History Main / AwesomePersonnelCarrier

* Ditto on the APC mentioned above: ''{{Soldier}}'' brings us the Crawler, a humongous heavy APCs that was used in numbers as siege weapons against a civilian village. This massive thing has combat gear similar to the Colonial Marine APC's: armored side doors, antitank missile launchers above mentioned side doors, a dual machine gun turret, a joystick-controlled mortar gun, tires larger than its passengers and a command interface fixed onto the driver's pod. The director of the show imagines the Crawler to be almost as powerful as a tank. The model was built from a stripped-down tractor.

** The Space Marines have the Rhino, which is essentially a M113 In SPACE!! They also have the Land Raider, which is essentially a mobile fortress packing twin-linked heavy bolters and lascannons.

* ''ValkyriaChronicles II'' plays this trope painfully straight. You can deploy one vehicle with your squad. If you deploy a tank, you (usually) have to use two moves for it to move and attack, it moves relatively slowly, and it can't carry troops. If you deploy an APC, you only use one move for it to move and attack, it moves pretty damn fast, and you can use it to deploy troops to forward areas. The main downside is that APCs can't carry tank-killing weapons, but they can carry troops with rocket launchers, which renders that disadvantage pretty much moot. In general, almost all the missions in the game are easier with an APC instead of a tank.

* GroundControl had an APC that could fire at ground or air targets and heal/ repair other units all while carrying a squad of soldiers in PowerArmor. The sequel APC's where considerable less cool but did come with fun tools like flame-throwers and smoke screens.

***** Namer as in leopard in Hebrew, and also a Portmanteau of "''''Na''''gmash ''''Mer''''kava" (Merkava APC).

-> "''One APC...alone...[[UnfriendlyFire betrayed]] by the [[LetsPlay Let's Play]] series it loves, now, its only hope [[InItsHourOfNeed in its final hour of need]].''"
-->- '''Battlefield 315''', LetsPlay [[BattlefieldSeries Battlefield 1942]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiNDK1USIZM Episode 57]]

Naturally, compare CoolTank. Merkavas cheat by being both, Russian helicopter Mi-24 Hind up the stake by flying.

** The Imperial Guard have the Stormlord IFV, its basic chasis is adapted from the Baneblade and it can carry 40 guardsmen and has enough firepower to slaughter any infantry in sight.

Naturally, compare CoolTank. Merkavas cheat by being both.

**** The LAV-25 is itself a derivative of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOWAG_Piranha MOWAG Piranha I]], while the Stryker is a derivative of the Piranha III, both produced by Switzerland.

[[{{Film/Alien}} http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/AliensAPC.jpg]]
[[caption-width:329:You should see my other APC.]]

* ''MassEffect'' had the player travel around between important points on planets in the Mako which could be dropped in from high atmosphere (kind of like a DropShip but with less emphasis on the ship part and more on the ''drop'') and had significant armaments to justify it's own battle sequences (though you could always get out and try killing them all with a pistol whipping if you felt so inclined).

* The [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090527030927/half-life/en/images/6/62/APC.jpg Combine APC]] from ''[[HalfLife Half-Life 2]]'' looks pretty cool. It's design features [[AwesomeYetPractical room for several fully equipped soldiers, a siren,]] [[ImmuneToBullets bulletproof armour,]] [[LightningBruiser a good speed,]] and the ability to be plugged in and provide external power for other applications when it's not in use. It's armaments include a mortar-esque [[LaserSight laser guided]] missile launcher, forward mounted fast firing dummy missiles, and a [[MoreDakka pulse machine gun]].

** The BMP-1 is a rather fearsome opponent, armed with a machine gun, a cannon and ''AT-2 anti-tank missiles''. It can't carry as many passengers but it more than makes up for that with it's significant firepower.

** Finally, there is an M163 around mid-game that is technically a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun, yet it can carry as much people as the BMP (unlike the Shilka which does the same role but can't carry passengers). An APC with a minigun, how cool is that?

** In ARMA and ARMA2, the Bradley is replaced by variants of the LAV-25. The OPFOR continue to use BMP variants.

*** The Rhino, apparently, is such an Awesome Personnel Carrier that with the exception of the aforementioned Land Raider, Rhino chassis form the basis for every tank the army fields. Need an IFV? Reduce the transport and stick a couple of heavy weapons on top (The Razorback)! Need a Main Battle Tank? Slap some more armour on the front (internally!) and a turret on top (The Predator)! Need a Multiple Missile Launcher? Just... you get the picture (The Whirlwind).

** The Eldar have the Wave Serpant grav-tank fitting into the APC role, with an [[DeflectorShields energy shielded prow]] and a pair of heavy infantry scale weapons mounted on top, while thier Falcon grav-tank fits into the IFV role, being able to carry smaller squads than the Wave Serpent but having superior weaponry for surpressing enemy armor and infantry.

* ''BattleTech'' also fields a number of APCs and IFVs.

**Unfortunately these proved to be (as with all the WW1 tanks) less than successful. Rather more successful w3as the series of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo_%28armoured_personnel_carrier%29 Kangaroos]] that appeared late in WW2.