This generic vehicle represents a well-armed and well-armored (by wheeled standards, anyway) vehicle in an alternate late-war setting. The main advantages of a wheeled fighting vehicle is that it can travel faster and farther on roads and hard surfaces, breaks down less often, and costs less to build than a tracked vehicle. The primary disadvantage is lower off-road speed.
The WTL has a crew of five: driver and co-driver (who operates the hull LMG) in the body and gunner (manning the 75mm gun and coaxial LMG) and loader in the turret and hull, and commander in the turret. The turret is electrically rotated at 23 degrees per second. The WTL used 7.4 gallons of fuel per hour at routine usage.
Subassemblies: Standard Wheeled chassis with Heavy
option
+3, Small AFV turret +2, six off-road wheels +2.
Powertrain: 2x82-kW gas engines with 164-kW
all-wheeled-drive
transmission and 72-gallon self-sealing fuel tank; 8,000-kWs batteries.
Occupancy: 2 CS Body, 2 CS Both, 1 CS Tur. Cargo:
2.4 Body.
| Armor | F | R/L | B | T | U |
| Body | 4/120 | 4/80 | 4/50 | 4/25 | 4/40 |
| Turret | 4/120 | 4/80 | 4/80 | 4/25 | 0/0 |
Weaponry
75mm Medium Tank Gun [Turret:F] (82).
51mm Mortar [Turret:T] (20).
Ground VL HMG [OM:F] (400).
Ground LMG [Turret:F] (2000).
Ground LMG [Body:F] (1000).
Equipment
Body: Medium radio transmitter and transceiver, fire
extinguisher,
tire inflation system, 2-kW traversing gear for turret.
Statistics
| Size: 19'x7'x8' | Payload: 1.68 tons | Lwt: 12.39 tons |
| Volume: 69 | Maint.: 60 hours | Price: $11,200 |
HT: 10.
HPs: 660 Body, 150 Turret, 75 each Wheel.
| gSpeed: 58 | gAccel: 3 | gDecel: 10 | gMR: 0.25 | gSR: 4 | GP: very high (1/6) |
Design Notes
The pintle mount for the AA HMG (located next to the commander’s hatch)
was handwaved for the design.
Variants
American: The design was made with the US in mind, roughly being
a tracked version of the M-24 Chafee light
tank. A close-support
version
would remove the 75mm gun and 51mm mortar and their ammo, replacing
them
with a 105mm Short Howitzer (and 42 rounds).
British: This version would be virtually identical, but would replace the AA HMG with a LMG (.303 Bren gun). The British CS version would again pull the cannon, mortar and their ammo, and replace them with either a 25-pdr (87.6mm Very Short Howitzer) with 49 rounds or a 95mm Short Howitzer with 70 rounds.
Germany: The Germans would replace the 51mm mortar with the
92mm
mortar (with only 10 rounds for it).
USSR: The main gun would be
76.2mm, but use the same game stats as
a 75mm. The mortar would be removed.
Japanese: Some might move the coaxial MG to fire from the rear of the turret, or might add a second ground LMG (with 500 rounds) there, fired by the loader when not otherwise occupied. It is very likely that the vehicle would also be designed so that it could run on railroad tracks.
Antiaircraft tank: Using a universal mount, an AA version of the tank could be armed with either four 20mm Long Ground AC with 3,150 rounds or one 37mm Medium Ground AC with 560 rounds. The AA and coaxial MGs would both be removed.