Motorized: Mounted vs On Foot ?

[Ricky B]

Hard vs soft HTs is noted in the unit details, on its back side, I believe. It is defined by the oob settings.

To your original question, there is a nuance missing in the discussion so far. Motorized infantry units can be in:

Travel mode - mounted in their vehicle carriers whether trucks, hard or soft has, bicycles, etc. This maximizes movement but at the cost of lowered defense to fire. Although in some battles HTs may be invulnerable to some defending unit's fire if they don't have a range 1 or higher hard attack.

Deployed or dismounted?- the infantry is on foot, with their transport. Movement is lowered but defense set to the generally higher pdt default along with no T mode penalty.

On foot is the same as deployed but the transport is gone allowing movement that only foot infantry can enter. Transport is gone until the unit stacks with its HQ. So that is the negative of on foot.