<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Phoenix:
Blowing bridges is not as simple as hurling a satchel charge at it. Have ya watched engineers blow bridges on TV? You need to cut the structural supports. Typically done using shaped charges.
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You can actually blow up bridges with surface charges. That is not just very practical and only used in situations when you dont have time for anything else (The formulas used to calculate right amounts of explosives are not the most simple ones) and since they always require huge amounts of the explosive stuff.
On the other hand, it is rather difficult to 'model' how real engineer squad works in computer game. I mean, clearing a minefield is work that can take hours (or you can always hurry and end up having your whole squad killed or/and crippled). Well, you can also blow up a clear path through the minefield but it's not always the best option. Quite bad if you have AT mines that are dugged into ground actually.
I'd personally also like to see the ability to quickly lay down set of AT mines (2 AT mines every man, it takes about 2-3 minutes to set up. Mines are not properly dug into ground but are camouflaged) as it is big part of engineer work.
MS.
