RE: Dirtside Engineering Rules

You wrote: 
>
>On Tuesday, April 28, 1998 7:24 PM, John Atkinson 
[SMTP:jatkins6@ix.netcom.com] wrote:
>
>For the combat engineeringly challenged, what is a Breach and
>an Abatis?  It would help to provide a picture or a simple description
>of the non obvious features.

Breach is defined as a gap in an obstacle through which the maneuver 
elements can assault.  Maneuver elements is basically infantry/armor.  

Abatis is a series of herring-bone pattern trees partially felled 
across a roadway.  I say partially because if you've done it right, the 
tree is still attached to the stump, making it much more difficult to 
push out of the way.  Then it may be filled with dirt, have mines or 
booby traps emplaced, etc.

John M. Atkinon