Early war engineers

[1925frank]

I think my math was off in an earlier post.

If German engineers have a hard attack of 18, and if US and British engineers have a hard attack of 12, then the German engineers are 50 percent stonger (not one-third) than the US and British enigneers.

If other countries have engineers with 2 hard attack, then US and British engineers are six times better than other countries, and the German engineers are nine times betters than other countries.

The Germans had stormtroopers in WWI, and I'm wondering if the hard attack has something to do with that. It's apparently some skill or aspect in which the Germans excelled that only the British and Americans attempted to mimick with some success but not equal success.

The soft attacks of infantry are usually 6 or 8 at one hex with the exception of the Germans, which I believe is 12. That's quite a disparity too, but I can see where weaponry could produce those discrepancies. Are there US or British infantry units with 12 soft attacks at one hex by the end of the war? Did the Germans have a superior number of light machineguns?