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* ''[[Car Wars]]''. Big rig trucks are often armed with extensive weaponry in case they're attacked by bandits or have to engage in autodueling.

* ''[[Star Fleet Battles]]''. Many interstellar civilizations used armed transports and Q-ships to defend convoys from Orion pirates and other raiders.

* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' has Valkyrie Airborne Assault Carrier - troop transport <s>helicopter</s> aircraft/hovercraft (12 + crew including two door gunners) that is also gunship. And its variant Vendetta is a minor transport (for 6) / heavy gunship (tank-killer), vehicle/container transport variant Sky Talon is still a gunship, if more modestly armed<ref>this can be metagame motivated: seeing how Sky Talon is small ~~enough to~~ delivers only a pair of [[Chicken Walker|Sentinel]]s which can be dropped with a grav chute, ~~and with less~~ risk of interception, or Tauros, which is a fast vehicle anyway, on tabletop (already ~~starting~~ at a battlefield) it's mostly useless as a transport and mostly is just a discount gunship thrown in with those vehicles, while [[In-Universe]] it should be good as a transport for scouts (who use either of those vehicles) and (~~being~~ a fast, vertically landing, armoured flying transport) immeasurably more valuable for resupply of units that cannot be easily reached by ground transport; at least in ''[[Dawn of War]] 2'' it drops ''[[The Turret Master|turrets]]''.</ref>; though more versatile gunship variant Vulture is not a transport.

* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' has Valkyrie Airborne Assault Carrier - troop transport <s>helicopter</s> aircraft/hovercraft (12 + crew including two door gunners) that is also gunship. And its variant Vendetta is a minor transport (for 6) / heavy gunship (tank-killer), vehicle/container transport variant Sky Talon is still a gunship, if more modestly armed<ref>this can be metagame motivated: seeing how Sky Talon is small and delivers only a pair of [[Chicken Walker|Sentinel]]s (which can be simply dropped with a grav chute without risk of interception en route), or a Tauros (which is a fast vehicle anyway), and tabletop already starts at a battlefield, it's mostly useless as a transport and mostly is just a discount gunship thrown in with those vehicles; while [[In-Universe]] it should be good as a transport for scouts (who use either of those vehicles) and (as a fast, vertically landing, armoured flying transport) immeasurably more valuable for resupply of units that cannot be easily reached by ground transport; at least in ''[[Dawn of War]] 2'' it drops ''[[The Turret Master|turrets]]''.</ref>; though more versatile gunship variant Vulture is not a transport.

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