Harriers *Fluffed*

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The Harriers, a special group of rider-footsoldiers well known amongst the rebels, headed by Cypher, they're not quite the rag-tag group you'd expect, Very skilled, and well armed. They also have a tendency to avoid modern polymers and alloys, instead using inferior high maintenance wooden furniture. They are considered extremely dangerous by York.

Defining characteristics include;

-White Arabian horses, or slightly offwhite horses used as pack-animals mostly, horses aren't used extremely often, only in shock attacks.
-Greeting "Hile"; Common usages are "Hile Gunslinger" "Hile Cypher" etcetera.
-Usage of antiquated weaponry over captured weapons.
-Members tend to be sexually deviant, or in some way deemed mentally ill, self mutilators, etc.
-Female riders are known to exist, but keep themselves well hidden behind the white vests and dusters.

Taken from a field report found on a fallen York soldiers






Recently, Cypher has semi-standardized the weapons, to rid them of logistic issues while on raids. Units, weapons usage doctrines (Shortened versions) and battle load

Cavalryman and his Gear;
The standard "uniform" is nigh nonexistant, typically it includes Jeans, a white or yellow duster, leather magazine pouches, and a holster.

The standard calvaryman's rifle (VEPR 7.62x39)

The soldier is expected to dismount to use the VEPR, due to heavy recoil and reloading issues on horseback. Typically used during "infantry" operations, which are quite common, seeing as horses draw a lot of attention. Magazines are stamped steel typically, replacing the standard ones that, after a few years of use, crack. Very accurate.

Pistols are not uniformly distributed, and are mostly user's choice. Over 75 percent use Balester Molina style copies (Simpler construction.)


Other equipment includes their choice of CQB weaponry, axes and swords are common, as well as spears on horseback, A knife made from high carbon steel, a monocular, a hand held steel "clicker" for signalling, and finally, rations.

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The sub-unit of Scouts are armed slightly differently.
They use a longer version of a calvaryman's rifle in 7.62x54R, mounted sometimes with a low mag scope for longer range work.

They also carry wire-cutters.
Scouts also double as saboteurs, they carry handtools, epoxy, ceramic and hardened steel pins, caltrops, and more.
If you're asking why ceramic and steel pins? York's fuel sources include wood, coal, gasoline, and alchohol. The saboteurs are sent to foresting camps and drive the pins into lumber, felled or not, if it's felled? The York sawmills take it, and run it thru the mill, when the sawblade hits the spike, all hell breaks loose, the teeth of the blade snap and dull, turning it into a toothless steel disk. If the tree is still standing and the York crews try to saw it down, the same thing happens. The ceramic pins are made from stoneware clay, fired to cone 10 at 2,400 fahrenheit.