Gillie Team

## Tactical Analysis

* **How not to be seen:** Actually smart enough to use purpose-built camo gear, the Commonwealth Gillie Teams are a sniper/spotter pair that can move just as fast and unseen through the battlefield as their counterparts in any other military, and can stealth much more quickly than other snipers.

* **Range, fifty meters:** When deployed on the field, gillie teams can also aid their comrades in firing on the enemy at a longer range, enabling sepoys to reach out and touch someone like never before.

* **That's right, it was the middle one:** When found, gillie teams are just as vulnerable as any other sniper, meaning that they need to leg it back to base before they're lying dead and covered in burlap.

* **See right through you:** When more advanced infrared and thermal optics are available, they're quickly distributed to the best sniper teams the Commonwealth has, enabling them to sight enemy infiltrators from a far distance.

## Background

*"Keep out of the grass, men, who knows, even the grass themselves are firing at us..."*

- GLA commander to his men in Karachi.
One thing that continually astounds the Commonwealth's Frontier Corps is that many of the snipers utilized worldwide don't put much effort into actual camouflage. Whether it's the Rifleman's kilt, the Sharpshooter's bright hunting vests, or the Pyro Sniper ridiculously large Tesla backpack, the only two snipers who actually make an effort to be snipers are the Continental Marksman and the Imperial holotree snipers. Knowing snipers are far more valuable alive and hidden than visible and dead, the Frontier Corps began training their marksmen and snipers in the various methods of how not to be seen. To note, they brought in the elite teachers from Allied command's top school.

The training worked wonders. In under five weeks, the Indian snipers were declared ready for combat. Only a hurried transmission from Geneva was able to stop a massacre in the making, as it was soon revealed the six teachers were actually mentally unfit broadcasters who were soon returned to Broadmoor. Left bereft of actual snipers, the Frontier Corps had to start again from scratch. Putting out another call for teachers, they soon found themselves receiving the services of Scottish game wardens who were willing to take the challenge.

Instead of teaching the teams how to utilize cover, the men taught they snipers how to *become* cover. Utilizing handmade suits that the teams made themselves, the Commonwealth gillie teams were declared fit for service (after a sadly longer training period), and sent to the front. Utilizing their own suits modified with whatever foliage was nearby, the teams became masters of long range patrol and recon, reporting back to their commanders with incredible accuracy on what they had seen and where the enemy was moving.

By this point, the Atomic Kingdom was sick of their movements being tracked so well, and in February 1969 they struck at the leading Frontier Corps fort in Tibet where the gillie teams operated from. Deploying into the best positions, the teams struck down noble officer after noble officer, sending the cloned hordes into confused panic. Here, a secondary specialty for the gillie teams was discovered, as during the battle the teams would often call out enemy positions to the sepoy platoons to eliminate. This tactic was quickly approved by the Frontier Corps command staff, and now whenever the gillie teams join their comrades in battle they can aid their brothers and sisters in shooting farther than they every knew they could. Once the battle is over, the gillie teams slip back into nothingness, back on patrol and not being seen.