Re: Sniping
And if buttoned up, it is more difficult to hit things with it when firing, its number of shots etc can be reduced.
Plus a buttoned vehicle is easier for infantry to close assault. So spray down any tank you are intending to assault before the assault if its status is not buttoned (or worse).
And of course, if the rifle section doing the hose-down has big HE lumps - like 50mm D/F mortars - then it may even get an immobilising track hit as well.
And finally - the AI (and some humans!) likes tank riders, especially in WW2. Hosing the advancing tanks when they have not yet debussed turns riders into people pate. I always have heavy MG units out in WW2 to make some pate at 1000+ metres! (MG have the range, and also have a blast effect on neighbouring hexes, so I choose the packs of bunched up tanks)
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