Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Minea Royal Guard

"Royal Guards ready for war!"

-Royal Guards

The Royal Guards of Minea are highly skilled soldiers of the Aristocracy that serves as Minea's loyal bodyguards. Planned to be voiced by

Overview
The Royal Guards is the epitome of Encantadia's intense training programs. Armed with a scoped QBZ-2 assault rifle, the Royal Guards is extremely effective against infantry, and can move quickly on the ground.

Appearance
The attire of the Royal Guards are based on the North Korean Soldiers in Homefront: The Revolution.

History
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The Aristocracy of Encantadia... An enigma wrapped in a riddle, buried in mystery. This tiny nation was one of the first, and most successful thus far, to embrace the glorious revolution ever since the cutting ties to the Community of Cantha. Encantadia economy is an example of the success of communism: all the workers unite to manufacture great projects from the largest zeppelin to the most complex Akula battery. Their army is large, well-fed, and very professional.

Organizations such as the Alliance and the Protectorate, therefore, do not consider the country much of a threat, and typically don't factor it into their plans. After all, Encantadia Sang'gres are certifiably crazy, and does insane things on a regular basis. Perhaps the most ridiculous thing Encantadia has done is releasing those crazy propaganda films where make-believe army brats punch through walls, make impossible shots, and defeat multiple "Peacekeepers" using martial arts. After all, who could possibly believe anyone could do that? The Alliance, the Aquilans, the Republic, the Protectorate, and the Empire certainly don't.

But the Canthans, who faced the Encantadians the most, beg to differ because those videos are real.

These men that serve Minea are known simply as Royal Guards, and they are Encantadia's finest. They are deemed to have completed their training only when they can: disassemble and reassemble their rifles, grenades, Hinds, and MiG-25s blindfolded while being slapped with fish by locals; use forks and spoons as weapons; run up steep hills wearing backpacks full of rocks and sand; break a man's back using only three fingers; and keep Minea's many many statues clean and sparkling, even when a particularly large flock of pigeons fly overhead (usually by literally kicking the droppings away while they are still in the air).

In the field, Minea's elite guards use the superior mobility afforded to them by their Voshkod-made Hind helicopters to surround and force the enemy to engage them a few at a time, because as good as these warriors are, they like to cheat a bit. Despite the chance their superior mobility affords them, they prefer to engage the enemy in the open, bravely providing an example of true heroism to their brothers and sisters.

Plans to support the Guards with air-dropped vehicles are periodically drawn up, but subsequently abandoned due to the extreme expense of designing and building an all-purpose vehicle and Minea's objected to create a licensed version of the BMD Wolverines that can be air-dropped into the jungles.

Th Royal Guards are armed with the QBZ-2, a new assault rifle (though much claims that this was a knockoff of the Empire's QBZ-95 rifles) with superior medium-range accuracy and low recoil. Firing the powerful 7.62x39mm round, it sports unrivaled stopping power for its type. The Guards are also issued fragmentation grenades, which they usually attach magnetic tape to, which has the effect of causing the grenade to literally stick to vehicles. This is abused mercilessly as they are trained to throw their grenades into the treads of an oncoming tank, usually blowing the treads out and stopping it.

Trivia

 * They're based off the DPRK Commandos from Red Alert Paradox.