As our pal Wayne claims, in another thread APCs are probably not digging in. Since the US Army armored platoon/company field manual says that a full crew will require 4-6 hours to create an improved position for a [armored] vehicle, I would agree. My gaming group has discussed issue before.
We decided that vehicles digging in are not so much digging, but looking around very carefully. Looking for perturbations in the terrain.
So how about this for an idea: When a vehicle is digging in, roll a die. On a 5 or 6, the vehicle is dug in. Vehicles with armor efficiency may add 1 to the die roll.
This will give vehicles with good crews a 75% chance of finding cover in 2 turns. Normal crews have a 56% chance.
To make things a little weird, how about requiring the vehicle to move to another hex if they fail? That may be a little much though.
[House Rules] Are vehicles really diging in?
