Transports - driver ?

Hi
If I have a forward HQ with a kubelwagon , and they drive on the table , then get out of the Kubelwagon , do I park the Kubel wagon somewhere , hopefully out of LOS and in a safe spot ?

If the enemy come along and destroy my Kubelwagon , I take a Chit ?

Does the Kubelwagon come with a guy to drive it ? Can the Kubelwagon move if the 3 man command team have left the Kubelwagon behind ?

Hi, I would use 'Transports Withdraw' rule for that on Pg 20 hardback version of rules. Saves taking a chit.

OK thanks
I missed the bit about getting within 10" of a table edge and getting out of there.

Vehicles always have a driver with the exception of motorcycle and sidecar which cannot move when the passengers dismount
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So from the above make sure you hide your dismounted vehicle well !

All soft-skins (except motorcycles) are a chit... they are valuable to the battlegroup, even if not combat vehicles. Otherwise the battelgroup loses its mobility, and nobody likes walking ... the army is never happy to have its trucks blown-up! Keep them safe, or get them outta there! I speak form experience, have lost 5 Russian trucks to German tank MGs when I left them on the table and the panzers rolled up... and having lost 5 jeeps in one (flukey) FW-190 bombing running. Both cost me the game.

Can you capture (rather than destroy) enemy vehicles? Recent reading on Market Garden indicated than the US airborne were desperate to capture German vehicle to enhance their mobility. I assume they must have had enough people who could drive. Would taking chits then be the same as objectives? So the Germans take one for the vehicle being captured and the US subsequently take one if it is destroyed (or recaptured)?

There are no rules for capturing enemy assets. But you can design your own special scenarios where you can do that.

I've only ever used capturing vehicles in a campaign game a long long time ago...sort of. At the end of the battle the winner gets to roll a D6 for each shot up vehicle left on the battlefield to see what is salvageable. I think i made a cheat sheet for that, somewhere. You have better odds to salvage your own vehicles, compared to the enemies, but don't expect a lot for it. It was more of a reason to paint up some beute vehicles and to create more backstory for your army.

I think it makes big sense if playing campaigns for making rules for captured equipment. I am thinking of the desert battles here as well where captured equipment was widely used by both sides. I am thinking of the poor Italians here as everyone seems to like using Italian trucks even the Dak .