Bomb Throwing Combatant

"Bomb Throwing Combatant - Throws a bomb at Tails and runs off."

- Description from Japanese manual of Tails Adventure

Bomb Throwing Combatants (ボム投げ戦闘員), are enemies in Tails Adventure. They are small anthropomorphic avian foot soldiers of the Battle Kukku Empire, who are handling bombs as their primary throwing weapons.

Appearance
Bomb Throwing Combatants are humanoid birds about the same size as Tails. As having large and sharp orange beaks and feet and a white plumage. They are covering their heads by using black combat helmets with red vision lines. They are also wearing blue, sleeveless armor suit.

Powers and abilities
Bomb Throwing Combatants as their name imply, can throw bombs towards their target from short distance.

Overview
In Tails Adventure, Bomb Throwing Combatants are only found in Polly Mountain 1. They are usually found waiting the player and quickly arrive to throw bomb towards Tails. After throwing single bomb, it retreats further away and tries to throw another one as the player approaches him.

The player can be easily defeated by throwing own Bombs back at them. Defeating one can sometimes cause a Ring to be dropped for the player to collect.

Archie Comics
In the Sonic the Hedgehog comic and its spin-offs published by Archie Comics, Bomb Throwing Combatants appear as one of two types (along with Rock Throwing Combatants) of foot soldiers in the Battle Bird Armada, lead by Grand Battle Kukku XV. Their basic design and color scheme are close to their game counterpart, though they are armed with combat weapons as well and pilot both walkers and hover pods instead of just bombs.