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''The Sword of Vengeance, by Scott Alexander, 2008'' <br><br />
The mighty Sword of Vengeance, sword of the Kaisers, symbol of the Throne and dealer of death, was used to vanquish the [[Dæmon]] [[Rrakanychan]] in the time of [[Raynor I]].<br />
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It is said that the Sword was forged for Raynor from a fallen meteorite, blessed by the gods and granted with certain divine properties. <br />
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Repeatedly claimed to have been stolen by [[Babkha|Babkhans]]. Some claim that it is possible that the authentic Sword was lost forever after the Babkhan Holocaust. During the reign of [[Kaiser Raynor XII]] the Sword was retrieved from the Emir of Sathrati in 6008 ASC in return for some favours ([[Imperial Decree 775]]). The other legend associated with the sword is that it was used by [[Kaiser Aiomide]] to open a portal to [[Balgurd]] and thence to [[Woodshire Village]] (which was only a marginal improvement). Attempts to bring the two together for side by side comparison and analysis has invariably ended in accusations of heresy and catastrophe.<br />
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In any event, one or an other of these two variants is always borne in the presence of the Kaiser as a sword of state by the commander of the [[Order of the Sentinels]] and can be wielded by the Kaiser himself if the sovereign is feeling unusually vigorous or the situation is sufficiently desperate to warrant the corresponding loss of dignity that would ensue if the sword failed to live up to its reputation.<br />
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In the year 1644, the [[Kaiser Aurangzeb II Steffki]] had the two swords melted down and reforged as a single renewed blade during his brief 130 day reign. The sword remained in Aurangzeb's possession after he departed Shirekeep for Mishalan and was not returned when he abdicated the throne in that same year.<br />
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[[Category:religion]]</div>Tokaray al-osmanhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=Imperial_Army&diff=27512Imperial Army2017-01-25T04:58:38Z<p>Tokaray al-osman: </p>
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<div>{| class="toccolours" style="float:right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; font-size: 85%; width: 30em;background-color:#FFEFEF;border:1px solid #B82C20;"<br />
|align=center colspan=2 | <center>'''Imperial Army'''<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
[[Image:New_flag_Shireroth.png|150px]]</center><br />
|-<br />
|'''Active:'''|| 6149 ASC - ''Present''<br />
|-<br />
|'''Motto'''||''Ignis et Victoria''<br />
|-<br />
|'''In use by:'''|| [[Imperial Forces]]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Allegiance:'''|| Shireroth<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
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|-<br />
|'''Type:''' || Land Forces<br />
|-<br />
|'''Size:''' || 600,000 personnel<br /><small>12,000 [[Battle Wagon]]<br />
3,072 [[GV(MBT)-1 Bandersnatch]]<br /><br />
2,400 [[GV(SPG)-2 Jabberwocky]]<br /><br />
4,176 [[GV(LU)-3 Boojum]]<br /><br />
2,400 [[GV(CV)-4 Red Queen]]<br /><br />
4,704 [[Horjin Armoured Fighting Vehicle|Horjin AFV]]<br /><br />
5,544 [[Horjin Armoured Fighting Vehicle|Horjin APC]]<br /><br />
432 [[Horjin Armoured Fighting Vehicle|Horjin EWV]]<br /><br />
1,056 [[IMW-2 Spidertank]]<br /><br />
288 [[IMW-3 Snark]]<br /><br />
4,176 [[Trump Radar Tracking Autocannon]]<br /><br />
2,400 [[80mm field gun|80mm Field Gun]]<br />156 landing craft<br />39,744 support vehicles<br />
</small><br />
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|-<br />
|'''Nickname:''' || ''None yet''<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
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|-<br />
|'''Current Commander:'''|| Magister Primum<br />
|-<br />
|'''Conflicts & Deployments'''||<br />
*[[Jaris War]]<br />
*[[Cabbage Crisis]]<br />
*[[Sxiro-Jingdaoese Confrontation]]<br />
**[[Operation Long Haul]]<br />
*[[The River War]]<br />
*[[The Anarchy of Angularis]]<br />
*[[Martial Law in Goldshire]]<br />
*[[Civil War in Goldshire]]<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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The '''Imperial Army''' is the principal land warfare force of the [[Main Page|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]]'' (<small>i.e. the [[wikipedia:General staff|General Staff]]</small>).<br />
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=Formation and Structure=<br />
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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 [[wikipedia:battlegroup_(Army)|battle group]], known as a [[wikipedia:vexillatio|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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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]].<br />
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Following the [[Oustfest Massacre]] administrative divisions were abolished as an unnecessary bridge in the chain of command between the tactical and operational level formations.<br />
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==Structure of Units==<br />
The most typical variety of Imperial Army units are structured as follows:<br><br><br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
!Type of Unit<br />
![[wikipedia:Field Army|Field Army]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Corps|Corps]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Brigade|Legion]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Battalion|Regiment]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Company (military unit)|Squadron]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Troop (military unit)|Troop]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Section (military unit)|Contubernium<br />(Section)]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Fireteam|Fire Team/Detail]]<br />
|-<br />
!Contains<br />
|3 Corps<br />
|8 Legions<br />
|5 Regiments<br />
|10 Squadrons<br />
|5 Troops<br />
|3 Sections<br />
|2 Fire Teams<br />
|4 Individuals<br />
|-<br />
!Personnel<br />
|144,000<br />
|48,000<br />
|6,000<br />
|1,200<br />
|120<br />
|24<br />
|8<br />
|4<br />
|-<br />
!Commanded by<br />
|[[wikipedia:Magister equitum|Magister Equitum]]<br />
|[[wikipedia:Magister militum|Magister Militum]]<br />
|[[wikipedia:Legatus legionis|Legatus Imperii]]<br />
|[[wikipedia:Tribune|Tribunus Laticlavius]]<br />
|Tribunus Angusticlavius<br><small><small>[[wikipedia:Major (United Kingdom)|(Major)]]</small><br>or<br>''Primus Ordinus''<br><small>(Senior Centurion)</small></small><br />
|Centurion<br><small><small>[[wikipedia:Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|(Captain)]]</small><br>or<br>''Optio''<br><small>(Lieutenant)</small></small><br />
|Decanus<br><small>[[wikipedia:Corporal#United Kingdom|(Corporal)]]</small><br />
|[[wikipedia:Chosen man|Chosen Man]]<br />
|}<br />
<br/><br />
<br/><br />
[[File:Imperial Army Structure.png|thumb|right|Units of the Imperial Army and their subordinate components]]<br />
<br/><br />
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=Organisation=<br />
<br />
==Order of Battle==<br />
<br />
*Imperial Army (Exercitus Imperii)<br />
**Collegium Magistri Militum (General Staff)<br />
**Palatini Corps<br />
**Land Command<br />
***Exercitus Comitatenses (Field Army)<br />
***Exercitus Limitanei (Frontier Army)<br />
***Exercitus Ripenses (Riverine Army)<br />
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==Tables of Equipment==<br />
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===Palatini Corps===<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ [[Palatini Corps]]<br />
|+ Commander: ''Magister Militum'' '''[[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion]]''', ''Dominus, rector et imperator di Cabbagefall & patronus di familia''<br />
|+ Home Base: [[Imperial Forces#Shirekeep Garrison|Shirekeep Garrison]]<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
! scope="col" |Aircraft/Rotorcraft<br />
|-<br />
|[[Order of Kampioens]] ||.||.||25,000||100||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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By a minor historical quirk, the Kaiser's personal bodyguard, the [[Order of Kampioens|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. <br />
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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.<br />
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===Land Command===<br />
<br />
====The Field Army====<br />
[[File:20161105 TOE IA Legion HQ Troop.png|250px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><small>Example Table of Equipment (TOE) for a Legate's command troop in the Field Army</small></div>]]<br />
[[File:20161014 TOE IA Comitatus Squadron.png|250px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><small>Example Table of Equipment (TOE) for a Comitatus Squadron in the Field Army</small></div>]]<br />
[[File:20161111 TOE IA AT-Inf Troop.png|250px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><small>Example Table of Equipment (TOE) for a troop of Anti-Tank Infantry in the Field Army</small></div>]]<br />
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. <br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ I Corps<br />
|+ Commander: ''Magister Equitum'' '''Royston Merrick the Younger''', ''Dominus, Vir Egregius, Dux Bellorum & patronus di familia''.<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Compagnia Familia del Merrick||Magister Equitum Royston Merrick Jnr.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Fereydoun Payam Attar||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Alexander Beresford||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LV Legio||Legatus Imperii Donnchard||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LVI Legio||Legatus Imperii Seaghdha Sarsfield||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LVII Legio||Legatus Imperii Charles Livingston||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LVIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Evander Cameron||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LIX Legio||Legatus Imperii Teófilo O'Higgins||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LX Legio||Legatus Imperii Manuel Soublette||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXI Legio||Legatus Imperill Porfirio Uribe||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ II Corps<br />
|+ Commander: Magister Militum Abolfazl Shahzad Khoroushi<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Abolfazl Shahzad Khoroushi||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXII Legio||Legatus Imperii Tadeo Roa||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Ernst Johan Stackelberg||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Karl Jacob Stackelberg||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXV Legio||Legatus Imperii Klaus Meyer||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXVI Legio||Legatus Imperii Adolf Tegethoff||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXVII Legio||Legatus Imperii Tobias Bremer||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXVIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Peter von Hagenbach||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXIX Legio||Legatus Imperii Gregor Colvin||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ IX Corps<br />
|+ Commander: Magister Militum Behnam Kambiz Rostami<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Behnam Kambiz Rostami||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXX Legio||Legatus Imperii Joachim Ursus||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXXI Legio||Legatus Imperii Riccardo Huerlingdorp||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXXII Legio||Legatus Imperii Antonio de Nebrija||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXXIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Rostam Hafiz||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXXIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Piarres Nafarroakoa||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXXV Legio||Legatus Imperii Gustavus Peralta||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXXVI Legio||Legatus Imperii Constantine Plantagenet||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXXVII Legio||Legatus Imperii Heinrich Starkey||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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====The Frontier Army====<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ III Corps<br />
|+ Magister Equitum Hugh O'Neill, Dominus, Vir Egregius, Dux Bellorum & patronus di familia.<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Equitum||Magister Equitum Hugh On'Neill||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Yasin Bahadur Khoroushi||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Sigihard Brune||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXI Legio||Legatus Imperii Fridwald Fried||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXII Legio||Legatus Imperii Theodoard Friduman Baumer||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Bruno Rambert Strohkirch||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Gebhard Heike Yount||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXVII Legio||Legatus Imperii Herbert Alle Beckert||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXVIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Reto Sigiheri Schumacher||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXIX Legio||Legatus Imperii Ime Leudoberct Aikema||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ IV Corps<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Hassan Soroush Khoroushi||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|I Legio Bersaglieri||Legatus Imperii Ewald Ermenrich Ionesco||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|II Legio Littorio||Legatus Imperii Waldomar Hermanus Dumitru||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|III Legio San Marco||Legatus Imperii Meino Ionuț Vasile||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|IV Legio Monterosa||Legatus Imperii Baugulf Seneca Șerban||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|V Legio||Legatus Imperii Teodor Doru Vasile||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XII Legio Scholae Evocati||Legatus Imperii Quintus Tacitus Cojocaru||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Iancu Hortensius||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XX Legio||Legatus Imperii Iancu Hortensius||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ VI Corps<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Akbar Jalal Alinejad||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XXX Legio||Legatus Imperii Godascalc Berahthram Vasilescu||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXI Legio||Legatus Imperii Ștefan Tudor Adam||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXII Legio||Legatus Imperii Ansovald Aldebrand Popescu||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Vespasianus Pompeius||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Darius Hludowig Șerban||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXV Legio||Legatus Imperii Bahman Eskandar Alinejad||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXVI Legio||Legatus Imperii Ahmad Jahangir Alinejad||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXVII Legio||Legatus Imperii Jalal Masood Alinejad||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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====The Riverine Army====<br />
<br />
Responsible for the defence of the [[Elwynn (River)|River Elwynn]] and the approaches to [[Shirekeep]].<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ V Corps Classis Rubrum<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Equitum||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Praefectus Classis||.||9||9||0||1<br />
|-<br />
|VI Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|VII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|VIII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|IX Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|X Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XI Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ VII Corps Classis Albrum<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Praefectus Classis||.||9||9||0||1<br />
|-<br />
|XXXVIII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XXXIX Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XL Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLI Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLIII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLIV Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLV Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ VIII Corps Classis Puteulanum<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Praefectus Classis||.||9||9||0||1<br />
|-<br />
|XLVI Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLVII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLVIII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLIX Legio ||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|L Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LI Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LIII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Ships:<br><br />
[[wikipedia:Landing Craft Assault|Trireme]] - 36 Marines, 4 crew<br><br />
[[wikipedia:Landing ship, infantry|Quadrireme]] - 1,500 Marines, 300 crew<br><br />
[[wikipedia:Landing Ship, Tank|Quinqereme]] - 22 [[Horjin Armoured Fighting Vehicle]], 217 marines, 98 crew<br><br />
<br />
Command Ranks:<br />
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<br />
<br />
====The Reserve Army====<br />
<br />
The Reserve Army was established in [[Goldshire]] in 1644 to provide the Imperial Army with a pool of manpower and formations to replace units worn down through attrition in combat.<br />
<br />
=Recruitment and Training=<br />
<br />
The Imperial Army recruits exclusively from [[Shirekeep]] and the [[Subdivision#Imperial Dominions|Imperial Dominions]] as well as any territory that they might temporarily occupy, such as Goldshire during the period of [[Martial Law in Goldshire|martial law]].<br />
<br />
Recruitment can include the taking in of volunteers, but also frequently relies upon forms of impressment, notably the [[Impressment Service|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 (River)|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. <br />
<br />
=History=<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
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|align=center colspan=2 | <center>'''Imperial Army'''<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
[[Image:New_flag_Shireroth.png|150px]]</center><br />
|-<br />
|'''Active:'''|| 6149 ASC - ''Present''<br />
|-<br />
|'''Motto'''||''Ignis et Victoria''<br />
|-<br />
|'''In use by:'''|| [[Imperial Forces]]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Allegiance:'''|| Shireroth<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
----<br />
|-<br />
|'''Type:''' || Land Forces<br />
|-<br />
|'''Size:''' || 600,000 personnel<br /><small>12,000 [[Battle Wagon]]<br />
3,072 [[GV(MBT)-1 Bandersnatch]]<br /><br />
2,400 [[GV(SPG)-2 Jabberwocky]]<br /><br />
4,176 [[GV(LU)-3 Boojum]]<br /><br />
2,400 [[GV(CV)-4 Red Queen]]<br /><br />
4,704 [[Horjin Armoured Fighting Vehicle|Horjin AFV]]<br /><br />
5,544 [[Horjin Armoured Fighting Vehicle|Horjin APC]]<br /><br />
432 [[Horjin Armoured Fighting Vehicle|Horjin EWV]]<br /><br />
1,056 [[IMW-2 Spidertank]]<br /><br />
288 [[IMW-3 Snark]]<br /><br />
4,176 [[Trump Radar Tracking Autocannon]]<br /><br />
2,400 [[80mm field gun|80mm Field Gun]]<br />156 landing craft<br /></small><br />
<br />
|-<br />
|'''Nickname:''' || ''None yet''<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
----<br />
|-<br />
|'''Current Commander:'''|| Magister Primum<br />
|-<br />
|'''Conflicts & Deployments'''||<br />
*[[Jaris War]]<br />
*[[Cabbage Crisis]]<br />
*[[Sxiro-Jingdaoese Confrontation]]<br />
**[[Operation Long Haul]]<br />
*[[The River War]]<br />
*[[The Anarchy of Angularis]]<br />
*[[Martial Law in Goldshire]]<br />
*[[Civil War in Goldshire]]<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
The '''Imperial Army''' is the principal land warfare force of the [[Main Page|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]]'' (<small>i.e. the [[wikipedia:General staff|General Staff]]</small>).<br />
<br />
=Formation and Structure=<br />
<br />
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 [[wikipedia:battlegroup_(Army)|battle group]], known as a [[wikipedia:vexillatio|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.<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
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]].<br />
<br />
Following the [[Oustfest Massacre]] administrative divisions were abolished as an unnecessary bridge in the chain of command between the tactical and operational level formations.<br />
<br />
==Structure of Units==<br />
The most typical variety of Imperial Army units are structured as follows:<br><br><br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
!Type of Unit<br />
![[wikipedia:Field Army|Field Army]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Corps|Corps]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Brigade|Legion]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Battalion|Regiment]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Company (military unit)|Squadron]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Troop (military unit)|Troop]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Section (military unit)|Contubernium<br />(Section)]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Fireteam|Fire Team/Detail]]<br />
|-<br />
!Contains<br />
|3 Corps<br />
|8 Legions<br />
|5 Regiments<br />
|10 Squadrons<br />
|5 Troops<br />
|3 Sections<br />
|2 Fire Teams<br />
|4 Individuals<br />
|-<br />
!Personnel<br />
|144,000<br />
|48,000<br />
|6,000<br />
|1,200<br />
|120<br />
|24<br />
|8<br />
|4<br />
|-<br />
!Commanded by<br />
|[[wikipedia:Magister equitum|Magister Equitum]]<br />
|[[wikipedia:Magister militum|Magister Militum]]<br />
|[[wikipedia:Legatus legionis|Legatus Imperii]]<br />
|[[wikipedia:Tribune|Tribunus Laticlavius]]<br />
|Tribunus Angusticlavius<br><small><small>[[wikipedia:Major (United Kingdom)|(Major)]]</small><br>or<br>''Primus Ordinus''<br><small>(Senior Centurion)</small></small><br />
|Centurion<br><small><small>[[wikipedia:Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|(Captain)]]</small><br>or<br>''Optio''<br><small>(Lieutenant)</small></small><br />
