Battery Type
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The Battery Type is one of several unofficial types or classes into which Lorica models are occasionally sorted, according to their capabilities and battlefield role, similar to the related term Assault Type. The type was postulated by the pilot of Lorica Prima X-03 Hive, Nassaar bin Abdur Raheem, and the overall premise picked up and specialized on by a number of companies specializing in the design and manufacture of such vehicles.
Thought of as the "self-propelled artillery to the Assault Type's tank", Battery Type Lorica require specialist training to operate and are almost always equipped exclusively with Rocket Launchers, Missile Packs, or other specialist hardpoint weapons. Such vehicles have remarkable output-to-weight ratios in part because of this specialty, and tend to lack in excess output, and even have unreliably thin armour, once fully equipped, as well as having low mobility.
There are two major doctrines of Battery Type:
- Salvo Battery Type, equipping an indirect firing hardpoint weapon on either hardpoint and, often, carrying extra ammunition as well in a cargo backpack unit. A salvo battery unit stays as near the rear as possible and should be supported by other armour, with its principle contribution to combat being its ability to provide a large volume of indirect fire.
- Auxiliary Battery Type, wherein (if needed) one of the hardmount weapons is sacrificed in order to provide the excess capacity needed to mount a shield or weapon in the opposite "hand" manipulator. Proposed and used to allow some additional support in small teams, the doctrine is rarely used by national militaries and more commonly seen in pirate crews or when fighting non-parity forces. In fact, in many cases this role isn't even satisfied by using a model normally thought of as "battery type" owing to the desirability of additional armour for such a craft.