Open Team Challenge

[Larry Reese]

Optional rules were stipulated in the original challenge. As for ROE (my standard) I would suggest is basically along the lines below:

Troop carrying HT (TCHT) cannot be used for empty scouting - must be accompanied by their infantry. Armed, non-troop carrying HT (NTCHT) can scout all they like (and are generally treated as any other armored vehicle).

TCHT cannot be used in combat more than 500 meters from their passenger infantry (they can drive up, drop infantry, and retreat an unlimited distance - this caveat relates to them staying in the front line in the thick of the fray).

TCHT can assault non-armor units as long there are friendly infantry units (not necessarily their own) involved in the assault as well).

TCHT can help surround enemy armor for other units to assault (again, subject to the stipulations of combat usage, i.e. their infantry would have to be within 500 meters or so).

TCHT can be used as observers, again as long as their infantry are within 500 meters.

On trucks, players can use these however they wish, with one exception, empty trucks, alone, cannot be used to help surround enemy units. Key word here is alone - if a truck drives up and drops infantry in a surround position, and does not have movement points to drive away, that's fine.

Not as complicated as it might sound at first, and I think adds a lot to the reality of the game (such as it is).

If we're all agreed, I'll await the first Allied turn!

LR