Engineers, Bridges and Suicde....illogical

[Marquo]

It is frustrating to see a bridging engineer die at the banks. This brings up another point: should bridging engineers, so dedicated to maintaining the bridge, have any ZOC while the bridge is deployed? They are either a combat unit or bridging; perhaps not both simultaneously.

I think that an Emergency Bridge abandonment command is a good idea. However, the bridge (especially a pontoon) should remain intact, and the same algorithim for building it or destroying it should then apply, but in the reverse sequence.

If an Axis bridging unit flees at the sight of approaching T34s, why can't the T34s not be able to use the abandoned bridge for at least a few turns, and if a Soviet bridging unit arrives in time, it should have the option of maintaining the abandoned bridge (using the reverse of the emergency bridge abandonment function).

In this sequence the engineer would disrupt with high fatigue, but not break so it could then function as a moreorless cohesive combat unit.


Marquo