Early war engineers

[1925frank]

Huib posed an excellent question.

I had always assumed the weak hard attack values for other engineers was historically accurate either on the basis of equipment or training. I first noticed it with the French engineers in the May-June 1940 scenarios, but I assumed French doctrine simply didn't contemplate using them against tanks and, since the French were in a defensive posture, their use against pillboxes was ignored.

The small hard attack values may be the product of insufficient time or interest in researching the matter more thoroughly.