Patrols and Troops

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Troops and patrols are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Troops" instead the word "Patrols" as a noun or a verb.

Troops noun - Soldiers collectively.

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Patrols and troops are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Patrols" instead the word "Troops" as a noun or a verb.

Being that your troops are a band of mercenaries - essentially a new infusion of ace personnel into a war presumably already won - the enemies start out easy because they're routine patrols that get surprised by people who can actually shoot them.

Source: Back from the Brink
Fobbit (a portmanteau of "Forward Operating Base" and "Hobbit", given how Hobbits love to stay at home and never go out on adventures) is another similar term, specific to troops deployed but who do not go on patrols for varying reasons.

Source: Soldiers at the Rear
La Résistance: In Dark Skies, after the Dromi capture the human colony world T'har, those who are not killed in the initial attack or captured by the ground troops flee into the mines to the north and form resistance cells in their ruined cities, attacking small Dromi patrols.

Source: Literature / Arrivals from the Dark

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