• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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        1 year ago

        You’d first have to avoid being shot by the barrier troops behind you whose job is to make sure you don’t mutiny or surrender. The same deal would apply to them, with there being at least three layers of barrier troops.

    • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Members […] may only leave the battlefield in the event of […] death.

      That’s some warhammer 40k shit right there.

  • skillissuer
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    1 year ago

    I doubt these were ever elite, this is copy of wagner tactics

  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.ca
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    The once elite “Z Assault Companies” are now made up of members of the “special contingent,” the Kremlin’s euphemism used to denote convicts, or those being punished for ill-discipline.