Artistic Forces/Infantrywoman

"Infantrywoman, ready for battle!"

- Infantrywoman The Infantrywoman is the Josei Guntai's basic infantry unit. She is planned to be voiced by Erica Mendez. However, her voice must be the same as Megumin's as well as Niko Yazawa's.

Tactical analysis

 * Sisters in Arms:
 * 2:
 * ONNA!:
 * 4:

Background
The Infantrywoman is a land combat soldier and a backbone of the Josei Rikugun, the ground force and branch of the Josei Guntai. More than that, the Infantrywomen are mostly recruited as the teenage schoolgirls, former Japanese idols, otakus, former Visual Kei performers and even cosplayers, fluently trained for task force operations and combat similar to those of the JGSDF, and armed with the designated and license-built AKB-64 battle rifles, based on the Japanese Howa Type 64 battle rifles, as their service rifles and Mk 2/M26 hand grenades to defend themselves from enemy attacks even though they are tomboyish to do so. In addition to their military service rifles, they also equip the improved, advanced and license-built AKB-89 assault rifles, designated and modeled after the Japanese Howa Type 89 assault rifles as they have better performance due to their incredibly enhanced muzzle velocity, cyclic firing rate, and effective firing range. These assault rifles eventually replace the AKB-64 battle rifles just like the JGSDF did. Every time the Infantrywomen wake up in the morning, they eat their toasted breads before training or other strategies, given by their commander.

Appearance
The Infantrywoman seems to be a Kawaii anime girl in her military combat uniform. Her hairstyle depends on variants of bob cut, shorthair, pigtail, bunches, asymmetric cut, lob, ponytail, longhair or Hime cut, and her hair color depends on what she appears in, most commonly black, brown and dark brown. As a basic soldier, her clothing is a customized JGSDF uniform in a Japanese Type 1 "Kunai" camouflage pattern that has Type 66 helmet with or without combat goggles, camouflaged Type 65 jacket with or without elbow pads, combat bulletproof vest, printed with the Josei Guntai flag and the text "Josei Rikugun" (じょせいりくぐん), camo gloves, camo pants with or without combat kneepads, and Type 1 combat boots.

Idle animations

 * An Infantrywoman will reload her rifle (even if the rifle has not been fired yet).
 * An Infantrywoman looks around the surroundings from left to right.
 * An Infantrywoman inspects her rifle.
 * An Infantrywoman checks through the sights of her rifle.
 * An Infantrywoman horizontally views from left to right once.

Strategy
The Infantrywomen are one of the most powerful basic infantry units of respective factions other than the ADA Infantryman and the GIA Light Infantryman. They are effective enough against most types of infantry. And once the Tatakai no Shimai Protocol is purchased at the Research Center, they will be protected from enemy attacks, and fight even more effectively, especially when they garrisoned inside buildings for blocking off groups of lighter vehicles like the technical pickup trucks and buggies. In addition, they may be upgraded with these Rifle Grenades, which give them a bonus bit of burst damage when fighting clustered infantry units, light vehicles, and landed helicopters or VTOL craft similarly to the American Infantrymen. With their underslung bayonets, they have the ferocious ability to use Onna Charge that quickly strikes the enemy infantry and buildings down. Infantrywomen remain ineffective against most anti-infantry units, thus some of these can easily take them out.

Like the other factions with Horde Bonus feature in the game, the Infantrywomen are easily amassed and will usefully work in groups together against other types of infantry, especially when upgraded. The Horde Inspiration upgrade improves the effect of the horde bonus, and allows the Infantrywomen to do a lot of damage through a quicker firing rate.

Being easily placed into groups allows the Infantrywomen to become an efficient battling force, especially considering the Horde Bonus. They work well as early game defenses, easily gunning down enemy infantry when in hordes and within radius of promotional morale broadcast. When deployed with other Josei Guntai infantry, such as Tai-Sensha Troopers, Shihyou Warsuits, and Heroines, they are able to grant Horde Bonus without having to purchase at least 5 of them. Not only that, but they are able to take down structures easily with heavier infantry, sometimes even being capable of destroying buildings alone in large numbers. Even if they are being challenged by a large amount of infantry in close range, it might be a good idea to attach their rifles with bayonets, and arm themselves in melee combat using the Onna Charge.

Most importantly, like all basic infantry, Infantrywomen are weak against anti-infantry defenses, vehicles, or aircraft. So do not attack a well defended position with Infantrywomen alone. Support them with tanks and anti-tank infantry. Besides, it is better to scout ahead to see what your opponent has outside of your visual range, but they are completely helpless against aircraft so Taikuu Infantrywomen or any anti-air vehicles would come along with them.

