how about making it able for the crew to escape a destroyed tank before it totaly explodes? the crew will climp out the hatches and then lie on the ground being wounded, hopefuly a medic station is close enugh to go get them. this culd be a fun detail but meybe hard to animate and also it would fill up the medic station a bit faster. this would offcourse be a bit random so that not every one survives every time, that would be just as unrealistic as if no one survived all the time.