Bulge '44 - Movement Wrinkle

[Xerxes77]

Just when I thought anything was simple with PzC...  

After a few tests in three different titles including The Race for Bastogne scenario:

Movement across engineer bridges built across a hexside where a non-primary road connects to another non-primary road uses the movement costs and any associated weather penalties for that (rail)road.

In the case of the example in the video: the hexside the Panthers cross leads from one secondary road to another secondary road. If the bridge was instead built towards, say, the northwest to the hex north of the village, the cost is 4 MP's for primary road movement and weather conditions don't apply.

This is regardless of whether the engineer bridge is constructed "on top" of a hexside bridge, damaged or intact. It applies to rivers, canals and streams. It also applies to AT ditches.

Many thanks for your answers, ComradeP. You are indeed correct-- engineers will connect preexisting roads and keep their advantages and limitations, but they'll switch to Primary values when leading to a roadless hex.

I wonder if that's the intended behavior? The example we chose is also a quaint one I think, as the engineers in that hex are laying a bridge OVER a heavy bridge! If there's a reason why they would seemingly waste their bridge instead of connecting with the NW hex, it escapes me at the moment