RE: Market-Garden Pontoon Bridges
Well, obviously he does things the way he wants do them, as we all do. However, to say that everything is done for a reason without a chance or possibility for error is unreasonable.
I am not saying that it is an error, that is not what I meant to imply in the post above. But, since you mention it, no where in the designer's notes document does he mention anything about pontoon bridging; nothing about why the axis have the ability and the allies do not in all campaign scenarios but one, nor why the fact that five of the six campaign scenarios grant the allies the ability build pontoon bridges yet if you do not read over the PDT values you wouldn't know it. Complicating the matter even more is that scenario #0917_05s_Market-Garden entitled "Historical Campaign Game (Pole options)", which implies that the scenario is historical minus the fact that the polish airborne have options, also has the ability for the allies to construct pontoon bridges. Combine all of this with the fact that it says nothing about this major difference in any of the scenario briefings certainly creates the potential to leave it up to curious speculation by the user.
I think MG44 is an excellent game and I certainly do not believe that the designer must comment on every design decision made. I am just taking what is there and what is mentioned and what is not mentioned and making a conclusion on how to edit the _Alt scenarios.
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