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Making the infantry of Arashi
Javrak:
Explosive devices hidden in the sand. Sand makes one hell of a mess when it's used as shrapnel. Salt an oasis along the incoming path? Booby-trapped bottlenecks, perhaps boulders, explosives, steam devices? Night raids centered around damaging rations and water only. Cripple their resources for travel, and they will slowly starve. Something to the tune of puncturing water supplies. Greatest weapon in the desert is the desert.
Keon:
Arashi...
Honestly though, if you were to take anything from the picture, that cape. I see every infantryman carrying a cape for camouflage and shelter. If you could hide on sand dunes as well as use it for shelter in the night, you're pretty much set.
Also, the Arashi are supposed to be some of the most technologically advanced. I wouldn't put it ahead of them to be carrying tesla weaponry, ground-mounded Hwatcha, etc, though probably as a squad. Imagine the way cannons would be used, but somehow tesla. We talked a bit about IEDs. I'm also thinking traps buried in the sand, tripwires, barbed wire, maybe even electric fences. I also get the feeling that if anybody would get that ship on Dunes working again it would be these guys.
I feel like each soldier would carry some rudimentary tools for salvaging old scraps, seeing as that's how Arashi make their money and food.
Piemanlives:
What about deployment? I feel the Arashi infantry would be more guerrilla fighters like discussed, so I would assume they have a sturdy yet easily collapsible tunnel system should they feel the need to cover their tracks.
Charon:
We kinda discussed the tunnel bit a little earlier in the thread. We think they would have mobile drills that are only used between firm positions, most likely the wreckage of downed airships. The mobile drills will utilize their fuel only to move between downed ships, and refuel for drilling on-site, utilizing whatever remaining fuel might have survived on the airship. Create a tunnel system around the wreckage for shelter from the harsh sun, and for moving between dug-in fighting positions, and use any workable weaponry on the airship to ambush other ships in the area.
Piemanlives:
Ahh, interesting concept.
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