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As we have said, a crew is a crew no matter where it comes from and a crew is not a fighting unit without the weapon/vehicle it crews.

We could play " yeahbut " games forever on this subject.... "Yeah but the crew needs a way to defend itself " so what ? If we arm crews with rifles and SMG's then ALL crews would get them and that might make some people happy and other will rightly point out that a crew that just bailed out of a tank isn't a ground combat effective team and should not and WOULD NOT join in the ground fighting.

So....... we tweak the game a bit so that vehicles and crewed weapons will be separated when they are pushed out of an air transport. It's a compromise that improves on past practice where a vehicle was ready to go the second it touched the ground. Was that realistic ?? No but this goes a long way to sorting out that issue which , in game terms, for most players, very, very minor. I doubt in SPWW2 any more than a few people will even care or notice as there are NO air transports capable of carrying and dropping a vehicle and very VERY few "gun" units air transportable.

MBT it's a different issue and this goes a long way to simulate that you don't just drop a vehicle from an aircraft and drive it away.

The best "protection" for the crews is to stay out of situation that would require a rifle.

Don