Tank “size”? Described or Damage Value?
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September 9, 2023 at 9:26 am #189477PeterParticipant
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 #189478Stuart HarrisonParticipantIn game terms it’s a light tank.
September 9, 2023 at 10:54 am #189479Donald LinnParticipantIt’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 #189480PeterParticipantIn game terms a tank size is its damage value?
September 10, 2023 at 4:43 am #189484Stuart HarrisonParticipantYes. 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 #189485SteveTParticipantThe 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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