VEHICLE LOADS

Each separate vehicle written into Gunship has a unique vehicle ID number which determines its characteristics - speed, firepower, armour etc. This ID is used by the game to determine the object shown on the screen and its performance within the mission.

To give an example, the standard M113 is vehicle ID 15. However, there also exists an M113 command vehicle with the ID 93. The Blue APC Platoon (3) actually contains 1 x vehicle ID 93 (command vehicle) and 3 x vehicle ID 15 (standard APC). Although Gunship uses the same 3D objects for both vehicles on screen (they both look the same), the vehicles have a very different infantry complement.  Unlike the standard M113, the command vehicle carries an AT Squad and an AA Squad.

Most APC platoons have a similar structure and this allows the platoon command vehicles to realistically deploy weapon teams. The chart below shows the relative Infantry complements of all the troop carrying vehicles within Gunship.

NOTE All Infantry platoons have been renamed Squads, with titles to identify their role.

The number shown in the chart is the vehicle ID number and not the platoon number.

BLUE troop carrying vehicles

RED troop carrying vehicles