Combat Engineer

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

Any army requires fortifications and auxiliary structures - bridges and pontoons. Construction of such structures, as well as paving roads and digging entrenchments were part of engineers' duties.

They were not much different from soldiers of the line infantry, except for an obligatory element of their equipment, a spade.

Military engineers were in charge of designing the structures and managing their construction.

Frequently, the engineers would take command over companies of regular soldiers, who were temporarily transferred into engineer troops and provided with the necessary tools.