Q for Doug - Fleeing Units & River Crossings

[campsawyer]

I believe the point with the river crossing of boats and bridges maybe be a bit fine of grain for PG. In the tactical river assault, typically units would send over troops to secure the other side in boats while the engineers worked on some sort of bridges. In PG, this is this is symbolized by the ENG remaining in the hex over the course of many turns. The first platoon to cross may have gone over in boats, log rafts, or even swim in the Soviets case, meanwhile the ENG's would start to work on the bridge. With the river crossing roll, this would give the simulation of all of this but at a simpler level, just one roll doesn't matter how they crossed just they either did or did not.

BTW, clarification added to the annotated rules.

Alan,

Probably a good synopsis of PG representation and of course, the simplification of a playable rule-set is possibly one of the reasons we all play the system.

Yes, anything more specific should be a SSR. Much like the Christmas scenario that Shad picked last year.

On another point there is quite a few resources on river crossings on the internet and I just notice Ospery is doing a book on this in the fall.