Crazy Idea: A-Pods as ERA

[Arkansas Warrior]

Just as the title says; I know it's way outside the game's rules, but could you modify Apods for use as Explosive Reactive Armor, allowing them to, say, negate one ballistic or missile strike to the section they're mounted on?  It just kinda hit me while watching a show on tanks that was talking about ERA and I was thinking about how dangerous ERA can be to nearby infantry....waitaminute....A-Pods....HEY!

[evilauthor]

Wouldn't that mean that every strike by a mech scale ballistic or missile weapon would basically spray the area around a mech with APod stuff? Or worse, you only have a couple shots and they get triggered uselessly by random hits before enemy infantry are in range?

[Arkansas Warrior]

Well, what I'm thinking would use modified A-Pods as a base for a new system, they would no longer be usable for thir original purpose.  But yeah, they would be hazardous to any infantry in the area, as is('im given to understand) real life ERA.