Antitank rifle

[Steiner]

One question dear mates,

Do the Antitank rifles use the +1 bonus of Antitank Guns when they get a Fire order die?

They also have óptica and kinetic energy. It would make sense they would also benefit in the roll to hit but I cannot find anything in the rulebook.

Thanks

[Stuart Harrison]

No.

That only applies to anti-tank guns, not all anti tank weapons.  Anti tank guns are four lines of the weapons chart, the rule even says “All anti-tank guns (from light to super-heavy, including those mounted on vehicles)”.

[Kar98k]

Before the release of Third Edition, there was talk about having this +1 to stand alone AT-guns and not include those mounted on vehicles. I was one of those in favor of this as this made more sense, but there were good arguments for weapon platforms such as the Marder III, Nashorn and such. To keep things simple, “…including those mounted on vehicles.” was the result.

But how hard would it have been to simply add a bit more details like, “All anti-tank guns mounted on gun trail carriages from light to super-heavy, and including those mounted on dedicated tank destroyer vehicles such as the Marder III and M10.” Okay, that might confuse some people, so maybe just simply adding in the army lists “+1 AT bonus” to those weapon systems.

Off topic, I know.

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