Armies of the Fifth Frontier War, Impressions Not Errata

[Terry Mixon]

Not really, the book tries to have it both ways. The Imperial Army is TL12 for "reasons", but they don't actually fight like TL12 because they have just enough better stuff to still be at an advantage against the TL 14 Zhos.

To quote the book: "In the current conflict the average Imperial soldier faces an equivalently equipped force and has a slight edge over their Zhodani opponents as a result of access to a quantity of TL15 equipment in critical areas."

So, somehow they are TL12, but their TL12 is actually better than the other guy's TL14.

Yeah, it’s rediculous. Just another ill considered, half baked idea that they want to be canon. They want it both ways and end up with a mess.

 

[Annatar Giftbringer]

The book does mention some high-TL imperial gear, such as battle management systems on p.44-45 (Imperial mil-spec version being TL15 and presumably in widespread use) and the bit on p.82 regarding the Brize light grav vehicle (but presumably valid for other vehicles as well) talking about the ’black box’ configuration anti-missile system and sensor package being higher TL.