Do you like bridge crossing scenarios?

[wrongway149]

What are the classics?

What does it take to get a bridge crossing scenario on to your playlist?

Or do you just plain dislike them?

Scenario designers want to know these things.

[Carln0130]

What are the classics?

What does it take to get a bridge crossing scenario on to your playlist?

Or do you just plain dislike them?

Scenario designers want to know these things.

There was a period of time, maybe 5-7 years ago, that is seemed there couldn't be an ASL scenario without a bridge crossing involved. I'm fairly much all bridged out for the forseeable future. Interestingly enough, I'm playing a CG of A Bridge Too Far right now, which pretty much sums up my feelings towards the subject. They were done to death, I can't see me tossing it to the top of a playlist under almost any circumstances. Maybe a para drop to take a bridge, that would work, that's about it.

[Vinnie]

I'll play them happily although I feel an opposed bridge crossing tends not to be too real. I like the Marco Polo Bridge type scenarios, you are fighting round a bridge and reinforcement tend to have to come across it. Actual assaults across bridges tend to be a bit of a cráp shoot. Roll well and win, badly and lose.

[aiabx]

I'll play them happily although I feel an opposed bridge crossing tends not to be too real. I like the Marco Polo Bridge type scenarios, you are fighting round a bridge and reinforcement tend to have to come across it. Actual assaults across bridges tend to be a bit of a cráp shoot. Roll well and win, badly and lose.

I like them, but I'd like them more if I knew how to win them.

[SCK40]

Just off the top of my head (because I played it a few months ago), In Front of the Storm is a nice bridge crossing scenario.

I guess it all depends on design. A scenario which simply sets up VC to require taking/crossing/holding a bridge is one thing. More subtly integrating the bridge, and the tactical problems it presents for both sides, into a design is another.

As with many players, I most enjoy scenarios which present a goal which is amenable to multiple solutions. It could be that a bridge crossing would be one solution to the ultimate VC problem; finding a way solve the problem without crossing another. For example, it might be interesting to play a scenario in which one side is conducting a fighting withdrawal back onto a river line/crossing, but which has multiple alternate VC only partially dependant on the status of control of the bridge. If the Attacker takes the bridge, the Defender must either have a strong hedgehog on the far side of the river, and/or have inflicted enough CVP on the Attacker to make a hypotetical subsequent (non-gamed) counterattack to breakout from/relieve the hedgehog/retake the bridge likely. Or, if the Defender is forced back and holds the far side of the bridge it cannot have taken so much damage as to make the hypothetical continuing (non-gamed) attack on/across the bridge a likely success for the Attacker.

[Jazz]

Pete's just trolling for kudos for his (admitedly classic) bridge crossing scenarios.....Scout's Out and Urban Guerillas.

Of course, they are great scenarios, and calling Urban Apes merely a "bridge crossing" does not do it justice.

[Pitman]

I like good bridge crossing scenarios; I don't like bad ones.

[Trezza]

Do not enjoy them, especially if there is only ONE bridge to cross. Total waste of manpower, equipment and lives.
Does not take much brain power to defend either. Most come down to this fact....no smoke=have a large morgue...

[Martin Mayers]

Interesting in their own way...
When to wear the defenders down...
When to time the charge to cross...
I can't actually recall playing a really poor one.
Really enjoyed Crux of Calais and Scouts Out....Scouts Out I recall being an absolute gem.
I also recall playing a bridge crossing involving Italians....can't remember any other detail...but that was a crackerjack too.

[Aaron Cleavin]

Interesting in their own way...
When to wear the defenders down...
When to time the charge to cross...
I can't actually recall playing a really poor one.
Really enjoyed Crux of Calais and Scouts Out....Scouts Out I recall being an absolute gem.
I also recall playing a bridge crossing involving Italians....can't remember any other detail...but that was a crackerjack too.

Bridge to nowhere

Green Jacket Bridge SP77 is another interesting SP effort, if rather pro British old biy