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Originally Posted by Adm.Lee

I like it.

Thanks, Admiral. I'm glad that you like it.

Originally Posted by Legbreaker

My thoughts are the city was indeed nuked (it's position and industry alone are reason enough), but is lightly inhabited. The situation is likely to be similar to that in Warsaw, although on a smaller scale (maybe a few hundred scavengers total scattered through the ruins, all roads and railways destroyed / covered by rubble, etc).

You very well may be right. I'm going to choose to follow another tack, though. The city is small enough that conventional fighting may have had much the same effect. I figure NATO and PACT armies must have passed through Elblag at least a couple of times, pretty well wrecking it in the process.

As for engineers vs. a dedicated bridging unit, you're probably right there as well. There probably aren't many dedicating bridging units in 2000. Most such units were probably folded into regular combat engineer units, which must have suffered greater proportional attrition. With the manpower shortages of 2000, it makes more sense to keep generalist units that can do more with less instead of specialized units that have very limited operational capabilities.