Imperial Army
Active: | 6149 ASC - Present | ||
Motto | Ignis et Victoria | ||
In use by: | Imperial Forces | ||
Allegiance: | Shireroth | ||
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Type: | Land Forces | ||
Size: | 600,000 personnel 2,247 Horjin Armoured Fighting Vehicle 2,687 80mm field gun 5 IMW-3 Snark 1 IMW-1 Walker 354 GV(MBT)-1 Bandersnatch 397 IMW-2 Spidertank 272 GV(SPG)-2 Jabberwocky 12 GV(LU)-3 Boojum 420 GV(CV)-4 Red Queen 184 engineering vehicles 5,700 SUV's 5,500 Medium Trucks 156 landing craft | ||
Nickname: | None yet | ||
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Current Commander: | Magister Primum | ||
Conflicts & Deployments |
The Imperial Army is the principal land warfare force of the Imperial Republic of Shireroth. The force is administered by the Ministry of Military Affairs. The professional head of the Imperial Army is the Magister Primum, who is head of the Collegium Magistri Militum or College of the Magisters (i.e. the General Staff).
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Formation and Structure
The structure of the Imperial Army is relatively streamlined into legions and corps divided between three armies. A legion of five regiments will have at least two core regiments that pertain to its mission function as well as any additional squadrons or troops required to perform operationally. A legion on operations will typically be reinforced by additional auxiliaries subject to its particular circumstances and objectives, in which case it therefore becomes the beating heart of a battle group, known as a vexillatio. For comparative purposes a Legion is broadly equivalent to a Brigade level formation in the Elwynnese Union Defence Force, although the UDF typically maintains fewer more overpowered fighting formations than the Imperial Army, in line with its doctrine of making short, sharp and decisive interventions. The doctrine of the Imperial Army on the other hand is typically to hold and stabilise territory after enemy formations have been disrupted thoroughly by the strategic forces of the Imperial Republic.
Legions may be transferred into and out of Corps which are broadly territorial in character. The Armies to which these formations are assigned - Field, Frontier and River - define their general mission, offensive and defensive respectively.
The Palatini Corps remains independent of the three armies and is especially concerned with the defence of the Imperial County and Shirekeep, having evolved out of the Kaiser's old bodyguards - the Order of Kampioens and the Apollonian Guard.
Following the Oustfest Massacre administrative divisions were abolished as an unnecessary bridge in the chain of command between the tactical and operational level formations.
Structure of Units
The most typical variety of Imperial Army units are structured as follows:
Type of Unit | Field Army | Corps | Legion | Regiment | Squadron | Troop | Contubernium (Section) |
Fire Team/Detail |
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Contains | 3 Corps | 8 Legions | 5 Regiments | 10 Squadrons | 5 Troops | 3 Sections | 2 Fire Teams | 4 Individuals |
Personnel | 144,000 | 48,000 | 6,000 | 1,200 | 120 | 24 | 8 | 4 |
Commanded by | Magister Equitum | Magister Militum | Legatus Imperii | Tribunus Laticlavius | Tribunus Angusticlavius (Major) or Primus Ordinus (Senior Centurion) |
Centurion (Captain) or Optio (Lieutenant) |
Decanus (Corporal) |
Chosen Man |
Organisation
Order of Battle
- Imperial Army (Exercitus Imperii)
- Collegium Magistri Militum (General Staff)
- Palatini Corps
- Land Command
- Exercitus Comitatenses (Field Army)
- Exercitus Limitanei (Frontier Army)
- Exercitus Ripenses (Riverine Army)
Tables of Equipment
Palatini Corps
Unit Name | Commandant | Anunia Points | Personnel | AFV/Artillery | Support Vehicles | Aircraft/Rotorcraft |
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Order of Kampioens | . | . | 25,000 | 100 | . | . |
By a minor historical quirk, the Kaiser's personal bodyguard, the Kampioen Guards, was for a time placed under the command of the Imperial Navy. After the re-establishment of the Imperial Army, the Kampioen Guards were re-brigaded into the Old Guard as part of the Palatini Corps of the Imperial Army.
The Kampioens were supplanted in their role by the Order of the Sentinels, which reported to the Kaiser directly and sat entirely outside the structure of the Imperial Forces.
Land Command
The Field Army
The comitatenses comprised the field army of the Imperial Republic, capable of dispatch to conduct fully mobile, mechanised and expeditionary warfare, in contrast to the primarily defensive frontier troops.
