Early war engineers

[1925frank]

If the invasion was properly planned, you would think there'd be some way to handle the pill boxes. I don't think the invasion of Albania was a model of proper planning. I think "fiasco" might more more aptly describe it. Kind of like the Allies' surprise with the hedgerows in Normandy. It might have been an aspect of the landing that was just botched, but probably not.

I'm thinking if they started training in March, more than likely they had units available for Albania in October or November 1940. I don't know. If there were a number of pill boxes, I would think they had some method in mind. It might have been engineers, or it might have been something else.

But yes, if research showed the engineers weren't trained for strong hard attacks, then the designer would have to compensate with something else, like ships or some 88 AAs. Even the Italian tanks around 1940 wouldn't pack much of a hard target punch -- not the type of punch you'd need to consistently disrupt units in a pill box. I'm thinking the hard attack for most Italian tanks in 1940 at one hex was a 6 or an 8.

For purposes of accuracy, I wouldn't recommend putting in engineers with 12 or 18 hard attacks if research shows that wasn't the case.