[EASyEightyEight]

Mosquito/reaver. Side mounted seats. = Light air transport. Quick and convenient, it can pick up 4-6 guys, take them to the battle, drop them off, and then continue doing what it does best.

The "light air transport" you're thinking of is LITERALLY a deliverer, only airborne (and thus vulnerable to flak) and unless you allow hot dropping from any height, it will NEVER see the level of use you believe it will and even with hotdropping, it may not anyway, because a Galaxy is simply better overall. Hell, no one uses the current deliverer. They use the ES variants as weapon platforms, not troop transports. The sunderer is the ground variant of the galaxy, and still no one uses it as a troop transport. BF 2142 does not have Galaxies, making it a horrible reference. They can get away with weaponless transports there, because they have no other form of aerial troop transport.

Unless it offers:
Hotdropping from safe heights,
Ass-loads of armor,
Troop spawning,
and troop transport,

-It will get shoved to the back burner with the rest of the lesser transports. It will require a function the Galaxy does not offer to have any form of allure over one. With a safe haven for each empire on every continent, it's likely we'll see even more Galaxies this time around too.