Question on tactics: Assault, assault and assault

[Mike Abberton]

Fighting Vehicles, apart from Flamethrowers should actually not be able to assault any other fighting vehicles.
Infantry should be able to assault anything, Vehicles on the other hand should only be able to assault (= overrunning, melee or is there another definition) infantry, unarmored transports and guns. It's either this, or acceptance of the abstraction level of the game. There is really no difference in assaulting T34s with HTs or with PanzerI's. Yet the first is so called "not done" by a subjective ROE (For which I see no justification) while the second is excluded from that ROE. Both were fighting vehicles armed with machine guns and could never take out a T34 other than by making the T34's crew bail out for some mysterious reason.

Huib,

I am curious why you would say that AFVs should not assault other AFVs. While I agree that your example of a PzIs assaulting T-34s is probably not completely realistic, I can think of real-life examples of tanks engaging other tanks at point-blank range (i.e. at ranges less than 250 yards or less than 1 hex), particularly in cities and othe close terrain.