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Given it's generalist nature I wonder if it has a tactical use as a support or back-up vehicle.

After your other units have fired you can pick which unit needs to be finished off.

Or if one of your specialized variants is destroyed it means you are not totally at a loss for that capability.

This makes sense to me primarily in a tank heavy force where you are going to have a lot of other Leman Russ hulls that are going to be higher priority for your opponent. Higher priority simply because of their specialization.