[Some of these things are probably not very accurate to how the CapCon is portrayed in cannon, but as I'm in the realist school of what CBT
should be, I frankly don't give a damn. Also, units are base 3 because Commies love their 3 tank platoons.]
Introduction
The Capellan Confederation had several interleaved problems when it came to providing for their own defense. Its society had morphed from a prosperous and democratic one to a horrifying triptych of the worst possible aspects of Imperial Chinese bureaucracy, Soviet Stalinism, and the fever dream induced imaginings of some regarding Heinlein's Terran Federation. It also had the fewest worlds and lowest population of all the Successor States. Various "reforms" over the centuries had managed the almost impossible in producing a post-scarcity society in, at best, constant recession. This all combined into any planner's nightmare scenario; an inability to pay for a large defense force while being surrounded by enemies with powerful militaries who frankly hate everything you stand for and the need to keep the maximum amount of people working in order to actually pay for what you can afford.
The solution was elegant, brilliant, and quite possibly insane. Have a very small standing army trained to nearly unheard of levels, a vast reserve system that could function as Werewolf-style stay behind units, adopt combined arms at the platoon level, be willing to give basic units the ability to use initiative, and
never commit to a full offensive in order to maximize the traditional advantages of the defender. The organization that came from this was woefully inadequate in the eyes of any offensively minded military that had any sort of moral compass, but the CCAF suffered from neither of those problems.
Augmented Mech Lance2 Mechs
1 Mechanized Infantry Squad
Augmented Armor Lance2 Tanks
1 Mech
Augmented Infantry Platoon2 Mechanized Infantry Squads
1 Tank
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Augmented Mech Company3x Augmented Mech Lances
Augmented Armor Company3x Augmented Armor Lances
Augmented Infantry Company3x Augmented Infantry Platoons
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Mech Battalion3x Augmented Mech Companies
General Purpose Battalion1x Augmented Mech Company
1x Augmented Armor Company
1x Augmented Infantry Company
Artillery Battalion2x Arrow IV Companies
1x ADA Company
Field Support BattalionField Repair Company
Field Supply Company
Field Recovery Company
Aerospace Battalion3x Aerospace Companies
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Line Regiment2x Mech Battalions
1x General Purpose Battalion
Support Regiment2x Artillery Battalions
1x Field Support Battalion
Aerospace Regiment3x Aerospace Battalions
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Brigade1x Mech Regiment
1x Support Regiment
1x Aerospace Regiment