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Is there a way to blow my bridges apart from using engineers? And how many eng. points do they use in this way?
I many scenarios I see that my AI enemy destroys his bridges even without using engineers....

I think the AI uses special routines to destroy the bridges. It can´t handle engineers in the right way.
I do not know how many EP etc. (Vic explained somewhere), but i normally use smaller engineer units
of maybe 15 engineers to do this job. They always use ALL their EP for a bridge blowing attempt.
They are not always successful, but my red army destroyed a
lot of bridges while retreating. You can ask Freeboy or JAMiAM for [:D]
 
An other way to destroy bridges are strategic attacks of levelbombers. You have to target the hex next to the bridge.
And i suggest you use at least 5 bombers for this job. But even here it´s a bit a question of luck.
And you need air superiority [;)]

The AI gets a default bonus for blowing bridges, see in the editor:
- Settings->Rule Vars-> Artificial Intelligence -> #245 AI Blow Bridges without engineers; the default is set to yes so you get lots of bridges blown vs. the AI.