The Flammwagen APC is a modified German armoured personnel carrier armed with flamethrowers.
It has a relatively short range of fire, but it is able to do great damage against infantry units, bunkers, lightly armoured vehicles and buildings. The Flammwagen units are very dangerous in groups. It can also carry 12 infantrymen.
Background[]
German engineers loved to produce specialized variants on existing vehicles, and perhaps no vehicle saw so many iterations as the Sdkfz 251: there were 23 official types, and an unknown number of iterations that weren’t officially classified. The Sdkfz 251/16 or "Flammpanzerwagen", was a half-track that could carry up 12 soldiers (including the crew) and flamethrowers as well as an MG 34 machine gun.
Gameplay[]
- Pros: There’s a reason this costs more than the Panther: it dishes out a lot more damage in a shorter amount of time.
- Cons: Lightly armored, and it must stop and face the enemy when unleashing its fiery payload — a drawback that exposes it to damage from even weak foes.
- Bottom Line: Speedy and packing a high-powered punch, the Flammwagen can be rushed to trouble spots in a base-defense role or sent out to eliminate infantry or weaker armored enemies such as the Allied Priest or Soviet Katyusha.
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