Unit Name | Commandant | Anunia Points | Personnel | AFV/Artillery | Support Vehicles | Aircraft/Rotorcraft/UAV |
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Compagnia Familia del Merrick | Legatus legionis Titus Flavius | . | . | . | . | . |
1st IA Division "Mishalanski" | Dux Alexi Zaitsev | . | . | . | . | . |
2nd IA Division "Tymarian Dawn" | Dux Ferdinand von Urach | . | . | . | . | . |
3rd IA Division "Semper Fidelis" | . | . | . | . | . | . |
4th IA Division "Ferrata" | . | . | . | . | . | . |
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The Frontier Army
Unit Name | Commandant | Anunia Points | Personnel | AFV/Artillery | Support Vehicles |
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Retinue of the Magister Equitum | . | . | . | . | . |
Retinue of the Magister Militum | . | . | . | . | . |
XIV Legio | . | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XXI Legio | . | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XXII Legio | . | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XXIII Legio | . | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XXIV Legio | . | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XXVII Legio | . | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XXVIII Legio | . | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XXIX Legio | . | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
Unit Name | Commandant | Anunia Points | Personnel | AFV/Artillery | Support Vehicles |
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Retinue of the Magister Militum | . | . | . | . | . |
I Legio Bersaglieri | . | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
II Legio Littorio | . | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
III Legio San Marco | . | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
IV Legio Monterosa | . | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
V Legio | . | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XII Legio Scholae Evocati | . | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XIII Legio | . | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XX Legio | . | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
Unit Name | Commandant | Anunia Points | Personnel | AFV/Artillery | Support Vehicles |
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Retinue of the Magister Militum | . | . | . | . | . |
XXX Legio | . | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XXXI Legio | . | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XXXII Legio | . | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XXXIII Legio | . | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XXXIV Legio | . | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XXXV Legio | . | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XXXVI Legio | . | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XXXVII Legio | . | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
The Riverine Army
Responsible for the defence of the River Elwynn and the approaches to Shirekeep.
Unit Name | Commandant | Anunia Points | Personnel | AFV/Artillery | Support Vehicles |
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Retinue of the Magister Equitum | . | . | . | . | . |
Retinue of the Praefectus Classis | . | 9 | 9 | 0 | 1 |
VI Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
VII Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
VIII Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
IX Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
X Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
XI Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
Unit Name | Commandant | Anunia Points | Personnel | AFV/Artillery | Support Vehicles |
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Retinue of the Praefectus Classis | . | 9 | 9 | 0 | 1 |
XXXVIII Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
XXXIX Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
XL Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
XLI Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
XLII Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
XLIII Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
XLIV Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
XLV Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
Unit Name | Commandant | Anunia Points | Personnel | AFV/Artillery | Support Vehicles |
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Retinue of the Praefectus Classis | . | 9 | 9 | 0 | 1 |
XLVI Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
XLVII Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
XLVIII Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
XLIX Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
L Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
LI Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
LII Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
LIII Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
Ships:
Trireme - 36 Marines, 4 crew
Quadrireme - 1,500 Marines, 300 crew
Quinqereme - 22 Horjin Armoured Fighting Vehicle, 217 marines, 98 crew
Command Ranks: Non-commissioned and Junior Officer ranks as Imperial Army standard > Trierarchus/Trierarchi (pl.) (Captain: commander of 1 ship) > Nauarchus (Colonel of Ships: commander of 10 ships/a squadron) > Nauarchus Princeps (Brigadier of Ships: commander of two or more squadrons) > Praefectus Classis (Fleet Prefect: commander of a fleet) > Corps command ranks as Imperial Army standard
Recruitment and Training
The Imperial Army recruits exclusively from Shirekeep and the Imperial Dominions as well as any territory that they might temporarily occupy, such as Goldshire during the period of martial law.
Recruitment can include the taking in of volunteers, but also frequently relies upon forms of impressment, notably the Press-Gang. This Press-Gang, also known as the Impressment Service operated on a large scale with a force of men in likely river ports and towns in the Imperial County and Mishalan. These men were armed and possessed "warrants" from the MoMA for their operations. Their "catches" were conveyed to Receiving Ships in the midstream of the Blue and White branches of the Elwynn which then, when their cargo holds are full, take their "haul" downriver and out to sea - eventually depositing them on the island of Zy-Rodun for personality adjustment, indoctrination and basic training.
History
The Imperial Army campaigned in the Civil War in Goldshire where its poor performance against an ill-equipped and fractious alliance of rebels prompted a review of its organisation and structure. In 1644 the Kaiser Dominus decreed an increase in the allocation of manpower to the Imperial Army, increasing its size from 275,000 personnel across 347 regiments to 600,000 personnel in 500 regiments. The same decree mandated for the first time the establishment of 100 Imperial Legions, as the brigade strength fighting formations of the Imperial Army.