Trained

 * "Infantrywoman, ready for battle!"
 * "Youth soldier training complete!"
 * "Infantrywoman, suited up for combat!"

Selected

 * "Ready, 女将様!"
 * "女将様, I'm on!"
 * "Situation?"
 * "Infantry girl reporting!"
 * 「はい、女将様？」
 * 「行動準備. 」
 * 「女将様？」
 * "You need anything, 女将様?"
 * "Infantrywoman here."
 * "Your orders, senpai?"
 * 「え？何ですか？」

Moving

 * 「はいはい！」
 * 「了解了解！」
 * "Hai! We're moving!"
 * "Okay!"
 * "I'm on it!"
 * "Got it!"
 * "Sure thing!"
 * 「行くわよ！」
 * 「移動しましょう！」
 * 「もちろん！」
 * 「はい、せんぱい！」
 * 「よし！」
 * 「前進！」
 * 「それを移動！」

Attacking with rifle or bayonet

 * "Attacking!"
 * 「いい加減にして！」
 * "Let's have a battle!"
 * 「今いけ！」
 * "Get them!"
 * "I can do this!"
 * "Take them out!"
 * 「勝利のために！」
 * 「頑張ります！」
 * 「攻撃！」
 * 「突撃！」
 * 「オオオンナアアアアアア！！」

Attacking with hand grenade or rifle grenade

 * "Blow them up!"
 * 「手榴弾！」
 * "Blast!"
 * "Throwing a grenade!"
 * 「の登場！」
 * "Explosions!"
 * "Here! Catch!"

Garrisoning building

 * "We will claim that!"
 * "That building looks fit to us!"
 * "Fitted for garrisoning!"
 * "Let's take the building!"
 * "Getting inside the building!"
 * "We're coming inside that building!"

Clearing garrisoned building

 * "Let's clean the mess up!"
 * "Let's make it a fortification!"
 * "Clear that out!"
 * "Cleanup time!"
 * "Time for clearing!"
 * "That will be our home!"

Move to attack

 * 「姉妹関係のために！」
 * 「さあ行こう！」
 * 「よし！行くよ！」
 * "Entering that point!"
 * "We are coming!"
 * "Let's get to the point!"
 * "Forcing there through!"
 * "Let's get there, 早く!"
 * 「かかってこいよ！」
 * 「あちお！」

Retreating

 * 「後退する！後退する！」
 * "We're out of here!"
 * "Everyone, get out!"
 * "It's too dangerous here!"
 * "Retreating!"
 * 「駄目だ！」
 * "Let's make a run for it!"
 * 「逃げるだよ！」

Under fire

 * 「痛い！」
 * 「助けて、助けて！」
 * "They're attacking us!"
 * "This is not good!"
 * 「いや、いや！」
 * 「駄目駄目!」

Capturing neutral or enemy building

 * "We can use that building!"
 * "Let's take that!"
 * "Get ready to capture the building!"
 * "Let's claim the building!"
 * "Taking the building!"
 * "We'll get that building!"

After capturing building

 * "The building is ours now!"
 * "We successfully captured the building, 女将様!"
 * "We have a building indeed!"
 * "We got the building!"
 * "Building capture is successfully completed!"
 * "Building captured, 女将様！"
 * "That belongs to us now."

Base under attack

 * "女将様, our base is under attack!"
 * "They're besieging our base, 女将様！"
 * "助けて! Our base is being besieged!"
 * "We need help to protect our base!"

Unit under attack

 * "We need assistance here!"
 * "Some defense required!"
 * 「しまった！」

After an enemy capturing the building

 * "女将様, an enemy has taken one of our buildings!"
 * "クソだ！ An enemy has captured the building from us!"
 * "女将様, they have captured our building!"
 * "They have control of our building, 女将様！"
 * "The enemy took our building from us, 女将様!
 * "駄目だ！ They have taken the building from us!"

Using rifle

 * "Equipping assault rifle!"
 * "Assault rifle ready!"
 * "Arming assault rifle!"
 * "Get equipped with assault rifle!"

In combat

 * "Face it!"
 * "Keep fighting!"
 * "We can't give up!"
 * 「行く行く！」
 * "Assaulting!"
 * "We keep attacking!"

