[DS2] Handling interface vehicle design

I was just looking at the VT-40 Boxcar, and the VT-51 Super Boxcar
VTOLs. I
figure these are either respectively a class 2 & 3 or class 3 & 4
(depends
on how they scale next to tanks, etc) interface-capable landers. 

Now, I know DS2 suggests that interface landing capability is only a %
added
to the cost of forces. That seems unsatisfying though. If all the
landers
were doing was "in, drop the troops, out", then I'd buy that. But some
landers could be armed. And the even with strictly landing models, ECM
levels, etc. could vary. So costing them as a flat percentage seems odd. 

But, OTOH, if you go to buy them as vehicles, how do you purchase them?
Interface landers like these boxcars appear to perhaps be (cross between
VTOL and rocket lander - kind of like an aliens dropship?) - would you
buy
them as Aerospace craft mobility or VTOL? If bought as VTOL, do you then
tack on the interface capable percentage? If they are used as
"transport"
but have no weapons, you can end up with some pretty expensive taxis
that
don't give you a lot of battlefield oomph for the number of points
involved.

Yet buying them as vehicles feels right, because then you have the
choice of
buying cheap landers (eggshell armour, no ECM or PDS) designed to get
lots
of troops down quickly but to take brutal casualties in a contested LZ,
or
you buy better high-ECM, high-PDS, high (as you can) armour models
designed
to offer your forces maximum survivability - you want your expensive
troops
to arrive on the battlefield. <I suppose strategy depends on force
composition - elites need better protection than hordes of rabble for
whose
leaders some fair casualties are "acceptable losses">. 

I'm just curious how other people have handled this - presumably orbital
assault landings have been run by others. What did you do? How did it
work
out? 

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