|Decanus<br><small>[[wikipedia:Corporal#United Kingdom|(Corporal)]]</small><br />
|[[wikipedia:Chosen man|Chosen Man]]<br />
|}<br />
<br/><br />
<br/><br />
[[File:Imperial Army Structure.png|thumb|right|Units of the Imperial Army and their subordinate components]]<br />
<br/><br />
<br />
=Organisation=<br />
<br />
==Order of Battle==<br />
<br />
*Imperial Army (Exercitus Imperii)<br />
**Collegium Magistri Militum (General Staff)<br />
**Palatini Corps<br />
**Land Command<br />
***Exercitus Comitatenses (Field Army)<br />
***Exercitus Limitanei (Frontier Army)<br />
***Exercitus Ripenses (Riverine Army)<br />
<br />
==Tables of Equipment==<br />
<br />
===Palatini Corps===<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ [[Palatini Corps]]<br />
|+ Commander: ''Magister Militum'' '''[[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion]]''', ''Dominus, rector et imperator di Cabbagefall & patronus di familia''<br />
|+ Home Base: [[Imperial Forces#Shirekeep Garrison|Shirekeep Garrison]]<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
! scope="col" |Aircraft/Rotorcraft<br />
|-<br />
|[[Order of Kampioens]] ||.||.||25,000||100||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
By a minor historical quirk, the Kaiser's personal bodyguard, the [[Order of Kampioens|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. <br />
<br><br />
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.<br />
<br />
===Land Command===<br />
<br />
====The Field Army====<br />
[[File:20161105 TOE IA Legion HQ Troop.png|250px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><small>Example Table of Equipment (TOE) for a Legate's command troop in the Field Army</small></div>]]<br />
[[File:20161014 TOE IA Comitatus Squadron.png|250px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><small>Example Table of Equipment (TOE) for a Comitatus Squadron in the Field Army</small></div>]]<br />
[[File:20161111 TOE IA AT-Inf Troop.png|250px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><small>Example Table of Equipment (TOE) for a troop of Anti-Tank Infantry in the Field Army</small></div>]]<br />
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. <br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ I Corps<br />
|+ Commander: ''Magister Equitum'' '''Royston Merrick the Younger''', ''Dominus, Vir Egregius, Dux Bellorum & patronus di familia''.<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Compagnia Familia del Merrick||Magister Equitum Royston Merrick Jnr.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Fereydoun Payam Attar||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Alexander Beresford||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LV Legio||Legatus Imperii Donnchard||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LVI Legio||Legatus Imperii Seaghdha Sarsfield||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LVII Legio||Legatus Imperii Charles Livingston||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LVIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Evander Cameron||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LIX Legio||Legatus Imperii Teófilo O'Higgins||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LX Legio||Legatus Imperii Manuel Soublette||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXI Legio||Legatus Imperill Porfirio Uribe||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ II Corps<br />
|+ Commander: Magister Militum Abolfazl Shahzad Khoroushi<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Abolfazl Shahzad Khoroushi||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXII Legio||Legatus Imperii Tadeo Roa||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Ernst Johan Stackelberg||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Karl Jacob Stackelberg||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXV Legio||Legatus Imperii Klaus Meyer||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXVI Legio||Legatus Imperii Adolf Tegethoff||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXVII Legio||Legatus Imperii Tobias Bremer||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXVIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Peter von Hagenbach||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXIX Legio||Legatus Imperii Gregor Colvin||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ IX Corps<br />
|+ Commander: Magister Militum Behnam Kambiz Rostami<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Behnam Kambiz Rostami||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXX Legio||Legatus Imperii Joachim Ursus||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXXI Legio||Legatus Imperii Riccardo Huerlingdorp||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXXII Legio||Legatus Imperii Antonio de Nebrija||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXXIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Rostam Hafiz||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXXIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Piarres Nafarroakoa||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXXV Legio||Legatus Imperii Gustavus Peralta||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXXVI Legio||Legatus Imperii Constantine Plantagenet||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXXVII Legio||Legatus Imperii Heinrich Starkey||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
====The Frontier Army====<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ III Corps<br />
|+ Magister Equitum Hugh O'Neill, Dominus, Vir Egregius, Dux Bellorum & patronus di familia.<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Equitum||Magister Equitum Hugh On'Neill||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Yasin Bahadur Khoroushi||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Sigihard Brune||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXI Legio||Legatus Imperii Fridwald Fried||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXII Legio||Legatus Imperii Theodoard Friduman Baumer||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Bruno Rambert Strohkirch||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Gebhard Heike Yount||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXVII Legio||Legatus Imperii Herbert Alle Beckert||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXVIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Reto Sigiheri Schumacher||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXIX Legio||Legatus Imperii Ime Leudoberct Aikema||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ IV Corps<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Hassan Soroush Khoroushi||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|I Legio Bersaglieri||Legatus Imperii Ewald Ermenrich Ionesco||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|II Legio Littorio||Legatus Imperii Waldomar Hermanus Dumitru||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|III Legio San Marco||Legatus Imperii Meino Ionuț Vasile||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|IV Legio Monterosa||Legatus Imperii Baugulf Seneca Șerban||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|V Legio||Legatus Imperii Teodor Doru Vasile||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XII Legio Scholae Evocati||Legatus Imperii Quintus Tacitus Cojocaru||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Iancu Hortensius||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XX Legio||Legatus Imperii Iancu Hortensius||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ VI Corps<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Akbar Jalal Alinejad||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XXX Legio||Legatus Imperii Godascalc Berahthram Vasilescu||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXI Legio||Legatus Imperii Ștefan Tudor Adam||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXII Legio||Legatus Imperii Ansovald Aldebrand Popescu||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Vespasianus Pompeius||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Darius Hludowig Șerban||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXV Legio||Legatus Imperii Bahman Eskandar Alinejad||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXVI Legio||Legatus Imperii Ahmad Jahangir Alinejad||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXVII Legio||Legatus Imperii Jalal Masood Alinejad||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
====The Riverine Army====<br />
<br />
Responsible for the defence of the [[Elwynn (River)|River Elwynn]] and the approaches to [[Shirekeep]].<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ V Corps Classis Rubrum<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Equitum||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Praefectus Classis||.||9||9||0||1<br />
|-<br />
|VI Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|VII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|VIII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|IX Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|X Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XI Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ VII Corps Classis Albrum<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Praefectus Classis||.||9||9||0||1<br />
|-<br />
|XXXVIII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XXXIX Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XL Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLI Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLIII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLIV Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLV Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ VIII Corps Classis Puteulanum<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Praefectus Classis||.||9||9||0||1<br />
|-<br />
|XLVI Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLVII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLVIII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLIX Legio ||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|L Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LI Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LIII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Ships:<br><br />
[[wikipedia:Landing Craft Assault|Trireme]] - 36 Marines, 4 crew<br><br />
[[wikipedia:Landing ship, infantry|Quadrireme]] - 1,500 Marines, 300 crew<br><br />
[[wikipedia:Landing Ship, Tank|Quinqereme]] - 22 [[Horjin Armoured Fighting Vehicle]], 217 marines, 98 crew<br><br />
<br />
Command Ranks:<br />
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<br />
<br />
====The Reserve Army====<br />
<br />
The Reserve Army was established in [[Goldshire]] in 1644 to provide the Imperial Army with a pool of manpower and formations to replace units worn down through attrition in combat.<br />
<br />
=Recruitment and Training=<br />
<br />
The Imperial Army recruits exclusively from [[Shirekeep]] and the [[Subdivision#Imperial Dominions|Imperial Dominions]] as well as any territory that they might temporarily occupy, such as Goldshire during the period of [[Martial Law in Goldshire|martial law]].<br />
<br />
Recruitment can include the taking in of volunteers, but also frequently relies upon forms of impressment, notably the [[Impressment Service|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 (River)|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. <br />
<br />
=History=<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
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|align=center colspan=2 | <center>'''Imperial Army'''<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
[[Image:New_flag_Shireroth.png|150px]]</center><br />
|-<br />
|'''Active:'''|| 6149 ASC - ''Present''<br />
|-<br />
|'''Motto'''||''Ignis et Victoria''<br />
|-<br />
|'''In use by:'''|| [[Imperial Forces]]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Allegiance:'''|| Shireroth<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
----<br />
|-<br />
|'''Type:''' || Land Forces<br />
|-<br />
|'''Size:''' || 600,000 personnel<br /><small>12,000 [[Battle Wagon]]<br />
3,072 [[GV(MBT)-1 Bandersnatch]]<br /><br />
2,400 [[GV(SPG)-2 Jabberwocky]]<br /><br />
4,176 [[GV(LU)-3 Boojum]]<br /><br />
2,400 [[GV(CV)-4 Red Queen]]<br /><br />
4,704 [[Horjin Armoured Fighting Vehicle|Horjin AFV]]<br /><br />
5,544 [[Horjin Armoured Fighting Vehicle|Horjin APC]]<br /><br />
432 [[Horjin Armoured Fighting Vehicle|Horjin EWV]]<br /><br />
1,056 [[IMW-2 Spidertank]]<br /><br />
288 [[IMW-3 Snark]]<br /><br />
4,176 [[Trump Radar Tracking Autocannon]]<br /><br />
2,400 [[80mm Field Gun]]<br />156 landing craft<br /></small><br />
<br />
|-<br />
|'''Nickname:''' || ''None yet''<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
----<br />
|-<br />
|'''Current Commander:'''|| Magister Primum<br />
|-<br />
|'''Conflicts & Deployments'''||<br />
*[[Jaris War]]<br />
*[[Cabbage Crisis]]<br />
*[[Sxiro-Jingdaoese Confrontation]]<br />
**[[Operation Long Haul]]<br />
*[[The River War]]<br />
*[[The Anarchy of Angularis]]<br />
*[[Martial Law in Goldshire]]<br />
*[[Civil War in Goldshire]]<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
The '''Imperial Army''' is the principal land warfare force of the [[Main Page|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]]'' (<small>i.e. the [[wikipedia:General staff|General Staff]]</small>).<br />
<br />
=Formation and Structure=<br />
<br />
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 [[wikipedia:battlegroup_(Army)|battle group]], known as a [[wikipedia:vexillatio|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.<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
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]].<br />
<br />
Following the [[Oustfest Massacre]] administrative divisions were abolished as an unnecessary bridge in the chain of command between the tactical and operational level formations.<br />
<br />
==Structure of Units==<br />
The most typical variety of Imperial Army units are structured as follows:<br><br><br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
!Type of Unit<br />
![[wikipedia:Field Army|Field Army]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Corps|Corps]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Brigade|Legion]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Battalion|Regiment]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Company (military unit)|Squadron]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Troop (military unit)|Troop]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Section (military unit)|Contubernium<br />(Section)]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Fireteam|Fire Team/Detail]]<br />
|-<br />
!Contains<br />
|3 Corps<br />
|8 Legions<br />
|5 Regiments<br />
|10 Squadrons<br />
|5 Troops<br />
|3 Sections<br />
|2 Fire Teams<br />
|4 Individuals<br />
|-<br />
!Personnel<br />
|144,000<br />
|48,000<br />
|6,000<br />
|1,200<br />
|120<br />
|24<br />
|8<br />
|4<br />
|-<br />
!Commanded by<br />
|[[wikipedia:Magister equitum|Magister Equitum]]<br />
|[[wikipedia:Magister militum|Magister Militum]]<br />
|[[wikipedia:Legatus legionis|Legatus Imperii]]<br />
|[[wikipedia:Tribune|Tribunus Laticlavius]]<br />
|Tribunus Angusticlavius<br><small><small>[[wikipedia:Major (United Kingdom)|(Major)]]</small><br>or<br>''Primus Ordinus''<br><small>(Senior Centurion)</small></small><br />
|Centurion<br><small><small>[[wikipedia:Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|(Captain)]]</small><br>or<br>''Optio''<br><small>(Lieutenant)</small></small><br />
|Decanus<br><small>[[wikipedia:Corporal#United Kingdom|(Corporal)]]</small><br />
|[[wikipedia:Chosen man|Chosen Man]]<br />
|}<br />
<br/><br />
<br/><br />
[[File:Imperial Army Structure.png|thumb|right|Units of the Imperial Army and their subordinate components]]<br />
<br/><br />
<br />
=Organisation=<br />
<br />
==Order of Battle==<br />
<br />
*Imperial Army (Exercitus Imperii)<br />
**Collegium Magistri Militum (General Staff)<br />
**Palatini Corps<br />
**Land Command<br />
***Exercitus Comitatenses (Field Army)<br />
***Exercitus Limitanei (Frontier Army)<br />
***Exercitus Ripenses (Riverine Army)<br />
<br />
==Tables of Equipment==<br />
<br />
===Palatini Corps===<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ [[Palatini Corps]]<br />
|+ Commander: ''Magister Militum'' '''[[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion]]''', ''Dominus, rector et imperator di Cabbagefall & patronus di familia''<br />
|+ Home Base: [[Imperial Forces#Shirekeep Garrison|Shirekeep Garrison]]<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
! scope="col" |Aircraft/Rotorcraft<br />
|-<br />
|[[Order of Kampioens]] ||.||.||25,000||100||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
By a minor historical quirk, the Kaiser's personal bodyguard, the [[Order of Kampioens|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. <br />
<br><br />
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.<br />
<br />
===Land Command===<br />
<br />
====The Field Army====<br />
[[File:20161105 TOE IA Legion HQ Troop.png|250px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><small>Example Table of Equipment (TOE) for a Legate's command troop in the Field Army</small></div>]]<br />
[[File:20161014 TOE IA Comitatus Squadron.png|250px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><small>Example Table of Equipment (TOE) for a Comitatus Squadron in the Field Army</small></div>]]<br />
[[File:20161111 TOE IA AT-Inf Troop.png|250px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><small>Example Table of Equipment (TOE) for a troop of Anti-Tank Infantry in the Field Army</small></div>]]<br />
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. <br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ I Corps<br />
|+ Commander: ''Magister Equitum'' '''Royston Merrick the Younger''', ''Dominus, Vir Egregius, Dux Bellorum & patronus di familia''.<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Compagnia Familia del Merrick||Magister Equitum Royston Merrick Jnr.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Fereydoun Payam Attar||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Alexander Beresford||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LV Legio||Legatus Imperii Donnchard||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LVI Legio||Legatus Imperii Seaghdha Sarsfield||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LVII Legio||Legatus Imperii Charles Livingston||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LVIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Evander Cameron||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LIX Legio||Legatus Imperii Teófilo O'Higgins||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LX Legio||Legatus Imperii Manuel Soublette||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXI Legio||Legatus Imperill Porfirio Uribe||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ II Corps<br />
|+ Commander: Magister Militum Abolfazl Shahzad Khoroushi<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Abolfazl Shahzad Khoroushi||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXII Legio||Legatus Imperii Tadeo Roa||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Ernst Johan Stackelberg||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Karl Jacob Stackelberg||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXV Legio||Legatus Imperii Klaus Meyer||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXVI Legio||Legatus Imperii Adolf Tegethoff||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXVII Legio||Legatus Imperii Tobias Bremer||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXVIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Peter von Hagenbach||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXIX Legio||Legatus Imperii Gregor Colvin||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ IX Corps<br />
|+ Commander: Magister Militum Behnam Kambiz Rostami<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Behnam Kambiz Rostami||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXX Legio||Legatus Imperii Joachim Ursus||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXXI Legio||Legatus Imperii Riccardo Huerlingdorp||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXXII Legio||Legatus Imperii Antonio de Nebrija||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXXIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Rostam Hafiz||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXXIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Piarres Nafarroakoa||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXXV Legio||Legatus Imperii Gustavus Peralta||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXXVI Legio||Legatus Imperii Constantine Plantagenet||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXXVII Legio||Legatus Imperii Heinrich Starkey||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
====The Frontier Army====<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ III Corps<br />
|+ Magister Equitum Hugh O'Neill, Dominus, Vir Egregius, Dux Bellorum & patronus di familia.<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Equitum||Magister Equitum Hugh On'Neill||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Yasin Bahadur Khoroushi||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Sigihard Brune||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXI Legio||Legatus Imperii Fridwald Fried||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXII Legio||Legatus Imperii Theodoard Friduman Baumer||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Bruno Rambert Strohkirch||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Gebhard Heike Yount||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXVII Legio||Legatus Imperii Herbert Alle Beckert||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXVIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Reto Sigiheri Schumacher||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXIX Legio||Legatus Imperii Ime Leudoberct Aikema||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ IV Corps<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Hassan Soroush Khoroushi||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|I Legio Bersaglieri||Legatus Imperii Ewald Ermenrich Ionesco||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|II Legio Littorio||Legatus Imperii Waldomar Hermanus Dumitru||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|III Legio San Marco||Legatus Imperii Meino Ionuț Vasile||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|IV Legio Monterosa||Legatus Imperii Baugulf Seneca Șerban||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|V Legio||Legatus Imperii Teodor Doru Vasile||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XII Legio Scholae Evocati||Legatus Imperii Quintus Tacitus Cojocaru||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Iancu Hortensius||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XX Legio||Legatus Imperii Iancu Hortensius||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ VI Corps<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Akbar Jalal Alinejad||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XXX Legio||Legatus Imperii Godascalc Berahthram Vasilescu||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXI Legio||Legatus Imperii Ștefan Tudor Adam||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXII Legio||Legatus Imperii Ansovald Aldebrand Popescu||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Vespasianus Pompeius||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Darius Hludowig Șerban||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXV Legio||Legatus Imperii Bahman Eskandar Alinejad||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXVI Legio||Legatus Imperii Ahmad Jahangir Alinejad||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXVII Legio||Legatus Imperii Jalal Masood Alinejad||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
