One reason trenches are unviable right now is because of the time it takes to dig a trench.
How about creating a command so that all your shovel equipped soldiers that orders them to dig in on the spot if they have shovels and if they’re not able to dig in then they’ll just hold position.
It wouldn’t be too hard to implement script wise as the ai would just have to aim down and dig with the shovel equipped for 3-4 shovel strikes.
This would synergize greatly with the new order system by allowing your soldiers to spread out and then dig in with foxholes on the defence.
how about we even drag lines on the minimap and soldiers get to work for a whole fortification (i have not unlocked engineer in tunisia to test digging)
Yeah, I tried digging and it took me 5 minutes to dig a trench that would not even cover me if i crouched.
I understand not want digging to be OP, but right now it is completely unuseable.
This is generally a problem with enginere - you can get 10 times more points by simply fighting, and doing nothing else, than you can by spending time building anything (and it is aslo to easily destroyed). This is even more the case with digging.
It would probably take the whole game to dig a trench deep and wide enough to hide a tank, which was something advertised during the presentation of digging as a feature.