Riyad Improvised Explosive Devices
Riyad operatives use a wide range of handmade devices to disrupt enemy troops and zeoforms, improvised from surplus or captured military or industrial equipment. These devices include relatively crude satchel charges and incendiary explosives as well as more sophisticated weapons like low-power EMP mines and thermobaric bombs.
Although these devices are most commonly used in urban warfare, where the limited avenues of movement allow Riyads to funnel enemies into chokepoints, they are also placed by infiltrator teams behind enemy lines to destroy opposing munitions stockpiles, data relays, and other crucial infrastructure.
Each Riyad operative’s devices use novel (and often unorthodox) compositions and triggering methods, making them difficult for enemies to detect, defuse, or defend against. On the other hand, their often hasty and ad-hoc construction can make these explosives unstable or unpredictable—several Pact battlefield advisors have observed Riyad-built EMPs vastly exceeding their estimated blast radius, causing severe damage to retreating allied zeos.
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