Booby Trap - Bug? ( NO )

[Mobhack]

Demolitions can be deployed up to the half-way line (plus 1 hex). In any battle type. Including in meeting engagements. Yes, that is ahead of the deployment line in some battle types, and it is fully intended to be that way.

Was the bridge on the halfway line, or in the no-man's land between his deployment zone and half-way?. Then your opponent can place IEDs there.

Try setting up a random game, meeting engagement. Go to misc page, buy demolitions, then go on to the set-up. See where they can be placed.

IEDs are offensive weapons, as well as defensive. Your patrols can be assumed to set them up ahead of the battle, or as the Germans did - left them behind when retreating (and the German AI does sprinkle a couple now and then in the late war). Just as they are used in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

So, be cautious past the halfway mark on any map, in any battle. Your human or computer opponent may have left presents for the unwary.

Of course, if you think thay are nasty and horrible things in PBEM meeters - try agreeing an IED banning treaty with your opponent in meeting engagements.