Flamethrower infantry (Tiberian Dawn)

The Flame Thrower infantry is very effective against groups of infantry.

Weapon
Flame Throwers have fuel packs on there backs that sometimes need to be re-filled. Flame Throwers are used by the Soviet army and by The Brotherhood of Nod. Even though they still used the same concept of the weapon, the implementation changed a lot. The one used by the Soviets launched a fireball that ignored infantry between the flamethrower infantry and the target. It is believed that this type of flamethrower utilized rechargable high pressure gas chambers to actually launch a blast of flame. The one used by TheBrotherhood of Nod fires a kind of spray that burn the infantry infront of them, so they are better used as front-liners. Nod forces believed that this added spray chamber system was too expensive and too complicated, and instead used a regular spray type flamethrower, albeit with a wide angle nozzle.

Tactics
Both The Brotherhood of Nod and The soviet army have different tactics when it comes to Flame throwers, these tactics dont are very differend. Soviet Flamethrower infantry needed to be split up, because if the unit was killed, there was a high probability that the tank full of flammable chemicals would be set on fire, damaging nearby infantry. Thus, Soviet commanders often placed them behind the front-line infantry, but also spread apart, which was at times difficult because of the weapon's short range. For the Brotherhood of Nod, it was even more important that Flamethrowers be split apart - because they could not launch a fireball, that meant that any infantry nearby would take flame damage - even friendly units.