Escopetero

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*"Press on! Show those Guatacones what we are capable of!*

-Subcomandante Horacio "El Guajiro" Pereira
## Tactical Analysis

* **The Revolution will not be Vilified:** Escopeteros are veteran guerrillas who provide better experience to neophytes with their actual rifles. Furthermore, they pass on their experience to units around them, increasing their experience gain.

* **Shoot that guy over there:** Escopeteros can take aim at a chosen enemy, basically increasing the damage they take for a while.

* **Martyr for the cause:** Escopetetos' rifles are only designed to kill infantry, hence, taking out tanks or even planes is out of the equation.

* **Guerrillero Heroico:** Escopeteros that are deemed to be truly qualified are given stolen gryojet rifles. making them a threat from medium and long range. They become more respected by everyone around them, causing them to fight harder.

## Background

**Content of letters mailed to unnamed Allied, Legion and Combine bases:**

*"Dear Allied, Legion and all kinds of tyrants like the rest of you,*

*Congratulations, now you've came and elicited a reaction from the army of the people. Is that what you aimed to do? That you have continued your oppressive and draconian ways that you inflict on workers and proletarians and have even silenced those who dare to disagree with you? Well, my reaction is that I've decided that you must dearly pay for all the atrocities you've committed. Let me tell you right now: you've messed with the brothers and sisters of the wrong escopetero. You have made your bed, now we will make you sleep on it. Before you get arrogant, however, you haven't even enraged me; it takes a lot harder than that just to make me pissed at you. However, I do abhor bourgeois pigs like you.*

*Your acts of underestimating us are worth mocking. Do you think you can just sit back and make jests about us not having your ammunition, your manpower and your overall military force? You don't need to look further; look at the Middle East where even the Arabian Socialists have finally decided to fight against the despotism of the Allies. Look at what you call "Satellite City" where the Front is in a war against the corporate fat-cats who have stolen what rightfully belongs to the Irish. I tell you, no matter how you try to suppress the idea of a worldwide revolution, there will be, and there will **always** people who will take up its cause. I, an escopetero, am not alone in saying this: the members of the 26th of July Movement who share my sentiments; The Ñancahuazú, whose leader's blood you have shed, crying out for vengeance; and many more movements that you claimed to have suppressed. I know this, because I have fought with almost **all** of them.*

*You have no idea how the revolution surrounds you in every nook and cranny where you are located. We have sympathizers in your child's university, your workplace, your neighborhood and even in your local base. We are merely holding back as a gesture of mercy for you, knowing that we might overwhelm you and your ilk with our sheer numbers. What I'm trying to say is that your iron-fisted governments are no match for multitudes of people crashing down at you. We escopeteros have the wisdom, the experience and the charisma that will enable your entire neighborhood to sign themselves up to us. I am certain that one day you will see hundreds of men and women raining down on you like a fierce storm, and that day will **not** come soon enough.*

*Do you think that I am merely bluffing, that this is just an empty threat that we cannot back up? Think again. We have friends in high and low places that even you are loathe to talk about. The KGB has access to almost all of your public and private information and is being transmitted to the Kremlin right now. We have contact with individuals who will just wipe you off the face of the earth with but a mere word. I have many guerrillas that I can merely round up if I ever feel like teaching you a lesson about not oppressing individuals who do not agree with your ideology.*

*Remember: you **cannot** stop the Worldwide Revolution. Kill one of us and you will just delay its arrival by a second. And it has been long, long overdue thanks to the blood that our brothers has spilled just for that cause."*

*With love,*
*an escopetero*

*P.S. I would check the windows frequently if I were you.*