Cascadian IFV

1) I know what John is talking about - the
difference between an infantry taxi-driver (made
famous in one of my WW2 games as the Hanomag Taxi) and the wannabee tanker
driving something that isn't a tank and shouldn't be shooting it out with
them.

I don't mind putting an RFAC and a GMS on a
vehicle. The RFAC for anti-infantry and light
vehice (other APC) work. The GMS for bunker kills and for kills against other
APCs. Only in desparation would I engage tanks with an APC. You don't have the
armour, and probably shouldn't have the PDS (for RL reasons John
alluded to). And the _last_ thing  you want to
see is infantry baking in the can.... or not having a lift to where they need
to be.

2) My preferred IFV design, given the silliness of the DS2 construction
system: Size 3 Power CFE (cheap) Carries 2xinfantry squad Armour 3 (nuts, but
the rules make it too cheap) PDS None ECM Enhanced
RFAC/1 or GAC/1 (the later might require HMT
for the power draw) (GAC == MDC)
GMS/H (should be bought per round too)
Smoke Grenades

This gives the minimal 2 acceptable infantry teams, it keeps the size class to
3 (we don't plan to build huge targets), it has a small enough size and ECM to
be not entirely vulnerable, it isn't terribly expensive, it has
good armour for its size, and it has good anti-
infantry FP (I too use GAC or RFAC 1 as having
an anti-infantry option as an APSW) and has the
GMS/H to deal with enemy APCs, hovering
VTOLs, bunkers, or in extremis, tanks.

But then, I'm not a DS2er much yet. Played my first game at ECC last year
(HotSpot... here's a
plug - if you're going to ECC, get in on this
one...!), and played at Campcon and a couple of other times since. But I
played a lot of Challenger II microarmour so I have some idea of the tanks vs.
APCs vs. IFVs issue.....

Tomb.

Karl Heinz,

Thanks for the clarification ;-)

Cheers, Iain.

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