Bands
Troops
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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One example would be Sierra Leone with it's marauding, drug-crazed, limb-amputating bands of RUF rebels, and the governement troops relying on "tactics" that are sometimes just as gruesome.
Source: Death World - Low ranking troops were released to return to civilian life but many formed the nucleus of guerrilla bands that, while not much for spit and polish, became effective fighting forces.
Source: Literature / Between Planets - Defeat Means Friendship: Most of Urthblood's vermin troops (see HeelRace Turn below) come from former pillaging hordes and slaver bands that he defeated and whose leaders he killed, offering the survivors a chance to join his army instead.
Source: Fanfic / The Urthblood Saga
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