truck trick vs pgm strikes

[Skirmisher]

For starters you could make trucks illegal in your PBEM's.
Then you wouldn't be able to do that.

[Imp]

Its the way it works, gun or missile rounds often pass straight through soft targets doing little damage unless hits a strong point like the chasis thats why you fire at them with your tanks MGs unless there are several together when a HE round could damage several at once. If the SAMs a soft target to the paveway will not do much so attack them with arty. Alternativly why not buy deadicated SAM planes SEAD will target them directly as thats there role if have radar or planes with bombs though Skirmishers suggestion is the most logical, mind you if you want to use them like that just exploit it, 3 trucks is 2 less squads & an easy kill thanks for the points.

[Marcello]

Originally Posted by Imp

Its the way it works, gun or missile rounds often pass straight through soft targets doing little damage unless hits a strong point like the chasis

With kinetic rounds yes. Something like a M829A1 or even just some plain bullets could hit a truck and pass throught without hitting anything of vital and trasmitting little energy to the target, thus doing little damage. However large,
blast-fragmentation warheads which are typical of air to ground ordnance are definitively bad news for softskins.
Cars don't look good after an Hellfire hit for example.

Note that decoys are often used in war, the use of trucks in this manner might be interpreted as such.

[hoplitis]

Originally Posted by Marcello

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Note that decoys are often used in war, the use of trucks in this manner might be interpreted as such.

And the cavalry were known to occasionally eat their horses but that doesn't mean that they didn't need proper supply eh!

The "humble" truck is a valuable commodity in any army. No need to rationalize an aspect of the game that might be not so realistic....

BTW Marcello, "decoys" is a very interesting idea to include in a scenario design!