What do the states Pinned, Suppressed, and Killed represent?
CF6.5.1. Hits and Pins, p. 11 CF6.5.2 Suppressions, p. 11 CF6.5.3 Kills, p. 11 The game effect of Pin, Suppression, and Killed are fairly clear from p. 11 of the rules. But there has been some discussion about what these states represent. Clearly they reflect three progressively bad states of combat effectiveness. In any stand some individuals will have an interested in fighting and those who are not. It is the relative proportion of those interested or not interested in fighting that determines the stands overall combat effectiveness. Men who are uninterested in combat includes those who are: • casualties (killed or wounded) • prisoners • attempting to rescue exposed casualties • applying first aid to casualties • escorting casualties or prisoners to the rear (whether they’re meant to be or not) • keeping their heads down • cowering in terror • running for home. Killed is the worst state for a stand, but does not necessarily mean all the component men are killed. The Killed state mean
