Wired Bridges

[Dog Soldier]

Is it not strange that bridges will be blown if the enemy troops show up but the bridge guards are more than happy to stand back and let the enemy supply convoys over.

I would say if the wired bridge is behind your lines the supply convoys get over it just fine since the bridge guards are dead, captured or run away.

Now if one of your combat units approaches the bridge it has a chance to still collapse up. That is a compromise in the "gray area" of the simulation. I guess one could say the bridge collapsed under the weight of the combat troops. In such a case the bridge guards set off their explosives before being killed, captured, or running away. The result was the bridge was weakened, but did not collapse for some time after being used by the enemy.
Think of the Remagen bridge across the Rhine in 1944. The bridge demo charges were exploded, but the Americans could cross it as the span was still intact. The span did collapse about two days after the area was secured.
A little imagination being used here to interpret the game results.

Dog Soldier