The Great Halftrack Debate 428!

[McIvan]

I once had the misfortunate to read a long thread on the subject of US halftrack MGs. The doctrinal position was that the halftracks were not issued anough ammo for the MGs on them to be used in any serious sustained fire role...eg the .50cal only had 1-200 rounds ammo as standard...

In reality I bet they carried a few more cans of ammo. But I can't regularly see a US halftrack crew letting their precious AA MG out of their sight in the clutches of a bunch of smelly infantrymen, nor can I see them carrying enough ammo for serious sustained fire.....so you shouldn't be depicting them that way in CS, in my opinion.

With the 251/1, on the other hand, it was designed to mount and un-mount the squads LMGs as easy as you please. However I don't know what proportion carried their own Mgs or the basic ammo load.

With the commonwealth I get the feeling they liked shooting off their ammo from the vehicle rather than dismounting. But I don't see why they couldn't, and they probably did if stealth was desired.