Engineers

[James Malcolm]

As a newbie to the game (a convert from PacWar though) I would like to put my two cents worth on an aspect I believe missing.

Having served in an Engineer Brigade I know one of the engineer functions is enhancing mobility. Reading histories of the campaigns in the Pacific, I saw references to road building, notably the road between Dobadura and Buna, and the road between Lae and Nadzab. Also, reading through a history of the engineers in the Southwest Pacific, I saw where effort was expended on the road network in Australia as well as the coastal road in New Caledonia. I am still working on research to define what the appropriate build rate would be, i.e., trying to express it as x miles/engineer squad/day. x would definitely be a fraction of a mile.

Anybody else have any thoughts on this?

[siRkid]

Originally posted by James Malcolm
As a newbie to the game (a convert from PacWar though) I would like to put my two cents worth on an aspect I believe missing.

Having served in an Engineer Brigade I know one of the engineer functions is enhancing mobility. Reading histories of the campaigns in the Pacific, I saw references to road building, notably the road between Dobadura and Buna, and the road between Lae and Nadzab. Also, reading through a history of the engineers in the Southwest Pacific, I saw where effort was expended on the road network in Australia as well as the coastal road in New Caledonia. I am still working on research to define what the appropriate build rate would be, i.e., trying to express it as x miles/engineer squad/day. x would definitely be a fraction of a mile.

Anybody else have any thoughts on this?

This idea has been put to the developers and shot down more than once. I am a big supporter of this. Not olny roads but rail roads. Mabe if you do the work we can give it another go.

Rick

[Mike_B20]

It's kind of funny watching units dawdle up and down the Australian coastline.

Hey Matrix,we did have decent roads and motor cars as well as rail back in those days.

[showboat1]

What?!?! Are you serious! I thought ya'll just aimlessly wandered through the Outback!