Bunkers

[Mike Abberton]

It also depends on what game you are talking about. East Front bunkers are different than West Front/Rising Sun bunkers (which I think are the same).

One note on artillery and bunker busting. If the defender stacks the bunker with six, high defense, 2-SP units (especially ones with high attack factors like German MG squads) artillery loses much of its effectiveness. That's because artillery is less effective on low-sp infantry units than on high-sp units, and with six 2-sp units he still only has 12 sp in the hex total. If that is the case, don't rely on your artillery alone to disrupt all 6 units prior to the assault. It'll take a lot of direct fire units as well (assault guns, Sherman 105s, SU-152s, or other big HE throwers if you have them).

Strangely enough, late war if you have some high-hard attack factor tanks (Tigers, Fireflys, etc.), pillboxes (hard targets) can actually be easier to take out than bunkers (soft targets), although artillery doesn't do much against pillboxes.