As I was putting figures away this weekend from my workbench, I said, "Oh, and what are these little fellas doing here?"
And then I remembered: When DontFearDareaper 
painted the BA-6 armored cars, he also painted the random crew figures that came with them (one crew figure per pack).
Now, the forces that control who gets which random figure obviously know how well my armored cars usually do in combat - from five packs, I have one casualty, three fleeing crew members, and one coherent survivor!
I know a lot of rules these days "simplify" what happens when an armored vehicle brews up - and I see the logic in that. Armored car gets hit, blows up, BOOM, no survivors. I must admit that one or two guys bailing out from an armored car, armed with pistols, aren't going to decide the fate of many scenarios!
But, on the other hand, many is the time that I have gained great satisfaction watching over my "insignificant" stragglers, or even mounting some against-all-the-odds counter strikes.
In some sense, in the grand scheme of things, my stragglers are a "waste of time" - but aren't games about having fun however we find it, rather than a mad dash to the reckoning of victory and defeat?
So - thanks, Battlefront, for making crew figures for guys like me! And thanks again to DontFearDareaper for painting them up - you'll see them on the tabletop some day!