Unit Card:
USA, Vehicle - Car, 1941
ATT inf -/-/-
ATT veh -/-/-
Cost 3 points
Def 1/1
Speed 5
High Gear 2
If this unit makes its entire move along a road, it gets +2 speed.
Transport
This unit can carry one soldier. (A friendly soldier can board or dismount this unit instead of moving during your movement phase.)
Set - Rarity - Number
Base Set - Uncommon - 17/48
Eastern Front - Uncommon - 8/60
Historical Background:
The Willys MB was the mass-production version, modified according to army field operation reports and simplifications in design. The most obvious change was the front radiator grille. It was at first, for the 25,000 initial deliveries, a welded flat iron "slat", later replaced by the familiar and simpler stamped, slotted steel grille, originally a Ford design. According to factory designation, this model was renamed model "B" (MB). Eventually Willys will produce 361,339 Jeeps until the end of the war, including 25,808 of the slat radiator grille model, and 335,531 with the stamped steel grille. The MB retained the MA windshield design for some time, before swapping to a new model.
- Source: www.tanks-encyclopedia.com
Reviews:
mercenary_moose
The Jeep can't attack and is very, very vulnerable to virtually any kind of enemy fire, but it is dirt cheap, screamingly fast, and can haul an infantryman along with it. 1/1 defense is utterly pitiful; you can get killed by just about anything that wants to shoot at you, so be very careful when you move this piece. However, 5 speed is phenomenal; and High Gear gets you up to an absolutely unheard-of 7 speed. And you can use Transport to take a Hero, MG nest, flamethrower, whatever valuable infantry piece you need moved along with you. It really doesn't matter if the Jeep can only make one or two trips before it bites the dust; you've only lost 3 points. All in all, I think that this is one of the best pieces for the points in the US arsenal.
Plastic Figure Notes:
mercenary_moose
How come one of the models has a machine gun if the Jeep can't attack?
