Unlike mediaeval Europe, which graduated towards the creation of a professional class of troops, East Asian nations relied heavily on peasant soldiers in times of war, especially throughout China, the Central Asian khanates and Southeast Asia, and only elite military forces would be sufficiently equipped with armour and weapons — or even training. Often, the individuals used for cannon fodder duty would often be among those sorts of people — the dispossessed, prisoners of war, convicts and other undesirables — seen as wholly expendable. Thus, unlike normal Militia, Suicide Soldiers are just that. With far more mediocre statistics, the Suicide Soldier distinguishes itself solely in one area: its creation speed and cost, and thus they can be created rather cheaply, given their low maintenanc