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| Faction |  Mediterranean Syndicate
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| Unit Type | Vehicle |
| Designation | Anti-Air |
| Production Building | Vulcans Forge |
| Secondary Ability | Electronic Scrambler deactivates all weapons in vicinity |
| Cost | Unknown |
| Production Time | Unknown |
| Heroic Upgrade | • Secondary stealths friendlies • Secondary doesn't disable allies |
| Dev. Status | Conceptual |
| Country of Origin |  Italy
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| Shipped by | Alfa Rolando Military Automobiles |
| Key Features | » "Harbinger" Multiple Missile Launch System » Pacifista Electronic Scrambler » Intelligent Fire and Forget missiles » Leather seats » Heated cup holders |
"400 meters to hostile, estimated time of detonation ... Squirrel!!! Resetting target designation..."
- - Lamia Missile AI
Tactical Analysis[]
- Mother of Missiles: The Lamia protects Syndicate investments for aerial attack by discharging swarms of artificially intelligent missiles into the sky. Because these missiles are self guided, the Lamia needs not to waste time locking on before firing.
- No Firing Zone: In the event of an overwhelming aerial assault the Lamia can activate a wild area scrambler that prevents a nearby weapons from firing for a short time. Do keep in mind this includes both the Lamia and any nearby allies, though given the range of most Syndicate armaments it is possible to circumvent this flaw.
- Attention Defi...Ooooh SHINEY: The Lamia’s missiles are totally autonomous and will generally go after the closest available target. Unfortunately, the target they choose may not necessarily be the one the Lamia wants destroyed, be it a heavily armed gunship bearing down on it or a transport carrying valuable cargo.
- Now you see us, now you don’t: A new experimental, and expensive, jammer is out on the market. Instead of just stopping weapons from it outright prevents the enemy from seeing their targets. Even better, this new scrambler only affects enemy units.
Background[]
The Achilles's heel of numerous Mediterranean Syndicate Security Forces branches is the obvious and crippling lack of effective anti-air weaponry. Time and time again the Syndicate had been forced to abandon profitable investments and retreat from firefights due to the fear of massive aerial bombardment or fighter interception, which loomed greatly over private military contractors. Eventually of course, a solution to the complications in the field would come in the form of a private investment.
The Lamia is the primary land-based anti-aircraft platform for the Syndicate and has proven itself to be capable of single-handedly denying airspace to hostile aircraft. The Lamia is different from most of the other Syndicate vehicles in the way that it is actually able to down its target in a single salvo. But there is a key flaw in the design of the Intelligent Missile system. When launched, each missile chooses its own target, meaning that if the enemy were to field multiple aircraft then they will overwhelm the Lamia.
Early losses to swarms of Soviet Twinblades prompted the Syndicate into fielding the experimental Pacifista Electronic Scrambler (data of the Scrambler gun stolen from the Allies, of course) which disables all weapons, friend or foe, in the vicinity. Although this may seem a dangerous hazard to an electronics corporation, the design of the majority of the Syndicate's weaponry allow the Security Forces to fire from well beyond the dead zone.
