![]() The Tiberium Wars variant, on the other hand, lands a commander a few squads of veteran GDI Zone Troopers which are powerful enough to turn a pitched battle into a devastating curb-stomp. The Tiberian Sun iteration crash drops a handful of veteran low-tier GDI infantrymen on the battlefield. The Tiberium saga of Command and Conquer features this in two iterations of the Support Power variety.Star Wars: The Old Republic: A ships Escape Pods are used this way, for the Eternity Vault Operation (Raid).The Exile gets to repeat the feat on Onderon in the sequel. The Mandalorians from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic use Basilisk war droids to drop themselves onto planet surface from space.The troops who use this are the ODST, also called Helljumpers, and are the second best the human military has to offer, after the Spartans. These are launched in large numbers the idea is that if one gets shot down, you lose one troop rather than the dozens that would be aboard a dropship. Halo gives us the HEV, or Human Entry Vehicle, designed to shoot one soldier at the battlefield.They are usually dropped directly onto a possible landing zone to secure it, so that the DropShips can arrive to bring in the real army. BattleTech has Mech-sized drop pods, as well as power armor sized ones.Some of the Marine troops on board the title ship are trained to use jump capsules to descend from orbit and land on a planetary surface. Classic Traveller Adventure 1 The Kinunir.Less advanced interim models would be dropped from supersonic transport planes. Marine Corps to insert troops into the battlefield from orbit. One of the title items was the "Jump Shell", said to be used by the U.S. ![]() Instead they launch two waves of pods, the first wave contains Drop Pods equipped with automated BFGs to clear the landing area for the second wave (which contains the marines). The Space Marines themselves do not rely on the Ground-Shattering Landing to clear the way.The tactic of unexpectedly inserting your troops behind enemy lines is known as "deep striking," whether it is done with Drop Pods, teleporters, or wombs fired from space. ![]()
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