設(shè)計(jì)用途：
戰(zhàn)場支援
制造方：
鄂木斯克（Omsk）科學(xué)部
戰(zhàn)場訓(xùn)練：
蘇聯(lián)軍營
信條： “蘇聯(lián)要什么，就占領(lǐng)什么?！?br>配件：

• 穆什金（Mushkin）SA左輪手槍（舊）

• 特大號(hào)背包（舊）

• 禮帽（舊）

• 充氣艇（舊）

• 刻有姓名的鐵鏟（新）

歷史資料：
????沒有多少蘇聯(lián)公民愿意公開承認(rèn)這一點(diǎn)，即不是每個(gè)生于紅旗下的人都身強(qiáng)體健、手腳協(xié)調(diào)，能參加前線的戰(zhàn)事。幸好他們當(dāng)中有些人雖笨拙，卻有非凡智力。蘇聯(lián)科學(xué)與信息部每年都能找出許多這樣的人，鼓勵(lì)他們服役成為戰(zhàn)斗工程師。雖說不能指望蘇聯(lián)戰(zhàn)斗工程師直接去打仗，但他們憑借技術(shù)天賦和各種實(shí)用的戰(zhàn)地技能早已成為蘇聯(lián)軍事行動(dòng)中的基石了。

? ? 蘇聯(lián)的戰(zhàn)斗工程師們會(huì)非常多的技術(shù)技能，足以替他們?nèi)狈﹀憻挼纳眢w發(fā)揮作用。再說了，如果他們身強(qiáng)體健，早就上前線打仗去了。
????戰(zhàn)斗工程師們來自各行各業(yè)：除了簿記員、教授、各館館長，交響樂團(tuán)指揮、修理工、造船工，當(dāng)然也不乏平民建筑師和工程師。一旦收到征召令，他們就要接受工作培訓(xùn)，內(nèi)容涉及控制系統(tǒng)、計(jì)算機(jī)、妨害，甚至還有自衛(wèi)所需的基礎(chǔ)射擊技能。由于戰(zhàn)斗工程師不是那些直接丟上戰(zhàn)場拼命的前線士兵，所以比起一般的動(dòng)員兵，他們要工作更長時(shí)間，卻只能領(lǐng)更少的薪水，補(bǔ)給、居住條件和生活福利之類的待遇也大打折扣。因此戰(zhàn)斗工程師幾乎沒有時(shí)間去調(diào)整作息，對(duì)此，實(shí)驗(yàn)信息部對(duì)外宣稱是“為祖國利益所做的高貴犧牲”。
????且不提戰(zhàn)斗工程師的工作狀況，他們的技術(shù)是無可否認(rèn)得優(yōu)秀，似乎到了以此為驕傲的程度。他們可以優(yōu)哉游哉地占領(lǐng)敵方建筑，還可以轉(zhuǎn)瞬之間修復(fù)蘇聯(lián)設(shè)施，讓其（幾乎是）煥然一新。值得一提的是，實(shí)驗(yàn)科學(xué)部曾在備忘錄中下死命令要求戰(zhàn)斗工程師們將精力放在維護(hù)蘇聯(lián)的設(shè)施上，而不要去和同僚比誰這個(gè)月占領(lǐng)的盟軍設(shè)施再破紀(jì)錄。此后，蘇聯(lián)超級(jí)反應(yīng)堆發(fā)生的災(zāi)難性事故一年比一年少。實(shí)事求是，如果說干戰(zhàn)斗工程師這一行，除了體質(zhì)虛弱以外還有什么職業(yè)病的話，那一定是那敷衍的工作態(tài)度了。許多戰(zhàn)斗工程師都不聽安排，他們?cè)诋?dāng)好兵和被關(guān)進(jìn)古拉格式集中營間尋找平衡，既不想像前者一樣與動(dòng)員兵分享軍餉，也不想被關(guān)進(jìn)勞改營里燒鑄防空破片。
????實(shí)驗(yàn)科學(xué)部認(rèn)為戰(zhàn)斗工程師是紅軍中最受關(guān)照的兵種。 發(fā)給他們的背包大得足以裝下大多數(shù)個(gè)人物品，一同配發(fā)的帽子也能替他們遮風(fēng)擋雨。強(qiáng)制訓(xùn)練結(jié)束后，戰(zhàn)斗工程師還會(huì)獲得紀(jì)念性質(zhì)的鐵鏟以及充氣艇，后者既可用于兩棲作戰(zhàn)，也可在不多的休息日里用來放松。該部指出：這些裝備，除了個(gè)人物品，都不是戰(zhàn)斗工程師在先前的制度里可以享有的。出于對(duì)傳統(tǒng)勞動(dòng)力限制的考慮，戰(zhàn)斗工程師常常就選派男性擔(dān)任。戰(zhàn)斗工程師干不好傳統(tǒng)的軍事角色，他們就是這樣的存在，所以活得比一般的蘇聯(lián)戰(zhàn)士久，也比他們更聰明。

戰(zhàn)場筆記：?通過戰(zhàn)地偵察，已獲悉戰(zhàn)斗工程師至少具有以下幾個(gè)特征：

• 占據(jù)設(shè)施——戰(zhàn)斗工程師經(jīng)常被派去占領(lǐng)敵方設(shè)施，在進(jìn)入的一瞬間，他們就能立即完成占領(lǐng)工作。戰(zhàn)斗工程師可是練了好幾年的時(shí)間才能做到這個(gè)速度。

• 危險(xiǎn)武裝——對(duì)蘇聯(lián)來說，與其丟掉上一代的佩槍，不如將它們交給了戰(zhàn)斗工程師們，給他們一些安全感，也好讓他們?cè)陂e暇時(shí)間有事可做。戰(zhàn)斗工程師的左輪手槍雖然做工拙劣，但在某些情況還是很好使。

• 建造碉堡——發(fā)給戰(zhàn)斗工程師的鐵鏟也不全是紀(jì)念意義，可以用來快速建造一個(gè)碉堡，可容納數(shù)名蘇聯(lián)最優(yōu)秀的步兵。鑒于戰(zhàn)斗工程師并沒有足夠的原材料來建造碉堡，蘇聯(lián)允許他們?cè)趹?zhàn)場上直接上報(bào)花銷。

• 公海泛舟——戰(zhàn)斗工程師每人都有可折疊的充氣艇，因此他們?cè)诤Ｉ弦材芎驮陉懙厣弦粯泳徛靶?。自然而然，大多?shù)戰(zhàn)斗工程師更喜歡坐艇行軍。

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)

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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.

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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.

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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."

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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.

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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.

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

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? 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

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? 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.

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? 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.

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? 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.

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