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[Grumbler]

Don't worry about that. To some players anything other then lining up in rows and shooting at each other is 'gaming the system'. I think what they were referring to is the practice of driving a truck along in front of your column to spring ambushes. I don't think this is gamey, since the Germans did it in North Africa, Poland, The Soviet Union, France and everywhere else they fought. Anyone that read "Panzer Commander" by Von Luck knoes that it was Standard Operating Procedure for the Germans to grab the fastest vehicle they had and stick it up front with a soldier or two in it. It is still done today. Not every army can afford dedicated scout vehicles. I'm skipping over the distinction between a Jeep, which is used a lot in the game for scouting, and a truck, which is just a jeep on Steroids.
Now we will be able to set the engagement range for armor different then that for soft skinned vehicles as well as Infantry. That is good in that it is more realistic, but it is NOT going to stop players from driving around with a truck (or jeep, which is just a puny truck) . And that truck/jeep has a chance to spot that size 5 Uber-panzer hidden behind the rose bush.
I like it because I set a lot of layered ambushes. I'll put out a unit to start the ambus, then have units to ambush the op forces that try to overrun or bypass the ambush. I have even been known to set the whole thingie inside a fire sack, with units set to zero, or turned off, so I can get some good kill shots during my fire phase. But you have to be careful about that one. It works best against opponents that like to z-key potential ambushes so as to trigger op fire and get he ambushers to expose their position. Those are the same guys who figure that since nothing shot at them, nothing is there. Guess again.