Wheeled vs All Terain recon units

[testarossa]

Was wondering what the opinion of others was on the worth of the early wheeled recon units vs the more advanced 8 wheel all terain class of recon units. It is tempting to purchase the 8 wheeled recon units that may have better offensive, defensive characteristics, but is there a place for one wheeled recon unit in your corp because of the greater movement on roads for special missions?

[testarossa]

I just finished brushing up on my movement rules, and I think I have come to the conclusion that there is no movement advantage in the early wheeled recon cars when compared to the 8 wheel awd units. Since each of the units has a movement of 8 movement

recon car (wheeled): Road movement =8, clear movement =4
8 wheel (AWD):Road movement =8, clear movement =8

Can anyone confirm this?

[ThvN]

Yes, both the 'wheeled' and the 8-rad (all-terrain) have movement 8, and they both spend 1 movepoint per hex on roads in clear weather.

All-terrain is at least equal and often better in cost of movement. So if the movement rates are the same (8 hexes for both), all-terrain is simply better.

[Razz1]

While that may be correct, they each travel over mud snow and rough terrain differently.

The 6 wheel vehicles move farther.

[testarossa]

Early war recon options

SdKfz 222 4 wheel recon car (wheeled): Road movement =8, clear movement =4, fuel = 80
SdKfz 231 6Rad recon car (wheeled): Road movement =8, clear movement =4, fuel = 75
SdKfz 232 8Rad (AWD):Road movement =8, clear movement =8, fuel=75

[ThvN]

Early war recon options

Those are the correct values for the standard (stock) 1.13 equipment file.

[Razz1]

I am not referring to the amount of fuel.

6 wheeled vehicles and more have a different movement type that allows them to move farther per turn in bad weather conditions.

[boredatwork]

I am not referring to the amount of fuel.

6 wheeled vehicles and more have a different movement type that allows them to move farther per turn in bad weather conditions.

6 Wheeled vehicles have the same movement type as 4 wheeled vehicles "#2" -> "IDS_MOVT_WHEELED".

Only 8 wheeled vehicles have movement type "#7" -> "IDS_MOVT_ALL_TERRAIN".