Soviet Mounted Recon Unit and Transports

[Mark Prichard]

Soviet Recon Units have an ability that allows them to
“The first time this unit dismounts their transport vehicle in a game, the player may elect to leave up to two squad members behind to man the transport vehicle’s weapons for the rest of the game. These models are removed from the game and cannot re-join their unit later. Each squad member left behind to man the transports guns allows one weapon to be fired in addition to the usual one otherwise allowed for an empty transport.”

Does this ability cancel out the rule that empty transports that end there turn closer to an enemy than to a friendly unit are automatically destroyed as they are no longer considered empty?

[Stuart Harrison]

Answered by the author on a facebook group:

“Hi guys, I am the author of the book and designed these rules. The rule as written is exactly that, you are swapping up to two guys from your squad do be removed from the game in exchange to fire one more vehicle weapon per guy if the squad dismounts. Once you remove the squad members the only change to the vehicles status is it is eligible to fire more weapons. It still counts as an empty transport, it can still pick up and transport units. Nothing changes except the amount of weapons it can fire when empty.”

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