Early war engineers

[Huib Versloot]

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.

I don't think we should search much after the intentions of the original makers. They also gave "Volksturm" troops an enormous hard attack value of 24 just because these were supposed to have a Panzerfaust. This means that these civilians and kids can also take out a concrete bunker. In reality 99% of these "troops" were sent home by the regular army straight away. Level of training etc was not at all considered in this case by the original makers. I don't think much more thinking went into the other units. A lot of it, is stereotypical and common (sometimes false) assumptions rather than anything else.
I wouldn't be surprised if they just "forgot" to give other nations' engineers an hard attack value > 1.
I think they spent more time doing the weapon data (which is very good in this game IMO) than researching units for other parameters than their weapon inventory (level of training/ doctrine etc)

Huib