Board Thread:Roleplay Ideas/@comment-26535281-20160726182049/@comment-26084195-20160728194912

Well, the most common Directorate forces that people see are the Patriot infantry. Faceless ground troops in full, face-obscuring body armour and armed with plasma rifles. There is an old adage from a Terran commander: "The Directorate do not recruit their soldiers, they produce them." How very true. While the Directorate can acquire forces in the normal manner, they prefer the cost efficient option of growing their troops in vast cryo-chambers where they can be implanted with cybernetics and hypno-indoctrinated with battlefield personality and combat tactics at an accelerated rate. They are often transported in ATCs armed with AA capable missiles.

The Directorate also employs substanitally larger Deadlock hvy infantry, which are actually mechs crewed by lobotomized vat-bred amalgam of circuitry and advanced geno-tech armed with cyberwarfare devices along with powerful close-quarters weapons. They are employed when the Directorate wants to take something and not give it back.

They employ recon buggies equipped with powerful flamethrowers, light recon tanks armed with AA capable missiles. They possess numerous main battle tanks, including the standard model, a tank hunter model with more powerful, longer ranged guns, and a model equipped with a powerful flamethrower capable of melting through the hulls of tanks when used in concert. They also have specialist heavy tanks armed with cyberwarfare suites, or capable of launching special designator drones.

Moving on to the big stuff, the Directorate employs both a heavy battle tank armed with both a plasma turret and a plasma surge, or a heavy support tank, armed with the sort of plasma cannon you'd normally find equipped to one of the Directorate's leviathan command vehicles. They also employ huge mechs, equipped with AA capable missiles, powerful flamethrowers, and a power maul for close quarters engagements.

The gargantuan Directorate command vehicle is called the Arbiter command barge. It appears lightly armed at first glance, but recessed within the hull is a mighty pair of Verdict plasma surges, as well as a powerful cyberwarfare suite. It is capable of launching a pair of designator drones, it carries a grand company of heavy drone infantry, and it's capable of boosting the cyberwarfare attacks of all nearby Directorate forces.

This command vehicle, while large, pales in comparison to the Wraith leviathan. A massive flying fortress, armed with a pair of powerful Pacifier plasma cannons and flamethrowers, the Wrath hovers above the battlefield as a symbol of Directorate power. It is capable of deploying a troop transport which carries a grand company of Patriot infantry. The Wraith is the biggest stick the Directorate possesses, and it almost always houses the commander of an entire Acquisition Force.