Not enough "jeeps" in the French armored forces

[CapnRaptorman]

French doctrine pairs "jeeps" with tanks to provide scouting and security to the tanks on a 1:1 basis. They've been doing that since WW2. So French Tanks (including both AMX-10 and AMX-30) should be offered with machine gun armed recon "jeeps" of either the P4 with a dismount fireteam in each or VBL with a mix of 7.62mm and 12.7mm machineguns (favoring the VBL). The 7.62mm machinegun armed VBL is the more common variant at a 2:1 ratio in AMX-10 platoons and a 1:1 ratio in AMX-30/Leclerc platoons. Here is a youtube video that explains https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OqR8c_TK6Y

[Drug Tino]

From my understanding, the video refers to recon platoons, armored car companies and offensive recon task forces/detechments and not whole divisions, regiments or other macro formations.

Only in the 2000s did the whole 1:1 doctrine become a thing in the context of a much downsized army, plenty of VBLs and the fixation on asymmetric conflicts as he makes pretty clear in the second video.

In-game there is enough VBLs, VAB infantry and the recon squads in light 50 cal. trucks to provide for two such 1980s cavalry platoons of AMX-30s and AMX-10s. Which provides for a decent such task force within the game's context (map sizes, deployment costs, scale of combat, battlegroup sizes).
Also it would be a questionable balancing choice to just give the French 60+ cheap recon vehicles with good optics not to speak of additional squads just so that every Tank or AMX-10 has a buddy.

The vast majority of an armored division still fights alongside mechanized infantry of course. Everything else would be rather questionable in a large-scale conventional conflict. Even though the French in general always kept to a very "Cavalry-like" concept/doctrine of armor. As seen not just by these interarms groups but also by the equipment itself.