[GZG]re:NewtoRules-CloseCombatQuestion [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Giving the defender a suppression before assaulting can be useful; once they
withdraw or are forced back, they are in the open and suppressed. Meaning your
followup gunfire can be devastating.

Give the defenders some (very bad) heavy weapons and reinforce to the attacker
that if they assault the enemy, then they will have to abandon the
heavy weapons (and will let the off-table armour pour through to attack
the enemies rear areas). That should "motivate" the attacker to risk
close-assaults.

One tweak to the assault rules (which was an interpretation issue when I
started); the defender needs to make their morale check *before* they choose
whether to stand or voluntarily withdraw. If you let them withdraw without
forcing the morale check your assault troops have a tendancy to gain the
position... And then get slaughtered in the point blank gunfire. This also
increases the likelyhood of a unit holding their ground if they pass, as the
followup for a successful assault can break a unit from multiple followup
moves (although the unlimited assault followup needs to be
house-rule restricted a bit as well).

Brendan 'Neath Southern Skies
http://home.pacific.net.au/~southernsk/

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> I'm running a scenario where it's important for the attacker

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