3145 Stealth Armor changes

[Colt Ward]

The Wulfen uses Stealth Armor with a Clan ECM suite rather than a Guardian suite and IIRC some conversation only the Guardian suite among the IS versions can be used.  From what I understand this is a bit of a revision (logical! *shocking*) from when Stealth Armor was originally introduced.  Since the Clan ECM suite works with Stealth Armor and in Dark Age era Clan tech has spread pretty widely . . .

 . . . would it make sense for the Capellans to refit purchased/captured/salvaged Clan ECM suites into their elite unit's Stealth Armor?  C-bill cost is the same between the different suites from what I could find, but the availability factor for Clan equipment will make the Clan suite understandably more expensive.

So is that cost worth freeing up a extra crit (reducing vulnerability?) and half a ton?  Any Stealth Armor design that could really use such a change?

[AJC46]

rules state that any ecm unit clan or IS can be used under mix-tech rules to power stealth armor if i remember correctly.

[glitterboy2098]

yeah, now you can use guardian ECM, clan ECM, even Angel ECM. (not so sure about the Watchdog CEWS)

[AJC46]

watchdog works as well but if i remember correctly you have to give up the active probe functions to do so.

[MoneyLovinOgre4Hire]

Which you would have had to anyway, since Active Probes can't be used at the same time as Stealth Armor.

[Diablo48]

Honestly, that is probably not worth the expense in most cases.  About the only place I can see using it is on lights which tend to run very tight on mass either way and can usually make good use of that extra room to mount a Clan Flamer for extra flexibility, although even then I am not entirely sold on the concept.