Scout Car

"Scout Car ready for deployment!" "Logistic Car ready for command and control route!"

SdKfz.221 Scout Car is an Axis vehicle unit field by the Panzer Elite featured in Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts.

Game Info

SdKfz.221 Scout Car or Leichter Panzerpahwagen SdKfz.221("Light Armoured Reconnaissance Vehicle Sonderkraftfahzeug 221") is a light armoured vehicle field by the Panzer Elite. The SdKfz.221 Scout Car serves as a reconnaissance and logistic duty. The SdKfz.221 Scout Car is also the cheapest armoured fighting vehicle of the Panzer Elite army. It is also the only vehicle that can capture and secure a strategic point without special upgrade.

The SdKfz.221 Scout Car is a 4 x 4 armoured vehicle. Armed with a 7.92 mm Maschinengewehr 42 light machine gun mounted on the open top turrent, with 14.5 mm armour at the front & side and 5 mm at the turrent & rear. The SdKfz.221 Scout Car can serve as a reconnaissance vehicle, move around the battlefield to scout for enemy position and capturing strategic point. Besides for its reconnaissance role, the SdKfz.221 Scout Car can be upgraded with the logistic command upgrade and turn to a SdKfz.221 Logistic Car. The Sdkfz.221 Logistic Car have a large "bed-frame" antenna mounted on top of the turrent. Serve as a logistic vehicle, the SdKfz.221 Logistic Car can lock itself down on captured strategic point to generate additional recourses and to prevent the strategic point from falling to the enemy.

The SdKfz.221 Scout Car's MG 42 is an effective weapon against infantry. Its 14.5 mm armour provide reasonable protection from small armed fire. powered by a 90 horsepower Horch diesel engine, the SdKfz.221 Scout Car has good speed and mobility, allowing it to move around the battlfield quickly. The SdKfz.221 Scout Car use its mobility to scout the battlefield. But the true purpose of the SdKfz.221 Scout Car is to serve as a logistic vehicle. Once the SdKfz.221 Logistic Car has captured a strategic point and has it in lockdown, it can't be capture unless the SdKfz.221 Logistic car is either becomes mobile or is destroyed. The mounted MG 42 provide support to attack anyone who attempt to attack it or sieze the strategic point. Provide support from anti-tank fire, the SdKfz.221 Scout Car can generate resources to continue the Axis's war effort.

Weakness

Lightly armed and armoured, the SdKfz.221 Scout Car was a very poorly protected vehicle. It is highly vunerble to heavy weapons such as heavy machine gun, mines and mortar shot. Its 14.5 mm armor also proves to be too light to withstand tanks, anti tank fire and artillery strikes. 17 pounder anti-tank gun of the Sherman Firefly and the 76.2 mm M7 gun of the M10 Tank Destroyer can turn it into scrap metal instantly. Infantry with light anti tank weapons can also easily destroy the poorly armored SdKfz.221 Scout Car. Thus, it is advisable to protect it with other infantry or panzers to ensure its continued service on the battlefield.

A deployed SdKfz.221 Logistic Car is holding a fuel depot.