M113 Armored Personnel Carrier

The Original Metal Box

"METAL BOXES!" ~ Firaeveus Carron

The M113 is an Armored Personnel used by the United States Military. The M113 was the first vehicle armored entirely with aluminum, enough to stop small arms fire from turning the occupants into bleeding sponges, but not enough to stop anything serious. The M113 is armed with a single .50cal AA Machine gun, but the most powerful thing it carries into battle is the 11 mean, green fighting machines tucked away in relative safety inside.

Like a certain vehicle in a particular miniature wargame the M113 has been adapted into a staggering number of variants to fill various different battlefield roles.

Both the West Germans and the US can take the M113 in their forces.

USA

The Stat Card

The M113 is one of the best transports in Team Yankee with decent armor, good transport and a useful main gun. The M113 can carry 3 teams of infantry (4 less than the marines overgrown version the AAVP7, but one more than almost every other personnel carrier and two more than the British Spartan). The front armor of 3 is the strongest of any APC on the field (though don't go taking on Main Battle Tanks in this thing). The side and top armor are rather standard though at 2 and 1 respectively.

The M113 is armed with a .50cal AA machine gun, which can be used to deal with enemy infantry, BTRs, and helicopters. However, you can sacrifice some of your Mech Platoons M47 Dragon teams and mount the Dragon Missiles on the M113s, turning it into a stopgap tank hunter (which is somewhat situational due to the reduction in damage output). However, the main selling point of the M113 is its 5+ firepower. While inferior on the move compared to other NATO transports, the FP buff means that statistically, they perform twice as well against entrenched infantry due to the doubling in FP passes. The potential to hit targets beyond 16" is a welcome bonus, if a little situational. Expect to use these things as IFVs; their decent AT value can engage softer armored units like BTRs but their ideal task would be destroying infantry with the same efficiency as autocannons.

You cannot take M113s alone, only as transports for your Mech Platoons. For 4 Points you get 3 M113s, 2 M47 Dragon Teams and 3 M249 SAW/M72 LAW teams. For an additional 2 points, you get one more of each, for a total of 4 M113s 3 M47 Dragon Teams And 4 M249 SAW teams. In both cases, you may purchase an additional Dragon ATGM team for one point.

The best way to utilize the M113 is to support the infantrymen it just dropped off. Use them to draw fire away from your soldiers and cover them with machine gun fire. If you're rocking the Dragon, take out the tanks that pose the most danger to the troops, like AA autocannons or other transports. Also never EVER leave the infantry behind.

=West Germany

WIP

Has passenger 2 instead and an MG3 instead (ROF3 16")

IRL

An M113 in Denmark

The M113 First entered service in 1960 and has remained in use ever since. Currently, over 6000 M113s are in use in the United States, with thousands more in other nations. The M113 has been slowly phased out by the M2 and M3 Bradley, but has seen some repurposing as various support vehicles, such as mortar carriers, anti-air guns, and repair vehicles. It also has mindless fanbois who call it the Gavin. A term made up by a drop out of both the USMC and Army Reserves. He and his dumb ass followers believe that the platform is just as capable as the upgraded Bradley and superior to just about any wheeled APC. Never mind that its armor can be defeated by anti-material rifles. Given its appearance, models of it from other company's make decent proxy's for 40k rhinos for players on the cheap or who want a different look.