"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 lightly armoured vehicle deployed 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 a 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 positions and capturing strategic points. aside from its reconnaissance role, the SdKfz.221 Scout Car can be upgraded with the logistic command upgrade and turn into a SdKfz.221 Logistic Car. The Sdkfz.221 Logistic Car has a large "bed-frame" antenna mounted on top of the turret. When upgraded, the SdKfz.221 Logistic Car can lock itself down on a captured strategic point to generate additional recourses and prevents 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 provides 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 battlefield quickly. The SdKfz.221 Scout Car uses 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 captured unless the SdKfz.221 Logistic car either becomes mobile or is destroyed.
Weakness
Lightly armed and armoured, the SdKfz.221 Scout Car is highly vulnerable to heavy machine guns, mines and mortar rounds. 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.