How can I blow bridges (I would like 2 do it when the enemy is on it)

[Gen. J-sun]

I can't blow bridges in CMBO I created a scenerio where I have 13 tanks fireing at a bridge and it wont fall!!! Y!!?

:mad:

[Tom Murphy]

Never tried it in CMBO...But in CMBB your engineers can blow bridges. Get then close and have them fire on the bridge (area). They will throw sachtel charges. Takes two or three for a light bridge. More for Medium and Heavy bridges. I have used blowing a bridge as an objective in the briefing in one of my scenarios.

[Stoffel]

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[Joachim]

You need satchel/demo charges or heavy arty. 15cm will do, maybe 10.5. Only a few tanks have such a large gun.

Gruß

Joachim

[coldmeter]

I was playing a CMAK scenario last week and I has convinced myself that engineers could clear barbed wire.

It only after having two sections of engineers fumble around in wire for about 8 turns did I realise that it was all in my head.

So J-Sun I know how you feel, getting all worked up with a masterful plan at hand and yet the only flaw is the thick head of the guy the came up with the plan.

Mark

[Slappy]

Large HE will do it. Bridges are about as tough as heavy buildings. You'll probably need 2 150mm HE guns or a lot of 75mm. Extremely large cal artillery will do the trick too, but getting the direct hit is much harder.

[flamingknives]

IIRC, the tall stone bridges cannot be destroyed. I tried with companies of engineers and batteries of 150mm IGs expending their entire ammo load to no appreciable effect. On any other bridge type, even sustained autocannon fire will bring it down.

[Dschugaschwili]

Try a Sturmtiger. If that doesn't do the trick, I'd guess that it's not possible indeed.

Dschugaschwili

[Falcon988]

I had a hell of a time blowing a bridge the other day with some American engineers. Ever try to use your satchels out in the open, under machine gun fire from your end of the bridge, and German tanks racing across from the other end trying desperately to stop you and firing bullets & HE rounds? I can tell you it wasn't fun. We managed to hit it one satchel and all it would've required was one more, but the tanks got across before we could do it and surrounded my engineers. Then they went on to route the rest of my forces on the map.

[HarryInk]

I am fighting the excellent Foy-Noville CMBO scenario. I had 2 Sherm 105s and a couple of supporting 75mms cross a heavy stone bridge and then fire on it. I think it blew apart on the first turn. On tests it took 2 or 3 turns. So DFHE will do it. I suspect that if i'd only had 75s, I'd have been pumping the bridge for about 5 turns.

[Gen. J-sun]

I DID IT!!! I DID IT!!! 5 150s on 1 bridge with an unfortunate sherman on it...knocked out on the first shot but suffering the indignety of 4 more then the tragic journey to the bottom :smile:

[Jobu88]

I blew a bridge with a halftrack on it, and the destroyed halftrack remained magically suspended in air after the bridge dropped out from under it. I think -- not sure -- that if a vehicle gets knocked out before the bridge drops, the game's logic tells it to leave the vehicle in place, in this case suspended in air.

I also unloaded several hundred gallons of flamethrower fuel to satisfy myself that flamethrowers cannot set a bridge on fire.

[Wolfy]

You could always use a 14 inch gun, that should do the trick.

[Sergei]

Originally posted by Jobu88:

I blew a bridge with a halftrack on it, and the destroyed halftrack remained magically suspended in air after the bridge dropped out from under it. I think -- not sure -- that if a vehicle gets knocked out before the bridge drops, the game's logic tells it to leave the vehicle in place, in this case suspended in air.

I also unloaded several hundred gallons of flamethrower fuel to satisfy myself that flamethrowers cannot set a bridge on fire.

Normally it just vanishes, so I think that was just a little glitch.

I once had a tank come onto a bridge at full speed after a curve in CMBO, and it just didn't turn tight enough so it drove off the bridge, into the river! And there it stayed, undamaged but immobile.