Question about Bridges and Boats

[Ricky B]

Foul covered the bridge strength, I see, thanks!

Okay, I looked at the Nijmegan scenario, and the canal, and I see that you must be talking about the hexside canal south and west of the city, rather than the Waal River, a full hex river, which is the one I thought you meant. I would say that if you tried for 10 turns and didn't succeed it was bad luck, not impossibly bad but that is worse than I would have expected.

It is a 30% basic chance of success, but there are things that tweak the chance, such as if the bridge engineer is a company rather than battalion, I think, or the overall strength maybe. Also, if disrupted, the engineer will never succeed but I am guessing that isn't the issue here. Quality has an impact. Anyway, I stepped through the scenario and saw the bridge engineer, it is a battalion, C quality, so 30% should apply.

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I just gave things a try and was able to get a bridge up, but it did take at least 6 turns, I lost count but mainly wanted to make sure it would work. So it will, again, I would guess you have bad luck.

Rick