====The Riverine Army====<br />
<br />
Responsible for the defence of the [[Elwynn (River)|River Elwynn]] and the approaches to [[Shirekeep]].<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ V Corps Classis Rubrum<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Equitum||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Praefectus Classis||.||9||9||0||1<br />
|-<br />
|VI Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|VII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|VIII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|IX Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|X Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XI Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ VII Corps Classis Albrum<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Praefectus Classis||.||9||9||0||1<br />
|-<br />
|XXXVIII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XXXIX Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XL Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLI Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLIII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLIV Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLV Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ VIII Corps Classis Puteulanum<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Praefectus Classis||.||9||9||0||1<br />
|-<br />
|XLVI Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLVII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLVIII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLIX Legio ||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|L Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LI Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LIII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Ships:<br><br />
[[wikipedia:Landing Craft Assault|Trireme]] - 36 Marines, 4 crew<br><br />
[[wikipedia:Landing ship, infantry|Quadrireme]] - 1,500 Marines, 300 crew<br><br />
[[wikipedia:Landing Ship, Tank|Quinqereme]] - 22 [[Horjin Armoured Fighting Vehicle]], 217 marines, 98 crew<br><br />
<br />
Command Ranks:<br />
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<br />
<br />
====The Reserve Army====<br />
<br />
The Reserve Army was established in [[Goldshire]] in 1644 to provide the Imperial Army with a pool of manpower and formations to replace units worn down through attrition in combat.<br />
<br />
=Recruitment and Training=<br />
<br />
The Imperial Army recruits exclusively from [[Shirekeep]] and the [[Subdivision#Imperial Dominions|Imperial Dominions]] as well as any territory that they might temporarily occupy, such as Goldshire during the period of [[Martial Law in Goldshire|martial law]].<br />
<br />
Recruitment can include the taking in of volunteers, but also frequently relies upon forms of impressment, notably the [[Impressment Service|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 (River)|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. <br />
<br />
=History=<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
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<div>{| class="toccolours" style="float:right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; font-size: 85%; width: 30em;background-color:#FFEFEF;border:1px solid #B82C20;"<br />
|align=center colspan=2 | <center>'''Imperial Army'''<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
[[Image:New_flag_Shireroth.png|150px]]</center><br />
|-<br />
|'''Active:'''|| 6149 ASC - ''Present''<br />
|-<br />
|'''Motto'''||''Ignis et Victoria''<br />
|-<br />
|'''In use by:'''|| [[Imperial Forces]]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Allegiance:'''|| Shireroth<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
----<br />
|-<br />
|'''Type:''' || Land Forces<br />
|-<br />
|'''Size:''' || 600,000 personnel<br /><small>2,247 [[Horjin Armoured Fighting Vehicle]]<br/>2,687 [[80mm field gun]]<br />5 [[IMW-3 Snark]]<br/>1 [[IMW-1 Walker]]<br />354 [[GV(MBT)-1 Bandersnatch]]<br />397 [[IMW-2 Spidertank]]<br />272 [[GV(SPG)-2 Jabberwocky]]<br />12 [[GV(LU)-3 Boojum]]<br />420 [[GV(CV)-4 Red Queen]]<br />184 engineering vehicles<br />5,700 SUV's<br />5,500 Medium Trucks<br />156 landing craft</small><br />
<br />
|-<br />
|'''Nickname:''' || ''None yet''<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
----<br />
|-<br />
|'''Current Commander:'''|| Magister Primum<br />
|-<br />
|'''Conflicts & Deployments'''||<br />
*[[Jaris War]]<br />
*[[Cabbage Crisis]]<br />
*[[Sxiro-Jingdaoese Confrontation]]<br />
**[[Operation Long Haul]]<br />
*[[The River War]]<br />
*[[The Anarchy of Angularis]]<br />
*[[Martial Law in Goldshire]]<br />
*[[Civil War in Goldshire]]<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
The '''Imperial Army''' is the principal land warfare force of the [[Main Page|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]]'' (<small>i.e. the [[wikipedia:General staff|General Staff]]</small>).<br />
<br />
=Formation and Structure=<br />
<br />
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 [[wikipedia:battlegroup_(Army)|battle group]], known as a [[wikipedia:vexillatio|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.<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
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]].<br />
<br />
Following the [[Oustfest Massacre]] administrative divisions were abolished as an unnecessary bridge in the chain of command between the tactical and operational level formations.<br />
<br />
==Structure of Units==<br />
The most typical variety of Imperial Army units are structured as follows:<br><br><br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
!Type of Unit<br />
![[wikipedia:Field Army|Field Army]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Corps|Corps]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Brigade|Legion]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Battalion|Regiment]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Company (military unit)|Squadron]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Troop (military unit)|Troop]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Section (military unit)|Contubernium<br />(Section)]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Fireteam|Fire Team/Detail]]<br />
|-<br />
!Contains<br />
|3 Corps<br />
|8 Legions<br />
|5 Regiments<br />
|10 Squadrons<br />
|5 Troops<br />
|3 Sections<br />
|2 Fire Teams<br />
|4 Individuals<br />
|-<br />
!Personnel<br />
|144,000<br />
|48,000<br />
|6,000<br />
|1,200<br />
|120<br />
|24<br />
|8<br />
|4<br />
|-<br />
!Commanded by<br />
|[[wikipedia:Magister equitum|Magister Equitum]]<br />
|[[wikipedia:Magister militum|Magister Militum]]<br />
|[[wikipedia:Legatus legionis|Legatus Imperii]]<br />
|[[wikipedia:Tribune|Tribunus Laticlavius]]<br />
|Tribunus Angusticlavius<br><small><small>[[wikipedia:Major (United Kingdom)|(Major)]]</small><br>or<br>''Primus Ordinus''<br><small>(Senior Centurion)</small></small><br />
|Centurion<br><small><small>[[wikipedia:Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|(Captain)]]</small><br>or<br>''Optio''<br><small>(Lieutenant)</small></small><br />
|Decanus<br><small>[[wikipedia:Corporal#United Kingdom|(Corporal)]]</small><br />
|[[wikipedia:Chosen man|Chosen Man]]<br />
|}<br />
<br/><br />
<br/><br />
[[File:Imperial Army Structure.png|thumb|right|Units of the Imperial Army and their subordinate components]]<br />
<br/><br />
<br />
=Organisation=<br />
<br />
==Order of Battle==<br />
<br />
*Imperial Army (Exercitus Imperii)<br />
**Collegium Magistri Militum (General Staff)<br />
**Palatini Corps<br />
**Land Command<br />
***Exercitus Comitatenses (Field Army)<br />
***Exercitus Limitanei (Frontier Army)<br />
***Exercitus Ripenses (Riverine Army)<br />
<br />
==Tables of Equipment==<br />
<br />
===Palatini Corps===<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ [[Palatini Corps]]<br />
|+ Commander: ''Magister Militum'' '''[[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion]]''', ''Dominus, rector et imperator di Cabbagefall & patronus di familia''<br />
|+ Home Base: [[Imperial Forces#Shirekeep Garrison|Shirekeep Garrison]]<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
! scope="col" |Aircraft/Rotorcraft<br />
|-<br />
|[[Order of Kampioens]] ||.||.||25,000||100||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
By a minor historical quirk, the Kaiser's personal bodyguard, the [[Order of Kampioens|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. <br />
<br><br />
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.<br />
<br />
===Land Command===<br />
<br />
====The Field Army====<br />
[[File:20161105 TOE IA Legion HQ Troop.png|250px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><small>Example Table of Equipment (TOE) for a Legate's command troop in the Field Army</small></div>]]<br />
[[File:20161014 TOE IA Comitatus Squadron.png|250px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><small>Example Table of Equipment (TOE) for a Comitatus Squadron in the Field Army</small></div>]]<br />
[[File:20161111 TOE IA AT-Inf Troop.png|250px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><small>Example Table of Equipment (TOE) for a troop of Anti-Tank Infantry in the Field Army</small></div>]]<br />
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. <br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ I Corps<br />
|+ Commander: ''Magister Equitum'' '''Royston Merrick the Younger''', ''Dominus, Vir Egregius, Dux Bellorum & patronus di familia''.<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Compagnia Familia del Merrick||Magister Equitum Royston Merrick Jnr.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Fereydoun Payam Attar||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Alexander Beresford||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LV Legio||Legatus Imperii Donnchard||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LVI Legio||Legatus Imperii Seaghdha Sarsfield||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LVII Legio||Legatus Imperii Charles Livingston||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LVIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Evander Cameron||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LIX Legio||Legatus Imperii Teófilo O'Higgins||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LX Legio||Legatus Imperii Manuel Soublette||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXI Legio||Legatus Imperill Porfirio Uribe||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ II Corps<br />
|+ Commander: Magister Militum Abolfazl Shahzad Khoroushi<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Abolfazl Shahzad Khoroushi||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXII Legio||Legatus Imperii Tadeo Roa||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Ernst Johan Stackelberg||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Karl Jacob Stackelberg||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXV Legio||Legatus Imperii Klaus Meyer||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXVI Legio||Legatus Imperii Adolf Tegethoff||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXVII Legio||Legatus Imperii Tobias Bremer||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXVIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Peter von Hagenbach||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXIX Legio||Legatus Imperii Gregor Colvin||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ IX Corps<br />
|+ Commander: Magister Militum Behnam Kambiz Rostami<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Behnam Kambiz Rostami||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXX Legio||Legatus Imperii Joachim Ursus||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXXI Legio||Legatus Imperii Riccardo Huerlingdorp||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXXII Legio||Legatus Imperii Antonio de Nebrija||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXXIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Rostam Hafiz||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXXIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Piarres Nafarroakoa||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXXV Legio||Legatus Imperii Gustavus Peralta||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXXVI Legio||Legatus Imperii Constantine Plantagenet||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|LXXVII Legio||Legatus Imperii Heinrich Starkey||57,121||6,000||979||414<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
====The Frontier Army====<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ III Corps<br />
|+ Magister Equitum Hugh O'Neill, Dominus, Vir Egregius, Dux Bellorum & patronus di familia.<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Equitum||Magister Equitum Hugh On'Neill||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Yasin Bahadur Khoroushi||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Sigihard Brune||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXI Legio||Legatus Imperii Fridwald Fried||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXII Legio||Legatus Imperii Theodoard Friduman Baumer||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Bruno Rambert Strohkirch||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Gebhard Heike Yount||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXVII Legio||Legatus Imperii Herbert Alle Beckert||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXVIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Reto Sigiheri Schumacher||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXIX Legio||Legatus Imperii Ime Leudoberct Aikema||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ IV Corps<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Hassan Soroush Khoroushi||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|I Legio Bersaglieri||Legatus Imperii Ewald Ermenrich Ionesco||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|II Legio Littorio||Legatus Imperii Waldomar Hermanus Dumitru||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|III Legio San Marco||Legatus Imperii Meino Ionuț Vasile||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|IV Legio Monterosa||Legatus Imperii Baugulf Seneca Șerban||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|V Legio||Legatus Imperii Teodor Doru Vasile||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XII Legio Scholae Evocati||Legatus Imperii Quintus Tacitus Cojocaru||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Iancu Hortensius||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XX Legio||Legatus Imperii Iancu Hortensius||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ VI Corps<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Akbar Jalal Alinejad||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XXX Legio||Legatus Imperii Godascalc Berahthram Vasilescu||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXI Legio||Legatus Imperii Ștefan Tudor Adam||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXII Legio||Legatus Imperii Ansovald Aldebrand Popescu||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Vespasianus Pompeius||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Darius Hludowig Șerban||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXV Legio||Legatus Imperii Bahman Eskandar Alinejad||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXVI Legio||Legatus Imperii Ahmad Jahangir Alinejad||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXVII Legio||Legatus Imperii Jalal Masood Alinejad||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
====The Riverine Army====<br />
<br />
Responsible for the defence of the [[Elwynn (River)|River Elwynn]] and the approaches to [[Shirekeep]].<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ V Corps Classis Rubrum<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Equitum||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Praefectus Classis||.||9||9||0||1<br />
|-<br />
|VI Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|VII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|VIII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|IX Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|X Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XI Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ VII Corps Classis Albrum<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Praefectus Classis||.||9||9||0||1<br />
|-<br />
|XXXVIII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XXXIX Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XL Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLI Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLIII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLIV Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLV Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ VIII Corps Classis Puteulanum<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Praefectus Classis||.||9||9||0||1<br />
|-<br />
|XLVI Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLVII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLVIII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLIX Legio ||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|L Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
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Ships:<br><br />
[[wikipedia:Landing Craft Assault|Trireme]] - 36 Marines, 4 crew<br><br />
[[wikipedia:Landing ship, infantry|Quadrireme]] - 1,500 Marines, 300 crew<br><br />
[[wikipedia:Landing Ship, Tank|Quinqereme]] - 22 [[Horjin Armoured Fighting Vehicle]], 217 marines, 98 crew<br><br />
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Command Ranks:<br />
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<br />
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====The Reserve Army====<br />
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The Reserve Army was established in [[Goldshire]] in 1644 to provide the Imperial Army with a pool of manpower and formations to replace units worn down through attrition in combat.<br />
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=Recruitment and Training=<br />
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The Imperial Army recruits exclusively from [[Shirekeep]] and the [[Subdivision#Imperial Dominions|Imperial Dominions]] as well as any territory that they might temporarily occupy, such as Goldshire during the period of [[Martial Law in Goldshire|martial law]].<br />
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Recruitment can include the taking in of volunteers, but also frequently relies upon forms of impressment, notably the [[Impressment Service|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 (River)|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. <br />
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=History=<br />
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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.<br />
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[[Category:Imperial Forces]]</div>Tokaray al-osmanhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=XXIII_Corps_(The_Zjandarian_Guards)&diff=27507XXIII Corps (The Zjandarian Guards)2017-01-25T04:09:27Z<p>Tokaray al-osman: </p>
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|align=center colspan=2 | <center>'''The Zjandarian Guards <small>(10th Division)</small>'''<br />
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[[Image:Zjandarian Guards Crest.png||100px]]</center><br />
|-<br />
|'''Active:'''|| 21 Nomeziooqu 1637&ndash;<br />
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|'''Motto'''|| ''Leading the Charge''<br />
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|'''In use by:'''|| [[Territorial Defence Corps]] <small>([[Union Defence Force|UDF]])</small><br />
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|'''Allegiance:'''|| [[Elwynn]]<br />
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|'''Type:''' || Mechanised Infantry Division<br />
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|'''Size:''' || <br />
*Nominal Strength: 20,000<br />
*Active Strength: 18,364 <br />
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|'''Nicknames:''' || <br />
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|'''Commander:'''|| Generalmajor [[Daniyal Dravot|Daniyal Sikander Dravot]]<br />
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|'''Deployments'''||<br />
*[[The Anarchy of Angularis]] <br />
*[[Year of the Four Kaisers]]<br />
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Formed in 1637 from the loyalist Behsazi militia groups that operated in [[Alalehzamin and Utasia]] during the [[The River War|River War]], the 10th Division of the [[Territorial Defence Corps]], known as the '''Zjandarian Guards''' (derived from the historic [[Babkhi]] name of ''Lesser Zjandaria'' formerly applied to the [[Deep South]]), was the first division strength formation to be deployed into the [[Vale of Angularis]] in 1639 to combat a widespread [[The Anarchy of Angularis|insurgency]]. The deployment exposed weaknesses in [[Union Defence Force|UDF's]] logistical supply chain which were subsequently addressed by the [[Union Defence Force#Tulloch Reforms|Tulloch Reforms]] implemented by the Zjandarian Guard's newly appointed Generalmajor, Petro Tulloch, and subsequently rolled out across the entire UDF.<br />
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==Commanding Officers==<br />
*1637&ndash;1638: Generalmajor Kaveh Parvin<br />
*1638&ndash;1639: Generalmajor Farbtafeln (arrested for murdering a civilian management consultant during the [[The Anarchy of Angularis|Anarchy of Angularis]])<br />
*1639&ndash;1644: Generalmajor Petro Tulloch<br />
*1644&ndash;''the Present'': Generalmajor [[Daniyal Dravot|Daniyal Sikander Dravot]]<br />
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==Deployments==<br />
