Engineers

[Herr Straße Laufer]

I'm new to playing the larger scenerio's and I am really enjoying them.Now that I have been thinking on this subject,Maybe when the game was developed the larger 50 plus turn scenerio's didnt get much attention(game only came originally with two or three large ones) but they still wanted features such as clearing mines to work in the smaller scenerios too so who knows what their thinking was.I know the group of players I started out with wouldnt play them as we only played live online at the time.

Actually the 50 plus turn did not come into mind because of the game scale. Once you get past a days fighting more rules are needed to cover command and control, supply, night/day, unit fatigue, etc.
I think it is in the designer notes in the manual.
Most scenarios were designed as snippets of a battle and not the historic covering of the entire battle.
I do not mind playing larger scenarios as team games. There is only so much time that I have to get regular scenarios done. :smoke:

Didnt the U.S. Forces have bridging tanks of some sort?Not sure why that popped into my head thought I seen a picture of one or maybe it was from a different time era.

Yes, they had bridging tanks. They could quickly place the bridge (I think in less time than the one that Glint showed us) but, you also have to take into account the "prepping" of the banks of the river to allow access to the bridge. In pictures, Glint's bridging engineers had level ground on both sides, which I also assume are hard enough to allow for heavy unit movement.
If it could be coded into the system an engineer bridge would often require less time to put over an existing short bridge span (maybe that twenty hours or less), at the location of an existing road bridge?
When you have to build a "path" to the bridge and prepare the ground before and after the bridge more time would be required.

I think we then begin to code the game into the boring menagerie that Squad Leader became as it morphed into the cumbersome Advanced Squad Leader.



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