The mighty Blitzkrieg was not just masses of tanks rolling across the plain, the infantry were still the backbone of the army. The infantry had to cross rivers too and not everyone wants to get their feet wet doing it. Engineers can toss a bridge like this one across a stream pretty quickly.
Once again I have used our friend the Roco pontoon bridge, but this time I have used the Roco rubber raft as the pontoons. These assault rafts were very common in the German army in WWII and the Roco one is a pretty good model.
I used the roadway edge and one set of handrails, turned four of the treadways sideways and made a skinny footbridge. Bridges like this allow troops on foot, even on a motorcycle to cross a river or stream and stay dry. It also does not slow down movement in my wargame rules, like crossing a stream would do; everyone hesitates before wading into a waterway. A bridge removes that hesitation. The rope handrail is thread, backed up with superglue to make it superstrong.
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