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*1639: [[Vale of Angularis]], [[The Anarchy of Angularis#The Hjalmar Offensive Operation|Counter-Insurgency Operations]]<br />
*1644: [[Vale of Angularis]], [[Angularis Offensive Operation]]<br />
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[[Category:Union Defence Force]]</div>Tokaray al-osmanhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=XXIII_Corps_(The_Zjandarian_Guards)&diff=27506XXIII Corps (The Zjandarian Guards)2017-01-25T04:08:42Z<p>Tokaray al-osman: /* Deployments */</p>
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|align=center colspan=2 | <center>'''The Zjandarian Guards <small>(10th Division)</small>'''<br />
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[[Image:Zjandarian Guards Crest.png||100px]]</center><br />
|-<br />
|'''Active:'''|| 21 Nomeziooqu 1637&ndash;<br />
|-<br />
|'''Motto'''|| ''Leading the Charge''<br />
|-<br />
|'''In use by:'''|| [[Territorial Defence Corps]] <small>([[Union Defence Force|UDF]])</small><br />
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|'''Allegiance:'''|| [[Elwynn]]<br />
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|'''Type:''' || Mechanised Infantry Division<br />
|-<br />
|'''Size:''' || <br />
*Nominal Strength: 20,000<br />
*Active Strength: 18,364 <br />
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|'''Nicknames:''' || <br />
|-<br />
|'''Commander:'''|| Generalmajor [[Daniyal Dravot|Daniyal Sikander Dravot]]<br />
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|-<br />
|'''Deployments'''||<br />
*[[The Anarchy of Angularis]] <br />
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Formed in 1637 from the loyalist Behsazi militia groups that operated in [[Alalehzamin and Utasia]] during the [[The River War|River War]], the 10th Division of the [[Territorial Defence Corps]], known as the '''Zjandarian Guards''' (derived from the historic [[Babkhi]] name of ''Lesser Zjandaria'' formerly applied to the [[Deep South]]), was the first division strength formation to be deployed into the [[Vale of Angularis]] in 1639 to combat a widespread [[The Anarchy of Angularis|insurgency]]. The deployment exposed weaknesses in [[Union Defence Force|UDF's]] logistical supply chain which were subsequently addressed by the [[Union Defence Force#Tulloch Reforms|Tulloch Reforms]] implemented by the Zjandarian Guard's newly appointed Generalmajor, Petro Tulloch, and subsequently rolled out across the entire UDF.<br />
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==Commanding Officers==<br />
*1637&ndash;1638: Generalmajor Kaveh Parvin<br />
*1638&ndash;1639: Generalmajor Farbtafeln (arrested for murdering a civilian management consultant during the [[The Anarchy of Angularis|Anarchy of Angularis]])<br />
*1639&ndash;1644: Generalmajor Petro Tulloch<br />
*1644&ndash;''the Present'': Generalmajor [[Daniyal Dravot|Daniyal Sikander Dravot]]<br />
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==Deployments==<br />
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*1639: [[Vale of Angularis]], [[The Anarchy of Angularis#The Hjalmar Offensive Operation|Counter-Insurgency Operations]]<br />
*1644: [[Vale of Angularis]], [[Angularis Offensive Operation]]<br />
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[[Category:Union Defence Force]]</div>Tokaray al-osmanhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=Angularis_Offensive_Operation&diff=27505Angularis Offensive Operation2017-01-25T03:52:02Z<p>Tokaray al-osman: /* Background */</p>
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<div>{{Battle<br />
|title= Angularis Offensive Operation<br />
|conflict= [[Year of the Four Kaisers]]<br />
|Battleimage= Mishalan mechs.jpeg<br />
|date= <small>Hyre 24 Oskaltequ &ndash; Ermure 4 Muulantooqu 1644 [[AN]]</small><br />
|place= [[Vale of Angularis]] ([[Elwynn]])<br />
|outcome= Stalemate: Imperial operational successes negated.<br />
|nation1= [[File:New flag Shireroth.png|25px|border|Imperialist]]<small>[[Imperial Forces]] <small>(Myksos/Osmanid Factions)</small></small> <br />
|nation2= [[File:Elwynn Flag2.png|25px|border|Elwynn]] <small>[[Elwynn]]ese Union <small>(Loyalist Faction)</small></small><br />
|nation1comm= <small>[[File:New flag Shireroth.png|25px|border|Imperialist]] [http://www.gotzborg.com/site/index.php?title=Hugh_O%27Neill Sir Hugh O'Neill]<br></small><br />
|nation2comm= <small>[[File:D3KBC1A.png|25px|border|UDF]] [[Daniyal Dravot]] </small><br />
|nation1strength= <small>[[File:New_flag_Shireroth.png|25px|border|Shireroth]][[Imperial Army]]<br />
*<small>[[Imperial Army#The Frontier Army|III Corps]]: 48,000 <br><br />
*[[Imperial Army#The Field Army|IX Corps]]: 48,000</small><br />
|nation2strength=<small>[[File:D3KBC1A.png|25px|border|UDF]][[Union Defence Force]]<br />
*<small>[[10th Division (The Zjandarian Guards)|10th Division]]:18,364<br /></small><br />
[[File:Alalehzamin flag.png|25px|border|Alalehzamin]]Emirati Riddare: 11,045 <br> [[File:Flag Vale of Angularis.png|25px|border|Angularis]] [[Stratioti]]:19,600</small><br />
|nation1cas= <small>TBA</small><br />
|nation2cas= <small>TBA</small><br />
|notes= <br />
}}<br />
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The [[Angularis Offensive Operation]] was a limited incursion by the [[Imperial Forces]] into the territory of the Elwynnese Union in an effort to forestall an invasion of the Imperial Dominions mooted by the [[Landsraad]] as a response to the disputed succession that arose in the wake of the [[Oustfest Massacre]] and the death of [[Kaiser Dominus]]. <br />
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==Background==<br />
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In the wake of the [[Oustfest Massacre]] and the twelve days of anarchy in [[Shirekeep]] which followed the reported death of [[Kaiser Dominus]] under dubious circumstances in a Palace Coup orchestrated by [[Tokaray al-Osman]], [[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion]] and [[Ludovic Verion]] (the so-called KOV Triumvirate). The unity of this new ruling clique, united only in a common loathing of Kaiser Dominus in his later years, was fatally undermined by disagreements concerning the rights of non-human sentient creatures and finally by the decision of Tokaray, then reigning as [[Kaiser Aurangzeb II Steffki]], to attack [[Lichbrook]] rather than [[Elwynn]]. <br />
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The original coalition collapsed after the departure of Ludovic for Blackstone, having followed the Kaiser's example in looting the treasury on the way out, and the decision of Aurangzeb II to abdicate on Ermure the 22nd of Oskaltequ after a reign of a mere one hundred and thirty days. Aurangzeb's chosen successor - Marcus Myksos, was thereby placed in direct competition with the purported heir favoured by Dominus, [[Queen Noor]].<br />
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At the same time, the Alejian Castle session of the [[Landsraad]], whose Prætor and a significant number of Electors had fled Shirekeep following the violent takeover of the city by the coup plotters, had begun on Izillare the 20th of Vixaslaa. As much as the actions of the coup-plotters had aroused disgust and indignation the initial proposal to formed a re-organised Imperial Government led by Dominus' Steward [[Hallbjörn Haraldsson]], was met with deep distrust and suspicion by many Electors who could still remember the bitter fighting of the [[River War]] as well as by those feared the possibility that Elwynn, the most powerful Imperial State, might use the opportunity to capture the institution of the Landsraad and thereby exert greater control over the Imperial Government.<br />
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One of the more eye-catching proposals in the draft resolution was that the Imperial States, backed by Shireroth's treaty allies, should be authorised to invade the Imperial Dominions. The Dominions were those lands still subject to the Kaiser's rule under the charter, albeit with varying degrees of autonomy. These also, in addition to the city of Shirekeep, contained the majority of the garrisons of the [[Imperial Forces]].<br />
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The Imperial Forces, having declared their allegiance to Tokaray, now found their position coming increasingly unstuck, being caught between a new claimant from the [[House of Myksos]] and the threat of armed intervention by the states to install the Ayreon-Kalirion candidate. <br />
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Tokaray meanwhile, having plundered the Treasury, had relocated to [[Mishalan]], home to the Mishalan Garrison, by far and away the largest single concentration of the Imperial Forces on the Benacian continent, considering it a safer place to be rather than trapped in Shirekeep between Lichbrook and Elwynn. Mishalan, although resource rich, industrially developed and well suited as a redoubt, was landlocked and its soviet government, while not fond of Elwynn, could not be expected to endure a long war being waged on its territory for no purpose. It could only be used therefore as a logistics hub and the springboard for whatever the next plan of action would be.<br />
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In consultation with the [[Magister Primum]] and the service chiefs of the Imperial Navy, the Imperial Air Forces and the various commands, Tokaray considered and then rejected various options in turn. The first was an offensive into [[Minarboria]]. This would be ideologically consistent with the manifesto of total war professed at the day of the accession. It was projected that the Field Army could, with its sizeable force of gravtanks, reach the Minarborian capital Sansabury in a mere nineteen hours and reach the sea twenty-four hours after that. This would guarantee access to the sea, permitting a link up with Coastal Command and the Western Armada, as well as accruing the not-inconsiderable industrial capacity of the ''Imperial Shrublands'' to those of Mishalan. This would however leave Mishalan vulnerable to the coalition offensive being debated in the Landsraad. Moreover the rate of attrition of the field army was felt would be excessive if that force was then expected to turn around and fight another war against the Elwynnese and allies in the same period. Another option was to invade [[Amokolia]], whose vast territories dominated much of the western portion of the Benacian continent. To do so would permit the Mishalan Garrison to link up with the forces deployed against the Siserans in [[Dietsland]], [[Puritania]] and [[Voltrue]]. While the Amokolia option would have brought the Imperial Forces into direct and immediate battle against their main opponent, this option would have entailed the commitment of an even greater component of the Field and Frontier Armies than the Minarboria option. The use of strategic weapons was also discussed but discounted as being likely to have a galvanising effect on Shireroth's international allies. <br />
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Finally, it was resolved that the Mishalan Garrison would undertake a more limited operation to secure its tenuous lines of communication with Shirekeep and Goldshire while at the same time bringing sufficient pressure to bear on Lichbrook to prevail upon it to permit the Imperial Forces renewed access to its base facilities and the Amarr oil-fields. In that scenario, the majority of the Mishalan Garrison could be held back to defend the redoubt while two corps were released, flush with air support, to breakout and establish contact with the Riverine Army and the Shirekeep Garrison.<br />
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The great impediment to the advance of the landing ships of the Riverine Army up the [[Elwynn (River)#The Blue Elwynn|Blue Elwynn]] was the West Elwynn Dam situated a little above the city of [[Ardashirshahr]] in the Elwynnese governorate of [[Alalehzamin and Utasia]]. The western landward portion of the dam laid on the opposite bank of the Blue Elwynn to Ardashirhahr on the [[Shores of Angularis]] in the sparsely populated [[Vale of Angularis|vale]] of the same name.<br />
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Administratively Angularis was a subordinate [[Circuit]] of the Emirate of Alalehzamin and Utasia. Excepting [[Babkhi]] and [[Froyalanish]] settlements along the river shore, it was a culturally and ethnically distinct territory set apart from the rest of Elwynn. Moreover it had suffered greatly during the [[The Anarchy of Angularis|conflict]] between the Elwynnese Crown and the [[Dark Orchid Society]] in the years 1635 to 1640.<br />
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For that reason it was considered to be the weakest link in Mishalan's encirclement. It's only official garrison was the [[Elwynnsbrigad 2 Alalehzamin]], a brigade strength armoured formation based in the [[Barrowlands]] where it faced the border with Minarboria. It's 4,265 UDF personnel were augmented by another 2,000 personnel from the Combat Support Services Corps as well as a number of [[Vanic Temple Guard]], [[Stratioti]], [[Corps of the Gentlemen-at-Cudgels|Cudgellers]] and [[Emirati Riddare]], strung out across the interior roads of the Circuit.<br />
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==Preparations== <br />
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==Opposing Forces==<br />
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===Imperials===<br />
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====III Corps====<br />
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====IX Corps====<br />
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====Air and riverine support====<br />
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===Elwynnese===<br />
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====10th Division====<br />
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====Paramilitaries====<br />
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====Air and riverine support====<br />
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==Opposing Commanders==<br />
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===Magister Equitum Sir Hugh O'Neill===<br />
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===Generalmajor Daniyal Sikander Dravot===<br />
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==Course of the battle==<br />
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==Aftermath==<br />
[[Category:Battles]]</div>Tokaray al-osmanhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=Year_of_the_Four_Kaisers&diff=27504Year of the Four Kaisers2017-01-25T03:47:45Z<p>Tokaray al-osman: Created page with "1644, the Year of the Four Kaisers, was a tumultuous moment in Shirerithian History which saw the deposition and murder of Kaiser Dominus, and the emergence of three c..."</p>
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<div>1644, the [[Year of the Four Kaisers]], was a tumultuous moment in Shirerithian History which saw the deposition and murder of [[Kaiser Dominus]], and the emergence of three claimants to the Golden Mango Throne.<br />
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==Kaisers of the year 1644==<br />
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#[[Kaiser Dominus]] ([[Thorgils Tarjeisson]] &ndash; ''Assassinated'')<br />
#[[Kaiser Aurangzeb II Steffki]] ([[Tokaray al-Osman]] &ndash; ''Abdicated'')<br />
#[[Kaiserin Noor]] ([[Queen Noor]] &ndash; ''Favoured successor of Kaiser Dominus'' &ndash; supported by the [[Landsraad]], [[Elwynn]] & [[Lichbrook]])<br />
#[[Kaiser Mors VII]] ([[Marcus Myksos]] &ndash; ''Designated heir by Aurangzeb II'' &ndash; supported by the [[Imperial Government]], [[Imperial Forces]] & [[Goldshire]]) <br />
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==Timeline==<br />
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*13 Nomeziooqu: Oustfest ends in a massacre<br />
*14 Nomeziooqu: Accession proclamation. Imperial Forces declare in favour of Tokaray (Aurangzeb II Steffki)<br />
*24 Nomeziooqu: Abatement of fighting in Shirekeep<br />
*20 Vixaslaa: Alejian Castle session of the Landsraad begins<br />
*2 Oskaltequ: Shelling of Lichkeep (Bad Neighbour)<br />
*6 Oskaltequ: Ludovic calls for the Kaiser's abdication<br />
*7 Oskaltequ: Aurangzeb flees to Mishalan after looting the treasury<br />
*12 Oskaltequ: Lichbrook orders the expulsion of Imperial Government/Imperial Forces<br />
*21 Oskaltequ: Ludovic retires to Blackstone, after looting the treasury<br />
*22 Oskaltequ: Abdication of Aurangzeb, names Marcus Myksos as heir<br />
*24 Oskaltequ: Angularis Offensive Operation begins<br />
*4 Muulantooqu: Angularis Offensive Operation ends<br />
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[[Category:Wars]][[Category:History]]</div>Tokaray al-osmanhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=Oustfest_Massacre&diff=27503Oustfest Massacre2017-01-25T03:26:20Z<p>Tokaray al-osman: </p>
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<div>The [[Oustfest Massacre]][http://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=694&t=18637(1)] was the culmination of a conspiracy and putsch by the clique of nobles from the houses of [[House of Osman|Osman]], [[House of Verion|Verion]] and the [[Dark Orchid Society|Simrani]], supported by the majority of the [[Imperial Forces]] against [[Kaiser Dominus]] and the [[Imperial Government]]. As a consequence, the year 1644 became notorious as the [[Year of the Four Kaisers]].<br />
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==Putschists==<br />
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The Putschists supported the efforts of [[Tokaray al-Osman]] to take power as [[Kaiser Aurangzeb II Steffki]]. The ringleaders of the [[Tokaray Putsch]] included [[Tokaray al-Osman]], [[Ludovic Verion]] and [[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion]]. The plotters were motivated by a combination of personal grievances, ambitions and the ideological influence of [[Khanism]] and the [[Dark Orchid Society]].<br />
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*[[House of Osman]]<br />
*[[House of Verion]]<br />
*[[Dark Orchid Society|House of Simrani]]<br />
*[[Goldshire|Kingdom of Goldshire]]<br />
*[[Ministry of Military Affairs]]<br />
*[[Ministry of the Exterior]]<br />
*[[Office of Bounties and Factorage]]<br />
*[[Chamber of the Crypteia]]<br />
*[[Shirekeep City Guard]]<br />
*[[S.W.O.R.D.]]<br />
*[[Jaysh al-Sathrati]]<br />
*[[Amity]]<br />
*[[Yardistan]]<br />
*[[Iron Company]] / [[Blackstone]]<br />
*[[Babkhi]] Civilians<br />
*[[Imperial Navy of Shireroth#Western Armada|Western Armada]]<br />
*[[Imperial Navy of Shireroth#Coastal Command|Coastal Command]]<br />
*[[Imperial Shirerithian Air Forces#Fighter Command|Fighter Command]]<br />
*[[Imperial Shirerithian Air Forces#Bomber Command|Bomber Command]]<br />
*[[Imperial Shirerithian Air Forces#Strike Command|Strike Command]]<br />
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==Loyalist Forces==<br />
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The Loyalist Forces supported [[Kaiser Dominus]], who has been captured by the putschist group. The fight against the putsch was initially led by acting Squadron Leader [[Rhydian Fithen]] before a more prominent role was taken by the Minister of the Interior, [[Octavius#Mira Octavius-Aryani|Mira Octavius-Aryani]], supported by the [[Prætor]] of the [[Landsraad]], [[Fjǫrleif Hallbjörnsdóttir|Fjǫrleif Llængjarla]]; and Shirekeep's Prefect, [[Audun Joel Ayreon-Kalirion]].<br />
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*[[The Kaiser]]<br />
*[[Imperial Household]]<br />
*[[Prefect|The Prefect of Shirekeep]]<br />
*[[Ministry of the Interior]]<br />
*[[Order of the Sentinels]]<br />
*[[Order of Kampioens]]<br />
*[[ESB-Jörmungandr Group]]<br />
*[[Norse]] Civilians<br />
*[[Landsraad]]<br />
*[[Prætor]]<br />
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Faced by an untenable position in the capital, the Prefect and the Praetor had withdrawn to their estates in Elwynn to raise their regiments of yeomanry and to gather together supports and Imperial Electors who had escaped from the city. Their objective was to begin to put in place Shirekeep under siege and to put resistance to the rule of the usurper onto a legal footing.<br />
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After the death of [[Kaiser Dominus]], [[Rhydian Fithen]] pledged his allegiance to Tokaray al-Osman, who assumed office as [[Kaiser Aurangzeb II Steffki]], and was rewarded with promotion to Squadron Leader, command of his beloved 180 Squadron, and a posting to Yardistan to counter the mustering of Alexandrian and Natopian naval forces.<br />
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==The day of the Oustfest==<br />
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==The course of the Putsch==<br />
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The Landsraad, the Palace of the Prefect, the Ministry of the Interior and the broadcasting apparatus of the Office of Information remained under the control of the 'Loyalists'. There was some talk of an evacuation being mounted from the ESB and SEKEF docks by the Elwynnese, yet those same docks were under the guns of the Jaysh al-Sathrati Panzergrenadier Brigade, whose vehicles had pushed into the Cabbagefall Terminal during the night of the coup – making any attempt by the Riverine Forces of the Union Defence Force to force a passage from Eliria into Shirekeep a risky venture. The Jaysh, using assets liberated from the Goldshire Regulars, had also moved howitzers and Buk launchers into positions opposite Raynor's Keep, providing thereby the means to deliver suppressing fire upon Raynortoo Park if the fighting resumed. While the Prefect, the Praetor and the Steward had all made good their escape, the City Guard and the Crypteia had bagged a goodly haul of wounded and fearful electors, who had been herded down to the Cedrist Worship Hall of the Outer Keep. There subtle pressure was being exerted on them to acclaim the new Kaiser and to elect an interim Praetor, seeing as the official officeholder had reputedly fled to her holiday home in Elwynn.<br />
<br />
The Ministry of the Exterior, the Ministry of Military Affairs, and its adjacent flak-towers, bunkers and depots, connected by a ratline network of tunnels, had remained in the hands of the conspirators. The four legions of the Palatini Corps, the Order of Kampioens, upon finding that they had been locked out of their own bases by S.W.O.R.D. and the Logistics Troops of the Shirerithian Supplies Service, had been given pause in their ferocious attack on Raynor's Keep and had retired a small distance to the north in some disorder. The Landsraad Guard (Scholae Equites Singulares) had sent a force of approximately five-hundred guardsmen to scour Raynortoo Park for any survivors of the initial carnage. These had subsequently been caught up in the exchange of fire between the City Guards' Special Assignments Squad in the Iron Gate Tower and a force of Kampioens from the Legion of Octavius.<br />
