[Michele]

If the crows also serve as messengers between parts of the Crow army, then they do qualify for C3I. I don't see why they shouldn't. However, it might be better to represent this with a human, ground-based command element that just makes use of the crows as messengers. Say, the human command element works as a C3I element as long as there are crow elements present (which will only have a support TS for Recon).

If the crows are present on the battlefield, then it doesn't matter if they don't actually fight; they may appear among the Crows' casualties. Area effect weapons, suppression fire etc. can affect them anyway.