What is "weaponeers"

Usage examples of "weaponeers".

There were several platoons of Heavy Troops, a squad of Weaponeers — these hardly distinguishable from the men of Aerlith — and a squad of Trackers.

The Weaponeers stood back frantic with frustration, unable to use their weapons for fear of destroying their masters.

Others followed him — Weaponeers, Trackers, Heavy Troopers and eight more grephs — all jerking, jumping, running back and forth in distracted steps.

After them came a group of Weaponeers — unmodified men wearing loose cloth smocks and cloth hats of green and yellow.

Upon either flank the Weaponeers trundled their three-wheeled mechanisms, but the Trackers waited beside the ship.

The Weaponeers followed with their three-wheeled mechanisms, and ponderously at the rear came the eight Giants.

The Weaponeers came up, and while awaiting instructions, conferred in low tones with the mounts.

In a spirit of reckless jubilation, a dozen men riding Spiders, carrying blast cannon taken from the fallen Giants, charged the Basics and Weaponeers, who waited beside the rather casual emplacement of three-wheeled weapons.

The Weaponeers swiveled their mechanisms, aimed, discharged bursts of energy.

One man fell, two men, three men — then the others were among the Weaponeers, who were soon hacked to pieces, including the persuasive individual who had served as envoy.

The eight Giants had perished, all Weaponeers and almost the entire group of Trackers.

Hissing and wailing they swarmed over the Weaponeers, on into the staging chamber.

From a port at the other end of the ship, a new force of Heavy Troopers had alighted — three new squads of twenty men each, accompanied by a dozen Weaponeers with four of the rolling projectors.

While their winches were turned by chanting groups, the weaponeers loaded the ten-foot-long arrows into the waiting slots.

The resultant explosion vaporized the cannon and peeled back a section of the basestar's hull, exposing the weapons bay and the weaponeers within.