Vehicle of the Week-Trajan Assault Infantry Fighting Vehicle

[CitizenErased]

Uncle Blake wants you!

Well, I do think Shadow Division paint schemes are rather dapper... but I meant more along the lines of finally justifying a RAF company or two once some more info about their organization is released.

[Jackmc]

Couple of points GWA:

1.  regular MG range (ie 3 hexes) /is/ close in.

2.  Badly-written fluff aside, there's absolutely nothing odd about the bay size, it's the correct size to carry a squad of Assault-class BA. 

-Jackmc

[Korzon77]

The core problem is you should not have so many infantry in one vehicle-- that sort of transport is for a battle taxi that unloads the infantry well short of the combat zone. Actual combat vehicles should have smaller numbers of infantry and larger numbers of vehicles, to avoid losing all your eggs when one basket gets blown sky high.

[Belisarius]

But when looked at as a BA transport, it looks more attractive than as a regular PBI transport.

[Moonsword]

2.  Badly-written fluff aside, there's absolutely nothing odd about the bay size, it's the correct size to carry a squad of Assault-class BA. 

Just to note, that's only under the optional rule in TacOps (which, admittedly, I favor myself over the regular BA cargo footprint of 1 ton to a suit).

[Welshman]

Just a note- Game Mechanics are a little strange when it comes to interior space. Sometimes you have to hand wave.

The Trajan was intended to carry assault/heavy infantry, so only 2 standard platoons max (converted to WoB formations).

[Belisarius]

And when you compare 3/5/0 to 1/1/0 it looks more attractive. Especially when you consider the permissiveness of the environment. In order for a Maxim or Karnov to be more appropriate you have to be reasonably assured that it either 1. won't be the primary target (unlikely considering the bag of goodies they're carrying), or 2. they won't be hit. The only way to guarantee the latter is to deliver infantry on target before the enemy is in range (no mean feat if the map board size is proportional to the force). What happens if they are in range? Well a few rotor hits or skirt strikes later you either have your infantry spread across the countryside like jam on toast or they're in a box on the ground waiting for the turn of consolidated fires that will turn them into cinders.

Will the Trajan attract fire? Probably. Is it a more attractive target than a Karnov? Dunno, depends on how much you like seeing whirlybird birds take tumbles. But it provides some infantry fire support, can deliver two squads of BA to the field, and has enough armor to take the odd hit or two (compared to the Karnov which can't).