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Originally Posted by iCaMpWiThAWP
Halftracks?Those toys cost you a lot of points, that's why the enemy gets sooo many points to buy arty with, don't buy so many of these
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I have to admit that they are pricey, but the come in real handy when dealing with infantry. Pull up close but not next to them, pepper them with the MG-34 on board and if they are nicely suppressed, dismount and nail them with infantry. Works very well. It also helps get them around faster. The whole battalion can quickly get to the enemy rear area this way. Take some objectives and suddenly the enemy comes out of their holes and starts attacking at a disadvantage.
Trucks don't work. Too easy to kill. Carrying the troops on tanks isn't all that great either. Tank gets hit and the troops dismount and have a fairly high suppression as well. Most of the time, they don't jump out of the half-tracks when they are hit. The disadvantage to the half-tracks, aside from the cost, is kill it and almost always the occupants die too.
More than anything, it's a tactical preference.