Itchy & Scratchy combat system revisited

One of the sets of rules that I wrote during the development of my original PORTABLE WARGAME rules were called ITCHY AND SCRATCHY. They used a combat system based on an idea that came from Archduke Piccolo, namely relating the arrangement of the pips on a D6 die to the standard NATO tactical map signs.

Artillery

Cavalry

Infantry

Whilst I've been renovating my 20mm-scale Russian figures, I've been thinking about using a modified version of the original ITCHY AND SCRATCHY Combat Results Table in place of the existing combat system used in my PORTABLE WARGAME rules. The revised Combat Results Table (CRT) looks like this:

(You will note that this CRT is designed to be used with tanks etc. This was because I was thinking about how to use the individually-based figures I was renovating in a wargame. The CRT could easily be used with Horse and Musket armies with very little modification.)

The number of D6 dice thrown by a unit depends upon the range the units is firing at.

Notes

1. The numbers show how many D6 dice are thrown at different ranges.
2. The asterisk (*) indicates the number of D6 dice thrown in Close Combat (i.e. in combat with an enemy unit in an adjacent or the same grid area).

Thus, an Infantry unit firing at an enemy Cavalry unit at a range of 2 grid areas throws 4 D6s. If the D6 dice scores are 2, 2, 5, and 6, then the Cavalry unit is hit. Had the Cavalry unit been in cover, the unit would not have been hit.

I'm not sure if this will work any better or worse that the existing PORTABLE WARGAME combat systems, but it has given me some food for thought.