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RE: Question on Strongholds
Bazookas are not required to knock them out and I would not use that as a house-rule personally.
Strongpoints will fall as of their own failings and enemy pressure put on them.
For example, if they are demoralised, they can not retreat and a failure to recover means an elimination whether in assault or otherwise. So they can be knocked out without even entering the hex. They can eliminated via X results on the bombardment and direct fire tables too.
And yes, they can counter assault. They are not uniquely pill-boxes but represent all manner of bristling defences. Assault is an abstract representation of fighting that includes melee as just one part of assault along with close range fire-fighting and grenade throwing etc. Therefore, when an assault within the hex is launched by the forces with a strongpoint, it is still representing enemy forces still close to the strong-point that are now taking fire.
Play them as written, as the rules are quite adequate as they are. Especially if you erase any thoughts that they are merely pill-boxes.
Terrain benefits for them are the same as other troops too.
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