in the begining...

[Olefin]

I see it more as the ability to actualy have a chance to survive in a firefight and getting out of the Kalisz area

having light armor that only stops a 7.62 isnt going to help much getting ouf of dodge - and when you have marauders that have BMP's (Krakow and Kalisz), tanks (Warsaw) and other fun things you can run into then that light vehicle is going to be Swiss Cheese or worse very quickly

in my last game we ran into a BMP and a BTR-70 supported by two mortars with our Bradley - we were able to win - barely - because we had the TOW and a 25mm that outranged what they had

if it had been a LAV and a Humvee we would have been burning debris in the field we were crossing and campaign ended on day 2 - with the LAV blowing up when the BMP nailed it (we got it with the TOW before he got off his missile)

now later on you can go for light vehicles or horses - but you have to survive to get out of Dodge first when Kalisz, Krakow and the Madonna have all kinds of nasty ways to take out a light vehicle