Alrighty. This post could date all the way back to 2001!
Wargames Minatures issue November 2001 had this article showing game ideas for using engineers to build a bridge at a contested crossing.
Now when I was in Japan around 2002, I fought this game in a Cold War/Balkans conflict using NATO troops to put across a crossing taken out by a Serbian force.
The game which i can fight in 1/72 with my Airfix bridge
Minature Wargames November 2001
British or Canadian
Royal Engineers/Royal Canadian Engineers
14 Sappers, 2 NCOs, 1 Officer,
1 Light truck
1 medium truck
1 Pontoon carrier
1 crane
Infantry support
Paras, Royal Marines or regular infantry
1. 4 bren sections (via Battlefront stats)
1x 2" mortar
2. 4 bren sections with 2" mortar
3. HQ section
Mortar section: 2x 3" mortars
Mmg section: 2 Vickers guns
3 Sherman tanks
4. 4 Bren sections with little mortar
5. 4 Bren sections with little mortar
Anti-tank platoon: 2x 6pdr guns
Light artillery 2x 75mm pack howitzer
WOW
Ok so the Germans
1. 3 xMG42 sections 1 Panzerfaust
2. 3xMG42 sections, 1 Panzerfaust, 80mm section
3. Hq section with 80mm mortar section
4. 1 Puma, 2 Wespe, 1x Puma, 3x Panzer IV, 1 PaK 75,
5. 2x 251 with 6 MG 42 teams
So sometime, I'll get this game on the table.