River Issues

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Just a few things that should be worked on to improve realism.

Permanent bridges should be able to be destroyed and or damaged by engineers/arty fire/ air power etc to bring realism to the game. Different ways to calculate the damage could be as follows. 1 full strength engineer unit platoon could have a 5% chance of damaging a bridge, 2 engineers 10% and so on. Now there is a difference between damaging a bridge and destroying the bridge. Each permanent bridge should have a certain amount of strength points. Lets say 50 points just as an example. To destroy the bridge you would have to eliminate all 50 strength points. Damaging the bridge is a different matter. If 1 full strength engineer platoon is successful in damaging the bridge then 5% of the strength points are removed, 2 engineers 10% and so on. Once the bridge loses lets say 50% of its strength, the bridge is still usable but movement limitation is limited just as if there were wrecks on a road, or a block on a road. Once the bridge points are reduced even further, this would limit what types of vehicles could cross the bridge. As an example medium or heavy vehicles could no longer cross the bridge just like heavy tanks could not cross a medium bridge or medium tanks could not cross a light bridge etc. Infantry could always cross a damaged Permanent Bridge but at a reduced movement rate depending on the amount of damage. There should also be units to repair a damaged bridge just like units which can remove wrecks. A destroyed Permanent Bridge can never be repaired. Having the Permanent Bridges impervious to any type of damage is ridiculous.

River crossings

There should be no realistic reasons why you should not be able to cross a river or major river and have to have shallow water to begin the crossing. As a kid we had a rowboat, canoe and a few rubber rafts which we used to fish in the Schuylkill river in PA. The depth of the water where we would launch the boats was at least 6' deep and we simply pushed part of the boat in the water some got in and the others pushed the remainder of the boat in the water and jumped in or all got in and pushed off the bank with paddles. There is no realistic reason why you should need shallow water to cross any type of river with a raft crewed boat etc. in this game and should be changed.

River crossing vehicles and River Depth

Both the Allies and Axis units in WWII had vehicles which could cross water obstacles depending on how deep the water was. They should be added to the OBs. Additionally rivers did not always have the same depths at all points along the length of the river as this game does not depict, and I am not referring to placing shallow water hexes. Some points on the river may/could have a depth of 20' some other point 10' some points 4' etc. If a scenario is designed with a river, each point (hex) along the length of that river should have a designated depth and the depth of the river can be found just like pressing the coordinate key. Crossing deeper water by vehicles/inf which can actually cross the river at that point, would place sever movement costs on the units which could cross in that hex and possibly be disrupted after crossing but should still be able to cross the river a certain points without the use of a bridge, boat, ferry, or adding a shallow water hex etc.

Just some thoughts
Any feedback is welcome
Joe