Engineer (Concordiatverse)

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Each major power needs a specialized infantry unit that can primarily take a hold of enemy or tech structures for the cause of their faction. Usually they are also filling other roles, but "capture of buildigns" is Engineer's primary role.

# Directorate Pioneer Squad

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Fighting for so long made Directorate able to learn from some of its mistakes (but not the major ones) and refine their tactics. The *blitzübernahme*, "blitz takeover", is a strategy that evolved from the past strategies where the Directorate army took the ground and quickly constructed there wooden forts and palisades until the constructers arrived and make proper defense emplacements. For that purpose there was created a special branch of the military engineers in the Imperial Armies, the Pioneers Corps. Being responsible for the digging of the trenches and foxholes, bunkers and machine gun nests, tank traps and barricades, minefields and forward stations. Pioneers are respected by the common troops and NCOs, for it is their afford that gives them a fighting chance to actually survive. The lower officers and commanders are employing them with the same respect. The higher officers, commanders, general staff and "aristocrat officers" dont care for them as much, seeing them as little more than the means to their ends, dont looking back that the Pioneers has, given their size comparable to the regular and conscripted troops, the highest mortality rate because of the nature of their duties. "They are just doing what they must do.", they say.

As the ages progressed, so the responsibilities of the front troops, including Pioneers grew. The introduction of fighters required trenches to be deeper, the tanks required to learn how to quickly establish wider tank traps and "hedgehogs", bunkers to be more resilient to small arms, and so on. As the combat became more faster and progressive, Pioneers had to be given basic training in electronics and languages of Directorate's enemies to understand the computers of buildings of the enemies they may be tasked capturing. Pioneers always remained strong, no matter the load of work and risks put on their shoulders, even when the Aliens came, they were establishing shelters for civilians in cities and soldiers in the field.

The English Twilight, the event that market the start of the Aliens War by creating the Shadowzone over central England. Catching Directorate garrisons offguard, the Harbos armada poured in and quickly advnaced through the countryside, eventually making it into London. The battle over the British capital was horrible for humanity, a massacre in the hands of the cruel minotaur-cthullan warriors. Only few weeks and the capital was practically lost. Pioneers largest training center and British headquarters at Brompton Barracks heeded the general call for retreat, using any ships they could get the hardware on, they sailed over the Englsih Channel into Ireland, a safe Directorate territory that wasnt attacked by Aliens at all. The only adversaries there were Fylkirate raids, but with those Irish fighters knew how to deal with.

When the Directorate was shattered, many Pioneers decided to join the Concordiat or any other state in its place, but some remained loyal to the surviving royal families, governors and warlords, still doing their job for them and their agendas.

# Tsarist Engineer Squad

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Russia invested huge portion of its miltiary budget on the establishment of many defence lines and raions across the whole Ukraininan steppes and Baltic lands in anticipations of Directorate's attacks. On many places across the whole duration of the Century War the lines were penetrated, destroyed, reacquired, rebuild and all over again multiple times. While the influx of eager volunteers was never an issue it were the specialist builders who would be building and maintaining them. For that, Tsar Aleksandr I repurposed and expanded Saint Petersburg military engineering school into Nikolaevsky Engineering Academy and made it the center for all of the military engineers, sappers and also radio operators.

The academy soon started producing skilled personnel who could perform all of the not directly combat roles. The engineers were taught to memorize the plans for basic pillboxes and bunkers, the procedures to build larger concrete defense structures, the patterns for laying minefields as well as their defusing, the best way how to make sandbag walls with minimal afford and maximum effect, construction of small warehouses, outposts as well as pontoon bridges, and the skills to repair buildings and ruined bridges. Only those with best grades are allowed to leave the academy as full-fledged engineer. Those who dont succeed must repeat the missing lessons to succeed next time. The graduates than work as teachers for others in the engineering brigades, directing the operations and increasing the numbers of trench specialists.

Russian engineers saved the country more times than can be counted. It is mostly their afford that prevented the Directorate to conquer and enslave them. Among the most prominent contributions which turned the tide of the battle was at Narva, Veliky Novgorod and Donetsk, the offensives which encircled the cities, cutting the defenders from supply lines and reinforcements. Russians and their allies quickly turned the cities into fortresses only for the work of engineering brigades and the afford of the citizens. Especially in case of Narva there were seven brigades of engineers to build the defenses from scratch, managing the feat within two weeks starting before the Directorate forces encircled them. This battle marked the formation of first Engineering Corps in the Tsarist Ground Forces and the declaration of national holiday, the Day of Our Heroes from Narva.

The true test for the Engineering Corps was the arrival of the Aliens. Facing an enemy who had no supply lines to cut, the Mother Russia could only defend and counter-attack the deployed outposts. The Engineers were mostly bolstering defenses of the cities and building shelters for the millions of citizens. The 1st Guard Engineering Division made an excellent work in constructing whole AA gun fortresses around Petrograd which were able to wipe out all but the largest alien flying ships, and then joining the Winter Guard Army in ousting Canneii forces from Karelia. The engineers earned new levels of admiration from the Russian people, being called heroes on every ocassion they walk on the streets. The new generation added to their goals to "become an engineer when I get old" much to the satisfaction and joy of the General Staff and the Tsarevna herself.