Bridge question

[XLVIII Pz. Korp]

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5.18.1 Building Bridges

An Undisrupted, unfatigued, fully-supplied Engineer unit may attempt to build a light bridge across a hexside gully, stream, or minor river. An Engineer unit capable of damaging walls and bridges can blow up the newly created bridge (see 5.19)
An Undisrupted, unfatigued fully-supplied regular Engineer unit may attempt to build a light bridge (a footbridge) across a hexside stream or river with a 20% chance of success. The procedure is similar to that used for damaging walls or blowing up bridges. In the unit menu, select Build Light Bridge, select the direction for the bridging attempt, and press Enter. The bridging attempt will have a 20% chance of success. If successful, the Engineer unit will assume an out-of-ammo status and remain so until resupplied. The attempt costs 100 Action Points. The whole process assumes that the unit is attempting to construct a light foot bridge using locally-obtained materials.

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Pat, I think that this is pretty much all the manual says concerning engineers.
I agree with Umbro. And, with KKR.
You can build a light bridge next to a ford (in the same hex). Though engineers would not be able to blow up the "ford", they should be able to blow up the light bridge.



RR

This is very interesting but seems to contradict actual gameplay. A few weeks ago I tried to build a footbridge with a regular engineer across a hex side river and rec'd the message that the unit was not capable. Hmmmm..... Anyone else been able to build one with a regular engineer??