Cantonments with the ability to move these vehicles from one location to another will have a significant advantage over an enemy without gun trucks. As long as fuel and ammunition hold out, a gun truck with one or more machine guns can seriously affect a confrontation. I suspect many cantonment defense forces will become obsessed with keeping their gun trucks operable at any cost--once they get an idea of what two M60s or heavier weapons can accomplish against bandits (or the law). Marauders will be equally interested in fielding gun trucks, but a small and/or mobile group will have trouble supporting gun trucks. Hm. This dynamic may lead to lots of marauders evolving analogously into Black Barons or the Shoguns in that they exercise semi-governmental control over a swath of territory.
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