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Chapter IVa. Mechanised Infantry - The truck driver is your friend

The mechanised troops in the German army are called Die Panzergrenadiere.
In the Second World War the Wehrmacht and the SS had them.
By the way, all our German Axis characters are Wehrmacht Sergeants (Feldwebel).
Easily identified by the  shoulder boards.
This means we all are equal in rank.
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So many players spawn into the APC and are like:
Oh, i am in a weird vehicle with a total stranger.
He's going 45 km/h and it's pretty bumpy. I better get out...

Silly boys, the truck driver is your friend, have faith in him.
Ok, I'm not saying you should trust him completely, but at least take a good look at where the journey is going,
before you have to walk halfway across the desert.
And don't worry, you will have your kills.

Go in packs, work together!

Make good and reasonable use of your F-keys.
F7 F5
F7 F6

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Oh come on, dude.
Stay on topic please.
The vehicle might be a halftrack, a Sd.Kfz. 251 Hanomag,
but it's no APC, it's a tank buster.
By the way, the gun is a PaK 40, as we know it from Liberation of Caen.

Well, cannon or troops. This one isn't an APC either:

True, tuia.
There's an extra chapter in the APC manual dealing specifically with planes.
The anti-air MG of a medium tank combined with the MG of the APC can do pretty well against those nasty planes.
Well, make it 2 MGs, this might not be enough against pro pilots,
but at least the average fairy can be scared away.
Oh, and probably there's even a caring pilot in the team who deems a convoy worth more
than a single vehicle to protect.
Anyway.

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Benefits for the tanker with an APC in the immediate vicinity:

• the additional wrench of the supporting halftrack - the APC driver is Engineer in 95% of cases

• increased chances of survival in the event of sudden air strikes

• infinite ammo

Arriving combat area, the column breaks up, the mechanised troops get out of the APC, clear the area and backup the tank.
Tankers are commanders.
Once the leader of the group, the spearhead, has an overview, it's time to regroup.
Distribute your squad with the F-keys.
Let the troops heal and reload, go F2 F7, F6 F5 when in need of wrench or ammo.
Go F4 F4 or launch a next charge.

Advancing like this should get the opposing team into dire trouble.
And don't worry, you will have your kills.

If you have more than 1 tank on the main combat line, have a close look at your partner tank and at the APC.
Form a wedge, have the support truck in the back, pronged with two tanks working in tandem.

Deploy available SPGs (Wespe, Priest, Sexton) behind or next to the APC: infinite ammo and a wrench.
If the commander of a self-propelled gun (SPG) is too busy and focussed on a target -
the Gunner of the truck (all praise Xberg !) reliably warns you of any possible threat. F7 F4, F6 F6
Remember, normally an APC is operated by a crew of 2, when things turn ugly the SPG can back off while the APC keeps attacker busy.
Make good and reasonable use of your F-keys.
F2 F2
F1 F1

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Hi there.

It seems that the developers back then wanted to add some disadvantages to the Tiger.
Only well trained tankers should make good use of it.
Armor and gun are superior to all allied tanks.
Battlefield 1942 was intended to be balanced, so the mighty Tiger tank got two features which make him weaker:

1. The wobble bobble thing.
A main battle tank with 58 tons won't behave like that, yeah, silly decision with ridiculous effect.
By the way, in World War 2 the Germans had their tankers make a Schießhalt (stop for shoot).
Well, i take it for a Sherman it was recommended also.
Good armor piercing hits right out of the movement were mere luck in reality, i suppose.

2. The other nonsense they did to the Tiger is how to aim with it.
Compared to the PzIV it's exactly the other way around, here:

Hi.
Did you old fool really think, they would respect your wish?

Well, the only thing we can choose in this life are our friends
we can pick our neighbours if we're lucky.
We cannot choose our familiy or nation.
Hard to find any unbiased person on this Earth.

Cheers

The German Bureaucracy (2024):

Xberg & Blindschuetz

How to drive an APC on SiMPLE


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Hello comrades,

i am Blindschuetz, and i'm your truck driver for this map.
I could greet you like this or something similar,
and in the following I would like to quote a little from the book pictured above.

M3A1, Hanomag and Ho-Ha are halftracks, armored personnel carriers: APCs.
These type of vehicle was designed to bring troops into combat.
And exactly this is the main goal of every dedicated truck driver in Battlefield 1942.

Please keep in mind, this duty won't be awarded with points. APC drivers barely make any kills,
taking flags is the task of infantry and tanks, the APC better stays behind.
The truck driver's true score is not shown in his line on the scoreboard,
instead, it is represented by the score of those team members who are able to take advantage
of what they are offered.
Medals of your team's heroes and the victory at the end of a map brighten up a truck driver's mood.
Together with a nice pint of beer of course.

Cheers

Yeah, you're right.
It's quite unsatisfying to just drop it after all the work we put into.
Let's get it over and done with.

Skip the quarter-finals and continue straight away with the semi-finals.
BF2024/tragic and 3 challengers needed for the Knife Pit.
How about the weekend around May 18th ?

Oh well, since there is no more interest in the tournament we shall close it now.

Blame Zagros.
BetMan won.

Cheers

Hi Darcano & Mille.

Please allow me a few words on this.
The question is pretty SiMPLE to answer and Darc, you already knows it:
It depends on who the rule breaker is and how serious the effects of the broken rule are.

I take it Darcano is referring to BALLBREAKER's special forces tactics on Market Garden.
Silly BALL loves to take a car and cross the river Rhine with it. His favoured role is the Allied saboteur.
The road at the South end of the stone bridge, next to the bunker is landmined and trapped with scattered expacks.
Sometimes it even happens he can take over a Panzer IV from a confused whoopsie tanker.
Oh well, BALL is the ambush bot and can be good for a little mini game, right ?
Every average skilled player can outmaneuver his traps and can get an extra kill then.