Gentlemen,
I've just started a Waterloo 'wide' campaign and I've found myself trying to delay the French advance at Chatelet. It has occured to me that the game engine allows for the destruction of bridges and to do so might be to my advantage. Two questions:
1. Were the two bridges here easily destroyable, or were they too srong, without the pre-planned preparation of explosives? From a scenario design perspective, if they were too strong then each bridge could have been given a much higher defence value to denote this. As it is I can probably destroy at least one of them fairly quickly if the French don't attack straight away.
2. Did any of the local commanders in the campaign actually have orders, or the necessary equipment at hand to blow bridges to slow the French advance? Was the option available to them (Zeiten in this case)?
If the answer to the above questions is no then I should probably not attempt to destroy the bridges. Part of me would prefer to only employ such an option if historically it was available or possible. Any thoughts[?]
<center>Major Antony Barlow
~ 2nd British (Union) Brigade, Anglo-Allied Cavalry Corps ~
~ 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards ~
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