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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 03-31-2016, 06:26 PM
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Unfortunately for that plan, shape usually trumps colour when identifying enemy/friendly vehicles.
I think that pretty much everyone on this board is aware of this, but thanks for pointing it out anyway, I guess.

I was treating it as a given and it doesn't alter the central point of my post. Anything to create hesitation or doubt on the part of a potential enemy would, to my mind, be worth the effort.

As for the danger of mistaken identity/blue-on-blue, both U.S. and Soviet vehicle guides each contain examples of captured enemy weaponry done up in friendly colors. IMHO, due to the dearth of operational AFVs, the practice would be fairly common c.2000. So, one couldn't really exclusively on shape to identify hostile targets.
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