Infantry carried in halftracks

[Mike Abberton]

From what I have seen of halftracks, the built-in firing ports have a pretty small field of view and would be of limited use for any sort of ranged fire.

Also, if a company of infantry is clustered in a couple of relatively small vehicles, their firepower would be quite different than that same company of infantry deployed in combat.

For that reason and probably for several others, the designers probably felt it wasn't worth including that capability.

Also, I can see that if it was included, that it would end up completely changing the balance of the infantry game, particularly considering the general overabundance of half-tracks in a lot of scenarios. If a player could suddenly make his own infantry immune to infantry counter-fire at range (hard targets rather than soft ones), half-tracked troops would be somewhat overpowered, especially in tank/AT gun light scenarios. You'd probably have to beef up hard attack factors at range for infantry/MG squads (heavy MGs could penetrate HT armor pretty easily and even the medium MGs included in some infantry squads could with some effort).

Anyway, just my thoughts on the subject.

Mike