【RA3】唯一持有武器的工兵背后有怎样的参军历程？——苏联战斗工程师设定&语音

设计用途：
战场支援
制造方：
鄂木斯克（Omsk）科学部
战场训练：
苏联军营
信条： “苏联要什么，就占领什么。”
配件：

• 穆什金（Mushkin）SA左轮手枪（旧）

• 特大号背包（旧）

• 礼帽（旧）

• 充气艇（旧）

• 刻有姓名的铁铲（新）

历史资料：
    没有多少苏联公民愿意公开承认这一点，即不是每个生于红旗下的人都身强体健、手脚协调，能参加前线的战事。幸好他们当中有些人虽笨拙，却有非凡智力。苏联科学与信息部每年都能找出许多这样的人，鼓励他们服役成为战斗工程师。虽说不能指望苏联战斗工程师直接去打仗，但他们凭借技术天赋和各种实用的战地技能早已成为苏联军事行动中的基石了。

    苏联的战斗工程师们会非常多的技术技能，足以替他们缺乏锻炼的身体发挥作用。再说了，如果他们身强体健，早就上前线打仗去了。
    战斗工程师们来自各行各业：除了簿记员、教授、各馆馆长，交响乐团指挥、修理工、造船工，当然也不乏平民建筑师和工程师。一旦收到征召令，他们就要接受工作培训，内容涉及控制系统、计算机、妨害，甚至还有自卫所需的基础射击技能。由于战斗工程师不是那些直接丢上战场拼命的前线士兵，所以比起一般的动员兵，他们要工作更长时间，却只能领更少的薪水，补给、居住条件和生活福利之类的待遇也大打折扣。因此战斗工程师几乎没有时间去调整作息，对此，实验信息部对外宣称是“为祖国利益所做的高贵牺牲”。
    且不提战斗工程师的工作状况，他们的技术是无可否认得优秀，似乎到了以此为骄傲的程度。他们可以优哉游哉地占领敌方建筑，还可以转瞬之间修复苏联设施，让其（几乎是）焕然一新。值得一提的是，实验科学部曾在备忘录中下死命令要求战斗工程师们将精力放在维护苏联的设施上，而不要去和同僚比谁这个月占领的盟军设施再破纪录。此后，苏联超级反应堆发生的灾难性事故一年比一年少。实事求是，如果说干战斗工程师这一行，除了体质虚弱以外还有什么职业病的话，那一定是那敷衍的工作态度了。许多战斗工程师都不听安排，他们在当好兵和被关进古拉格式集中营间寻找平衡，既不想像前者一样与动员兵分享军饷，也不想被关进劳改营里烧铸防空破片。
    实验科学部认为战斗工程师是红军中最受关照的兵种。 发给他们的背包大得足以装下大多数个人物品，一同配发的帽子也能替他们遮风挡雨。强制训练结束后，战斗工程师还会获得纪念性质的铁铲以及充气艇，后者既可用于两栖作战，也可在不多的休息日里用来放松。该部指出：这些装备，除了个人物品，都不是战斗工程师在先前的制度里可以享有的。出于对传统劳动力限制的考虑，战斗工程师常常就选派男性担任。战斗工程师干不好传统的军事角色，他们就是这样的存在，所以活得比一般的苏联战士久，也比他们更聪明。

战场笔记： 通过战地侦察，已获悉战斗工程师至少具有以下几个特征：

• 占据设施——战斗工程师经常被派去占领敌方设施，在进入的一瞬间，他们就能立即完成占领工作。战斗工程师可是练了好几年的时间才能做到这个速度。

• 危险武装——对苏联来说，与其丢掉上一代的佩枪，不如将它们交给了战斗工程师们，给他们一些安全感，也好让他们在闲暇时间有事可做。战斗工程师的左轮手枪虽然做工拙劣，但在某些情况还是很好使。

• 建造碉堡——发给战斗工程师的铁铲也不全是纪念意义，可以用来快速建造一个碉堡，可容纳数名苏联最优秀的步兵。鉴于战斗工程师并没有足够的原材料来建造碉堡，苏联允许他们在战场上直接上报花销。

• 公海泛舟——战斗工程师每人都有可折叠的充气艇，因此他们在海上也能和在陆地上一样缓慢前行。自然而然，大多数战斗工程师更喜欢坐艇行军。

Designation: Field Support

Training Headquarters: Omsk Science Ministry

Field-Trained at: Soviet Barracks

Creed: "The Union takes what it wants."

