fortifications inside buildings?

[malfuriouspete]

Is is possible to put these inside buildings??? I thought no, according to the manual.

I'm playing the operation "To The Volga" and I'm getting ambushed and ripped apart by machine gun pillboxes inside factories.. why??

[Der Alte Fritz]

This is easy but requires a little trial and error.

Place your pillbox on an open ground tile. Then go into the editor and change the tile to a building. This is how it is done to place AT guns pillboxes, etc inside buildings.

[Bannon DC]

Yup, that's the way to do it.

PB and other units inside buildings suffer from restricted LOS. Once you place the PB in the building, be sure to double check its LOS. You may have to tweak it.

But as to your orginal question as to why a designer would place a PB in a building to start with... why not? In many urban combat situations, buildings were fortified as strong points making them able to withstand small arms fire and heavier weapons. Why not fortify such a position in the middle of a large factory? CM buildings are all generic. If a designer is trying to simulate a heavily fortified building which has been turned into a strong point... think of a bank for example... you could easily imagine a PB inside that would be impervious to small arms.

And of course there were pillboxes disguised to look like buildings. Many examples along the Siegfried line and along the coast of Britain.