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daftandbarmy said:Really? I doubt there's an engineer out there who is dumb enough to cheerfully drive a thinly armoured vehicle at full speed into a wall of heavy enemy fire. That's a job for paratroopers!
Besides, I keep getting told that engineers are too valuable to waste on that kind of thing... mostly by senior engineer officers. ;D
The reason given by the Brigade of Guards for giving up on the Paras was their predilection for sandbags: the Brigade felt that if ever the Paras were called on to mount guard at Buck House they would show up in 4 tonners, deploy sandbags and wire, set up the MGs and then organize a brew up.
If the Paras were stuck with LAVs expect the LAVs to start sprouting sandbags and wire.
I would expect that if the Engineers got stuck with LAVs they would start welding plate all over the place.......
But better yet.... Perhaps they could be supplied with the Kangaroo Mark II, AKA the Namer, or the Leo 2 equivalent.