May 19th, 2007  
Dean
Centurion
 
 
Gear

Hi again Bulldogg.
Usually I agree with you, but this time, I think you are playing a little fast and loose with the word "disabled". It seems to me that if there is a fire burning in the fighting compartment and that one or more crewmen have been killed as a result of that fire, the tank is, for all intents and purposes, destroyed. However, the hull and some other components, which are not flammable, can always be re-used, which gives rise to the wording used. If the tank is hit and burning, and the crew is wounded, killed or has to bail out, the tank is effectively out of action for quite some time. That means killed in my book.

Dean.

Dean.
 
 
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