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==FV 432 Armoured Personnel Carrier== [[File:TB106.jpg|300px|left|thumb|The humble, British workhorse.]] ===In Team Yankee=== The FV 432 is the workhorse of the British Army, seen in virtually all ground combat formations from territorial infantry companies to regular forces like the Coldstream Guards and the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. Much like it's American counterpart the M113, it is a metal box designed to carry troops to the battlefield in safety and comfort along with their hourly tea ration from the boiling vessel. Unlike the M113, the FV432 carries a puny 7.62 machine gun with a stunning AT value of 2, meaning that it would take around 36 shots to kill a BTR from the front. It retains a moving ROF of 3 at all times, restricting it to engaging soft skinned units like BM-21s and infantry. Furthermore, British infantry rarely wish to leave their foxholes to get up close with the enemy, preferring to stay back and let artillery and milans do the heavy lifting rendering the FV432's use as a transport rather minimal. Treat these as mobile MG carriers with the potential to be used for blocking off enemy movement. If destroyed, they also provide bulletproof cover. The FV432 has a decent tactical movement speed with mediocre dash speeds. They may be used in assaults if needed, and possess a cross rating of 3+ if you wish to move into treelines. Ironically, these things have better utility dead than alive. Treat them as expendable forces if playing an Infantry Company, or as a mobile anti-infantry unit if playing an Armoured list. Take note that should your infantry platoons fall back or are wiped out, the transports retreat off the battlefield. ===In Real Life=== [[File:RL_MetalBox.jpg|right|300px|thumb|METAL BAWKSES!!]] As the British Army reformed from a force relying on conscription to a smaller, professional force, the FV432 became instrumental to greater mechanisation to improve the efficiency of the force. Arguably the poor old FV432 was been done dirty by Battlefront as it's traditional half inch steel armour was always supposed to offer about the same protection as the M113's fancy aluminium skin, albeit at the cost of weighing a bit more. While it served its time as a decent battle-taxi, the role of the armoured personnel carrier in the British Army was superseded by two main competitors, the CVRT and the Infantry Fighting Vehicle concept. As proven in exercises with West German Marders and the effectiveness of BMPs in the 1980 Polish Crisis, IFVs acted as a force multiplier to the infantry. By 1988, armoured divisions and brigades began deployment of the FV510 Warrior to replace the aging FV432. Rather than mothball these perfectly functional vehicles, they have been transferred to many reservist infantry units and most notably, the Supply Corps. Today, some variants of the FV430 series are still in service as specialist vehicles such as the FV430 bulldog; an FV432 equipped with an armour package considered equal to a Warrior. For similar vehicles, see [[Rhino Transport|Metal Boxes]]. No seriously, the IRL Rhino that [[Games Workshop]] put together for giggles during the development of Dawn of War II, and the one that sits outside of Warhammer World to this day, is actually an FV430 with some cosmetic plates welded to it. There's a museum in the UK called ''Armourgeddon'' where you can pay to spend the afternoon driving FV432s modified with Fox armoured car turrets around and shooting at one another with giant paintball guns.
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