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Probably yet another stupid question, but do knocked out vehicles (tanks in particular) count as cover for infantry? I recently tried using the remains of a couple of tanks as cover for an infantry advance across relatively exposed terrain, and got a fairly prodigeous whuppin... I was assuming that a squad of infantry parked under a non-burning but decidedly unhealthy tank might be offered a smidgen of cover... but we all know what assumption is the mother of....

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Originally posted by Rufus1268:

Probably yet another stupid question, but do knocked out vehicles (tanks in particular) count as cover for infantry?

Not a stupid question. Something I wondered about when I first started playing.

No, they don't provide cover for infantry. Even a lone sharpshooter cannot take cover behind a tank.

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Strange but true: Vehicles are dimensionless points in CM, not 3-D objects from the engine's point of view.

Exception: Burning vehicles do provide cover as smoke and fire have width, length and height although the thing burning does not. Feel free to hide behind them.

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