Question on improvised vehicle stats

[Kowari]

I’m writing a scenario which includes irregular forces making use of a heavy flatbed truck (2.5m W x 10m L), equipped with 1 x HMG and 2x GPMGs on the tray. I envisage there’s be improvised steel-plate armour bolted to the cab, and protective sandbags fixed to the tray with wire mesh. I am thinking that I am going to treat the cab as armoured, and any weapon operators on the tray as having Improved Cover (+2 cover dice). My question is:

1. Does that sound reasonable?

2. If so, what armour dice would you give for heavy steel plate bolted to a truck cabin? I was thinking something along the lines of 1d8 or 2d6- does that seem in the ballpark?

Any thoughts appreciated!

[maggico]

Normally I use the soft skin up-armored statistics, that are 1d8 on all sides.

And, yes, the use of Improved Cover is ok, for me.

[Papasan]

The vehicle you describe sounds similar to the US Ground Mobility Vehicle ‘Dumvee’ for which there are up-armoured stats in Appx 4 of the FoF book.
Looking at up-armoured soft-skin vehicle stats in the book it seems most get 2D6. As it’s an up-armoured vehicle any small arms attack FP is halved – rounded down. (p.86)
The tray’s sandbag cover would rate as solid cover +1, it’s not solid cover improved by sandbags to rate +2, though perhaps you could claim +1 ‘in cover’ bonus to boost up crew protection..

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