Dismounted

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## Tactical Analysis

* **Disenfranchised:** Veterans of the former Home Army, elite rebels of different resistance movements and skilled hijackers, the Dismounted primarily serves as a Soviet commander's worst nightmare, picking off conscripts with their semi-auto rifles.

* **Dispossessed:** They are also experts in the art of vehicular theft, turning the Soviets' pride and joy against them when they take hold of a tank. In the event their hijacked vehicles get blown up the Dismounted can quickly escape with only some injuries.

* **Dismembered:** For all of their professionalism, they are just as likely as ordinary rebels to fall to snipers and other anti-personnel troops. Not to mention that having no possible way of capturing planes high in the sky leaves them at the mercy of aircraft. And we know that Twinblades and MiGs have no mercy for rebels in any way...

* **Disencumbered:** Members of the Dismounted seem to move faster and fight fiercer the more time they spend in the field. As for the unlucky ones...

## Background

Unsurprisingly, the Continentals are on cordial terms with the Home Army Faction. Both rebel organizations were devoted to fighting communism in all its forms, the two factions often traded with each other. The Continentals smuggle demolition charges, Ticonderoga mortars, and thoroughbred horses to ports in northern Poland, and they occasionally sneak tankettes and Mastiffs through omni-landers. Some Home Army cells adopted PAWI technology and fiber optic cloaks, giving them the element of surprise in their sudden ambushes. In exchange, the Home Army ship Wz. 42 anti-tank rifles, Jammer trucks, and soldiers to join the Freedom Guard's ranks. Prominent dissidents go to Federalist rallies (in disguise, of course) to share their horror-filled experiences under the Iron Curtain and chide the Allies for their lack of assistance to anti-communist rebels.

This is all thanks to one man, Colonel Attila Sipos. A defector from the Hungarian People's Army Parachuter Battalion, Sipos fought alongside Colonel Krause's "Dead 6" platoon, where he handled airborne missions against the Soviets; in one instance, he and his team wreaked havoc inside their MiG hangars in Brest, cutting off the Red Army from their airforce for a while. When Krause left to join the Continentals, he followed suit, and established channels for interested Eastern Europeans to fight alongside the Freedom Guard (three out of five Freedom Guard militants came from Warsaw Pact states).

When Sipos and his brothers-in-arms came back to Hungary, they trained many Home Army rebels in sabotage, hotwiring vehicles, and firearms usage, all techniques they learned during their service in the Continentals. Whether they are defectors from the Warsaw Pact militaries, veteran resisters from past wars, or returning Freedom Guardsmen, these professional soldiers make up the core of the **"dismounted"** infantry fighting the Soviet Red Army and its counter-insurgency forces. Bringing Armalite semi-automatic rifles to battle, the dismounted make up for their lack of steeds with precise rate of fire, mowing down conscripts and PSD agents alike. Worse, they can hotwire enemy vehicles and hijack them for the Home Army cause; one notable incident had an entire dismounted crew pilot four Placidity supertanks, causing much devastation in the Czechoslovakia-Ukraine border and even rampaging eastward through the SSR until sustained Kirov bombing destroyed them.

Of the whole Home Army Faction, Sipos and his fellow Freedom Guard veterans are the most vocal anti-Allied voices. Having spent time in America fighting Peacekeepers and reservists, they saw firsthand how the Allies concern themselves more with suppressing the people's voices contrary to their own not unlike the Soviets. How men and materiel that ACIN agents could've delivered to the Home Army to bolster the movement are used instead to occupy a country wanting to decide its own destiny. Meanwhile, the Continentals are right there, sending them more men, mares and materiel than the entire Peacekeeper Divisions have sent them. This has led to no end of arguments inside the HAF, many fearing that overt Continental support could jeopardize their relationship with ACIN agents currently helping them out and mark them as the Athena SatNet's next target if the Allies win the Second American Civil War. There's also the question of who to turn to next *if* the Continentals lose: RUN? The Norse? The Unionists? A secret paramilitary only known as "Omega", if those Network lunatics are right?