and it matches Peter's original post.
Note 2: It would be better for the Soviets to activate only two units (possibly the two he does not want to lose) and tried to rally them, The Germans would not get a free shot if they both failed their recovery attempt and had to leave the hex because the Soviet unit that was not activated remains in the hex.
|
