Early war engineers

[Huib Versloot]

Mwest's post shows the Italians did not train their engineers to fight tanks until March 1940. Those engineers might not have been ready for the Albanian occupation later that same year (October 1940?).

I would not be surprised if the French did not train their engineers to fight tanks in May-June 1940.

I believe the German infantry platoons have very poor hard attacks until the introduction of the panzerfausts. The engineers for the various countries could be treated the same way. It wouldn't necessarily require a new unit. It might require adjusting the hard attack values of the existing units.

I've read where the Italian infantry in North Africa really had to improvise against tanks. I have no idea where the engineers fit into the scheme of things for the Italians in North Africa.

I think it'd require some research.

So how are the engineers then going to "knack" the pillboxes if you want to reduce/not improve their hard attack value? If they can't do that, then the scenario makers will have make sure there are other weapons with a good hard attack value in the scenario, or accept that the pillboxes are invincible.