Kommissars in assaults

[campsawyer]

Today, I had another new experience within PG. The power of Kommissars in an assault. Although they do not give a bonus to any fighting, their bonus is to bounce demoralized units back to life and make it very hard to kill them. In an assault that lasting longer than it should the Kommissar just keeps the Soviet infantry going, the only way to get rid of them is a step loss. He is a morale 10 in a town so any effect of the demoralization is lost and he kept them going. It was bad enough that the Germans keep having to shuffle fresh troops in as the Soviets were getting morale checks on them. A tough fight, but alas the Komissar was mortally wounded when one of the Soviet steps were lost. The end will be soon for the remnants. But he did his just and it has held up the German advance enough that it will be a close one in the end. I just found it very interesting that Komissars can have some combat value other than trying to catch the stragglers.