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Originally Posted by DanHoward
Treat them as surveillance drones or reconnaissance aircraft.
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If they're that, then definitely they are only Recon, not C3I.
However, if I were the general of an army having such an asset, I would definitely want them as messengers for quickly sending orders to my more distant units, and for bringing back reports from them. That's command, communications and control, too.
In this case, I'd set aside a handful of intelligent aides, used to interact with the crows, to handle the flow of information, and that would be my land-based C3I element.
Naturally, that's worth the effort if the Crows have a proper army, numbering in the hundreds, or if several separate engagements are going on at the same time.
Otherwise, if I only have a few dozen warriors and one small battlefield, I'm better off commanding all of them directly (with order relaying or field signals), judging the situation directly instead of through reports, and sending the aides into battle instead.