
Unlike s, they do not appear to be biologically enhanced, though they wear masks containing vocoders which alter the sound of their voice. Civil Protection personnel also patrol the canals outside city limits looking to apprehend escapees. Interrogation, questioning, inspections, random beatings, and even outright murder are sanctioned as a means of policing their respective jurisdictions. Also known as CPs and Metro Cops, they are charged with keeping the local populace in line via intimidation and physical force. *Special abilities: Fire flare (calls for reinforcements), release manhack, melee attackĬivil Protection personnel are humans who join the Combine of their own free will in return for privileges and basic amenities like adequate food and living accommodations.

*Weapon damage: Stun Baton (40 without the HEV suit, 5 with the HEV suit), H&K USP Match (3), H&K MP7 (3-7)

*Health total: 26 (before Chapter 11 - Anticitizen One), 40 (during & after Chapter 11 - Anticitizen One) *First Seen: Half-Life 2, Chapter One - Point Insertion When a squad is reduced to a single trooper, he can be heard crying "Outbreak, outbreak, outbreak!" They frequently use terms like "contain," "sterilize," "clamp," "amputate," "parasitics," (for headcrabs) and "necrotics" (zombies). They treat whole cities as a single organism, with insurrection as an infection and their role as that of white blood cells. The system itself provides insight into the policies dictating tactics used by humanoid Combine forces.

They are the most frequently encountered foes faced by Gordon Freeman in his fight against the Combine. Referred to by Doctor Breen as the "Transhuman Arm of Sector 17 Overwatch," they are humans who have been captured, brainwashed, and modified into "trans-human" or "post-human" cybernetic creatures. The primary arm of the Combine occupation forces on Earth is the humanoid Combine Overwatch. This is a list of fictional humanoid and synthetic forces employed by the Combine empire in Half-Life 2, a 2004 first-person shooter, and its episodes.
