That would be a decent rule to employ during a scenario that a vehicle is captured. A good thought process, as the time to calibrate a captured radio to transmit/receive on a proper frequency (especially if not captured by a qualified AFV crew with some knowledge of the freqs being used by the friendly side) would be an extremely rare occurrence at best. Added to this is the fact that some radios employed in tanks were set to receive only or able to communicate by Morse Code or some other limiting procedure only. It's funny that this has not been addressed by at least an SSR (to the best of my knowledge) prior to this time.
Not having a radio (or having one that the temporary crew can't use) does not make a vehicle physically unable to move because it is not in a group. It is the training and doctrine of the crews that makes radioless AFVs move in platoons. And even moving in platoons is not a real thing. It is an ASL game mechanism to limit the flexibility of radioless AFVs in a way that is easy to play. A temporary crew that captured a radioless AFV would not be waiting for a platoon leader with a radio to show up in reality. In fact a captured, radioless AFV should probably be allowed to move freely. But all this is reality argument. As the rules stand, a radioless AFV remains a radioless AFV when captured, and a radio-ed one remains radio-ed.
. In the pre and early war period when radios were uncommon, at best 1 per platoon or even company, heavy tanks were treated rather differently. Soviet policy was to have at least one officer in each heavy tank and have it radio equipped. With the T-35 that would not have been hard as there were only 60-65 of them built. That policy continued on to the KV heavies and indeed pre-war the T-28 medium was effectively was treated the same. That's not to say each and every T-35 and T-28 either was built with or had a working radio fitted by Barbarossa, but most would have had. They were show pieces of the great proletarian state, blah, blah and as such got the best available in terms of accessories and personnel. ASL correctly has the KVs with radios while the same period T-34s were without. By the time the IS-2 arrived radios were pretty common, if not totally universal, but I am less sure about the policy of having an officer in every IS-2 being practical at that stage. So if you want to reflect this then SSR T-35 and T-28 to have radios.
Being a civilian and having never sat in an AVF, I drove a BMP-1 after 1 minute of instruction. I guess if the instructor had not been there, I might have gotten it running after some time by trial & error. To reflect such unqualified use, maybe implementing a Stall on a DR of 10up, a positive modifier in case of Bog rolls, and halving of the MPs of the vehicle might be somewhat fitting.
Try that with a T-34.
Hehe. I'd likely need a hammer to begin with to - well - hammer in the gear...
Interesting link...I was wondering how a civilian would be able to drive a BMP.
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