What could cause blasting to kill the entire engineer squad?

[Mhiester]

While on the attack, against prepared defensive positions, I used a squad of engineers to blow a hole in some barbed wire to clear a blocked bridge. The explosives went off as expected, but what I wasn't expecting was every single member of the squad getting blasted with it.

If this isn't a bug (I'm trying to think of how it could be, considering how many times I've blasted before in CM without issue), is there any situation anyone here knows of that could cause this?

http://imgur.com/a/BZGNL

There's an imgur link to screenshots of it. One interesting thing with this is that the two man scout team next to the engineers were unharmed.

[mjkerner]

Sympathetic explosion of undetected mines, perhaps?

[Mhiester]

Briefing said there were mines in the area. Didn't even think of that.

[mjkerner]

Well, at least the obstacles were cleared.

[womble]

Spoiler for scenario The Scholars of Hard Knocks in the Courage and Fortitude campaign...

 

 

 

 

If that's what you're playing, sympathetic detonation is exactly what happened. There's an AT mine underneath the wire blocking the entrance to the bridge.

[Warts 'n' all]

Yes, that bridge looks all too familiar. "Hard Knocks" lives up to it's name.

[Bulletpoint]

Spoiler: highlight following text for a hint to this mission

Used to have loads of trouble with this mission, but it's not so difficult actually. The trick is to realise that it's really dark when the mission starts. It only looks like it's twilight to the player's eye, but to the troops it's nearly pitch black. If you're fast, you can cross the bridge quickly without too much opposition, and then the rest of the mission is way easier.

Edited December 11, 2015 by Bulletpoint

[Bloody Bill]

I did the same thing.  I cleared the mines first though.  Killed my team when I went to clear the roadblock.  I wish the engineers could put a satchel down and then move away before it explodes.