Accessories:

» Mushkin SA Revolver (used)

» Extra-large knapsack (used)

» Ceremonial cap (used)

» Inflatable sputterboat (used)

» Monogrammed shovel (new)

 

While few Soviet citizens would be inclined to openly admit it, not everyone born under the Union's banner has the physical strength and coordination necessary to serve in a frontline military capacity. Fortunately, some of these individuals make up for this ineptitude with an overabundance of intelligence. Year after year, the Union's Science and Information Ministers do an excellent job of identifying such people and encouraging them to join the ranks of the combat engineers. While Soviet combat engineers cannot be depended upon to fight firsthand, their technical aptitude and variety of useful battlefield skills makes them a cornerstone of the Union's military engagements.

 

 

Pictured above: Self-Portrait (Combat Engineer S. Chesnokov).

The Union's combat engineers possess more than enough mental prowess to offset their lack of physical training. Besides, if they were physically strong, they'd be on the front lines.

 

Combat engineers hail from all walks of life: They are the Union's bookkeepers, professors, curators, symphony conductors, mechanics, shipwrights, and, of course, its civilian architects and engineers. Once drafted, combat engineers receive on-the-job training in control systems, computers, sabotage, and even basic marksmanship for self-defense. Because they are not frontline fighters to be thrown straight into harm's way, they are expected to work longer hours than the average conscript, and for a lower stipend and less in the way of rations, shelter, and amenities. Combat engineers therefore have little spare time to rationalize their trade-off, which Science and Information Ministers explain away as a "noble sacrifice for the good of our Land."

 

Irrespective of their work conditions, combat engineers are undeniably skilled at what they do, and even seem to take some pride in their work. They can capture enemy installations with remarkable ease, or restore Soviet facilities to a (relatively) pristine state in short order. Notably, the number of catastrophic accidents involving Soviet super-reactors continues to drop year upon year after a stern memorandum from the Ministry of Experimental Science ordered combat engineers to focus on maintaining the Union's facilities rather than competing with one another to set new monthly records in Allied military structures captured. Indeed, if combat engineers have any sort of endemic problem in their ranks apart from their generally poor physical conditioning, it must be their dismissive attitudes toward their responsibilities. Many of these men are somewhat insubordinate, and known to walk a very thin line between sharing meals with conscripts like proper soldiers, and smelting flak pellets in the gulag.

 

The Ministry of Experimental Science believes its combat engineers to be among the most well-taken-care-of members of the Red Army. They are issued knapsacks large enough to carry most of their worldly possessions, as well as hats to protect against weather. They are even rewarded with ceremonial shovels once their mandatory training is complete, as well as rubberized inflatable sputterboats that they can use for amphibious operations or the occasional day of rest. Apart from their worldly possessions, combat engineers had none of these other things under earlier regimes, points out the Ministry. Only men tend to be selected for combat engineering work, out of respect for traditional labor boundaries. Because combat engineers, by default, are unsuitable in conventional military roles, these men typically skew older as well as wiser than the average Soviet combatant.

 

 

Battlefield reconnaissance has revealed at least these facts about Combat Engineers:

 

• Capture-and-hold -- Combat engineers are frequently used to capture enemy facilities, which they accomplish instantly just as soon as they manage to get inside. Combat engineers spend years and years training to accomplish these procedures swiftly

 

• Armed and dangerous -- Rather than discard a previous generation of side arms, the Union gave them to its combat engineers so that these men could feel better about themselves, and so they had something to do in their spare time. Combat engineers' revolvers are crude but effective in some situations.

 

• Bunker-building -- That shovel gifted to each combat engineer is not purely ceremonial after all, for these tools can be used to quickly set up a bunker with room enough for several of the Unions' finest foot soldiers. As combat engineers do not have the raw supplies needed for these bunkers, they are authorized to file expense reports directly in the field.

 

• Sputtering on the high seas -- Combat engineers each have a collapsible personal boat that lets them travel at sea as readily as they can trudge about on land. Naturally, most combat engineers tend to prefer traveling in this method.