Trucks and Armor?

[plloyd1010]

I saw you running this discussion over on Consim.
The rule was, and functionally still is, that unarmored vehicles (trucks, jeeps and unarmored prime movers) are considered to have an armored value of -1 with regards to AT fire. Referring to your rules quote, the preceding sentence was, " A unit’s armor value is printed in the lower right corner of the unit’s playing piece in yellow on a burgundy field;". Thus, if not printed, no armor.

The definition following yours, is about AFVs. Again printed armored value. Hence trucks and jeeps are not AFVs. Rule 7.41 (about direct and bombardment fire) says, " Direct fire and bombardment attacks affect all units in the target hex except for AFVs." Trucks, jeeps and unarmored prime movers, not being AFVs are going to be affected.


The problem with the 4th editions rules is that context and most examples were dropped. It is another example of how the 4th edition clarified and muggled the rules at the same time.