[Discussion] How to improve urban combat in PzC/MC

[JDR Dragoon]

Yes the pillboxes and bunkers can do the tricks, but, AFAIK you can't build them ingame, making the cities easy to take

Heh. "Industrial" is -50%. "City" is -40%. Coupled w. a "Trench" it means a reduction of incoming fire between 80-90(!)%. 90% reduction of incoming fire, what more do you want?. If such a hex is easy to take it is because your opponent is either incompetent or unable to hold it in sufficient strenght. If you put a good quality battalion split into seperate companies (3-4 counters) in to such a hex it will hold out for quite a long time unless you have the luxury of concentrating inordinate amounts of firepower on this hex alone (say expending a reinforced divisions worth of artillery fire followed up by a multibrigade/regiments worth of direct fire capped off by an assault)

And about Berlin in DF85... i think that, versus another human player it's almost impossible to hold the city against the WAPA

Not impossible. I have done it, and almost have had it done against me (The stock "Berlin" scenario in the DF85 is a nice little thing btw. It playes fast, has an interesting mix of units and is a good introduction to playing w. "Explicit Supply" in effect).

And for example i concentrate a lot of forces in a city...

How much is a "lot" ;).

(which brings me the idea that the engineers should be able to build at least obstacles...).

Engineers can lay mines. They function pretty well as obstacles.

And that happens in the whole campaigns of DB, which it's almost impossible to hold long periods of time any city unless there's a river surrounding it.

Is it now? I guess we shall soon find out ;)