Possible error in the US OB

[narwan]

Ahh, I didn't realise all armored cars are automatically 'outside carriers'. Here's why; plenty of 'inside carriers' are classed as armored cars throughout the OB's like BTR-40's and BRDM's. So I assumed the the armored car could be carrying troops internally.

A quick scan throught the encyclopedia shows:
Polish OB: 11 armored cars with carrying capacity including BTR-40's, BRDM's, HMMWV's and others.
Czech OB: shows 4 such armored cars.
East german OB: shows some of these same vehicles as armored cars and some as light support APC's
Soviet OB: has these same vehicles as 'scout vehicles'
Bulgarian OB: these same vehicles are 'light support apcs'

That gets pretty confusing. A player used to a BTR-40 functioning as a light APC from playing the soviets will expect an identical polish one to behave likewise.
There may not be infantry with the armored car formations in the purchase screens, but once a game gets going things tend to get mingled up. If you have a 'Fox' nearby a squad that's lost it own transport I think most players will assume they can mount them inside the Fox. Which is how I got to checking this out in the first place; an opponent of mine complained about the inability of his Foxes to carry infantry past hmg-fire in another game he is playing.

Maybe this is something worth looking into?


Narwan