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View Poll Results: You just captured a Soviet BTR-80 intact as your only transport
Take the BTR and leave it marked as Soviet, hoping to sneak past Pact forces 22 35.48%
Keep the vehicle and mark it somehow to show it's in American use (a flag or something) 36 58.06%
Destroy it and look for somnething else 5 8.06%
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Old 12-15-2010, 08:59 PM
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Even most tanks are vulnerable to those weapons. A 40mm grenade has the potential to imobilise a tank with a hit to the suspension. A LAW, RPG, tank gun, etc is almost certain to give the crew a VERY bad headache. Even a HMG is potentially able to cause some issues with a lucky shot to the radio antenna, external cargo (god help them if they're stupid enough to have spare fuel and ammo strapped to the outside!.
This is a considerable overstatement. Of course there's always the chance of a lucky hit compromising a tank but comparing a BTR to an MBT is apples to oranges. M1A1s and Challenger 2s have been known to take literally dozens of RPG hits and keep on ticking. BTRs have been killed by .50 fire. Advantage MBT.

If all you can expect to go up against is AKs and PKMs, then, by all means, go with the BTR. But even in 2000, RPGs are likely to be fairly common. Just one solid hit and you're toast. I mean, in our PbP, how many BTRs and BTR-type vehicles have the players killed? It's not that hard, and, besides my confusion with the side hit dice rule, I've been playing it by the book when it comes to vehicle damage. If you keep this up, I'm going to send a T-72 at you.

Now, a LAV-25, that's a slightly different story. Slightly better armor protection and a whole lot more punch and versatility from the 25mm autocannon.
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