Light Attack Vehicle (Coalition)

The Light Attack Vehicle is a basic vehicle featured in Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak. It excells in harrassing, ambushing, and outmaneuvering slower units.

Summary
Cheap, fast, and agile, the Pathfinder is a buggy armed with a light minigun designed to work in packs. They are capable of high speed and can turn on a dime, making them a near impossible target for enemy railguns and artillery. They have difficulty combating heavier armored vehicles like carriers and cruisers but can harass and distract them in support of a heavier force. Resource collectors and entrenched railgun groups are particularly easy prey.

The LAV's speed comes at the cost of armor, however, and it is vulnerable to aircraft and heavier vehicles like the AAV, the latter's armor shrugs off the light rounds and its weapons can easily track LAVs. The Honorguard' AOE railgun round is also quite deadly, especially for groups of LAV's, and a poorly commanded LAV force that wanders into artillery zone will suffer greatly.