T55 BTUs in "Duel for the Golan Heights-85-Valley B"

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I'm playing Duel for the Golan Heights-85-Valley B vs Tiger 88. The designer gave my Syrians a ton of T55 BTUs and a handfull of the mine clearing ones as well (T-55 KMTs). Naturally the scenario has blockades and minefields across half the map which I have to navigate through under fire.

In trying to figure out why nothing is getting cleared I remembered a tournament post by Petri and sure enough, it was the same T55 BTU problem:

Commanders, this just in: Unfortunately, there's errata in T-55 BTU Platoon Description, where it states the unit can clear obstacles and minefields. What BTU does it can be used for creating Improved Positions, all important to have your tanks in hull down positions. Clearing minefields is what T-55 KMT does. 

There's a lot of special capabilities with units, and the Unit Card does not have icons for everything due to lack of space (to be addressed in some future release at least to some extent. There's so many capabilities often in play though will be a bit of a challenge). 
Meanwhile, F2 Unit Info is your best friend for viewing all unit special capabilities. [Apparently not in this case, that's where I went in the first place.  ]

So does this mean that any scenario that the designer used these tanks in is flawed? I can't believe the designer of the Golan scenario would have given me so many tanks to build improved positions with. Especially since I'm attacking. I really don't need anymore improved positions, unless maybe they have Netflix.

Is there any way to know which scenarios should be avoided going forward?

Has there been any effort to notify designers of this flaw, so they can address their current scenarios and avoid this problem with future ones?

Dave

David,

Honestly its been a while since I designed those 1985 war scenarios, and they were an extension of the 1985 series scenarios I did for the HPS Campaign: MiddleEast '67 (actually for the HPS Scenario expansion site that Glenn Shaw used to run). It seems like when I designed those I was following the Syrian policy from 1973 were (from one of my readings, I think the updated OOB from Anthony H. Cordesman "The Lessons of Modern War Vol 1") they added more dozer units to the front line tank brigades to fill in the IDF AT ditch. Seemed like a reasonable step they would continue just 12 years later with their expanded Armored and Mech Divisions. So much of the OOB for these Campaign: Middle East Scenarios was derived from the HPS Scenarios and as the games behave differently this slipped through. 

You know when you design a hypothetical scenario you try to think of everything you can but sometimes details fall through the crack especially if the overall scenario follows the path you envision for the battle (rightly or wrongly). I always thought a replay of 1985 would be largely channeled like 1973 was and when I got that result I didn't think much more about the engineering units. 

I'll look at it when I have a chance but honestly I'm up to my butt hole in alligators right now with work and kids (which is why I haven't produced much in the way of scenarios recently). 

Overall glad you're enjoying it and I haven't been on The Blitz in years. I don't even know if I would remember my password any more. If you would like to cut and paste this there please feel free.

Al Sandrik