Engineers and secondary explosions
 

When you have an "ammo" element (bunker, dump, etc) and fire at it from an adjacent hex you risk taking casualties from a "secondary" explosion (if you're "lucky" and it goes off in your hex).

Have you noticed if engineers fare better than other leg units in this kind of situation?

Should they?

Re: Engineers and secondary explosions
 

Never noticed any difference myself.
However if they do fare better it makes some sense...since they work more with explosives they probably have more sense then to look up and see what happened then most folks :D

Re: Engineers and secondary explosions
 

I guess in a RL situation engineers are trained to execute a controlled explotion/demolition but in the "heat" of the battle?

Re: Engineers and secondary explosions
 

No - Since if you touch off a load of explosives next door to yourself, you may well suffer the consequences!

If you want to fire up an ammo dump, then do it from outside the blast radius. (3 hexes I think, same as a 1000lb bomb)

Andy

Re: Engineers and secondary explosions
 

Sorry, I'm guessing English may not be your primary language...my reply was ment to be taken as a joke rather then a "real" answer.

Re: Engineers and secondary explosions
 

Once I played a scenario were I had to destroy enemy's depots but some of them were placed in woods! I sacrificed a couple of squads

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No problem, your humor was appreciated!:D I was "intercepted" by my kids while answering and couldn't response likewise. And yes my English is not my primary language! God, is it so obvious? :eek:

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depot exploding is definately a hobby best pursued at a safe distance

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Was just wondering if there was any difference in extra protective gear etc....

Ok, thanks!

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Not at all, but humor, particularly sarcasm, is often VERY language specific so it commonly causes problems; as does slang.


Small arms or antitank weapons (since they seem to be considered vehicle targets) work great BTW.

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The size of the explosion if you are foolhardy enough to be within 50ms of it that would be pretty good protective gear. Best thing lay on your back & watch the fireworks as rounds cook off & fly overhead. Now check you are still in one piece if some what deaf.

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I'm reminded of that scence in the new Ironman movie where he blows up the munitions dump and exits via a vertical "jump" of what looks to be well over a hundred feet. Cool scence. He would have gotten baked alive in that heat thought.

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Ironman? Great idea! Let's give the engineers an armor rating! :D:D
BTW why don't you try to sell the idea to the Pentagon!!!!!

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I miss the good old days where you could para drop an arms canister (or ammo truck) and get MOAB level explosions. Of course back then blast area was either smaller or gave less damage. I tried loading ammo trucks in the lead aircraft of a para drop to see what happened when they took a flak hit, but I never got that to happen.