Damage of bocage

[Matto]

I have a question ... is possible damage bocage (open it for crossing for trucks) by engineers? I know, that I can use "damage wall or bridge" from Unit menu and engineers will really use 100 APs and on 2D map I can see mark of explosion ... but bocage is still undamaged ...

[1925frank]

Vitamvas!

Your English is much better than my Czech.

To the best of my knowledge, bocage hexsides cannot be damaged to allow trucks to pass through.  Engineers can blow a hole in high walls.  This raises an interesting question about whether engineers should be allowed to blow a hole in a bocage hexside to allow trucks to pass through them.

[junk2drive]

As I understand, engineers can blow breaches in walls but AFVs cannot pass through as this creates rubble. Troops however, can walk through this. Not sure about bocage.

[baltjes]

I experienced in the OVERLORD scenario that on the OMAHA-beachhead, both trucks and tanks can pass a blown high wall!

Hajo Baltjes

[junk2drive]

Reddog posted a question at the blitz. In part

in doing so I tried to move a truck and then a SDK11 transport over that same wall from the same hex side where the wall was damaged. I could not move either unit over to the next hex.

I replied that maybe it was above an escarpment that vehicles cannot climb or that rubble prevents wheeled vehicles from passing. Am I wrong?

[baltjes]

I don't know. Escarpments can, unfortunately, not effectively placed on the map when using the map-editor for north-west european scenario's, although the box for it is present! Non-passable hexsides are cliffs and high walls. The next - lower - one is the embankment which is passable!

It might be the case that escarment and high wall occupy the same hexside. (That is your sugestion, I understand).It sounds then logical that, when the wall is blown, it losses its function and the escarpment takes over! That is; the hexside is impassable. But....what is the meaning of placing a hich wall over an escarpment at the same hexside?

Hajo