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I'm playing a Peninsula 03d scenario where bridge values are a max of 100 (although there is at least one bridge at 300) with repair at 10. My opponent crossed the Sumner Lower Bridge (hex 155,117) into woods and swamps on the south side of the Chickahominy River. With his back against the river, the bridge reduced to a value of 5, and ZOC established around them on the south side of the river; they are not isolated and a routed infantry unit moved onto the bridge. The bridge hex says that it is a bridge and has a trail out only one side of it (to the north side of the river).

What am I misunderstanding? I was expecting all of those units to be isolated. Plus how does a routed unit move onto a bridge that shouldn't be able to support the unit?

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Gen Ned Simms
2/XVI Corps/AotT
Blood 'n Guts hisself, a land lovin' pirate. Show me some arty tubes and we'll charge 'em.
VMI Class of '00

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Paul Swanson
Lieutenant-General
First Division
First Corps
Army of Northern Virginia

Thanks for the info. I made a presumption that if no unit can cross the bridge then that route was shut down. I'm married and should know better than to make a presumption. However, the routed unit moved off of the bridge (thank goodness, because I couldn't have taken the bridge down to 0 value if it had remained on the bridge). This turn, his units should be isolated (I'll be back at this post if they aren't).

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Gen Ned Simms
2/XVI Corps/AotT
Blood 'n Guts hisself, a land lovin' pirate. Show me some arty tubes and we'll charge 'em.
VMI Class of '00

His units are not isolated but due to a different headscratcher. The bridge was taken down to zero value but he had a unit to rout and move onto the bridge (from the side of the river that did not have a trail leading into it). How can a routed unit move onto a bridge that does not exist?

I'm not thinking about the realism involved (or lack thereof), I'm thinking about the programming. A non-routed unit could not possibly move there, so how does the system allow a routed unit to do so?

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Gen Ned Simms
2/XVI Corps/AotT
Blood 'n Guts hisself, a land lovin' pirate. Show me some arty tubes and we'll charge 'em.
VMI Class of '00

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Paul Swanson
Lieutenant-General
First Division
First Corps
Army of Northern Virginia

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Brigadier General Richard Walker
II Corps, 4th Division, 6th Brigade
Army of Tennessee
(JTS/WDS Scenario Designer)

I checked this out on my 4.05.5 install and I have an old version 4.04.1 on a jump drive from some testing I did, found the same problem with that one.
So apparently this problem goes back at least that far.
Seems if there is a Trail hex side on one side of the river with a 0 Level Bridge units on the other side are not isolated.
There is a trail hex on the north side of the Sumner Bridge.
When I tested the same situation at Rich. and York RR Bridge the units were isolated.

Will send my findings to WDS to back up your report.

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Gen. Ken Miller




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