Market-Garden Pontoon Bridges

[Volcano Man]

If I remember correctly, the designer assumed that if no bridges would blow up, no need to build an engineer one, as the pontoon value was 0. Wherever the probability of destruction is 20% (the alt.pdt), the allies have the pontoon bridge capabiliy at 15.

Now that would make perfect sense! The biggest thing that causes speculation is of course that something does not appear in the designer's notes (but not everyone remembers to note each decision), it is that the years where people tend to forget these things. Glenn does the best that he can in remembering little things like this but it only complicates the matter given so many PzC titles, and the different designers. No doubt that it had since been forgotten.

This is another one of those things too: that if you did not look at the PDT file you wouldn't know that the Wall and Nijmegen bridges could blow in the other five of six campaign scenarios, until it actually happened of course. Oh well, the issue will probably come up again ten years from now. ;)