Steel Panthers WaW: Tanker Crews

[Shetty]

Is there a possibility that a tanker crew comes back to its' abandoned tank after the enemy has retreated, and reuses it? If I try to load the crew into the tank, the game always says that the tank is fleeing, which doesn't seem very logical to me...

[Rune Iversen]

If you are able to leave the crew unsuppressed besides their abandoned (it must not be destroyed) tank, they will likely recrew it after a couple of turns.
Be warned that the abandoned tank might have suffered serious damage, and is probably no longer in mint condition.

[Resisti]

Shetty,
Rune is correct.
You cannot recrew a vehicle the same way you load troops on it.
You must make the crew stay unsuppressed in the same hex with the vehicle and normally within a couple of turns it will reman its vehicle.not sure, but an experience check should be involved in the process, too.

[Resisti]

Shetty,
Rune is correct.
You can recrew a vehicle the same way you load troops on it.
You must make the crew stay unsuppressed in the same hex with the vehicle and normally within a couple of turns it will reman its vehicle.not sure, but an experience check should be involved in the process, too.

[Shetty]

Cool, thanks.

[Supervisor]

You also have to make sure no crew members get killed!!!!!!

[Shetty]

Doesn't "unsupressed" insist that no crew members are killed..?

[Supervisor]

Persay yes, but you can lose a member and still be able to regain an unsurpressed status over time.

[tracer]

Originally posted by gmenfan
You also have to make sure no crew members get killed!!!!!!

I've had crews as small as 2 re-man an abandoned 5-man tank. There was a lower lower rate of fire (shots per turn), and only the first 2 weapons would fire. In a PBEM turn last night I had 3 man crews reload into 2 different 4-man Matilda II's.