Conscript

## Lore

After the peace of treaty being signed, the size of Russian army is restricted. And people's patriotic enthusiasm gradually faded, with the booming market, the political promises being betrayed and the increasing wealth gap. Young boys, especially those who lived in the big cities like Leningrad and Moscow, are more and more reluctant to be enlisted, albeit they orally claimed that they are fully loyal to Premier Romanov's will. In AW 10, the commanders of the CPA found that they could only recruit soldiers from rural areas like Siberia, homeless mid-aged and ethnic minorities. Manpower shortage became one of the most serious problems that the Russian army faced.

To address this problem, the high command of the CPA decided to modernize the army, letting them be more in line with what a wealthy burgeoning should look like. As a result, conscript, those who were once regarded as nothing but the consumable fuel of the Soviet war machine, are transformed to fully modernized and professional soldiers.

### Training program

The most important thing in the Conscript Training Programme is not combat efficiency, but loyalty. Premier Romanov strongly believes that political belief is vital for the army, which ensures not only loyalty, but also the combat ability of soldiers. In the boot camp, every conscript must spend at least one day learning the unique political ideology, "National Sovietism." And the commissars are sent to the boot camp to make sure that each soldier is loyal to the party.

In terms of combat training, if you asked a veteran who experienced the last World War and is still in service:" Are the conscripts trained better than that in 20 years ago?" The answer is no. On the contrary, albeit the conscripts have the brand-new equipment, they do not receive better combat training, and their discipline is even worse compare that in the last World War, because of the increasing corruption.

## Armament

What attract Russian school boys to join the conscripts is probably the finest uniform in the history of Russian infantry. All the conscripts wear standard tactical helmets that provides much better protection than cloth hats. And their uniforms feature the cutting-edge multi-scale camouflage pattern developed by the Institute of National Science.

Conscripts are equipped with reliable, inexpensive and easily-manufactured ADK-59 assault rifle, which fires 5.56mm rounds that are effective against unarmoured personnel but weak against armoured units. Comparing to the predecessor, ADK-59 adapts bullpup configuration that allows soldiers in the vehicles to carry the firearms more conveniently.

### Special Equipment

In addition, the GG-9 Tear Gas Grenade has completely replaced the old and dangerous Molotov Cocktails, being the standard anti-garrison weapon of conscripts, because the high command of the CPA found that infantries are more useful in urban operations and suppressing the rebellion. These grenades that meet the safety standard deal less damage to armour units, but they are much more useful in other aspects, such as quelling the civil unrest and protest. To protect themselves from tear gas, conscripts usually wear IPP-7 gas mask.

## Assessment

### Pros

* The cheapest basic infantry.
* Gas Grenade is one of the finest anti-garrisoned weapons in the early game.
* Conscripts fight harder when a nearby company falls, which means they are good at collective combat.

### Cons

* Very vulnerable to anti-infantry weapons.
* Inferior to the counterparts of other factions in 1v1 combat.