Targeting engineers

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A tactic I've recently been using is to concentrate my artillery on enemy engineers as much as possible, even when good infantry and armor targets are available. I did this as the Allies in Bulge, and I think it hurt the German ability to build bridges and clear obstacles.

I'm now playing as the Soviets in the Kursk Alt campaign, and I am relentlessly targeting the German engineers. I think this is badly damaging their capability to clear minefields and breach anti-tank ditches. This is an especially nasty trick in long campaign games, where one side might run out of engineers long before game end.

I'm wondering if there should be a house rule that allows a limited number of artillery barrages on engineers. Another possibility might be to use the Alt Indirect Fire rules, so that players can stack infantry/armor with engineers to absorb fire.

Michael