Tank “size”? Described or Damage Value?

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  • September 9, 2023 at 9:26 am #189477
    Peter
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    Is a Chi-Ha Medium Tank a medium tank or a light tank (it has a damage value 8+ light tank)?

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    September 9, 2023 at 10:53 am #189478
    Stuart Harrison
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    In game terms it’s a light tank.

    September 9, 2023 at 10:54 am #189479
    Donald Linn
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    It’s a medium tank with thin armour. Lots of earlier “mediums” eg PzIV , or Crusader have 8+ armour

    September 9, 2023 at 11:00 am #189480
    Peter
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    In game terms a tank size is its damage value?

    September 10, 2023 at 4:43 am #189484
    Stuart Harrison
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    Yes. It’s no different than the British calling the Vickers .303 machine gun a ‘heavy’ machine gun, while in game it’s an MMG – titles and descriptions mean nothing in game (usually reflecting what they called it in their own forces at the time rather than a comparison against a class of weapons/vehicles around the world), it’s the stats from the unit entry that tell you what it’s treated as.

    September 10, 2023 at 11:09 am #189485
    SteveT
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    The name of its entry in the Japanese forces book is something of a giveaway.

    “TYPE 97 CHI-HA MEDIUM TANK”. :p

    It mostly seems to be a criterion of which slot it gets put in armour lists, and/or how it was used, and yes, the bizarrely named “damage value”.

    Tank size occasionally crops up in some rules: like a tank ramming a building, or (from the optional campaign books) getting stuck in rubble.

     

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