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We've played a fair few games of CWC now but on Monday we had a big dust up in a village which led to much confusion over the close assault rules, viz;

Infantry fighting off armour (in our case French against BMPs); Do hits from non-IATW armed infantry count on armour (and does the armour get a save)? Or ... do they only count for the purposes of working out who won but the armour cannot be destroyed?

Presumably suppressed units cannot act as supports?

We had the situation where both sides in an assault (infantry) were destroyed. Is this right?

That question came up in our game last night, too. There were infantry NOT explicitly armed with IATWs, and our guess at the time based on a hasty re-reading of the close assault rules was they they could NOT close assault armor without IATWs.

Do infantry have to have been "purchased" (points-wise) with IATWs to close assault armor?

Close assult clobers evreyboby, no restriction.

IanS

You have to keep in mind that the CA rules take into account weapons like greneades and other explosives that infantry would have available but, not use in a regular fire fight. So, yes infantry CA'ing armour should be able to KO it whether or not they have specified AT weapons.

"We had the situation where both sides in an assault (infantry) were destroyed. Is this right?"

Absolutely. Both sides can be destroyed in a CA.