Well, you've probably heard what a few Strats think allready - you probably won't hear all 600.
But I'll give you one - my opinion - here it is: "Whatever."
I spent four of my five years with the 8 CH(PL) in Germany with my kit ten feet from a Lynx on two hours notice to move for the "4 Cdn Mech Suicide Bde Gp". Note to self: Never do this again and read "Red Army" by Ralph Peters at the same time.
So now I figure - having done Zgon and Kandahar in a Coyote - that if we at present have a choice of:
1. Coyote
2. Leo C2
3. MGS
4. AGS XM8
My choice is "Whatever."
It still beats drinking Heineken in a Lynx on an exercise 10 km from the East German border, wondering if .50 APIT will punch through the hull of a T-80U between the 3rd and 4th roadwheel.
So, pardon me for not getting too worked up and joining the Black Hat Mental M_sturbation Society about whatever mounts Canada picks to convince the National Care Bear Gallery that "Canada Matters". Canada matters alright, but what we really think about AFVs doesn't.
My advice?
Buckle up, Buttercup, and learn how to be as DEADLY as you can with whatever vehicle fate and the BQ bestow on you.
No offence to the Lynx gallery. I am a big fan of the Lynx, it was just undergunned, is all. In 1944, crossing the Melfa, Regtl Recce Tp was equipped with de-turreted light tanks, each with a .50 cal and a .30 cal Browning Machine Gun. TWENTY THREE YEARS, in 1967, as a Centennial Project (just kidding), we bought, from Food Machinery Corporation, of San Jose, Calif., the Lynx. Did we put a 20mm on it? No, we put on it.... wait for it...a .50 cal and a .30 cal Browning Machine Gun. Thats 23 years of progress folks.
"You can always get a tank to help you if you need it, right?"
Wrong. In Recceworld, a friendly tank is like a cop - there is never one around when you need him.
Just give me something I can make work, give me the ammo and time to teach my Troop how to use it, get us over there, then attach us to the Yanks far from our own base camp, so our own Army of ROTO -rooters (Campoids) can't screw us over.
Tom