[ASLML] Dug-In AFV as a Pillbox?

[Bruce Bakken]

Was looking at the Carrier C thread and wondered:

Could an Armored Cupola (and hence a Dug-In AFV) be considered a separate 
non-vertical-level Location inside its hex?

I came to this question by tracing this path:

First, start with D9.54: "A Dug-In AFV is treated as an Armored Cupola 
except as stated otherwise."

One of the things stated about an Armored Cupola and not stated otherwise is 
D9.52: "An Armored Cupola can be placed only in brush, grain, woods, 
orchard, shellhole, debris (O1.), or Open Ground hexes as if it were a 
pillbox (B30.1)."

Looking at B30.1, the placement terrain seems to be the same, and B30.1 only 
clarifies that Open Ground includes roads but not bridges.

Also in B30.1 is this:  "A pillbox is a separate non-vertical-level Location 
inside its hex; i.e. units inside a pillbox are in a different Location than 
units outside the pillbox."

Another hint can be found in D9.5: "An Armored Cupola represents a ... 
ground-mounted turret or specially constructed bunker ..."

I'm wondering why the reference to B30.1, if only to clarify the terrain 
when such clarification could have been more efficiently stated in D9.52?  
Or is there something more in B30.1 that we should also be considering?  
(i.e., other characterstics of Pillboxes mentioned in B30.1)

Perhaps the strongest evidence for a negative response to my query is that a 
Dug-In AFV presumably counts against vehicular stacking limits (being 
"considered the equivalent of an Immobile tank in every way" and not 
excepted for stacking), while a Pillbox does not count against stacking 
limits.

Just wandering thoughts...

Regards,
Bruce Bakken

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