Editing FV430 Series (section)

==FV 433 Self Propelled Artillery ==
[[File:TB120.jpg|300px|left|thumb|HE in effect, 5 rounds out...]]
===In Team Yankee===
The FV 433 serves as the artillery piece of choice for mechanized and armoured brigades of the British Army. For 1.5 points per vehicle in a battery of two, four or eight, the Abbot provides versatile artillery support capable of defeating vehicles, and cheap enough to use on infantry. As with other FV430 series vehicles, it is a very fragile vehicle which will be destroyed the moment it minces up the hill. As a company level unit, multiple batteries of abbots may be deployed if you field several companies of infantry or tanks. As only 3 or 7 guns are required for a -2 to hit bonus or no effect, it is possible to have a single artillery piece fire smoke (if spotting using an observer) or spot without penalty. 

If using direct fire, is capable of defeating first generation tanks like the T-55AM2 and the Leopard 1 using it's anti-tank 17, albeit with slow firing causing a +1 to hit penalty on the move. If firing directly at infantry and soft-skinned vehicles, it has the ''Brutal'' rule and 1+ Firepower. 

A highly versatile, affordable artillery piece which may be used as a tank, situationally. Ideal for lists which do not know what they may be coming up against, but affordable enough to engage both BMP hordes and infantry.

===In Real Life===
The FV 433, or "Abbot" is a self-propelled artillery piece based on the FV430 chassis, with a 105mm main gun capable of firing as a howitzer or direct fire against vehicles or infantry. Unlike its in-game depiction as a Company-level artillery piece, real-life Abbot batteries have consistently been placed at Brigade and Division organization. The deployment of artillery is a reflection of the battle escalating to higher levels, much like the use of air power. As a 105mm artillery piece, its rate of fire would theoretically be faster than the M109 due to the faster loading process (open the breach, eject the shell, extinguish flames, load shell, load powder charge, close the breach, fire). Instead, Battlefront has decided that tube artillery can reload as quickly as BM-21s...go figure. The portrayal of tube artillery in a company level game is a sin, but the decision to deploy these vehicles ON THE FRONT LINES when they could instead fire from 10-20km away can be mildly described as utter fucking lunacy. 

{{British Forces in Team Yankee}}

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