M4A3E8 sherman "Easy Eight"

USA, Tank Vehicle, 1944

ATT inf 7/7/6
ATT veh 14/12/10
Cost 34.00
Def 5/4
Speed 4

Exposed Transport
This unit can carry one Soldier. That Soldier can be attacked while it’s boarded on this transport. (A friendly Soldier can board or dismount this unit instead of moving during your movement phase.)

Excellent Suspension
This unit can enter hill hexes as though they were clear hexes

Armor-Piercing Rounds
Once per game, before you roll this unit’s attack against a Vehicle, you can declare you are using these rounds. If you score two hits against that Vehicle with this attack, score an additional hit.

Superior Armor 2
An attack must beat this unit’s defense by 2 or more in order to score two hits against it.

Set Base Set, 22/48 r

 

Special Abilities Errata & FAQ

Exposed Transport

This unit can carry one Soldier. That Soldier can be attacked while it’s boarded on this transport. (A friendly Soldier can board or dismount this unit instead of moving during your movement phase.)

Q: Can I use Defensive Fire to attack a soldier riding on a T-34/76 with the Exposed Transport SA?
A: Defensive fire is only used against moving units. When a Vehicle triggers Defensive Fire, it's the vehicle that's moving, not the passengers. So the answer is no, you can't use Defensive Fire to attack the passengers instead of the Vehicle.

Armor-Piercing Rounds

Once per game, before you roll this unit’s attack against a Vehicle, you can declare you are using these rounds. If you score two hits against that Vehicle with this attack, score an additional hit.

Once per game, before you roll this unit's attack against a Vehicle, you can declare you are using these rounds. If you score two hits against that Vehicle with this attack, score an additional hit.

Q: What happens if a Sherman Easy Eight announces the use of an Armored Piercing Round and fires upon a vehicle with Heavy Armor? How do you get damaged or destroy results?
A: If an AP round scores two hits, it automatically gets a 'free' third hit. If this happens against a tank with the Heavy Armor SA, then the tank takes all three hits. But the Heavy Armor SA cancels the second one, so the ultimate effect is that the tank suffers only two hits, not three. If the Easy 8 scores enough successes to get three hits from a single attack, then the AP round has no additional effect. The text of that special ability stipulates that the bonus hit applies if the attack scores two hits. You can never score more than three hits against a single target in a single attack.

Superior Armor 2

An attack must beat this unit’s defense by 2 or more in order to score two hits against it.

Q: A Tiger tank's frontal defense is 7 and it has Superior Armor 2. Does this special ability simply add to a unit's defense? Would the Tiger's defense now be 9?
A: No. Superior Armor 2 doesn't change the vehicle's defense value at all. What it does is make it harder for a single attack to score two hits against the vehicle. A single attack must score enough successes to beat the target vehicle's defense rating by 2, not just by 1, in order to score two hits.

To clarify your example, a Tiger I has frontal defense 7 and Superior Armor 2. That means 7 successes against the tank's frontal armor would cause 1 hit while 9 successes against the tank's front would cause 2 hits. Without Superior Armor 2, 8 successes would cause 2 hits. Note that Superior Armor 2 has no effect at all against three attacks (14 successes against the tank's front will still cause 3 hits.) The tank is still disrupted by one hit, damaged by two hits, and destroyed by three hits. Superior Armor 2 just makes it harder to get two hits from a single roll of the dice, and that's all it does.