Transported units

[leonard]

It would be very handy to have some sort of "Transported" marker to indicate units being transported on trucks, halftracks,...
Maybe just a numbered counter and the corresponding transported units would be set aside.
And in Vassal as well.

[Grognard Gunny]

Most of us just put "loaded" units under the transport. 

GG

[cjsiam]

On the subject....
In Vassal...you can Hide units....
Would it be appropriate that Personal Units are Hidden when loaded onto trucks?
Clearly towed weapons are not...but, men, machine guns, Mortars....you couldn't actually
tell what's in a covered vehicle....

Thoughts?

[Blackcloud6]

On the subject....
In Vassal...you can Hide units....
Would it be appropriate that Personal Units are Hidden when loaded onto trucks?
Clearly towed weapons are not...but, men, machine guns, Mortars....you couldn't actually
tell what's in a covered vehicle....

Thoughts?

That is assuming it is covered.  Often, if contact was possible, the covers were taken off.  Since this is a tactical game of units in contact, maybe we should assume that they are uncovered.

[Tubac52]

If the hits are in hidden mode as per the optional rules, they remain hidden until they reveal themselves by moving or firing, or when an enemy units gets close enough to spot them in limited terrain.

[cjsiam]

Tubac, not sure how that relates to transported units being hidden in the trucks they are being loaded onto...

My point is to question how much info a gun at 1000meters(or a leader at 2000meters talking to a Battery off board)
has about which truck has Engineers, which has infantry....kind of issue....targeting specific units, which would probably be
impossible to distinguish at distance is my concern regarding the "hiding" of units---not setup and other "Hidden" aspects in this case...

I'm going to accept Blackcloud's interpretation and observation and mark this up to "below the level of abstraction"....