<br />
The most active resistance in the city had come from the Scholae legions which had been transferred into the Imperial Constabulary by Kaiser Dominus to remove them from the control of the coup plotters, whom he half-suspected but couldn't quite bring himself to believe that they would dare. Ironically, taking their orders now from the Minister of the Interior, the Scholae Triarii had blown the newly inaugurated Kaiser Dominus Bridge, leaving the Goldshire Tower in the hands of the Jaysh and the Shirekeep Tower as a vital anchor point in the Loyalist front. This complicated matters. Without the bridges, the conspirators, hemmed into their enclave were isolated and vulnerable. Yet, succour came in the form of the presence of the Jaysh on the Goldshire side of the River Elwynn, and also from the declaration of the Imperial Army, the Western Armada and the Imperial Shirerithian Air Forces of their loyalty to the new regime. There would soon be landing craft, helicopters and gravtanks available. In the meantime, there were other bridges. <br />
<br />
Al-Osman had declared, during that unnatural calm, that the [[The Kaiser|Kaiser]] had fallen, under circumstances that remained studiously unexplained, leaving to him the Golden Mango Throne. What the new Kaiser, who announced himself as the second to bear the name of Aurangzeb, proclaimed to the world was a policy of genocide and conquest that perplexed and horrified in equal measure. It did not help soothe the strained nerves of the neighbouring empires that Shireroth had, during the reign of the preceding three Kaisers, built up the largest modern field army in the history of Micras.<br />
<br />
==Pogroms against non-humans==<br />
<br />
==Aftermath==<br />
<br />
Subsequent to the events of the massacre, as the nature of the regime led by Tokaray became more apparent, the [[Subdivision#Imperial States|Imperial States]] of [[Elwynn]] and [[Lichbrook]] came out strongly against the new regime installed in Shirekeep, setting in motion the brief but bloody civil war that ensued and led to the downfall of the ''triumvirate'' of Tokaray, Adam and Ludovic. <br />
<br />
[[Category:Battles]]</div>Tokaray al-osmanhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=Angularis_Offensive_Operation&diff=27502Angularis Offensive Operation2017-01-25T03:15:09Z<p>Tokaray al-osman: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Battle<br />
|title= Angularis Offensive Operation<br />
|conflict= [[Year of the Four Kaisers]]<br />
|Battleimage= Mishalan mechs.jpeg<br />
|date= <small>Hyre 24 Oskaltequ &ndash; Ermure 4 Muulantooqu 1644 [[AN]]</small><br />
|place= [[Vale of Angularis]] ([[Elwynn]])<br />
|outcome= Stalemate: Imperial operational successes negated.<br />
|nation1= [[File:New flag Shireroth.png|25px|border|Imperialist]]<small>[[Imperial Forces]] <small>(Myksos/Osmanid Factions)</small></small> <br />
|nation2= [[File:Elwynn Flag2.png|25px|border|Elwynn]] <small>[[Elwynn]]ese Union <small>(Loyalist Faction)</small></small><br />
|nation1comm= <small>[[File:New flag Shireroth.png|25px|border|Imperialist]] [http://www.gotzborg.com/site/index.php?title=Hugh_O%27Neill Sir Hugh O'Neill]<br></small><br />
|nation2comm= <small>[[File:D3KBC1A.png|25px|border|UDF]] [[Daniyal Dravot]] </small><br />
|nation1strength= <small>[[File:New_flag_Shireroth.png|25px|border|Shireroth]][[Imperial Army]]<br />
*<small>[[Imperial Army#The Frontier Army|III Corps]]: 48,000 <br><br />
*[[Imperial Army#The Field Army|IX Corps]]: 48,000</small><br />
|nation2strength=<small>[[File:D3KBC1A.png|25px|border|UDF]][[Union Defence Force]]<br />
*<small>[[10th Division (The Zjandarian Guards)|10th Division]]:18,364<br /></small><br />
[[File:Alalehzamin flag.png|25px|border|Alalehzamin]]Emirati Riddare: 11,045 <br> [[File:Flag Vale of Angularis.png|25px|border|Angularis]] [[Stratioti]]:19,600</small><br />
|nation1cas= <small>TBA</small><br />
|nation2cas= <small>TBA</small><br />
|notes= <br />
}}<br />
<br />
The [[Angularis Offensive Operation]] was a limited incursion by the [[Imperial Forces]] into the territory of the Elwynnese Union in an effort to forestall an invasion of the Imperial Dominions mooted by the [[Landsraad]] as a response to the disputed succession that arose in the wake of the [[Oustfest Massacre]] and the death of [[Kaiser Dominus]]. <br />
<br />
<br />
==Background==<br />
<br />
In the wake of the [[Oustfest Massacre]] and the twelve days of anarchy in [[Shirekeep]] which followed the reported death of [[Kaiser Dominus]] under dubious circumstances in a Palace Coup orchestrated by [[Tokaray al-Osman]], [[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion]] and [[Ludovic Verion]] (the so-called KOV Triumvirate). The unity of this new ruling clique, united only in a common loathing of Kaiser Dominus in his later years, was fatally undermined by disagreements concerning the rights of non-human sentient creatures and finally by the decision of Tokaray, then reigning as [[Kaiser Aurangzeb II Steffki]], to attack [[Lichbrook]] rather than [[Elwynn]]. <br />
<br />
The original coalition collapsed after the departure of Ludovic for Blackstone, having followed the Kaiser's example in looting the treasury on the way out, and the decision of Aurangzeb II to abdicate on Ermure the 22nd of Oskaltequ after a reign of a mere one hundred and thirty days. Aurangzeb's chosen successor - Marcus Myksos, was thereby placed in direct competition with the purported heir favoured by Dominus, [[Queen Noor]].<br />
<br />
At the same time, the Alejian Castle session of the [[Landsraad]], whose Prætor and a significant number of Electors had fled Shirekeep following the violent takeover of the city by the coup plotters, had begun on Izillare the 20th of Vixaslaa. As much as the actions of the coup-plotters had aroused disgust and indignation the initial proposal to formed a re-organised Imperial Government led by Dominus' Steward [[Hallbjörn Haraldsson]], was met with deep distrust and suspicion by many Electors who could still remember the bitter fighting of the [[River War]] as well as by those feared the possibility that Elwynn, the most powerful Imperial State, might use the opportunity to capture the institution of the Landsraad and thereby exert greater control over the Imperial Government.<br />
<br />
One of the more eye-catching proposals in the draft resolution was that the Imperial States, backed by Shireroth's treaty allies, should be authorised to invade the Imperial Dominions. The Dominions were those lands still subject to the Kaiser's rule under the charter, albeit with varying degrees of autonomy. These also, in addition to the city of Shirekeep, contained the majority of the garrisons of the [[Imperial Forces]].<br />
<br />
The Imperial Forces, having declared their allegiance to Tokaray, now found their position coming increasingly unstuck, being caught between a new claimant from the [[House of Myksos]] and the threat of armed intervention by the states to install the Ayreon-Kalirion candidate. <br />
<br />
Tokaray meanwhile, having plundered the Treasury, had relocated to [[Mishalan]], home to the Mishalan Garrison, by far and away the largest single concentration of the Imperial Forces on the Benacian continent, considering it a safer place to be rather than trapped in Shirekeep between Lichbrook and Elwynn. Mishalan, although resource rich, industrially developed and well suited as a redoubt, was landlocked and its soviet government, while not fond of Elwynn, could not be expected to endure a long war being waged on its territory for no purpose. It could only be used therefore as a logistics hub and the springboard for whatever the next plan of action would be.<br />
<br />
In consultation with the [[Magister Primum]] and the service chiefs of the Imperial Navy, the Imperial Air Forces and the various commands, Tokaray considered and then rejected various options in turn. The first was an offensive into [[Minarboria]]. This would be ideologically consistent with the manifesto of total war professed at the day of the accession. It was projected that the Field Army could, with its sizeable force of gravtanks, reach the Minarborian capital Sansabury in a mere nineteen hours and reach the sea twenty-four hours after that. This would guarantee access to the sea, permitting a link up with Coastal Command and the Western Armada, as well as accruing the not-inconsiderable industrial capacity of the ''Imperial Shrublands'' to those of Mishalan. This would however leave Mishalan vulnerable to the coalition offensive being debated in the Landsraad. Moreover the rate of attrition of the field army was felt would be excessive if that force was then expected to turn around and fight another war against the Elwynnese and allies in the same period. Another option was to invade [[Amokolia]], whose vast territories dominated much of the western portion of the Benacian continent. To do so would permit the Mishalan Garrison to link up with the forces deployed against the Siserans in [[Dietsland]], [[Puritania]] and [[Voltrue]]. While the Amokolia option would have brought the Imperial Forces into direct and immediate battle against their main opponent, this option would have entailed the commitment of an even greater component of the Field and Frontier Armies than the Minarboria option. The use of strategic weapons was also discussed but discounted as being likely to have a galvanising effect on Shireroth's international allies. <br />
<br />
Finally, it was resolved that the Mishalan Garrison would undertake a more limited operation to secure its tenuous lines of communication with Shirekeep and Goldshire while at the same time bringing sufficient pressure to bear on Lichbrook to prevail upon it to permit the Imperial Forces renewed access to its base facilities and the Amarr oil-fields. In that scenario, the majority of the Mishalan Garrison could be held back to defend the redoubt while two corps were released, flush with air support, to breakout and establish contact with the Riverine Army and the Shirekeep Garrison.<br />
<br />
The great impediment to the advance of the landing ships of the Riverine Army up the [[Elwynn (River)#The Blue Elwynn|Blue Elwynn]] was the West Elwynn Dam situated a little above the city of [[Ardashirshahr]] in the Elwynnese governorate of [[Alalehzamin and Utasia]]. The western landward portion of the dam laid on the opposite bank of the Blue Elwynn to Ardashirhahr on the [[Shores of Angularis]] in the sparsely populated [[Vale of Angularis|vale]] of the same name.<br />
<br />
Administratively Angularis was a subordinate [[Circuit]] of the Emirate of Alalehzamin and Utasia. Excepting [[Babkhi]] and [[Froyalanish]] settlements along the river shore, it was a culturally and ethnically distinct from the rest of Elwynn, and moreover it had suffered greatly during a [[The Anarchy of Angularis|long drawn out conflict]] between the Elwynnese Crown and the [[Dark Orchid Society]].<br />
<br />
For that reason it was considered to be the weakest link in Mishalan's encirclement. It's only official garrison was the [[Elwynnsbrigad 2 Alalehzamin]], a brigade strength armoured formation based in the [[Barrowlands]] where it faced the border with Minarboria. It's 4,265 UDF personnel were augmented by another 2,000 personnel from the Combat Support Services Corps as well as a number of [[Vanic Temple Guard]], [[Stratioti]], [[Corps of the Gentlemen-at-Cudgels|Cudgellers]] and [[Emirati Riddare]], strung out across the interior roads of the Circuit.<br />
<br />
==Preparations== <br />
<br />
==Opposing Forces==<br />
<br />
===Imperials===<br />
<br />
====III Corps====<br />
<br />
====IX Corps====<br />
<br />
====Air and riverine support====<br />
<br />
===Elwynnese===<br />
<br />
====10th Division====<br />
<br />
====Paramilitaries====<br />
<br />
====Air and riverine support====<br />
<br />
==Opposing Commanders==<br />
<br />
===Magister Equitum Sir Hugh O'Neill===<br />
<br />
===Generalmajor Daniyal Sikander Dravot===<br />
<br />
==Course of the battle==<br />
<br />
==Aftermath==<br />
[[Category:Battles]]</div>Tokaray al-osmanhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=Angularis_Offensive_Operation&diff=27501Angularis Offensive Operation2017-01-25T03:11:12Z<p>Tokaray al-osman: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Battle<br />
|title= Angularis Offensive Operation<br />
|conflict= [[Year of the Four Kaisers]]<br />
|Battleimage= Mishalan mechs.jpeg<br />
|date= <small>Hyre 24 Oskaltequ &ndash; Ermure 4 Muulantooqu 1644 [[AN]]</small><br />
|place= [[Vale of Angularis]] ([[Elwynn]])<br />
|outcome= Stalemate: Imperial operational successes negated.<br />
|nation1= [[File:New flag Shireroth.png|25px|border|Imperialist]]<small>[[Imperial Forces]] <small>(Myksos/Osmanid Factions)</small></small> <br />
|nation2= [[File:Elwynn Flag2.png|25px|border|Elwynn]] <small>[[Elwynn]]ese Union <small>(Loyalist Faction)</small></small><br />
|nation1comm= <small>[[File:New flag Shireroth.png|25px|border|Imperialist]] [http://www.gotzborg.com/site/index.php?title=Hugh_O%27Neill Sir Hugh O'Neill, K.E., O.M.]<br></small><br />
|nation2comm= <small>[[File:D3KBC1A.png|25px|border|UDF]] [[Daniyal Dravot]] </small><br />
|nation1strength= <small>[[File:New_flag_Shireroth.png|25px|border|Shireroth]][[Imperial Army]]<br />
*<small>[[Imperial Army#The Frontier Army|III Corps]]: 48,000 <br><br />
*[[Imperial Army#The Field Army|IX Corps]]: 48,000</small><br />
|nation2strength=<small>[[File:D3KBC1A.png|25px|border|UDF]][[Union Defence Force]]<br />
*<small>[[10th Division (The Zjandarian Guards)|10th Division]]:18,364<br /></small><br />
[[File:Alalehzamin flag.png|25px|border|Alalehzamin]]Emirati Riddare: 11,045 <br> [[File:Flag Vale of Angularis.png|25px|border|Angularis]] [[Stratioti]]:19,600</small><br />
|nation1cas= <small>TBA</small><br />
|nation2cas= <small>TBA</small><br />
|notes= <br />
}}<br />
<br />
The [[Angularis Offensive Operation]] was a limited incursion by the [[Imperial Forces]] into the territory of the Elwynnese Union in an effort to forestall an invasion of the Imperial Dominions mooted by the [[Landsraad]] as a response to the disputed succession that arose in the wake of the [[Oustfest Massacre]] and the death of [[Kaiser Dominus]]. <br />
<br />
<br />
==Background==<br />
<br />
In the wake of the [[Oustfest Massacre]] and the twelve days of anarchy in [[Shirekeep]] which followed the reported death of [[Kaiser Dominus]] under dubious circumstances in a Palace Coup orchestrated by [[Tokaray al-Osman]], [[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion]] and [[Ludovic Verion]] (the so-called KOV Triumvirate). The unity of this new ruling clique, united only in a common loathing of Kaiser Dominus in his later years, was fatally undermined by disagreements concerning the rights of non-human sentient creatures and finally by the decision of Tokaray, then reigning as [[Kaiser Aurangzeb II Steffki]], to attack [[Lichbrook]] rather than [[Elwynn]]. <br />
<br />
The original coalition collapsed after the departure of Ludovic for Blackstone, having followed the Kaiser's example in looting the treasury on the way out, and the decision of Aurangzeb II to abdicate on Ermure the 22nd of Oskaltequ after a reign of a mere one hundred and thirty days. Aurangzeb's chosen successor - Marcus Myksos, was thereby placed in direct competition with the purported heir favoured by Dominus, [[Queen Noor]].<br />
<br />
At the same time, the Alejian Castle session of the [[Landsraad]], whose Prætor and a significant number of Electors had fled Shirekeep following the violent takeover of the city by the coup plotters, had begun on Izillare the 20th of Vixaslaa. As much as the actions of the coup-plotters had aroused disgust and indignation the initial proposal to formed a re-organised Imperial Government led by Dominus' Steward [[Hallbjörn Haraldsson]], was met with deep distrust and suspicion by many Electors who could still remember the bitter fighting of the [[River War]] as well as by those feared the possibility that Elwynn, the most powerful Imperial State, might use the opportunity to capture the institution of the Landsraad and thereby exert greater control over the Imperial Government.<br />
<br />
One of the more eye-catching proposals in the draft resolution was that the Imperial States, backed by Shireroth's treaty allies, should be authorised to invade the Imperial Dominions. The Dominions were those lands still subject to the Kaiser's rule under the charter, albeit with varying degrees of autonomy. These also, in addition to the city of Shirekeep, contained the majority of the garrisons of the [[Imperial Forces]].<br />
<br />
The Imperial Forces, having declared their allegiance to Tokaray, now found their position coming increasingly unstuck, being caught between a new claimant from the [[House of Myksos]] and the threat of armed intervention by the states to install the Ayreon-Kalirion candidate. <br />
<br />
Tokaray meanwhile, having plundered the Treasury, had relocated to [[Mishalan]], home to the Mishalan Garrison, by far and away the largest single concentration of the Imperial Forces on the Benacian continent, considering it a safer place to be rather than trapped in Shirekeep between Lichbrook and Elwynn. Mishalan, although resource rich, industrially developed and well suited as a redoubt, was landlocked and its soviet government, while not fond of Elwynn, could not be expected to endure a long war being waged on its territory for no purpose. It could only be used therefore as a logistics hub and the springboard for whatever the next plan of action would be.<br />
<br />
In consultation with the [[Magister Primum]] and the service chiefs of the Imperial Navy, the Imperial Air Forces and the various commands, Tokaray considered and then rejected various options in turn. The first was an offensive into [[Minarboria]]. This would be ideologically consistent with the manifesto of total war professed at the day of the accession. It was projected that the Field Army could, with its sizeable force of gravtanks, reach the Minarborian capital Sansabury in a mere nineteen hours and reach the sea twenty-four hours after that. This would guarantee access to the sea, permitting a link up with Coastal Command and the Western Armada, as well as accruing the not-inconsiderable industrial capacity of the ''Imperial Shrublands'' to those of Mishalan. This would however leave Mishalan vulnerable to the coalition offensive being debated in the Landsraad. Moreover the rate of attrition of the field army was felt would be excessive if that force was then expected to turn around and fight another war against the Elwynnese and allies in the same period. Another option was to invade [[Amokolia]], whose vast territories dominated much of the western portion of the Benacian continent. To do so would permit the Mishalan Garrison to link up with the forces deployed against the Siserans in [[Dietsland]], [[Puritania]] and [[Voltrue]]. While the Amokolia option would have brought the Imperial Forces into direct and immediate battle against their main opponent, this option would have entailed the commitment of an even greater component of the Field and Frontier Armies than the Minarboria option. The use of strategic weapons was also discussed but discounted as being likely to have a galvanising effect on Shireroth's international allies. <br />
<br />
Finally, it was resolved that the Mishalan Garrison would undertake a more limited operation to secure its tenuous lines of communication with Shirekeep and Goldshire while at the same time bringing sufficient pressure to bear on Lichbrook to prevail upon it to permit the Imperial Forces renewed access to its base facilities and the Amarr oil-fields. In that scenario, the majority of the Mishalan Garrison could be held back to defend the redoubt while two corps were released, flush with air support, to breakout and establish contact with the Riverine Army and the Shirekeep Garrison.<br />
<br />
The great impediment to the advance of the landing ships of the Riverine Army up the [[Elwynn (River)#The Blue Elwynn|Blue Elwynn]] was the West Elwynn Dam situated a little above the city of [[Ardashirshahr]] in the Elwynnese governorate of [[Alalehzamin and Utasia]]. The western landward portion of the dam laid on the opposite bank of the Blue Elwynn to Ardashirhahr on the [[Shores of Angularis]] in the sparsely populated [[Vale of Angularis|vale]] of the same name.<br />
<br />
Administratively Angularis was a subordinate [[Circuit]] of the Emirate of Alalehzamin and Utasia. Excepting [[Babkhi]] and [[Froyalanish]] settlements along the river shore, it was a culturally and ethnically distinct from the rest of Elwynn, and moreover it had suffered greatly during a [[The Anarchy of Angularis|long drawn out conflict]] between the Elwynnese Crown and the [[Dark Orchid Society]].<br />
<br />
For that reason it was considered to be the weakest link in Mishalan's encirclement. It's only official garrison was the [[Elwynnsbrigad 2 Alalehzamin]], a brigade strength armoured formation based in the [[Barrowlands]] where it faced the border with Minarboria. It's 4,265 UDF personnel were augmented by another 2,000 personnel from the Combat Support Services Corps as well as a number of [[Vanic Temple Guard]], [[Stratioti]], [[Corps of the Gentlemen-at-Cudgels|Cudgellers]] and [[Emirati Riddare]], strung out across the interior roads of the Circuit.<br />
<br />
==Preparations== <br />
<br />
==Opposing Forces==<br />
<br />
===Imperials===<br />
<br />
====III Corps====<br />
<br />
====IX Corps====<br />
<br />
====Air and riverine support====<br />
<br />
===Elwynnese===<br />
<br />
====10th Division====<br />
<br />
====Paramilitaries====<br />
<br />
====Air and riverine support====<br />
<br />
==Opposing Commanders==<br />
<br />
===Magister Equitum Sir Hugh O'Neill===<br />
<br />
===Generalmajor Daniyal Sikander Dravot===<br />
<br />
==Course of the battle==<br />
<br />
==Aftermath==<br />
[[Category:Battles]]</div>Tokaray al-osmanhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=Angularis_Offensive_Operation&diff=27500Angularis Offensive Operation2017-01-25T03:08:54Z<p>Tokaray al-osman: /* Opposing Forces */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{Battle<br />
|title= Angularis Offensive Operation<br />
|conflict= [[Year of the Four Kaisers]]<br />
|Battleimage= Mishalan mechs.jpeg<br />
|date= <small>Hyre 24 Oskaltequ &ndash; Ermure 4 Muulantooqu 1644 [[AN]]</small><br />
|place= [[Vale of Angularis]] ([[Elwynn]])<br />
|outcome= Imperial tactical victory, operational failure (stalemate)<br />
|nation1= [[File:New flag Shireroth.png|25px|border|Imperialist]]<small>[[Imperial Forces]] <small>(Myksos/Osmanid Factions)</small></small> <br />
