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Smokie's Bandits

                                           

The Rules of Engagement

                             

A Clan Summoner lies burning in the field, while an Elemental looks on.

         "Combat is your life. Fear not death. The honorable will find their end in the field. Honor is the lifeblood of the Mechwarrior. Without honor the Mechwarrior is worth less than the dust whence he came. There is no virtue above honor. Without honor there is not life."


Under Construction
The Trueborn are created from the Clans' eugenics system. They are created in labs, concieved in test tubes and born in metal wombs and are genetically engineered to produce the perfect soldier. The Trueborns consider natural childbirth dishonorable and call natural-born people "Free births", with the term regarded as a deadly insult to a Trueborn should anyone call them that. In the Rules of Engagement (RoE), the Trueborn are superior to normal humans and are righteous and honorable by birth right. The RoE were created to minimize the loss of equipment and lives that normally occur in combat. The main theme of RoE is single opponent combat on the battlefield and are only followed by Mechwarriors. Elementals are infantry, and are not required to follow RoE.

         Warriors are not allowed to fire upon an enemy mech that is already engaged in combat with another warrior (no gangbanging) One-on-one combat is the highest honor.

          The Clans consider physical combat to be dishonorable so no Clan warrior may use physical combat in battle, such as clubbing, pushing, punching, or kicking. There are two conditions to this however. If a warrior has lost all his weaponry from damage or loss of ammo, he may engage in physical combat with the enemy. If an enemy uses a physical attack on any warrior, the warrior may return this dishonor only to that enemy.

           Also, depending on what Clan a warrior belongs to, they may not be allowed to: Fire on a retrea