RE: Obstacles, Part 3

You wrote: 

>Infantry don't carry bangalores nor high explosives.  We do carry 

Which slows the hell out of breaching ops.  I should know, I've done it 
both ways.

Rocket >launchers and often have engineer or pioneer dets attached to 

I'm not sure that a shoulder-fired ATRL is a real reliable way of 
clearing wire.	

And if you have a team or squad of engineer (and pioneer, I am not 
planning to differentiate in my rules) then you use their enhanced 
breaching ability to breach.  Simplicity itself.

us.  Heck, >we sometimes have big tanks beside us.  Oh, ya we even have 

My rules do permit tanks to roll through wire--although Satan's Slinkie 
can fsck up a tank quick if it gets into it's roadwheels and gets 
caught.  

wire >cutters.	My point was that Infantry do work with and against 
wire so if >a wire obstacle was found they wouldn't just say 'oh no, 
let's get the >engineers' they would work around it.

OK, my thinking was that first, as an Engineer who's worked with 
infantry, I know I've spent a lot more time on breaching ops than they 
have.  Second, we're carrying all the neat boom-boom stuff to do 
breaches more rapidly with.  Third, I wanted to encourage players to 
have a reason to buy engineers and preserve them for their special 
abilities rather than treat them as just plain ol' Infantrymen.  The 
basic wire obstacle doesn't take much to breach with infantry.	Wait 
until I get my mine/booby trap rules up for the poor infantry to try to 
deal with.

John M. Atkinson