ORIGINAL: vahauser
If a scenario designer puts a river hex into his scenario, then by the scenario designer's definition that river hex is a significant military obstacle.
Should the scenario designer have put that river hex into his scenario? That is the silly question you guys are arguing about. Who cares? The river hex is right there, in the scenario. The scenario designer put it there, for whatever reason. And it is a significant military obstacle because it is there.
And since that river hex is there, and since it is a significant military obstacle because it is there, then that is the reality that this thread derived its title from: Defending a River Line.
How did this thread get taken so far off-topic?
..not so sure, my personal feeling is a lot of rivers get stuck on the map for the same reason you get 3/II Telephone Sanitizer Company type units..to show how much research you've done..
..i'm doing a 2.5 k of Malaya 1941 at the moment, i'm putting in rivers that i know aren't great obstacles because i want to make off-road even less pleasant than jungle/other terrain alone makes it, they give a reason for the marshy bits, and add the numerous bridges on the few roads available. But this is 1941 in Asia, not 1940 in France where almost every river has become a stream there are so many bridges, or 1980 when bridging equipment makes most rivers streams..
