Pixel-trupen

Individually represented virtual soldiers, usually infantry, particularly those which are programmed to panic or rout under fire.

The term is presently restricted primarily to the Combat Mission community.

"Short of a blunder on the part the German commander, I've got no hope of taking the cemetery, so I'm just going to offer a cease-fire and dig in. There's no point in sending my remaining pixel-trupen to their deaths."

PBI

Poor Bloody Infantry. The soldiers who get to hold ground while every other branch of the armed forces shoots at them.

"At 10 p.m. the 'Flying Pig' dropped a round in our front line at X 9 D 5 2. The trench was completely wrecked—the crater formed being 14 feet deep and 25 feet across. It is consoling to think that over 40 rounds have been fired from this gun into the enemy trenches during the last week.

(Very consoling to the PBI)"
--Wipers Times

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