MOV

The maximum number of units the vehicle can move in a combat round.

RANGE

The number of miles the vehicle can travel before requiring refueling.

HANDLING

The modifier to the Drive Auto or Operate Heavy Machinery skill when executing manuevers with the vehicle.

ACCEL/DECEL

The number of units the vehicle's MOV can be made higher or lower in a single round without requiring a manuever.

BASE HP

The amount of damage the vehicle may take before being rendered inoperable.

ARMOR

The amount of damage the vehicle's armor can take before affecting the vehicle or its occupants.

SIZE

The average of the height, weight, and volume of the vehicle.

CREW

How many crewmembers are required to operate the vehicle (drive and man the weapons).

ARMAMENT DESCRIPTIONS

AP

Armor-Piercing: specially-constructed shells for penetrating the armor of enemy vehicles. There were several different kinds of armor-piercing tank ammunition developed throughout the war, but here the damage of the shell is reflected in the most common type of AP used by that nation (ie. APCBC for US tanks, APC for Soviet tanks, etc.)

HE

High-Explosive: fragmentation shells used against "soft" targets (bunkers, trenches, people). These types of shells are very ineffective against armored vehicles, and as such do only half-damage.

MG

Machine gun.

Turret MG

The machine gun is mounted on top of the turret. Some tanks like the M3 Lee have an armored cupola around the turret MG, so that the MG can be operated while still being protected by armor, but most do not. This allows anyone operating the machine gun to be shot with a Called Shot, ignoring the ARMOR when calculating damage.

AA MG

Same as the Turret MG, except that the machine gun is mounted on a pintle that allows the gun to be drawn up to aim at high angles and shoot enemy aircraft. Often the AA MG is mounted facing rearward, which allows someone to stand on the rear of the tank and fire the AA MG forward.

Coaxial MG

The machine gun is fitted in a fixed position coaxial to the main gun in the turret, so that the machine gun is aimed in the same direction (-5% to hit).

Hull MG

Usually, this means that the machine gun is mounted in a ball turret on the front hull of the tank, allowing the gunner to be fully-protected by the tank armor but with a very narrow field of vision (-10% to hit).

Bow MG

Like the coaxial MG, the bow machine guns (usually there are two) are in a fixed position in the front hull firing forward. This allows the driver to operate them, though with a very narrow field of vision and they can only be aimed by aiming the whole tank (-20% to hit).

Loose MG

The machine gun does not have a position or even a mounting on the tank.

AFV CREWMEMBER ARMAMENT
Besides the armament listed on the vehicle descriptions, each vehicle had a set of small arms for use by the crewmembers in case they had to bail out of the vehicle under fire. While the type of small arms could be diverse, they normally consisted of the following:

• 1 submachinegun with 6-10 extra magazines
• 1 tripod mount for the coaxial machinegun
• 12-20 fragmentation hand grenades
• 8-12 anti-tank mines
• 1 pistol per crewmember with 1-2 extra magazines