Wired Bridge rule question for Glenn.

[Dog Soldier]

I would not say there is anything wrong with what you have observed. The WIRED Bridges rule was designed to limit the ability of one side to blow bridges manually with engineers....as the rule you quoted above states. The defender is usually the side that is thus limited.

The reasoning was to prevent the defender from blowing bridges helter skelter deep in their own rear areas long before they were threatened by the attacker's advance.

It makes sense that the attacker could, still manually blow bridges. I see no historical reason to prevent the Axis (as in your F40 example) from doing so if needed to protect a flank etc. The Axis army would certainly had the capability to blow bridges during the campaign. Why restrict them from doing so? The Allies have bridge engineers in the CG scenarios, just not as many as the Axis.

I see Glenn beat me to the post....

Dog Soldier