Amandla

*"I'm ready to lay the hammer down on any clown that comes around."*

-  Amandla, before a battle
## Tactical Analysis

* **Angry black man:** Though technically the anti-tank infantry of the League, the Amandla RPG is powerful enough to be suited to most targets with its long range and splash damage.

* **Shill turkey:** Once they find a good spot. The Amandla can switch to a full auto doctrine, increasing their fire rate but severely decreasing their already little accuracy and mobility.

* **Cold Turkey:** Like most African League units, the Amandlas suffer from low minimal range, inaccuracy, and being prone to friendly fire, and of course, they cannot target air units.

* **Protect Ya Hull:** League firearm companies are in the development of "Beehive" rounds that contain additional explosives around the rocket built to break off on impact, either exploding to hit nearby enemies or burying itself into the ground as short-lived landmines. However, only a select few Amandlas are fit enough to get their hands on them as of now...

## Background

Once the Panafrican Divisions started forming into a coherent whole, it wasn’t long before they were faced with a particularly difficult quandary. While confronting isolated cases of insurgents or Warlords in remote locations wasn’t much a problem for an disciplined army like that of the African League, fighting against those who could contract the services of Legion Security, something that started to become more and more common as more parts of the continents were being sold off wholesale for the construction of Sprawls or in exchange for favors and business shares, probed to be a completely different beast.

Legion Security simply had the disciplined, ruthlessness and superiority in arms that made any attempt at beating them a fool’s ploy, regardless of the quality of armor the regulars in the United African Army Legion Security still could outrange them in such a manner that they eventually could bear them down nonetheless, not to mention that more often than not the Panafrican soldiers were forced into ambushes in urban environments, battlefields the Divisions weren’t prepared for and certainly ill-equipped compared to their colonial opressors.

Eventually it was decided that, if the Panafrican Divisions were to gain the upper hand in this conflict, they wouldn’t fight by the rules of their by now sworn enemy anymore, they wouldn’t fall into the game the Legion was playing them for it was a rigged one, if the people of Africa were to become free, it would be on their own terms, not ones dictated by the very oppressor that was causing problems to begin with.

Once this decision was taken, the question of how to resolve this particular dilemma was still up, and various corps from various divisions around the continent tried their own take on the subject. Guerrilla Warfare didn’t provide many positive results, for the Legion was more than adapted at fighting irregular warfare in territories that they quickly could transform into their own. Trying to lure them into fighting in open terrain wouldn’t do either, as the Legion certainly had superior mobility, nevermind the fact that they could set up camp and build Sprawls around them faster than they could respond to it, even pull off a profit for such ventures. No, if the Africans were to best the Legion, they would have to stand their ground and somehow remove the urban from the equation, how could they take the legion out of their entrenched positions though?

Armoured warfare at first seemed the answer, and certainly the Dominance over the Diamond market probed a boon for the armed corps of the African League, however it was soon proven that the Legion’s Gyrojets were more than prepared to tackle even the heaviest of contenders, having been tested on the Soviet armour during WWIII, there simply wasn’t a cost-effective way to best the Legion.

That is, until someone stopped to see the tactics the very rebels they were dismissing used. The simple and humble rocket launcher, a method lacking any subtletly yet possessing a range and punching power without equal, at least for the cost they implied, were used once and again against the superiorily equipped Taskmasters of the Panafrican League, while easily bested, it was eventually understood why rebels even bothered with these tactics, they weren’t meant to fight the defenders of the Continent, but the very shared enemy they possessed. Rocket Launchers were the most cost effective way to surpass the range the gyrojets of the Legion used and were ideally suited to deal with the haphazardly built Departments that were cheaply built by hurried contractors.

Though lacking finesse and bringing the problem that the League could now be mistaken for yet another rebel group without importance, something very demeaning to their quest to be taken as a serious player in the world stage, it still was opted for as the best option. Investing in this science led to some improvements in the design, a doctrine was built around their use. Siege warfare employed to bombard Syndicate Sprawls from afar, with some degree of accuracy, while broadcasts were prepared prior to the event to make sure no civilian casualties could come from the ordeal, at least, none that the League should take responsibility for.

The Legion has now taken some sort of respect to the African League, far from being yet another incompetent militia from Africa’s interior, they seem to actually be a real threat now, bearing no qualms into bombing Sprawls to dust, completely destroying the work of years, millions of lira in invests gone in a puff of fire and bombs. As for the League’s perspective, this new line of standardized infantry in the Divisions were labelled Amandlas, literally meaning capables, for they, at long last, had the capacity to truly and reliably best their enemy in the field of battle on their own terms, not falling to the game of the opressors from Babylon, but forcing them into the African’s ploy. A lingering question remains however, what to do with all those dispossessed after the cities have been blown to dust?

The League’s answer is simple: Whatever the Syndicate may build, the League can reconstruct better.

## Just the Stats

 **Armour Type** | Infantry

 **Kill Reward** | 2400

 **DPS** | 75

 **DPS** | 450