|nation2= [[File:Elwynn Flag2.png|25px|border|Elwynn]] <small>[[Elwynn]]ese Union <small>(Loyalist Faction)</small></small><br />
|nation1comm= <small>[[File:New flag Shireroth.png|25px|border|Imperialist]] [http://www.gotzborg.com/site/index.php?title=Hugh_O%27Neill Sir Hugh O'Neill, K.E., O.M.]<br></small><br />
|nation2comm= <small>[[File:D3KBC1A.png|25px|border|UDF]] [[Daniyal Dravot]] </small><br />
|nation1strength= <small>[[File:New_flag_Shireroth.png|25px|border|Shireroth]][[Imperial Army]]<br />
*<small>[[Imperial Army#The Frontier Army|III Corps]]: 48,000 <br><br />
*[[Imperial Army#The Field Army|IX Corps]]: 48,000</small><br />
|nation2strength=<small>[[File:D3KBC1A.png|25px|border|UDF]][[Union Defence Force]]<br />
*<small>[[10th Division (The Zjandarian Guards)|10th Division]]:18,364<br /></small><br />
[[File:Alalehzamin flag.png|25px|border|Alalehzamin]]Emirati Riddare: 11,045 <br> [[File:Flag Vale of Angularis.png|25px|border|Angularis]] [[Stratioti]]:19,600</small><br />
|nation1cas= <small>TBA</small><br />
|nation2cas= <small>TBA</small><br />
|notes= <br />
}}<br />
<br />
The [[Angularis Offensive Operation]] was a limited incursion by the [[Imperial Forces]] into the territory of the Elwynnese Union in an effort to forestall an invasion of the Imperial Dominions mooted by the [[Landsraad]] as a response to the disputed succession that arose in the wake of the [[Oustfest Massacre]] and the death of [[Kaiser Dominus]]. <br />
<br />
<br />
==Background==<br />
<br />
In the wake of the [[Oustfest Massacre]] and the twelve days of anarchy in [[Shirekeep]] which followed the reported death of [[Kaiser Dominus]] under dubious circumstances in a Palace Coup orchestrated by [[Tokaray al-Osman]], [[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion]] and [[Ludovic Verion]] (the so-called KOV Triumvirate). The unity of this new ruling clique, united only in a common loathing of Kaiser Dominus in his later years, was fatally undermined by disagreements concerning the rights of non-human sentient creatures and finally by the decision of Tokaray, then reigning as [[Kaiser Aurangzeb II Steffki]], to attack [[Lichbrook]] rather than [[Elwynn]]. <br />
<br />
The original coalition collapsed after the departure of Ludovic for Blackstone, having followed the Kaiser's example in looting the treasury on the way out, and the decision of Aurangzeb II to abdicate on Ermure the 22nd of Oskaltequ after a reign of a mere one hundred and thirty days. Aurangzeb's chosen successor - Marcus Myksos, was thereby placed in direct competition with the purported heir favoured by Dominus, [[Queen Noor]].<br />
<br />
At the same time, the Alejian Castle session of the [[Landsraad]], whose Prætor and a significant number of Electors had fled Shirekeep following the violent takeover of the city by the coup plotters, had begun on Izillare the 20th of Vixaslaa. As much as the actions of the coup-plotters had aroused disgust and indignation the initial proposal to formed a re-organised Imperial Government led by Dominus' Steward [[Hallbjörn Haraldsson]], was met with deep distrust and suspicion by many Electors who could still remember the bitter fighting of the [[River War]] as well as by those feared the possibility that Elwynn, the most powerful Imperial State, might use the opportunity to capture the institution of the Landsraad and thereby exert greater control over the Imperial Government.<br />
<br />
One of the more eye-catching proposals in the draft resolution was that the Imperial States, backed by Shireroth's treaty allies, should be authorised to invade the Imperial Dominions. The Dominions were those lands still subject to the Kaiser's rule under the charter, albeit with varying degrees of autonomy. These also, in addition to the city of Shirekeep, contained the majority of the garrisons of the [[Imperial Forces]].<br />
<br />
The Imperial Forces, having declared their allegiance to Tokaray, now found their position coming increasingly unstuck, being caught between a new claimant from the [[House of Myksos]] and the threat of armed intervention by the states to install the Ayreon-Kalirion candidate. <br />
<br />
Tokaray meanwhile, having plundered the Treasury, had relocated to [[Mishalan]], home to the Mishalan Garrison, by far and away the largest single concentration of the Imperial Forces on the Benacian continent, considering it a safer place to be rather than trapped in Shirekeep between Lichbrook and Elwynn. Mishalan, although resource rich, industrially developed and well suited as a redoubt, was landlocked and its soviet government, while not fond of Elwynn, could not be expected to endure a long war being waged on its territory for no purpose. It could only be used therefore as a logistics hub and the springboard for whatever the next plan of action would be.<br />
<br />
In consultation with the [[Magister Primum]] and the service chiefs of the Imperial Navy, the Imperial Air Forces and the various commands, Tokaray considered and then rejected various options in turn. The first was an offensive into [[Minarboria]]. This would be ideologically consistent with the manifesto of total war professed at the day of the accession. It was projected that the Field Army could, with its sizeable force of gravtanks, reach the Minarborian capital Sansabury in a mere nineteen hours and reach the sea twenty-four hours after that. This would guarantee access to the sea, permitting a link up with Coastal Command and the Western Armada, as well as accruing the not-inconsiderable industrial capacity of the ''Imperial Shrublands'' to those of Mishalan. This would however leave Mishalan vulnerable to the coalition offensive being debated in the Landsraad. Moreover the rate of attrition of the field army was felt would be excessive if that force was then expected to turn around and fight another war against the Elwynnese and allies in the same period. Another option was to invade [[Amokolia]], whose vast territories dominated much of the western portion of the Benacian continent. To do so would permit the Mishalan Garrison to link up with the forces deployed against the Siserans in [[Dietsland]], [[Puritania]] and [[Voltrue]]. While the Amokolia option would have brought the Imperial Forces into direct and immediate battle against their main opponent, this option would have entailed the commitment of an even greater component of the Field and Frontier Armies than the Minarboria option. The use of strategic weapons was also discussed but discounted as being likely to have a galvanising effect on Shireroth's international allies. <br />
<br />
Finally, it was resolved that the Mishalan Garrison would undertake a more limited operation to secure its tenuous lines of communication with Shirekeep and Goldshire while at the same time bringing sufficient pressure to bear on Lichbrook to prevail upon it to permit the Imperial Forces renewed access to its base facilities and the Amarr oil-fields. In that scenario, the majority of the Mishalan Garrison could be held back to defend the redoubt while two corps were released, flush with air support, to breakout and establish contact with the Riverine Army and the Shirekeep Garrison.<br />
<br />
The great impediment to the advance of the landing ships of the Riverine Army up the [[Elwynn (River)#The Blue Elwynn|Blue Elwynn]] was the West Elwynn Dam situated a little above the city of [[Ardashirshahr]] in the Elwynnese governorate of [[Alalehzamin and Utasia]]. The western landward portion of the dam laid on the opposite bank of the Blue Elwynn to Ardashirhahr on the [[Shores of Angularis]] in the sparsely populated [[Vale of Angularis|vale]] of the same name.<br />
<br />
Administratively Angularis was a subordinate [[Circuit]] of the Emirate of Alalehzamin and Utasia. Excepting [[Babkhi]] and [[Froyalanish]] settlements along the river shore, it was a culturally and ethnically distinct from the rest of Elwynn, and moreover it had suffered greatly during a [[The Anarchy of Angularis|long drawn out conflict]] between the Elwynnese Crown and the [[Dark Orchid Society]].<br />
<br />
For that reason it was considered to be the weakest link in Mishalan's encirclement. It's only official garrison was the [[Elwynnsbrigad 2 Alalehzamin]], a brigade strength armoured formation based in the [[Barrowlands]] where it faced the border with Minarboria. It's 4,265 UDF personnel were augmented by another 2,000 personnel from the Combat Support Services Corps as well as a number of [[Vanic Temple Guard]], [[Stratioti]], [[Corps of the Gentlemen-at-Cudgels|Cudgellers]] and [[Emirati Riddare]], strung out across the interior roads of the Circuit.<br />
<br />
==Preparations== <br />
<br />
==Opposing Forces==<br />
<br />
===Imperials===<br />
<br />
====III Corps====<br />
<br />
====IX Corps====<br />
<br />
====Air and riverine support====<br />
<br />
===Elwynnese===<br />
<br />
====10th Division====<br />
<br />
====Paramilitaries====<br />
<br />
====Air and riverine support====<br />
<br />
==Opposing Commanders==<br />
<br />
===Magister Equitum Sir Hugh O'Neill===<br />
<br />
===Generalmajor Daniyal Sikander Dravot===<br />
<br />
==Course of the battle==<br />
<br />
==Aftermath==<br />
[[Category:Battles]]</div>Tokaray al-osmanhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=Angularis_Offensive_Operation&diff=27499Angularis Offensive Operation2017-01-25T03:03:26Z<p>Tokaray al-osman: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Battle<br />
|title= Angularis Offensive Operation<br />
|conflict= [[Year of the Four Kaisers]]<br />
|Battleimage= Mishalan mechs.jpeg<br />
|date= <small>Hyre 24 Oskaltequ &ndash; Ermure 4 Muulantooqu 1644 [[AN]]</small><br />
|place= [[Vale of Angularis]] ([[Elwynn]])<br />
|outcome= Imperial tactical victory, operational failure (stalemate)<br />
|nation1= [[File:New flag Shireroth.png|25px|border|Imperialist]]<small>[[Imperial Forces]] <small>(Myksos/Osmanid Factions)</small></small> <br />
|nation2= [[File:Elwynn Flag2.png|25px|border|Elwynn]] <small>[[Elwynn]]ese Union <small>(Loyalist Faction)</small></small><br />
|nation1comm= <small>[[File:New flag Shireroth.png|25px|border|Imperialist]] [http://www.gotzborg.com/site/index.php?title=Hugh_O%27Neill Sir Hugh O'Neill, K.E., O.M.]<br></small><br />
|nation2comm= <small>[[File:D3KBC1A.png|25px|border|UDF]] [[Daniyal Dravot]] </small><br />
|nation1strength= <small>[[File:New_flag_Shireroth.png|25px|border|Shireroth]][[Imperial Army]]<br />
*<small>[[Imperial Army#The Frontier Army|III Corps]]: 48,000 <br><br />
*[[Imperial Army#The Field Army|IX Corps]]: 48,000</small><br />
|nation2strength=<small>[[File:D3KBC1A.png|25px|border|UDF]][[Union Defence Force]]<br />
*<small>[[10th Division (The Zjandarian Guards)|10th Division]]:18,364<br /></small><br />
[[File:Alalehzamin flag.png|25px|border|Alalehzamin]]Emirati Riddare: 11,045 <br> [[File:Flag Vale of Angularis.png|25px|border|Angularis]] [[Stratioti]]:19,600</small><br />
|nation1cas= <small>TBA</small><br />
|nation2cas= <small>TBA</small><br />
|notes= <br />
}}<br />
<br />
The [[Angularis Offensive Operation]] was a limited incursion by the [[Imperial Forces]] into the territory of the Elwynnese Union in an effort to forestall an invasion of the Imperial Dominions mooted by the [[Landsraad]] as a response to the disputed succession that arose in the wake of the [[Oustfest Massacre]] and the death of [[Kaiser Dominus]]. <br />
<br />
<br />
==Background==<br />
<br />
In the wake of the [[Oustfest Massacre]] and the twelve days of anarchy in [[Shirekeep]] which followed the reported death of [[Kaiser Dominus]] under dubious circumstances in a Palace Coup orchestrated by [[Tokaray al-Osman]], [[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion]] and [[Ludovic Verion]] (the so-called KOV Triumvirate). The unity of this new ruling clique, united only in a common loathing of Kaiser Dominus in his later years, was fatally undermined by disagreements concerning the rights of non-human sentient creatures and finally by the decision of Tokaray, then reigning as [[Kaiser Aurangzeb II Steffki]], to attack [[Lichbrook]] rather than [[Elwynn]]. <br />
<br />
The original coalition collapsed after the departure of Ludovic for Blackstone, having followed the Kaiser's example in looting the treasury on the way out, and the decision of Aurangzeb II to abdicate on Ermure the 22nd of Oskaltequ after a reign of a mere one hundred and thirty days. Aurangzeb's chosen successor - Marcus Myksos, was thereby placed in direct competition with the purported heir favoured by Dominus, [[Queen Noor]].<br />
<br />
At the same time, the Alejian Castle session of the [[Landsraad]], whose Prætor and a significant number of Electors had fled Shirekeep following the violent takeover of the city by the coup plotters, had begun on Izillare the 20th of Vixaslaa. As much as the actions of the coup-plotters had aroused disgust and indignation the initial proposal to formed a re-organised Imperial Government led by Dominus' Steward [[Hallbjörn Haraldsson]], was met with deep distrust and suspicion by many Electors who could still remember the bitter fighting of the [[River War]] as well as by those feared the possibility that Elwynn, the most powerful Imperial State, might use the opportunity to capture the institution of the Landsraad and thereby exert greater control over the Imperial Government.<br />
<br />
One of the more eye-catching proposals in the draft resolution was that the Imperial States, backed by Shireroth's treaty allies, should be authorised to invade the Imperial Dominions. The Dominions were those lands still subject to the Kaiser's rule under the charter, albeit with varying degrees of autonomy. These also, in addition to the city of Shirekeep, contained the majority of the garrisons of the [[Imperial Forces]].<br />
<br />
The Imperial Forces, having declared their allegiance to Tokaray, now found their position coming increasingly unstuck, being caught between a new claimant from the [[House of Myksos]] and the threat of armed intervention by the states to install the Ayreon-Kalirion candidate. <br />
<br />
Tokaray meanwhile, having plundered the Treasury, had relocated to [[Mishalan]], home to the Mishalan Garrison, by far and away the largest single concentration of the Imperial Forces on the Benacian continent, considering it a safer place to be rather than trapped in Shirekeep between Lichbrook and Elwynn. Mishalan, although resource rich, industrially developed and well suited as a redoubt, was landlocked and its soviet government, while not fond of Elwynn, could not be expected to endure a long war being waged on its territory for no purpose. It could only be used therefore as a logistics hub and the springboard for whatever the next plan of action would be.<br />
<br />
In consultation with the [[Magister Primum]] and the service chiefs of the Imperial Navy, the Imperial Air Forces and the various commands, Tokaray considered and then rejected various options in turn. The first was an offensive into [[Minarboria]]. This would be ideologically consistent with the manifesto of total war professed at the day of the accession. It was projected that the Field Army could, with its sizeable force of gravtanks, reach the Minarborian capital Sansabury in a mere nineteen hours and reach the sea twenty-four hours after that. This would guarantee access to the sea, permitting a link up with Coastal Command and the Western Armada, as well as accruing the not-inconsiderable industrial capacity of the ''Imperial Shrublands'' to those of Mishalan. This would however leave Mishalan vulnerable to the coalition offensive being debated in the Landsraad. Moreover the rate of attrition of the field army was felt would be excessive if that force was then expected to turn around and fight another war against the Elwynnese and allies in the same period. Another option was to invade [[Amokolia]], whose vast territories dominated much of the western portion of the Benacian continent. To do so would permit the Mishalan Garrison to link up with the forces deployed against the Siserans in [[Dietsland]], [[Puritania]] and [[Voltrue]]. While the Amokolia option would have brought the Imperial Forces into direct and immediate battle against their main opponent, this option would have entailed the commitment of an even greater component of the Field and Frontier Armies than the Minarboria option. The use of strategic weapons was also discussed but discounted as being likely to have a galvanising effect on Shireroth's international allies. <br />
<br />
Finally, it was resolved that the Mishalan Garrison would undertake a more limited operation to secure its tenuous lines of communication with Shirekeep and Goldshire while at the same time bringing sufficient pressure to bear on Lichbrook to prevail upon it to permit the Imperial Forces renewed access to its base facilities and the Amarr oil-fields. In that scenario, the majority of the Mishalan Garrison could be held back to defend the redoubt while two corps were released, flush with air support, to breakout and establish contact with the Riverine Army and the Shirekeep Garrison.<br />
<br />
The great impediment to the advance of the landing ships of the Riverine Army up the [[Elwynn (River)#The Blue Elwynn|Blue Elwynn]] was the West Elwynn Dam situated a little above the city of [[Ardashirshahr]] in the Elwynnese governorate of [[Alalehzamin and Utasia]]. The western landward portion of the dam laid on the opposite bank of the Blue Elwynn to Ardashirhahr on the [[Shores of Angularis]] in the sparsely populated [[Vale of Angularis|vale]] of the same name.<br />
<br />
Administratively Angularis was a subordinate [[Circuit]] of the Emirate of Alalehzamin and Utasia. Excepting [[Babkhi]] and [[Froyalanish]] settlements along the river shore, it was a culturally and ethnically distinct from the rest of Elwynn, and moreover it had suffered greatly during a [[The Anarchy of Angularis|long drawn out conflict]] between the Elwynnese Crown and the [[Dark Orchid Society]].<br />
<br />
For that reason it was considered to be the weakest link in Mishalan's encirclement. It's only official garrison was the [[Elwynnsbrigad 2 Alalehzamin]], a brigade strength armoured formation based in the [[Barrowlands]] where it faced the border with Minarboria. It's 4,265 UDF personnel were augmented by another 2,000 personnel from the Combat Support Services Corps as well as a number of [[Vanic Temple Guard]], [[Stratioti]], [[Corps of the Gentlemen-at-Cudgels|Cudgellers]] and [[Emirati Riddare]], strung out across the interior roads of the Circuit.<br />
<br />
==Preparations== <br />
<br />
==Opposing Forces==<br />
<br />
==Opposing Commanders==<br />
<br />
===Magister Equitum Sir Hugh O'Neill===<br />
<br />
===Generalmajor Daniyal Sikander Dravot===<br />
<br />
==Course of the battle==<br />
<br />
==Aftermath==<br />
[[Category:Battles]]</div>Tokaray al-osmanhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=Angularis_Offensive_Operation&diff=27498Angularis Offensive Operation2017-01-25T03:00:15Z<p>Tokaray al-osman: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Battle<br />
|title= Angularis Offensive Operation<br />
|conflict= [[Year of the Four Kaisers]]<br />
|Battleimage= Mishalan mechs.jpeg<br />
|date= <small>Hyre 24 Oskaltequ &ndash; Ermure 4 Muulantooqu 1644 [[AN]]</small><br />
|place= [[Vale of Angularis]] ([[Elwynn]])<br />
|outcome= Imperial tactical victory, operational failure (stalemate)<br />
|nation1= [[File:New flag Shireroth.png|25px|border|Imperialist]]<small>[[Imperial Forces]] <small>(Myksos/Osmanid Factions)</small></small> <br />
|nation2= [[File:Elwynn Flag2.png|25px|border|Elwynn]] <small>[[Elwynn]]ese Union <small>(Loyalist Faction)</small></small><br />
|nation1comm= <small>[[File:New flag Shireroth.png|25px|border|Imperialist]] [http://www.gotzborg.com/site/index.php?title=Hugh_O%27Neill Sir Hugh O'Neill, K.E., O.M.]<br></small><br />
|nation2comm= <small>[[File:D3KBC1A.png|25px|border|UDF]] [[Daniyal Dravot]] </small><br />
|nation1strength= <small>[[File:New_flag_Shireroth.png|25px|border|Shireroth]][[Imperial Army]]<br />
*<small>[[Imperial Army#The Frontier Army|III Corps]]: 48,000 <br><br />
*[[Imperial Army#The Field Army|IX Corps]]: 48,000</small><br />
|nation2strength=<small>[[File:D3KBC1A.png|25px|border|UDF]][[Union Defence Force]]<br />
*<small>[[10th Division (The Zjandarian Guards)|10th Division]]:18,364<br /></small><br />
[[File:Alalehzamin flag.png|25px|border|Alalehzamin]]Emirati Riddare: 11,045 <br> [[File:Flag Vale of Angularis.png|25px|border|Angularis]] [[Stratioti]]:19,600</small><br />
|nation1cas= <small>TBA</small><br />
|nation2cas= <small>TBA</small><br />
|notes= <br />
}}<br />
<br />
The [[Angularis Offensive Operation]] was a limited incursion by the [[Imperial Forces]] into the territory of the Elwynnese Union in an effort to forestall an invasion of the Imperial Dominions mooted by the [[Landsraad]] as a response to the disputed succession that arose in the wake of the [[Oustfest Massacre]] and the death of [[Kaiser Dominus]]. <br />
<br />
<br />
==Background==<br />
<br />
In the wake of the [[Oustfest Massacre]] and the twelve days of anarchy in [[Shirekeep]] which followed the reported death of [[Kaiser Dominus]] under dubious circumstances in a Palace Coup orchestrated by [[Tokaray al-Osman]], [[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion]] and [[Ludovic Verion]] (the so-called KOV Triumvirate). The unity of this new ruling clique, united only in a common loathing of Kaiser Dominus in his later years, was fatally undermined by disagreements concerning the rights of non-human sentient creatures and finally by the decision of Tokaray, then reigning as [[Kaiser Aurangzeb II Steffki]], to attack [[Lichbrook]] rather than [[Elwynn]]. <br />
<br />
The original coalition collapsed after the departure of Ludovic for Blackstone, having followed the Kaiser's example in looting the treasury on the way out, and the decision of Aurangzeb II to abdicate on Ermure the 22nd of Oskaltequ after a reign of a mere one hundred and thirty days. Aurangzeb's chosen successor - Marcus Myksos, was thereby placed in direct competition with the purported heir favoured by Dominus, [[Queen Noor]].<br />
<br />
At the same time, the Alejian Castle session of the [[Landsraad]], whose Prætor and a significant number of Electors had fled Shirekeep following the violent takeover of the city by the coup plotters, had begun on Izillare the 20th of Vixaslaa. As much as the actions of the coup-plotters had aroused disgust and indignation the initial proposal to formed a re-organised Imperial Government led by Dominus' Steward [[Hallbjörn Haraldsson]], was met with deep distrust and suspicion by many Electors who could still remember the bitter fighting of the [[River War]] as well as by those feared the possibility that Elwynn, the most powerful Imperial State, might use the opportunity to capture the institution of the Landsraad and thereby exert greater control over the Imperial Government.<br />
