HSL...as usual we appear to be on the same page.
The reason I brought it up is you can certainly fight (by firing) a halftrack. That part is somewhat unassailable, but these days you have these trucks with the "2" defense and the standard German half "trax" has a very low attack value. Especially in comparison to the new variant stuff like the MG half tracks available to the Yanks in WF that more and more of us are incorporating into our scenarios.
One could assume the German halftrack would have probably been carrying an MG42. They strapped them on just about everything including sidecar motorcycle units, it was their "go to" MG. Yet the German version in game is still the old, very limited fire weapon. Not saying the half track should be using the same fire table as the German MG unit. I am saying maybe it needs a bit of a tweak. The "default" German half track IS the MG halftrack, IMO.
But as of now, their crap attack value just makes assaulting the "easy" way to take out loaded trucks. No need to get frustrated trying to shoot them. But, since unloaded, can a half track really assault anything? No troops to jump out the back. I believe you'd just go "half tracking" by the truck column and light them up with your MG. Kind of a half track "strafing run" as it were. I realize it's nuance at this point, which could easily be interpreted as a viable "assault" strategy or fire attack.
This question usually occurs to me in every EF scenario where there are Russian hordes involved. The half track "rub" as it were, the one that shook this cabal to its very roots, seems to have originated in EF, where the Germans have them and the Russians don't. The disparity becomes obvious. When both sides have them...it becomes tit for tat.
Still, while the big ROE is don't use them to assault (too fast...too easy...and a questionable unit to fight in any case) I thought as long as a loaded truck has no firepower that could be one instance where it makes a bit more sense.
Sorry...the other (even bigger) ROE we instituted is don't use them to draw OP fire...and then follow up with the tanks.
That one is probably the best ROE I've seen.
It's a real crusher when the enemy does this.
Just spitballin' boys...enjoy your weekend...
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