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Defences Rather than fit strip mines, all AFVs use the latest panel ADS systems and these have the AI capability to be used against ATGW missile attacks though only with minimal effectiveness. The move to different importers for their vehicles - including Texia for the Baumann MICV - along with the logistics of using different weapon systems at the same time - both lasers with their heavy demand on fusion bottle systems and powerguns with their re- supply issues (ammunition and liquid nitrogen coolant) - haven't helped the transition for the Alaudae and Dark is struggling through this to pull an efficient force together. Fitting some of their Larminat Heavy Tanks with the ECAP system may well be a logistics nightmare too far but, as of 347TW, the ECAP Larminat is operational and in the field. Infantry The Infantry in the Alaudae Legion have been outfitted with more effective, slightly more enveloping (and a little heavier) body armour but still carry an improved version of the laser carbines they have used for three decades. They also use a support variant of this and the tank hunters use the new, improved, should launched anti-armour weapon. As they have fewer 'boots on the ground' with reduced number of men in a detachment (and in the Baumann with a smaller caring capacity for infantry) they need to make every man more effective and better body armour and improved anti armour weapons are seen as a way of doing this.
The Baumann ATGW variant was developed as an alternative to the turreted MICV: what it gains in anti-armour capabilities it loses in infantry support so detachments often field one of each
The Alaudae Legion - Post 347TW
Although used in trials, the Baumann AA variant was not adopted by the Alaudae Legion as the gatling systems would have required yet another ammuntion type to be added to their logistical requirements Alaudae Infantry field heavier body armour although the helmet is largely unchanged. They carry laser carbines