Targeting engineers

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I am not sure what your issue is.  That is what actually happened.  I always target engineers building bridges, entrenching, or clearing  minefields whether it be direct or indirect fire-whatever is available.  But most times I go for a mission kill-disruption.  If I have soft targets in Travel mode I might choose otherwise depending on the target it self.  Maybe the engineers should stay out of LOS to enemy units until needed.  That is a risk you take when you move engineers into LOS.  It is your opponents choice.

No, I don't think engineers were exclusively targeted in real life, especially if they weren't performing engineering functions at the time. Nor would it have been that easy to identify engineers in the rear.

To some extent, this is an artifact of the PzC system, where you can concentrate all your artillery on a few special targets like engineers. It's not that big a deal in most cases, and maybe not a big deal in campaigns that don't feature a lot of minefields and rivers. But in games like the Kursk campaign, this is a problem.

Michael