Discussion thread for possible new bunker creation rule.

[Aaron]

I just don't see why bunker building would be allowed in 1939-1945 (PzC), but not Modern War 1946+ (MC). It just doesn't make sense. If anything, bunker building would be easier in modern warfare. While it is certainly true that modern warfare is mobile and you generally wouldn't stick around very long in once place, that does not mean that a bunker would never be built, it just means that units would not generally be around in the same place long enough to do it in the time that it takes to do it (in the game), given how violent and mobile everything is.

Let me rephrase this, i see an entrenchment in MC as a bunker. I think there should be an IP and then a bunker but no entrenchment, trenches would not have been built in modern times. The only one i witnesses was built by engineers and took them all day, the only bunker i ever built with my AG took us 2 days. Getting off the path here a little but in MC Inf/tank units should only be allowed to build IPs and then a bunker after a delay like you have with laying mines. There should be no trenches unless you want some engineers to be able to do it, i say dont add bunkers b/c i would hate to have a 3rd modifier on top of the other 2. Hope im making sense :)

All in all i believe regular units should only be able to build IPs (fighting positions) and yes bunkers (fighting positions with overhead cover) along as it takes a good 12-36 hours. If you want entrenchments in the game, engineers should be the only units to build these because these would constitute a trench system with bunkers.

Aaron

edit: o i was wrong we did dig plenty of slit trenches to squat over