I was suprised that hardened armor could not be in a LAM . I thought the only restriction was no armor that ate critcal space . Still if you are making an updated LAM look to see if Composite IS , Small cockpit , and armed with a LVPL and an srm would do ? Composite IS takes up no crit space and small cockpit and varible pulse lasers fill the Inner Sphere weapons only . Snub Nosed PPC or Plasma Rifle may make it interesting . I hope you got the yes or no answer for this thread .