(dis)mounted artillery and firing

[boersma8]

Consider the following situation: in your movement phase you have an artillery piece mounted on a vehicle with the gun transport SA. The vehicle moves and the gun stays mounted when it arrives at its destination. Can the gun fire now in the assault phase ( while it's still mounted, so it will be able to move again in the next movement phase) or does one have to dismount the gun in the movement phase, then fire in the assault phase and load it again during the next movement phase (if one wants to move the gun again?)

Is there any difference between a gun and a mortar?

Thanks!

[Y2UAsk]

Transport -- While a Soldier unit is boarded, it can't move, fire, or defend for itself ...A passenger can attack only if the transport has the Fighting Platform special ability, and currently, no Vehicles have both Gun Transport and Fighting Platform.

In terms of sequence, you'd have to

1) move the transport in movement phase 1;
2) dismount the weapon in movement phase 1;
3) attack with the weapon in assault phase 1;
4) re-mount the weapon in movement phase 2;
5) move the transport in movement phase 2.

But at that point, the weapon will already have used its movement in movement phase 2, so it can't dismount for the rest of the turn -- which means it can't attack during turn 2, because it can't attack while mounted.

Neither "gun" nor "mortar" is a unit type in AAM. Some units and special abilties contain these words in their names, but for rules purposes, all are Soldiers, and some have the subtype Artillery. That's all that matters.

Steve