Sapper

Average combat capabilities, builds defensive fortifications, can explode buildings with a powder barrel.

The foremost task of these troops was to clear the way for the units they accompanied. With massive axes, sappers could make passages in fences and unfortified walls. To destroy more serious fortifications, they usually used powder mines.

These detachments were quite frequently used to build different kinds of fortification constructions as well.

The trademark of the sappers was a beard, which was almost an accepted element of their uniform.

Usually sappers and minelayers went first in an assault. They had to carry powder charges to blow up enemy fortifications so the main forces could proceed with the assault.