<br />
One of the more eye-catching proposals in the draft resolution was that the Imperial States, backed by Shireroth's treaty allies, should be authorised to invade the Imperial Dominions. The Dominions were those lands still subject to the Kaiser's rule under the charter, albeit with varying degrees of autonomy. These also, in addition to the city of Shirekeep, contained the majority of the garrisons of the [[Imperial Forces]].<br />
<br />
The Imperial Forces, having declared their allegiance to Tokaray, now found their position coming increasingly unstuck, being caught between a new claimant from the [[House of Myksos]] and the threat of armed intervention by the states to install the Ayreon-Kalirion candidate. <br />
<br />
Tokaray meanwhile, having plundered the Treasury, had relocated to [[Mishalan]], home to the Mishalan Garrison, by far and away the largest single concentration of the Imperial Forces on the Benacian continent, considering it a safer place to be rather than trapped in Shirekeep between Lichbrook and Elwynn. Mishalan, although resource rich, industrially developed and well suited as a redoubt, was landlocked and its soviet government, while not fond of Elwynn, could not be expected to endure a long war being waged on its territory for no purpose. It could only be used therefore as a logistics hub and the springboard for whatever the next plan of action would be.<br />
<br />
In consultation with the [[Magister Primum]] and the service chiefs of the Imperial Navy, the Imperial Air Forces and the various commands, Tokaray considered and then rejected various options in turn. The first was an offensive into [[Minarboria]]. This would be ideologically consistent with the manifesto of total war professed at the day of the accession. It was projected that the Field Army could, with its sizeable force of gravtanks, reach the Minarborian capital Sansabury in a mere nineteen hours and reach the sea twenty-four hours after that. This would guarantee access to the sea, permitting a link up with Coastal Command and the Western Armada, as well as accruing the not-inconsiderable industrial capacity of the ''Imperial Shrublands'' to those of Mishalan. This would however leave Mishalan vulnerable to the coalition offensive being debated in the Landsraad. Moreover the rate of attrition of the field army was felt would be excessive if that force was then expected to turn around and fight another war against the Elwynnese and allies in the same period. Another option was to invade [[Amokolia]], whose vast territories dominated much of the western portion of the Benacian continent. To do so would permit the Mishalan Garrison to link up with the forces deployed against the Siserans in [[Dietsland]], [[Puritania]] and [[Voltrue]]. While the Amokolia option would have brought the Imperial Forces into direct and immediate battle against their main opponent, this option would have entailed the commitment of an even greater component of the Field and Frontier Armies than the Minarboria option. The use of strategic weapons was also discussed but discounted as being likely to have a galvanising effect on Shireroth's international allies. <br />
<br />
Finally, it was resolved that the Mishalan Garrison would undertake a more limited operation to secure its tenuous lines of communication with Shirekeep and Goldshire while at the same time bringing sufficient pressure to bear on Lichbrook to prevail upon it to permit the Imperial Forces renewed access to its base facilities and the Amarr oil-fields. In that scenario, the majority of the Mishalan Garrison could be held back to defend the redoubt while two corps were released, flush with air support, to breakout and establish contact with the Riverine Army and the Shirekeep Garrison.<br />
<br />
The great impediment to the advance of the landing ships of the Riverine Army up the [[Elwynn (River)#The Blue Elwynn|Blue Elwynn]] was the West Elwynn Dam situated a little above the city of [[Ardashirshahr]] in the Elwynnese governorate of [[Alalehzamin and Utasia]]. The western landward portion of the dam laid on the opposite bank of the Blue Elwynn to Ardashirhahr on the [[Shores of Angularis]] in the sparsely populated [[Vale of Angularis|vale]] of the same name.<br />
<br />
Administratively Angularis was a subordinate [[Circuit]] of the Emirate of Alalehzamin and Utasia. Excepting [[Babkhi]] and [[Froyalanish]] settlements along the river shore, it was a culturally and ethnically distinct from the rest of Elwynn, and moreover it had suffered greatly during a [[The Anarchy of Angularis|long drawn out conflict]] between the Elwynnese Crown and the [[Dark Orchid Society]].<br />
<br />
For that reason it was considered to be the weakest link in Mishalan's encirclement. It's only official garrison was the [[Elwynnsbrigad 2 Alalehzamin]], a brigade strength armoured formation based in the [[Barrowlands]] where it faced the border with Minarboria. It's 4,265 UDF personnel were augmented by another 2,000 personnel from the Combat Support Services Corps as well as a number of [[Vanic Temple Guard]], [[Stratioti]], [[Corps of the Gentlemen-at-Cudgels|Cudgellers]] and [[Emirati Riddare]], strung out across the interior roads of the Circuit.<br />
<br />
==Preparations== <br />
<br />
[[Category:Battles]]</div>Tokaray al-osmanhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=Angularis_Offensive_Operation&diff=27497Angularis Offensive Operation2017-01-25T02:59:13Z<p>Tokaray al-osman: /* Background */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{Battle<br />
|title= Angularis Offensive Operation<br />
|conflict= [[Year of the Four Kaisers]]<br />
|Battleimage= Mishalan mechs.jpeg<br />
|date= <small>Hyre 24 Oskaltequ &ndash; Ermure 4 Muulantooqu 1644 [[AN]]</small><br />
|place= [[Vale of Angularis]] ([[Elwynn]])<br />
|outcome= Imperial tactical victory, operational failure (stalemate)<br />
|nation1= [[File:New flag Shireroth.png|25px|border|Imperialist]]<small>[[Imperial Forces]] <small>(Myksos/Osmanid Factions)</small></small> <br />
|nation2= [[File:Elwynn Flag2.png|25px|border|Elwynn]] <small>[[Elwynn]]ese Union <small>(Loyalist Faction)</small></small><br />
|nation1comm= <small>[[File:New flag Shireroth.png|25px|border|Imperialist]] [http://www.gotzborg.com/site/index.php?title=Hugh_O%27Neill Sir Hugh O'Neill, K.E., O.M.]<br></small><br />
|nation2comm= <small>[[File:D3KBC1A.png|25px|border|UDF]] [[Daniyal Dravot]] </small><br />
|nation1strength= <small>[[File:New_flag_Shireroth.png|25px|border|Shireroth]][[Imperial Army]]<br />
*<small>[[Imperial Army#The Frontier Army|III Corps]]: 48,000 <br><br />
*[[Imperial Army#The Field Army|IX Corps]]: 48,000</small><br />
|nation2strength=<small>[[File:D3KBC1A.png|25px|border|UDF]][[Union Defence Force]]<br />
*<small>[[10th Division (The Zjandarian Guards)|10th Division]]:18,364<br /></small><br />
[[File:Alalehzamin flag.png|25px|border|Alalehzamin]]Emirati Riddare: 11,045 <br> [[File:Flag Vale of Angularis.png|25px|border|Angularis]] [[Stratioti]]:19,600</small><br />
|nation1cas= <small>TBA</small><br />
|nation2cas= <small>TBA</small><br />
|notes= <br />
}}<br />
<br />
The [[Angularis Offensive Operation]] was a limited incursion by the [[Imperial Forces]] into the territory of the Elwynnese Union in an effort to forestall an invasion of the Imperial Dominions mooted by the [[Landsraad]] as a response to the disputed succession that arose in the wake of the [[Oustfest Massacre]] and the death of [[Kaiser Dominus]]. <br />
<br />
<br />
==Background==<br />
<br />
In the wake of the [[Oustfest Massacre]] and the twelve days of anarchy in [[Shirekeep]] which followed the reported death of [[Kaiser Dominus]] under dubious circumstances in a Palace Coup orchestrated by [[Tokaray al-Osman]], [[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion]] and [[Ludovic Verion]] (the so-called KOV Triumvirate). The unity of this new ruling clique, united only in a common loathing of Kaiser Dominus in his later years, was fatally undermined by disagreements concerning the rights of non-human sentient creatures and finally by the decision of Tokaray, then reigning as [[Kaiser Aurangzeb II Steffki]], to attack [[Lichbrook]] rather than [[Elwynn]]. <br />
<br />
The original coalition collapsed after the departure of Ludovic for Blackstone, having followed the Kaiser's example in looting the treasury on the way out, and the decision of Aurangzeb II to abdicate on Ermure the 22nd of Oskaltequ after a reign of a mere one hundred and thirty days. Aurangzeb's chosen successor - Marcus Myksos, was thereby placed in direct competition with the purported heir favoured by Dominus, [[Queen Noor]].<br />
<br />
At the same time, the Alejian Castle session of the [[Landsraad]], whose Prætor and a significant number of Electors had fled Shirekeep following the violent takeover of the city by the coup plotters, had begun on Izillare the 20th of Vixaslaa. As much as the actions of the coup-plotters had aroused disgust and indignation the initial proposal to formed a re-organised Imperial Government led by Dominus' Steward [[Hallbjörn Haraldsson]], was met with deep distrust and suspicion by many Electors who could still remember the bitter fighting of the [[River War]] as well as by those feared the possibility that Elwynn, the most powerful Imperial State, might use the opportunity to capture the institution of the Landsraad and thereby exert greater control over the Imperial Government.<br />
<br />
One of the more eye-catching proposals in the draft resolution was that the Imperial States, backed by Shireroth's treaty allies, should be authorised to invade the Imperial Dominions. The Dominions were those lands still subject to the Kaiser's rule under the charter, albeit with varying degrees of autonomy. These also, in addition to the city of Shirekeep, contained the majority of the garrisons of the [[Imperial Forces]].<br />
<br />
The Imperial Forces, having declared their allegiance to Tokaray, now found their position coming increasingly unstuck, being caught between a new claimant from the [[House of Myksos]] and the threat of armed intervention by the states to install the Ayreon-Kalirion candidate. <br />
<br />
Tokaray meanwhile, having plundered the Treasury, had relocated to [[Mishalan]], home to the Mishalan Garrison, by far and away the largest single concentration of the Imperial Forces on the Benacian continent, considering it a safer place to be rather than trapped in Shirekeep between Lichbrook and Elwynn. Mishalan, although resource rich, industrially developed and well suited as a redoubt, was landlocked and its soviet government, while not fond of Elwynn, could not be expected to endure a long war being waged on its territory for no purpose. It could only be used therefore as a logistics hub and the springboard for whatever the next plan of action would be.<br />
<br />
In consultation with the [[Magister Primum]] and the service chiefs of the Imperial Navy, the Imperial Air Forces and the various commands, Tokaray considered and then rejected various options in turn. The first was an offensive into [[Minarboria]]. This would be ideologically consistent with the manifesto of total war professed at the day of the accession. It was projected that the Field Army could, with its sizeable force of gravtanks, reach the Minarborian capital Sansabury in a mere nineteen hours and reach the sea twenty-four hours after that. This would guarantee access to the sea, permitting a link up with Coastal Command and the Western Armada, as well as accruing the not-inconsiderable industrial capacity of the ''Imperial Shrublands'' to those of Mishalan. This would however leave Mishalan vulnerable to the coalition offensive being debated in the Landsraad. Moreover the rate of attrition of the field army was felt would be excessive if that force was then expected to turn around and fight another war against the Elwynnese and allies in the same period. Another option was to invade [[Amokolia]], whose vast territories dominated much of the western portion of the Benacian continent. To do so would permit the Mishalan Garrison to link up with the forces deployed against the Siserans in [[Dietsland]], [[Puritania]] and [[Voltrue]]. While the Amokolia option would have brought the Imperial Forces into direct and immediate battle against their main opponent, this option would have entailed the commitment of an even greater component of the Field and Frontier Armies than the Minarboria option. The use of strategic weapons was also discussed but discounted as being likely to have a galvanising effect on Shireroth's international allies. <br />
<br />
Finally, it was resolved that the Mishalan Garrison would undertake a more limited operation to secure its tenuous lines of communication with Shirekeep and Goldshire while at the same time bringing sufficient pressure to bear on Lichbrook to prevail upon it to permit the Imperial Forces renewed access to its base facilities and the Amarr oil-fields. In that scenario, the majority of the Mishalan Garrison could be held back to defend the redoubt while two corps were released, flush with air support, to breakout and establish contact with the Riverine Army and the Shirekeep Garrison.<br />
<br />
The great impediment to the advance of the landing ships of the Riverine Army up the [[Elwynn (River)#The Blue Elwynn|Blue Elwynn]] was the West Elwynn Dam situated a little above the city of [[Ardashirshahr]] in the Elwynnese governorate of [[Alalehzamin and Utasia]]. The western landward portion of the dam laid on the opposite bank of the Blue Elwynn to Ardashirhahr on the [[Shores of Angularis]] in the sparsely populated [[Vale of Angularis|vale]] of the same name.<br />
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Administratively Angularis was a subordinate [[Circuit]] of the Emirate of Alalehzamin and Utasia. Excepting [[Babkhi]] and [[Froyalanish]] settlements along the river shore, it was a culturally and ethnically distinct from the rest of Elwynn, and moreover it had suffered greatly during a [[The Anarchy of Angularis|long drawn out conflict]] between the Elwynnese Crown and the [[Dark Orchid Society]].<br />
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For that reason it was considered to be the weakest link in Mishalan's encirclement. It's only official garrison was the [[Elwynnsbrigad 2 Alalehzamin]], a brigade strength armoured formation based in the [[Barrowlands]] where it faced the border with Minarboria. It's 4,265 UDF personnel were augmented by another 2,000 personnel from the Combat Support Services Corps as well as a number of [[Vanic Temple Guard]], [[Stratioti]], [[Corps of the Gentlemen-at-Cudgels|Cudgellers]] and [[Emirati Riddare]], strung out across the interior roads of the Circuit.<br />
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[[Category:Battles]]</div>Tokaray al-osmanhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=Angularis_Offensive_Operation&diff=27496Angularis Offensive Operation2017-01-25T02:58:51Z<p>Tokaray al-osman: /* Background */</p>
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<div>{{Battle<br />
|title= Angularis Offensive Operation<br />
|conflict= [[Year of the Four Kaisers]]<br />
|Battleimage= Mishalan mechs.jpeg<br />
|date= <small>Hyre 24 Oskaltequ &ndash; Ermure 4 Muulantooqu 1644 [[AN]]</small><br />
|place= [[Vale of Angularis]] ([[Elwynn]])<br />
|outcome= Imperial tactical victory, operational failure (stalemate)<br />
|nation1= [[File:New flag Shireroth.png|25px|border|Imperialist]]<small>[[Imperial Forces]] <small>(Myksos/Osmanid Factions)</small></small> <br />
|nation2= [[File:Elwynn Flag2.png|25px|border|Elwynn]] <small>[[Elwynn]]ese Union <small>(Loyalist Faction)</small></small><br />
|nation1comm= <small>[[File:New flag Shireroth.png|25px|border|Imperialist]] [http://www.gotzborg.com/site/index.php?title=Hugh_O%27Neill Sir Hugh O'Neill, K.E., O.M.]<br></small><br />
|nation2comm= <small>[[File:D3KBC1A.png|25px|border|UDF]] [[Daniyal Dravot]] </small><br />
|nation1strength= <small>[[File:New_flag_Shireroth.png|25px|border|Shireroth]][[Imperial Army]]<br />
*<small>[[Imperial Army#The Frontier Army|III Corps]]: 48,000 <br><br />
*[[Imperial Army#The Field Army|IX Corps]]: 48,000</small><br />
|nation2strength=<small>[[File:D3KBC1A.png|25px|border|UDF]][[Union Defence Force]]<br />
*<small>[[10th Division (The Zjandarian Guards)|10th Division]]:18,364<br /></small><br />
[[File:Alalehzamin flag.png|25px|border|Alalehzamin]]Emirati Riddare: 11,045 <br> [[File:Flag Vale of Angularis.png|25px|border|Angularis]] [[Stratioti]]:19,600</small><br />
|nation1cas= <small>TBA</small><br />
|nation2cas= <small>TBA</small><br />
|notes= <br />
}}<br />
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The [[Angularis Offensive Operation]] was a limited incursion by the [[Imperial Forces]] into the territory of the Elwynnese Union in an effort to forestall an invasion of the Imperial Dominions mooted by the [[Landsraad]] as a response to the disputed succession that arose in the wake of the [[Oustfest Massacre]] and the death of [[Kaiser Dominus]]. <br />
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<br />
==Background==<br />
<br />
In the wake of the [[Oustfest Massacre]] and the twelve days of anarchy in [[Shirekeep]] which followed the reported death of [[Kaiser Dominus]] under dubious circumstances in a Palace Coup orchestrated by [[Tokaray al-Osman]], [[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion]] and [[Ludovic Verion]] (the so-called KOV Triumvirate). The unity of this new ruling clique, united only in a common loathing of Kaiser Dominus in his later years, was fatally undermined by disagreements concerning the rights of non-human sentient creatures and finally by the decision of Tokaray, then reigning as [[Kaiser Aurangzeb II Steffki]], to attack [[Lichbrook]] rather than [[Elwynn]]. <br />
<br />
The original coalition collapsed after the departure of Ludovic for Blackstone, having followed the Kaiser's example in looting the treasury on the way out, and the decision of Aurangzeb II to abdicate on Ermure the 22nd of Oskaltequ after a reign of a mere one hundred and thirty days. Aurangzeb's chosen successor - Marcus Myksos, was thereby placed in direct competition with the purported heir favoured by Dominus, [[Queen Noor]].<br />
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At the same time, the Alejian Castle session of the [[Landsraad]], whose Prætor and a significant number of Electors had fled Shirekeep following the violent takeover of the city by the coup plotters, had begun on Izillare the 20th of Vixaslaa. As much as the actions of the coup-plotters had aroused disgust and indignation the initial proposal to formed a re-organised Imperial Government led by Dominus' Steward [[Hallbjörn Haraldsson]], was met with deep distrust and suspicion by many Electors who could still remember the bitter fighting of the [[River War]] as well as by those feared the possibility that Elwynn, the most powerful Imperial State, might use the opportunity to capture the institution of the Landsraad and thereby exert greater control over the Imperial Government.<br />
<br />
One of the more eye-catching proposals in the draft resolution was that the Imperial States, backed by Shireroth's treaty allies, should be authorised to invade the Imperial Dominions. The Dominions were those lands still subject to the Kaiser's rule under the charter, albeit with varying degrees of autonomy. These also, in addition to the city of Shirekeep, contained the majority of the garrisons of the [[Imperial Forces]].<br />
<br />
The Imperial Forces, having declared their allegiance to Tokaray, now found their position coming increasingly unstuck, being caught between a new claimant from the [[House of Myksos]] and the threat of armed intervention by the states to install the Ayreon-Kalirion candidate. <br />
<br />
Tokaray meanwhile, having plundered the Treasury, had relocated to [[Mishalan]], home to the Mishalan Garrison, by far and away the largest single concentration of the Imperial Forces on the Benacian continent, considering it a safer place to be rather than trapped in Shirekeep between Lichbrook and Elwynn. Mishalan, although resource rich, industrially developed and well suited as a redoubt, was landlocked and its soviet government, while not fond of Elwynn, could not be expected to endure a long war being waged on its territory for no purpose. It could only be used therefore as a logistics hub and the springboard for whatever the next plan of action would be.<br />
<br />
In consultation with the [[Magister Primum]] and the service chiefs of the Imperial Navy, the Imperial Air Forces and the various commands, Tokaray considered and then rejected various options in turn. The first was an offensive into [[Minarboria]]. This would be ideologically consistent with the manifesto of total war professed at the day of the accession. It was projected that the Field Army could, with its sizeable force of gravtanks, reach the Minarborian capital Sansabury in a mere nineteen hours and reach the sea twenty-four hours after that. This would guarantee access to the sea, permitting a link up with Coastal Command and the Western Armada, as well as accruing the not-inconsiderable industrial capacity of the ''Imperial Shrublands'' to those of Mishalan. This would however leave Mishalan vulnerable to the coalition offensive being debated in the Landsraad. Moreover the rate of attrition of the field army was felt would be excessive if that force was then expected to turn around and fight another war against the Elwynnese and allies in the same period. Another option was to invade [[Amokolia]], whose vast territories dominated much of the western portion of the Benacian continent. To do so would permit the Mishalan Garrison to link up with the forces deployed against the Siserans in [[Dietsland]], [[Puritania]] and [[Voltrue]]. While the Amokolia option would have brought the Imperial Forces into direct and immediate battle against their main opponent, this option would have entailed the commitment of an even greater component of the Field and Frontier Armies than the Minarboria option. The use of strategic weapons was also discussed but discounted as being likely to have a galvanising effect on Shireroth's international allies. <br />
<br />
Finally, it was resolved that the Mishalan Garrison would undertake a more limited operation to secure its tenuous lines of communication with Shirekeep and Goldshire while at the same time bringing sufficient pressure to bear on Lichbrook to prevail upon it to permit the Imperial Forces renewed access to its base facilities and the Amarr oil-fields. In that scenario, the majority of the Mishalan Garrison could be held back to defend the redoubt while two corps were released, flush with air support, to breakout and establish contact with the Riverine Army and the Shirekeep Garrison.<br />
