THE REAL WORLD MEETS SG II. . . . . .

AHHHH. THE REAL WORLD!

the place  where almost a ton of small arms, LMG and HMG  projectiles is
required to inflict  ONE ENEMY KIA OR WIA TROOPER!

these numbers are not an exergeration, but have  held  steady since the
ACW

a life time  ago, i routinely rode open and unarmored M151 jeeps into
combat with enemy ground forces as part of a convoy escort group of MP.
driver, me and a LMG in back.

i also rode into combat in the same  vehicles during the TET Offensive.
driver and me  most of the time, but occassionally with 2 rifle toting
MPs in the back and no LMG.

a bit  later  we improvised and  added 1/2 inch boiler plate  around the
4 seat crew area and this left a very open  "top" and armor plate  ended
at about shoulder  level on a  seated man.  one in four of the convoy
escort M151s had this  mod, and in Saigon a total of 4 jeeps in y
company were armored in this way for "bush patrol duties" along a POL
pipeline.

finally we got	V-100 armored  cars for  convoy escorts and highway
patrols, which were much better protected but under armed as issued.

zillions of rounds  were fired	from smallarms, LMGs , HMG and even RPGs
at me and my crews in the M151s and none of us	was  ever "hit",
although the  vehicles tended to be hit often (by small arms LMG and
HMG)

(LOL (grimly) only one	RPG hit was required to junk a jeep, or most
vehicles that were not M48 battle tanks)

these are what the USG and US ARMY gave us to ride and fight in if
needs be.

WHY WERE WE NOT KIA'ED BY A RIFLEMAN ? OR AN AUTOMATIC	WEAPON? OR A
RPG?

LOL- BECAUSE  WE WERE LUCKY, LAYED DOWN  SUPPRESSIVE FIRES BIG TIME,
MAINTAINED A FAST TARGET  STATUS, PARTIALLY OBSCURED BY WOTEVER , AND
THE  BAD GUYS  WERE LOUSY SHOTS!

in game turns , their  dice sucked, WE HAD  HOT DICE, speed, "soft
cover" or partial "soft cover" and etc. 

WHY am i writing this?

BECAUSE IT IS A GAME!  A GAME  WHERE  WE BUY PAINT AND PLAY WITH "STUFF"
FOR FUN!

and I ALSO  happen to like the way those DLD vehicles look, and I ALSO
know that light attack/strike/recon/etc vehicles DO EXIST IN THE REAL
WORLD MILITARIES!

i like them sooooo much, i have  sent off to buy  4 of these  BADGER
LAVs, and am awaiting the  arrival of same.

the ones i have seen with my own MK I EYEBALL are nice toys, reasonably
priced and  well liked by their owners. 

ditto for the KOMODO variants.

AND I USE 28MM SCALE  SOLDIERS.