Conscripts

The Conscripts are a human Combine unit cut from Half-Life 2. They were to be the remains of the former Earth forces requisitioned and unwillingly reincorporated into the Combine units as low rank human Combine soldiers, even lower than the Civil Protection. They were to be headed by Captain Vance.

Equipment
They were to use OICWs, Combine APCs and human tanks (i.e. Bradleys and Merkavas ), among others.

Models
There is only two known Conscript models. The head of the generic one was used for male Citizen 02, but it is likely that Conscripts were to come with the several different Citizen heads, sometimes with helmets, as seen in the texture files. The other, sharing the same body, was Captain Vance's model, whose head was reused for the male Citizen 08.

The early Resistance
While heading this unit, Captain Vance was to secretly organize the Resistance, while being stationed at the Air Exchange. When Freeman was to destroy the Air Exchange's reactor core, Vance was to rally its Conscripts and start to turn against the Combine to launch the City 17 uprising. Just like the Resistance in the final game, Conscripts were to launch an attack on the Weather Control and fight on the City 17 streets.

The Weather control assault
A massive attack was to be launched on the Weather Control, in the Arctic regions. Gordon and Alyx were to fight alongside Vance and his Conscripts, before going back to City 17 and take part into the ongoing uprising.

The sniper episode
According to some early sound files, it seems that the Half-Life 2 episode where Barney is pinned down by an Overwatch Sniper was to involve instead a platoon of Conscripts, lead by a particular officer, pinned down by a sniper equipped with a "bolt action rifle" and trying the reach Captain Vance's headquarters. The map where the scene was likely to occur is " ", involving a street battle with huge fires on the destroyed streets and damaged Conscripts APCs and tanks. It was last edited in May 2001, making it a very early street war map, likely to be set somewhere after the Rooftops and Skyscraper (Vertigo version) chapters.

"Animal"
There was to be a Conscript nicknamed "Animal". The playable Half-Life 2 Beta files contain sound clips for him, such as "You want me? You want some of me?" depict him as a quite nervous, jumpy soldier, in the vein of Pvt. Hudson in the film Aliens. It is unknown if he was to be a standalone character or a generic Conscript; however a sound clip, "Animal is reloading", mentions him as possible standalone individual. "Animal" is often humorously mentioned or used by users on Beta-related forums.