Early war engineers

[1925frank]

The engineers, regardless of country, seem to always have better assault values than regular infantry. That's probably attributable to flamethrowers or whatever.

According to Talonsoft, the improved assault value apparently is not attributable to panzerfausts or bazookas, which I believe increase the hard attack values of infantry but have no effect on their assault values.

I'm thinking Talonsoft attributed hard attack value on training. Apparently Talonsoft thought that German engineers were 9 times better at hard attacks than most countries and 1/3 better than the US and British engineers. Even when attributing that to training, I'm having trouble figuring out why.

The idea of assaulting units in a pillbox without disrupting them first seems like suicide, but apparently it works if you have sufficient numbers. That's thinking outside of the box.

If I remember correctly, the Italian attack on Albania went more like the German occupation of Austria, although I think there was some fighting. It's been a while since I read "Mussolini's Roman Empire."