Soapbox and Pot Stir.....Bunkers and Pill Boxes

[K K Rossokolski]

[This is true for a single pillbox, but I think that the idea here is that this is a 250m hex with a defensive network of pillboxes giving mutual support.

Fair enough.

A defensive network may have more than a simple concrete pillbox format for different weapon types.

Again true, but what I was trying to get at here was the unrealism of hiding many weapon types in a B/PB.. The simple concrete PB can in real life hardly hold eg a 170mm gun plus its tractor. In CS it can,, it can shoot through the roof, and gain additional protection against CB fire. And how can an AA gun fire at aircraft through the concrete roof? With great difficulty, I expect. ( I acknowledge a PB could be used to represent a flak tower, but that is a rare case)

Did the trains benefit? If so, that sounds like a bug!

I used the trains as an example of the unrealism of B/PB. Are trains soft targets?...if so they will benefit from a PB.

[Sort of depends upon whether you are using extreme assault.
If not - get your best AT unit up front and blast away from range (so they defenders cannot fire back) until the defenders are disrupted, and then overrun with infantry.
If so - same as above - except that you might as well overrun with you infantry every turn as well as though they will not inflict casualties they could get lucky with the assault morale die roll. Smoke the hex that they are assaulting from so as to minimise losses they take from the defenders direct fire and defensive arty.

The staff solution, certainly. Does it work?. IMO. rarely if ever against a foe with good arty, and the wish to defend his B/PB. Attackers just continue being disrupted, and need lots of smoke..