Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20160425022934/@comment-27450328-20160425202229

ACWeapons wrote: Kaptainbradukk wrote: About the Huntsmens, they may have been some contracted for protection and/or bounty hunting, but I guess the Coraz family was really good at hide and seek, due to Amal (the father)'s experience in the military. Hold it. Red flag there. How is he in the military if Atlas is the only standing military for nearly 80 years? The other kiingdoms only call on people to enlist in times of crisis which there hasn't been for nearly 80 years. He's from Vacuo, right? Then that's not possible he had any military experience unless he went to Atlas.

Are you sure about this ? Since being a hunter seems to be quite selective, I think there are regular armies, or at least a few specialists, kept in activity for Grimm, security and fights against criminals. Or even as a counterweight against Atlas supremacy (world peace doesn't mean tensions and fear don't exist).

And even if there is no regular armies and only conscription, it is logical that there are a few specialists, instructors and such kept ready to teach the conscripts what they should know. Because if they don't that would make the conscripts a big group of people mainly without training and/or disciplin or hierarchy. And since huntsmen only learn to operate in solo or very reduced group, they don't have the knowledge to lead a regiment, difficultly a squad at last, and conduct medium or large field operations. They need teachers for that kind of thing, like everyone else.

So basically, I consider Amal as a former specialist in Guerilla/counter-guerrilla who get away from the army (or the conscript education system) to better sustain his family.