Combat Mission Help - How to Get Half Tracks to Use Their 30 Caliber

[cplkrotz]

Hello:

I need advice so the following does not happen in the future. I cannot figure out how to get my half tracks to use their 30 caliber machine guns.

I created a mechanized unit for a game I was playing. They came with half tracks. As the battle started, there were crews of two men (a driver and his assistant), which were not demoralized. They had ammunition including armor piercing ammunition, but they did not fire their guns when they had a clear line of sight at the enemy.

Instead, they did nothing but wait stupidly to get blown up by an enemy tank. I tried acquiring ammunition for the half track so that the half track possessed some ammunition and the halftrack's hold (the place where you acquire ammunition), possessed some ammunition of each type (such as armor piercing), but it was to no avail.

Would you please you tell me what I did wrong and what I am supposed to do in order to get them to fire?

Thank you.
Sincerely,
William