Bridge Building tricks

[Hank]

I'm not sure sending a BTL file will help with this issue. Part of the challenge is how many bridges a defending force blows. In Bulge there's several rivers with bridges that are subject to destruction by the US army. If the US blows every bridge on the map then there could be many places Axis forces need river crossings to advance their heavy armor.

I'm OK with the way things are. Everyone has to contend with the same issues of bridge building ... how long it takes ... and how many bridging units are in each scenario.

My comments here were really to clarify what happens when an engineer is in "bridge ops" mode; building or repairing. ... after reading others comments it appears most bridges constructed by the Army engineers need on location crews to maintain the bridge (which I knew) but I'm still not sure how many guys are left with a bridge after its constructed; 25, 50, or a complete company. Since bridging engineers are only able to be broken into 3 company sized units (sometimes) you could run out of bridging units if your opponent blows everything they can find. (of course, I was under a delusion bridges may be getting repaired if a damaged one existed which really wouldn't require many people to stick around to maintain it after its fixed ... at least not a company of men or more ... )