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| Flamethrower Infantry
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| Weaponry
| Flamethrower
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| Armour
| Heavy
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| Type
| Support infantry
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| Faction
| USSR, later Nod
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| Value
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Infantrymen armed with flamethrowers were used both by the USSR in the Great World War II, and the Brotherhood of Nod in the First Tiberium War. Even though they still used the same concept of the weapon, the implementation changed a lot. The model used by the Soviets launched a fireball that ignored infantry between the flamethrower operator and the target, utilizing rechargeable high pressure gas chambers to actually launch a blast of flame. The model used by the Brotherhood of Nod fired a liquid spray that burnt infantry in front of them. This model was also specifically designed to burn slower than normal flames. Eventually, Nod forces came to a conclusion that this added spray chamber system was too unreliable and complicated, and instead used a regular spray type flamethrower, albeit with a wide angle nozzle.
Both the Brotherhood of Nod and the Soviet army had different tactics when it comes to flamethrowers. Soviet flamethrower infantry needed to be split up, because if the unit was killed, there was a high probability that the tank full of flammable chemicals would be set on fire, damaging nearby infantry. Thus, Soviet commanders often placed them behind the front-line infantry, but also spread apart, which was at times difficult because of the weapon's short, but non-zero range. For the Brotherhood of Nod, it was even more important that Flamethrowers be split apart - because they could not launch a fireball, any infantry nearby would take flame damage - even friendly units.
As with other infantry, flamethrowers were vulnerable to anti-infantry weaponry such as mines, explosives, machine gun fire, napalm, and nuclear explosives. However, the short range of the flamethrower meant that they would be exposed to this fire while attempting to reach a target.
These infantry squads were recalled and decommissioned after the First Tiberium War, with the Brotherhood choosing to only use vehicle mounted flame weapons during the Second Tiberium War. During the Third Tiberium War, with the development of more powerful and efficent fuels, infantry-scale flamethrowers were again used, this time by the Black Hand elite troopers.
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| Soviet Great World War II Arsenal
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