7.2.11.3 Pontoon Bridges

River crossing takes a lot of time (see 7.2.6., p79). To make it faster and easier you can build pontoon bridges over rivers with your pioneer federations.

Preconditions:

-the federation must follow order no. 37 (see 7.2.5., p74)

-the federation must have reached destination 1 or 2 (see 7.2.5.3., p78)

-the federation must stay there for three rounds without engaging in hand-to-hand combat, at which point a pontoon bridge will be built over a vertically or horizontally adjacent river co-ordinate.

-if the federation is on destination 1 it will try to reach destination 2 and build a pontoon bridge there too.

-pontoon bridges can only be built in that half of the map that contains your set-up-area:

army A:x 1 to 45/y 1 to 20

army B:x 1 to 45/y 21 to 40

Pontoon bridges have the advantage that troops only need 4 Mps to cross over it.

Pontoon bridges can be destroyed by pioneer federations with a chance of:

EF x 7.5% per half-round

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