Tanks with rear Facing Machine guns

[Ken]

It’s stated that tanks with main guns and coax machine guns can only fire one or the other.

How about the tanks with rear facing turret machine guns like the Soviet and Japanese tanks that have them.

Are they treated like coax machine guns or can you fire both since they have different fields of fire ?

[Stuart Harrison]

See p151, Vehicles, Vehicle Special Rules, Turret Rear-Mounted Machine Gun.  The rear mounted mg can only fire into the opposite arc that the main/co-ax fires into.  This is the general rule, there are a few vehicles that combine turret rear mounted mgs and one man turret rules, in those cases it’s either the front weapon or the rear weapon (eg: Japanese Type 95 Ha-Go).

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