The Commander Series Forum

Some questions about engineers:
1)Can Engineers on H/T or vehicles remain on the vehicles when perform a task in init.Phase or they must to dismount?
2)If an eng. unit stops at the border of a BUA whit enemy inside in the successive turn during Init. phase can it demolish the BUA and KO the troops inside? And what is the area that an Eng. can demolish?
3) Can an Inf.Eng. demolish or clear dragon's teeth? The book
say only armord demolish vehicles can do it.
4) About mine clearance when Eng.troops make a path of 5cm. deep in the minefield can they advance 5cm. in the minefield in the same init. phase?

No answer ?

1 I'd say they would have to dismount.
4 You can only do one thing in the initiative phase, so no in my opinion.

Without the rulebook to hand I can't comment on 2 and 3.

Thank SteveJ, for Q4 I think that the Eng. can move 5 cm. like if they pass over the terrain that they have cleared so in the next init. phase they can clear another 5cm. of minefield.

Leonardo

(1) I believe that engineers in transports have to dismount to perform an engineering task

(2) Engineers can certainly demolish buildings (p34 of rules) ...so we play that this means they can demolish BUAs. We play this means a 5cm x 5cm area of BUA is demolished and all units in it are destroyed.

(3) That's what the rules say. You could add a house rule though.

(4) I'm sure Pete has confirmed that when clearing mines..engineers can 'move up' during the clearing initiative phase. This allows them to continuously clear in each consecutive initiative phase to get though a minefield.

Hope this helps

Thank very much AJ !!!

Agree with AJ about No 4. Otherwise, they'd clear stuff in one phase, have to move up in the next phase, clear in the 3rd phase, etc. And all this would be happening under continuous fire!