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Originally Posted by Webstral
By the way, I’m not going to feel myself obliged to perpetuate GDW’s misapplication of terminology. I feel the point has been settled regarding how GDW intended for the term to be used from RDF Sourcebook onwards—and again, good job Kato. However, the fact remains that GDW misused the term. I won’t follow in their footsteps. When I refer to AFV in any sense but in a direct quote of the published material, I will be referring to MBT, light tanks, assault guns, IFV, APC, armored cars, maybe gun trucks, and possibly SP artillery. The jury’s still out on SP guns, though.
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SPGs should be classed as AFVs because they can (while it's not recomended) be used in the direct battle role, many nations kept a reserve of anti-tank shells for their SPGs (The American M109 was one such SPG).
However there is allot of debate on the use of mobile artillery and it's classification as an AFV.