Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
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CAPABILITIES / VULNERABILITIES (4 of 10)
Mobility / Countermobility
+ Maintains a large stockpile of mines
+ Heavy divisions have far greater engineering capabilities
+ Countermine equipment has the capability to breach complex obstacles, including mines.
+ Defenses may be augmented with oil-filled ditches called fire trenches
+ Combat engineer units have a wide variety of equipment, mines and explosives
+ Impressive array of mine-delivery capabilities for scatterable and hand/mechanically-emplaced mines
- Made up of mostly dismounted infantry which limits mobility
- Fighting and crew served weapons positions, bunkers, and trenches built to minimum standards
- Lack of any true armored combat engineer vehicles
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