Bridge building: Panzer Campaigns

[Ricky B]

A few more specific comments on this, good questions and SNAFU covered the overall picture well.

First, fire on the engineers does not by itself have any impact on bridge building timeframe unless the engineer falls below a certain size, if I recall correctly. Then it could take longer.

However, if an engineer disrupts, it will never complete the bridge until it recovers from disruption, thus delaying the process.

Once the bridge is up the engineer must either dismantle the bridge or abandon it before being able to move, outside of it can always enter travel mode and cross the bridge to the other side of the river/body of water, which can be a good move.

Thus, bridge placement is an important skill to learn - for contested crossings trying to find an out of enemy sight bridging area is helpful, or send a screening force of infantry across the river first, whenever possible, to push defenders back from LOS to the crossing point.

Rick