4th Edition Rules - comment now or forever shut yer trap!

[Matt W]

AFV speed:

I agree with Daniel that a MP cost of "1" for AFVs in clear is too fast. I have also playtested this and found that the increased speed makes it possible for AFVs to form a fire brigade on the battlefield moving from sector to sector in time to participate in three significant assaults in sectors a mile or so away from each other in a three hour scenario (and this was an early StG in a Fall of France scenario where roadblocks precluded using the roads.

I have suggested 1.5 for clear but would also agree with 1 2/3. The StG in my example would move 5 clear hexes in my suggestion or 4 in Daniel's suggestion. Either is faster than foot units (the basic complaint of those raising the issue of "slow" AFVs), yet don't turn the AFV into a teleportation device for weaponry. It is important to realize that some of the weapons that we are modelling are nearly 100 years old as of today (an FT-17) and the very newest in the PG environment are still over 60 years old and represented the very early prototypes of the weapons that will be used in MG.