On Foot

[Mr Grumpy]

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:

Just to add to Paul's comments this only works when you are delaying an advance, if the Halftrack unit has to hold the hex then of course it would be deployed and just as vulnerable to soft fire as any other soft unit and as he also said to leave the unit in T mode to avoid this would risk a airstrike/arty attack or an assault when you would defend at only 1/4 value (due to T mode).

This is a one off feature for a special circumstances, hence it is not that well known about. ;)