Vehicle Weight

[redcoat2]

I noticed when I was flicking through the encyclopaedia that there is ‘load cost’ data for vehicles – including tanks. What influence does this ‘weight’ factor have on the game – if any? Does it have any effect upon a vehicle’s ability to traverse treacherous terrain (swamp, mud etc), ford streams, climb slopes or cross wooden bridges?

[DRG]

The short answer is vehicle weight is an abstraction who's primary purpose with tanks etc in the game is to ensure you cannot load 100 tanks into a landing barge.

Don

[Marek_Tucan]

Empirically from old SP2 times, it was ca. 3/4 of real weight (in metric tons) atleast for tanks etc., so that even Abrams or King Tiger can be loaded into a landing barge (upper weight limit is 55).

[redcoat2]

Now I see. Even tanks can be loaded onto something else in the game - landing craft. Thanks for your replies.

[thatguy96]

Originally Posted by redcoat2

Now I see. Even tanks can be loaded onto something else in the game - landing craft. Thanks for your replies.

Vehicles can be loaded onto anything with a load capacity of 2xx, with the caveat being that the xx are directly related to the vehicle's weight (and crew IIRC).

I experimented with helicopters with low "weight" to see if it would be reasonable to create barges with "loaded" helos, but other restrictions in game made this impossible.