Friendly fire and brigades!!

[Poacher886]

A couple of quick questions:

1.when bombing a province either by ship or aircraft, can you cause damage to your own infantry if attacking at the same time??

2.If i have an army of say 5 infantry, and attach one with an engineers brigade does this allow all to cross river's etc without the penalty??.....Im guessing the engineers would build a bridge for all to cross and not pack up when 'just their division crossed' !

3. How do i recon with aircraft in a neutral country??....nothing would stop a spotter flying over neutral land in those days!

Thanks

 

[coreymas]

A couple of quick questions:

1.when bombing a province either by ship or aircraft, can you cause damage to your own infantry if attacking at the same time??

2.If i have an army of say 5 infantry, and attach one with an engineers brigade does this allow all to cross river's etc without the penalty??.....Im guessing the engineers would build a bridge for all to cross and not pack up when 'just their division crossed' !

3. How do i recon with aircraft in a neutral country??....nothing would stop a spotter flying over neutral land in those days!

Thanks

1. No just the enemy

2. River crossing penalty is applies to each individual unit in the stack... So if 1 has an ENG brigade and the other doesnt the 1 with gets not penalty and the other does.

3. You dont

 

[Poacher886]

Thanks for the answers...

2. This seems a little silly. Army's would normaly carry a mulitude of brigades to help the whole army in various situations!! I can live with the combat brigades only acting on the division their attached to because it will still contribute to the whole attack of the army.

But you would have to forfit all other brigades and kit every one of your divisions in an army with engineers to get the benifits of engineer brigade...more so than any other brigade,engineers would enable ALL divisions to pass water etc without penalty.

As said, they would hardly pack up the bridge once one division has crossed!!

 

[coreymas]

You missing the point -- it is all about scale.

When you have mulitple divisions in one province attacking a neighbouring province that has a river it is assumed that all the divisions are attacking at once across a broad front..... the combat engineers cannot be everywhere at once along a stretch of 45 kms or so.....

Otherwise you would have to start the battle off in columns -- with the division with the engineering brigade up front..... unfortunately the land combat engine does not work that way.

And the Penalties/Bonus's are like that all across the board for Brigades... you dont get an Org bonus for all divisions having 1 Armored Car brigade in a stack of 12 divisions either.