Engaging in melee combat

 * 「えぇい！」
 * 「ひゃあ！」
 * 「どりゃ！」
 * 「オオオンナアアアアアア！！」
 * 「根！」
 * 「幹！」
 * 「花！」
 * 「枝！」

Kill

 * 「やったね！」
 * 「捕まえた！」
 * 「喰らえ！」
 * "An enemy is down!"
 * 「弱い！この弱いです！」
 * 「死ぬ！」
 * "One foe down!"

Healed

 * 「あ、ありがとう！」
 * (sighs)
 * "I'm in your debt!"

Surrendered

 * 「しまった！」
 * 「まさか！」
 * "We surrender now!"
 * 「バカな！」
 * "We stand down!"

Using hand grenade

 * "Equipping grenades!"
 * "Using hand grenades!"
 * "Arming grenades for battle!"
 * "Hand grenades are ready!"

Capture Building upgrade complete

 * "We can capture buildings now!"
 * "Get ready to take buildings!"
 * "Ready to capture buildings? We'll do!"
 * "We are able to capture buildings!"

Rifle Grenades upgrade complete

 * "Rifle grenades are now available, ma'am!"
 * "わーい！ We got rifle grenades!"
 * "Attaching our rifles with rifle grenades!"
 * "We have equipped rifle grenades now!"

Horde Inspiration upgrade complete

 * "The Horde Inspiration will give us victory!"
 * "Let's get strengthened with the Horde Inspiration!"
 * "やったね！ The Horde Inspiration is here!"
 * "The Horde Inspiration will help us!"

Switching to Rifle Grenade

 * "Changing to rifle grenades now!"
 * "Rifle grenades are ready!"
 * "Getting rifle grenades!"
 * "Arming rifle grenades!"

Switching to Bayonet

 * "Bayonets are ready, ma'am!"
 * "Arming with bayonets!"
 * "Swapping to bayonets."
 * "Attaching our rifles with bayonets!"

Using Onna Charge

 * 「オンナ！！」
 * 「オオオンナアアアアアア！！」
 * 「ドリャァー！」
 * 「ヒーヤー！」
 * 「ウリーア！」
 * 「行くおんな！」
 * 「今行くおんな！」
 * 「今襲撃、おんな！」
 * 「襲撃おんな！」
 * 「攻撃開始！オンナ！」
 * 「攻撃ぃぃぃぃぃぃぃぃぃぃ！」
 * 「突撃ぃぃぃぃぃぃぃぃぃぃ！」

Move to attack with Onna Charge

 * 「オオオンナアアアアアア！！」
 * 「必殺！」
 * 「ドリャァー！」
 * 「ヒーヤー！」
 * 「ウリーア！」
 * 「ヒイイイ！」
 * 「死ぬ覚悟しろ！」
 * 「えぇい！」

On death

 * 「ああ！」
 * 「わぁぁぁぁぁ！」
 * 「えっ！」
 * 「いたあああいいい！」
 * 「うーん！」
 * 「うわぁ！」
 * 「あぁぁぁぁぁ！」
 * 「おお！」
 * 「おぉぉぉぉぉ！」
 * 「やあああ！」
 * *Kawaii groan*
 * *Kawaii groan*
 * *Kawaii yell*
 * *Kawaii yell*
 * *Kawaii yell*

Repeatedly selected

 * 「何？！」
 * "Explain this odd mood..."
 * "ねえ！ That tickles!"
 * "痛い！ Don't touch me!"
 * 「私を突くのをやめてください！」
 * "What do I look like, your girlfriend?!"
 * "Look at me, I'm not an orc!"
 * "This is not a visual novel!"
 * "This is not a dating sim too!"
 * "Quit touching me, or I'll shoot you with my AKB automatic rifle at you!"
 * "ばか！ This is not Warcraft in space!"
 * "It is much more sophisticated!"
 * "I know it's not StarCraft to be honest."
 * "I am so pissed, senpai."
 * "Nico Nico Nii!"
 * 「オレかわいいですか？」
 * (singing) 「♪桜　力 　私たちに　力を与えて♪」

Trivia

 * A closeup portrait of the Infantrywoman, who is cutely smiling as if she's a kawaii anime girl, is shown with pink background at the back in each side of the factional flag of the Josei Guntai at the top, and the background with falling cherry blossoms, an army of Infantrywomen, JK Soldiers, Kyu Jeeps, Rokuichi Tanks, and Nanago MRLs, and a squadron of Viper Zero Sisters, Washi Sisters, and Inazuma Sisters, shown at the bottom. Both of these art designs are combined into one for the Josei Guntai variant box art of Artistic Forces.