RE: FITE 2 operational studies
Posted: Mon May 06, 2019 7:46 am
One question: i've seen you "banned" blowing bridges by Soviet Cavalry units. Why?
Historical accuracy.
1. No army ever was on a blowing up bridges spree. Just because you are defending does not mean the bridges will get automatically blown up. Normally it was only done at the sight of enemy.
2. Many times the wired bridges were not blown up because of the aggressiveness of the attacker or default of the wiring (or both).
3. TAOW allows player to blow up any bridge, any time with no probability check.
To restrict players from gowing on the blowing up bridges spree I have decided to limit the capacity to do so.
4. In TAOW you can blow up bridge which is alteady in enemy hands.
Hence I've introduced the house rule allowing only dug-in infantry (be it motorized or foot one) and HQ units to blow up bridges.
Cavalry, tanks and recon units are not allowed to do so.
As they anyhow can used splitted Engineering units from Division or Corps it is not a major problem when defending. But it limits the capability of doing so meaning the defender needs more thinkering.
PS. Actually I'm currently testing the idea of only Engineers/Pontoon/Rail engineers being allowed to blow up bridges. See the other thread of mine: FITE2 (Fall Barbarossa) .
As this thread is closed I will movevit to the FITEC2 (Fall Barbarossa) thread.