Defence of Bridges
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Section titled “Translated text”Game marked with an asterisk in the book: more suitable for older scouts.
This exercise is similar to the previous one. Instead of capturing the entrance to the village, the goal is to seize a bridge over a river. If there is no river (a possible case), a stream is chosen (or, if there is none, a road), and along it, flags are driven into the ground at certain points. These are the bridges. The White team attacks, the Red team defends. The White team is not allowed to position its forces right at the bridges—it must also have free space to direct reinforcements to threatened points—so it places them at a distance of several hundred paces from the bridges, while concentrating its main forces in the middle of the defended line, from where it can most easily rush to the right or left with aid. In this way, by retreating towards the bridge, it gains time and may ultimately manage to gather the necessary number of people at a given point.
The method of conducting the exercise and the rules are the same as in the previous exercise. However, here it is possible for a unit to be outflanked and caught in a crossfire. Such a Red unit, if the two White units—that is, the one attacking from the front and the one that has outflanked the Reds and is attacking from the bridge side—together amount to $\frac{2}{3}$ of the Red forces at that point, is taken prisoner, and thus the bridge is captured, unless the Reds manage to reach the bridge with a larger unit that equalizes the number of Whites.
The length of the defended line and the number of bridges should be adjusted to the number of participants. Crossing to the other side of the “river” is not allowed.
Scan source: Polona / National Library of Poland, marked “Public domain”. View scan — PDF pages 243–244.
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Section titled “Metadata”- Type: game
- Traits: Not stated in the source
- Source: Zygmunt Wyrobek, Harcerz w polu: zabawy i gry terenowe (1946)
- Printed pages: 237–238 / PDF 243–244
- Digital edition: Digital edition · Source record
- Open the edition at the relevant page: p. 237
- Read the source text: hwp-116