Helping The Soviets

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Put it this way. If I had a platoon of Americans and a platoon of Soviets that had to charge recklessly ahead regardless of the situation and danger, I'd know which ones I think I'd get more unquestioning obedience from.

Well clearly it'd be the Americans, followed by the Soviets, with the British sitting around in back smoking "fags" and checking the pleating on their "trousers"... or at least that's how the American schoolbooks always told me it went.

The internet tells me that odds on 2d6 are:

2 - 2.78%
3 - 5.56%

...so that's giving the Russkies et al. an 8.34% chance of full recovery on every morale recovery attempt - not insignificant!

The only issue I have with your idea is this:

The reason the Soviets are often so damn hard to do anything with is because they're running around with 7/6 or 7/5 morale, making them very difficult to rally. It's hard to get my head around the idea of a soldier that continuously pisses himself and then jumps back up full of passion for the Motherland!

Maybe if the proposal only applied when rallying with the aid of a leader?