On Foot

[Steel God]

I understand the difference between T, deployed etc. What I am not quite grasping is the following:

"Half Track mounted infantry is GREAT for fighting a delaying action against infantry with low or no Hard Attack values. The enemy bumps into your units, draws fire, if you spaced it out right will get minimal return fire on you, and then on your turn you switch to T mode and back off a few more hexes to repeat it again next turn. It's a beautiful thing."

What mode are these units in when ther are being bumped into? The post more implies that the delaying units are deployed and therefore are soft rather than hard targets. This means that they are vulnerable to SA fire. Is the advantage that when they change to T mode to retreat they are virtually invulnerable to the adjacent units? If so, why not simply leave them in T mode - they will be less vlunerable to everything, unless a Tank regiment is waiting in the wings....

Marquo :chin:

When they are bumped into and I'm fighting a delaying action they are in deployed status unless I've screwed up, or events have conspired against me. How someone else may choose to operate is a matter of personal choice, but if I bump into a T mode HT mounted infantry unit, it's first visitors will be every air strike and artillery unit within range, that's why I deploy them, so I can control how and when their HTs are used so to speak.