<br />
The great impediment to the advance of the landing ships of the Riverine Army up the [[Elwynn (River)#The Blue Elwynn|Blue Elwynn]] was the West Elwynn Dam situated a little above the city of [[Ardashirshahr]] in the Elwynnese governorate of [[Alalehzamin and Utasia]]. The western landward portion of the dam laid on the opposite bank of the Blue Elwynn to Ardashirhahr on the [[Shores of Angularis]] in the sparsely populated [[Vale of Angularis|vale]] of the same name.<br />
<br />
Administratively Angularis was a subordinate [[Circuit]] of the Emirate of Alalehzamin and Utasia. Excepting [[Babkhi]] and [[Froyalanish]] settlements along the river shore, it was a culturally and ethnically distinct from the rest of Elwynn, and moreover it had suffered greatly during a [[The Anarchy of Angularis|long drawn out conflict]] between the Elwynnese Crown and the [[Dark Orchid Society]].<br />
<br />
For that reason it was considered to be the weakest link in Mishalan's encirclement. It's only official garrison was the [[Elwynnsbrigad 2 Alalehzamin]], a brigade strength armoured formation based in the [[Barrowlands]] where it faced the border with Minarboria. It's 4,265 UDF personnel were augmented by another 2,000 personnel from the Combat Support Services Corps as well as a number of [[Vanic Temple Guards]], [[Stratioti]], [[Corps of the Gentlemen-at-Cudgels|Cudgellers]] and [[Emirati Riddare]], strung out across the interior roads of the Circuit.<br />
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[[Category:Battles]]</div>Tokaray al-osmanhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=House_of_Myksos&diff=27495House of Myksos2017-01-25T02:10:38Z<p>Tokaray al-osman: </p>
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<div>{{Myksos}}<br />
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'''Line:''' Myksos<br><br />
'''Progenitor:''' Severus<br><br />
'''Established:''' 4902 ASC<br><br />
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The '''House of Myksos''' was a powerful Kildarian Dynasty, which ruled the Eastern Empire non-stop since [[Taodosius I|Taodosius']] ascension to the Apollonian Throne in 5141 ASC. The progenitor of the Myksos Dynasty is Severus Myksos who married Semisa [[Line of Ly'Technomaezj-Metzler|Ly'Technomaezj-Metzler]].<br />
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==History==<br />
The Myksos Dynasty has a mixture of both Myxosean as Shirerithian blood. It was Semisa Ly'Technomaezj-Metzler, a far descendant of the legendary [[Kaiser Gaelen I]], who married with Severus Myksos in 4902 ASC. Taodosius himself started travelling and soon became leader of an expedition of Myxoseans to find a new planet to live on. Later they returned to Micras and decided to live in Shireroth.<br />
It were his family ties with Shireroth, and Kildare (as many nobles descended from the bastard childs of Gaelen I), that led to the decision of Taodosius, to stage a coup d'état against Dutchess [[Ignatia I]].<br />
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The coup was a success and resulted in Taodosius' coronation in 5141 ASC as new Dutch of Kildare. Influenced by the ancient Audente institutions and his own religious heritage, as catologian, he changed the face of the Dutchy, even naming himself ''Ruler of the Eastern Empire''.<br />
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The birth of Sophia was an important moment in Kildare's history, as it was announced that she would succeed her father as next Dutchess, making the title formally hereditary. This was something that was never been done in the East's long history, but the nobility missed the strength and interest to object to the idea.<br />
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Sophia Myksos would, to strengthen the ties with the new State of Aryasht, eventually marry with its Prince, [[Chogal Kamala]]. Nonetheless, she convinced her husband to grant their children the name of her own House (leading to inside jokes that it was the woman who wore the pants in their household).<br />
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===Jingdao takeover===<br />
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Shit happens<br />
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===Voltrue exile===<br />
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===An unlikely Kaisership===<br />
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The improbable rise of Marcus Myksos.<br />
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==Ancestry==<br />
*'''Severus Myksos''' (4882 - 4998 ASC) x Semisa Ly'Technomaezj-Metzler (4881 - 4999 ASC)<br />
**'''Taodosius Myksos''' (4989 - 5230 ASC) x Matilda Nerva (5050 - 5210 ASC)<br />
*** '''Sophia Myksos''' (5198 - 5435 ASC) x Choygal Kamala (''unknown'' - ... ASC)<br />
****'''Flavius Myksos''' (5311 - ... ASC) x Arohi Mahesh (5436 - ... ASC)<br />
*****'''Titus Myksos''' (5455 - ... ASC)<br />
*****Ariadne Myksos (5456 - ... ASC)<br />
*****Marcus Myksos (5457 - ... ASC)<br />
****Flavia Myksos (5313 - 5402 ASC)<br />
****Titus Myksos (5318 - 5370 ASC)<br />
***Trajanus Myksos (5199 - 5287 ASC) x Marcia Antonias (5187 - 5243 ASC)<br />
****Hadrian Myksos (5252 - 5418 ASC) x Silesia Verus (5258 - 5333 ASC)<br />
*****Domitian Myksos (5314 - 5316 ASC)'', died of illness''.<br />
****Vespasian Myksos (5319 - 5581 ASC)<br />
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[[File:Family tree Myksos.png|center]]<br />
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[[category:History]]</div>Tokaray al-osmanhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=Angularis_Offensive_Operation&diff=27494Angularis Offensive Operation2017-01-25T01:46:27Z<p>Tokaray al-osman: </p>
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<div>{{Battle<br />
|title= Angularis Offensive Operation<br />
|conflict= [[Year of the Four Kaisers]]<br />
|Battleimage= Mishalan mechs.jpeg<br />
|date= <small>Hyre 24 Oskaltequ &ndash; Ermure 4 Muulantooqu 1644 [[AN]]</small><br />
|place= [[Vale of Angularis]] ([[Elwynn]])<br />
|outcome= Imperial tactical victory, operational failure (stalemate)<br />
|nation1= [[File:New flag Shireroth.png|25px|border|Imperialist]]<small>[[Imperial Forces]] <small>(Myksos/Osmanid Factions)</small></small> <br />
|nation2= [[File:Elwynn Flag2.png|25px|border|Elwynn]] <small>[[Elwynn]]ese Union <small>(Loyalist Faction)</small></small><br />
|nation1comm= <small>[[File:New flag Shireroth.png|25px|border|Imperialist]] [http://www.gotzborg.com/site/index.php?title=Hugh_O%27Neill Sir Hugh O'Neill, K.E., O.M.]<br></small><br />
|nation2comm= <small>[[File:D3KBC1A.png|25px|border|UDF]] [[Daniyal Dravot]] </small><br />
|nation1strength= <small>[[File:New_flag_Shireroth.png|25px|border|Shireroth]][[Imperial Army]]<br />
*<small>[[Imperial Army#The Frontier Army|III Corps]]: 48,000 <br><br />
*[[Imperial Army#The Field Army|IX Corps]]: 48,000</small><br />
|nation2strength=<small>[[File:D3KBC1A.png|25px|border|UDF]][[Union Defence Force]]<br />
*<small>[[10th Division (The Zjandarian Guards)|10th Division]]:18,364<br /></small><br />
[[File:Alalehzamin flag.png|25px|border|Alalehzamin]]Emirati Riddare: 11,045 <br> [[File:Flag Vale of Angularis.png|25px|border|Angularis]] [[Stratioti]]:19,600</small><br />
|nation1cas= <small>TBA</small><br />
|nation2cas= <small>TBA</small><br />
|notes= <br />
}}<br />
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The [[Angularis Offensive Operation]] was a limited incursion by the [[Imperial Forces]] into the territory of the Elwynnese Union in an effort to forestall an invasion of the Imperial Dominions mooted by the [[Landsraad]] as a response to the disputed succession that arose in the wake of the [[Oustfest Massacre]] and the death of [[Kaiser Dominus]]. <br />
<br />
<br />
==Background==<br />
<br />
In the wake of the [[Oustfest Massacre]] and the twelve days of anarchy in [[Shirekeep]] which followed the reported death of [[Kaiser Dominus]] under dubious circumstances in a Palace Coup orchestrated by [[Tokaray al-Osman]], [[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion]] and [[Ludovic Verion]] (the so-called KOV Triumvirate). The unity of this new ruling clique, united only in a common loathing of Kaiser Dominus in his later years, was fatally undermined by disagreements concerning the rights of non-human sentient creatures and finally by the decision of Tokaray, then reigning as [[Kaiser Aurangzeb II Steffki]], to attack [[Lichbrook]] rather than [[Elwynn]]. <br />
<br />
The original coalition collapsed after the departure of Ludovic for Blackstone, having followed the Kaiser's example in looting the treasury on the way out, and the decision of Aurangzeb II to abdicate on Ermure 22 Oskaltequ after a reign of a mere one hundred and thirty days.<br />
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[[Category:Battles]]</div>Tokaray al-osmanhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=Angularis_Offensive_Operation&diff=27493Angularis Offensive Operation2017-01-25T00:51:27Z<p>Tokaray al-osman: </p>
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<div>{{Battle<br />
|title= Angularis Offensive Operation<br />
|conflict= [[Year of the Four Kaisers]]<br />
|Battleimage= Mishalan mechs.jpeg<br />
|date= <small>Hyre 24 Oskaltequ &ndash; Ermure 4 Muulantooqu l1644 [[AN]]</small><br />
|place= [[Vale of Angularis]] ([[Elwynn]])<br />
|outcome= Imperial tactical victory, operational failure (stalemate)<br />
|nation1= [[File:New flag Shireroth.png|25px|border|Imperialist]]<small>[[Imperial Forces]] <small>(Myksos/Osmanid Factions)</small></small> <br />
|nation2= [[File:Elwynn Flag2.png|25px|border|Elwynn]] <small>[[Elwynn]]ese Union <small>(Loyalist Faction)</small></small><br />
|nation1comm= <small>[[File:New flag Shireroth.png|25px|border|Imperialist]] Sir Hugh O'Neill<br><br />
|nation2comm= <small>[[File:D3KBC1A.png|25px|border|UDF]] [[Daniyal Dravot]] </small><br />
|nation1strength= <small>[[File:New_flag_Shireroth.png|25px|border|Shireroth]][[Imperial Army]]<br />
*<small>[[Imperial Army#The Frontier Army|III Corps]]: 48,000 <br><br />
*[[Imperial Army#The Field Army|IX Corps]]: 48,000</small><br />
|nation2strength=<small>[[File:D3KBC1A.png|25px|border|UDF]][[Union Defence Force]]<br />
*<small>[[10th Division (The Zjandarian Guards)]]:18,364<br /></small><br />
[[File:Alalehzamin flag.png|25px|border|Alalehzamin]]Emirati Riddare: 11,045 <br> [[File:Flag Vale of Angularis.png|25px|border|Angularis]] [[Stratioti]]:19,600</small><br />
|nation1cas= <small>TBA</small><br />
|nation2cas= <small>TBA</small><br />
|notes= <br />
}}<br />
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[[Category:Battles]]</div>Tokaray al-osmanhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=Angularis_Offensive_Operation&diff=27492Angularis Offensive Operation2017-01-25T00:50:25Z<p>Tokaray al-osman: Created page with "{{Battle |title= Angularis Offensive Operation |conflict= Year of the Four Kaisers |Battleimage= Mishalan mechs.jpeg |date= <small>Hyre 24 Oskaltequ &ndash; Ermure 4 Muu..."</p>
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<div>{{Battle<br />
|title= Angularis Offensive Operation<br />
|conflict= [[Year of the Four Kaisers]]<br />
|Battleimage= Mishalan mechs.jpeg<br />
|date= <small>Hyre 24 Oskaltequ &ndash; Ermure 4 Muulantooqu l1644 [[AN]]</small><br />
|place= [[Vale of Angularis]] ([[Elwynn]])<br />
|outcome= Imperial tactical victory, operational failure (stalemate)<br />
|nation1= [[File:New flag Shireroth.png|25px|border|Imperialist]]Imperial Forces <small>(Myksos/Osmanid Factions)</small> <br />
|nation2= [[File:Elwynn Flag2.png|25px|border|Elwynn]] [[Elwynn]]ese Union <small>(Loyalist Faction)</small><br />
|nation1comm= <small>[[File:New flag Shireroth.png|25px|border|Imperialist]] Sir Hugh O'Neill<br><br />
|nation2comm= <small>[[File:D3KBC1A.png|25px|border|UDF]] [[Daniyal Dravot]] </small><br />
|nation1strength= <small>[[File:New_flag_Shireroth.png|25px|border|Shireroth]][[Imperial Army]]<br />
*<small>[[Imperial Army#The Frontier Army|III Corps]]: 48,000 <br><br />
*[[Imperial Army#The Field Army|IX Corps]]: 48,000</small><br />
|nation2strength=<small>[[File:D3KBC1A.png|25px|border|UDF]][[Union Defence Force]]<br />
*<small>[[10th Division (The Zjandarian Guards)]]:18,364<br /></small><br />
[[File:Alalehzamin flag.png|25px|border|Alalehzamin]]Emirati Riddare: 11,045 <br> [[File:Flag Vale of Angularis.png|25px|border|Angularis]] [[Stratioti]]:19,600</small><br />
|nation1cas= <small>TBA</small><br />
|nation2cas= <small>TBA</small><br />
|notes= <br />
}}<br />
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[[Category:Battles]]</div>Tokaray al-osmanhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=M15_Adrian_helmet&diff=27491M15 Adrian helmet2017-01-25T00:32:46Z<p>Tokaray al-osman: </p>
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<div>[[File:Adrian helmet.png|thumb|The Adrian helmet has the coat of arms of [[Shireroth]] on it. Even Kildarian soldiers often use this helmet, but in rare cases there are also helmets with the coat of arms of the other Duchies.]]<br />
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The '''M15 Adrian helmet''' is a combat helm used by [[Kildare|Kildarian]] and Shirerithian soldiers. The helmet was designed and fabricated by [[Heimat Industries]]. With the eye on an increase of fire power and the lack of real protection of the head against gun shots, the company designed a steel helmet which could protect the head a little bit better.<br />
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Introduced in 1584 [[AN]], it was the first modern steel helmet produced by a Shirerithian company. Replaced in 1641 by the Elwynnese [[M1639 Stahlhelm]].<br />
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[[category:Heimat Industries]][[category:Weaponry]]</div>Tokaray al-osmanhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=GV(LU)-3_Boojum&diff=27490GV(LU)-3 Boojum2017-01-25T00:29:41Z<p>Tokaray al-osman: </p>
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<div>{| class="toccolours" style="float:right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; font-size: 85%; width: 30em;background-color:#FFEFEF;border:1px solid #B82C20;"<br />
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|align=center colspan=2 | <h2 style="margin:0;background-color:#B82C20;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #B82C20;text-align:left;color:#fff;padding:0.2em 0.4em;"> <center>'''GV(LU)-3 Boojum'''<br />
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| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
[[Image:GV-3 Boojum.png|250px]]</center><br />
|-<br />
|'''Type:'''|| Launcher Unit<br />
|-<br />
|'''Place of origin:'''|| [[Shireroth]]<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
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|-<br />
|'''In service:''' || <br />
|-<br />
|'''Used by:''' || [[Imperial Forces]] <br><br />
|-<br />
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|-<br />
|'''Designed:''' || 1642 [[Elwynnese Calendar|AN]]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Manufacturer:''' || [[Red Bear LLC]]<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
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|-<br />
|'''Crew:''' || 4<br />
|-<br />
|'''Speed:'''||<br />
|-<br />
|'''Range:'''||<br />
|-<br />
|'''Weight:''' || <br />
|-<br />
|'''Length:''' || <br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
----<br />
|-<br />
|'''Main Armament:''' || <br />
|-<br />
|'''Rate of fire:''' || <br />
|-<br />
|'''Effective range:''' ||<br />
|-<br />
|'''Maximum range:''' ||<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
----<br />
|-<br />
|'''Cost:'''||20 Anunia Points<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
|}<br />
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[[Category:Weaponry]][[Category:Red Bear LLC]]</div>Tokaray al-osmanhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=GV(CV)-4_Red_Queen&diff=27489GV(CV)-4 Red Queen2017-01-25T00:27:25Z<p>Tokaray al-osman: </p>
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<div>{| class="toccolours" style="float:right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; font-size: 85%; width: 30em;background-color:#FFEFEF;border:1px solid #B82C20;"<br />
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|align=center colspan=2 | <h2 style="margin:0;background-color:#B82C20;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #B82C20;text-align:left;color:#fff;padding:0.2em 0.4em;"> <center>'''GV(CV)-4 Red Queen'''<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
[[Image:GV-4 Red Queen.png|250px]]</center><br />
|-<br />
|'''Type:'''|| Command Vehicle<br />
|-<br />
|'''Place of origin:'''|| [[Shireroth]]<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
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|-<br />
|'''In service:''' || <br />
|-<br />
|'''Used by:''' || [[Imperial Forces]] <br><br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
----<br />
|-<br />
|'''Designed:''' || 1642 [[Elwynnese Calendar|AN]]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Manufacturer:''' || [[Red Bear LLC]]<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
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|-<br />
|'''Crew:''' || 4<br />
|-<br />
|'''Speed:'''||<br />
|-<br />
|'''Range:'''||<br />
|-<br />
|'''Weight:''' || <br />
|-<br />
|'''Length:''' || <br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
----<br />
|-<br />
|'''Main Armament:''' || <br />
|-<br />
|'''Rate of fire:''' || <br />
|-<br />
|'''Effective range:''' ||<br />
|-<br />
|'''Maximum range:''' ||<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
----<br />
|-<br />
|'''Cost:'''||15<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
|}<br />
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[[Category:Weaponry]][[Category:Red Bear LLC]]</div>Tokaray al-osmanhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=GV(LU)-3_Boojum&diff=27488GV(LU)-3 Boojum2017-01-25T00:23:43Z<p>Tokaray al-osman: </p>
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<div>{| class="toccolours" style="float:right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; font-size: 85%; width: 30em;background-color:#FFEFEF;border:1px solid #B82C20;"<br />
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|align=center colspan=2 | <h2 style="margin:0;background-color:#B82C20;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #B82C20;text-align:left;color:#fff;padding:0.2em 0.4em;"> <center>'''GV(LU)-3 Boojum'''<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
[[Image:GV-3 Boojum.png|250px]]</center><br />
|-<br />
|'''Type:'''|| Launcher Unit<br />
|-<br />
|'''Place of origin:'''|| [[Shireroth]]<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
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|-<br />
|'''In service:''' || <br />
|-<br />
|'''Used by:''' || [[Imperial Forces]] <br><br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
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|-<br />
|'''Designed:''' || 1642 [[Elwynnese Calendar|AN]]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Manufacturer:''' || [[Red Bear LLC]]<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
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|-<br />
|'''Crew:''' || 4<br />
|-<br />
|'''Speed:'''||<br />
|-<br />
|'''Range:'''||<br />
|-<br />
|'''Weight:''' || <br />
|-<br />
|'''Length:''' || <br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
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|-<br />
|'''Main Armament:''' || <br />
|-<br />
|'''Rate of fire:''' || <br />
|-<br />
|'''Effective range:''' ||<br />
|-<br />
|'''Maximum range:''' ||<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
----<br />
|-<br />
|'''Cost:'''||80 Anunia Points<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
|}<br />
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[[Category:Weaponry]][[Category:Red Bear LLC]]</div>Tokaray al-osmanhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=IMW-3_Snark&diff=27487IMW-3 Snark2017-01-25T00:16:44Z<p>Tokaray al-osman: </p>
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<div>{| class="toccolours" style="float:right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; font-size: 85%; width: 30em;background-color:#FFEFEF;border:1px solid #B82C20;"<br />
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|align=center colspan=2 | <h2 style="margin:0;background-color:#B82C20;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #B82C20;text-align:left;color:#fff;padding:0.2em 0.4em;"> <center>'''IMW-3 Snark'''<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
[[Image:IMW-3 Snark.png|250px]]</center><br />
|-<br />
|'''Type:'''|| Mobile Command Platform<br />
|-<br />
|'''Place of origin:'''|| [[Shireroth]]<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
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|-<br />
|'''In service:''' || <br />
|-<br />
|'''Used by:''' || [[Imperial Forces]] <br><br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
----<br />
|-<br />
|'''Designed:''' || 1641 [[Elwynnese Calendar|AN]]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Manufacturer:''' || [[Red Bear LLC]]<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
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|-<br />
|'''Crew:''' || 24<br />
|-<br />
|'''Speed:'''||<small><br />
*Tractive Effort: 13,329 kgf / 130.71 kN<br />
*Gallop: 160 km/h (short distances only)<br />
*Canter: 48 km/h<br />
*Ambling Gait: 24 km/h</small><br />
|-<br />
|'''Range:'''||<br />
|-<br />
|'''Weight:''' || Heavy<br />
|-<br />
|'''Length:''' || Long<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
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|-<br />
|'''Main Armament:''' || 75mm cannon<br />
|-<br />
|'''Rate of fire:''' || 90 rpm<br />
|-<br />
|'''Effective range:''' || 1,800 m direct fire<br />
|-<br />
|'''Maximum range:''' || 7,678 m indirect HE shell<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
----<br />
|-<br />
|'''Cost:'''||1,000 Anunia Points<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
|}<br />
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[[Category:Weaponry]]</div>Tokaray al-osmanhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=GV(SPG)-2_Jabberwocky&diff=27486GV(SPG)-2 Jabberwocky2017-01-25T00:14:18Z<p>Tokaray al-osman: </p>
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<div>{| class="toccolours" style="float:right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; font-size: 85%; width: 30em;background-color:#FFEFEF;border:1px solid #B82C20;"<br />
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|align=center colspan=2 | <h2 style="margin:0;background-color:#B82C20;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #B82C20;text-align:left;color:#fff;padding:0.2em 0.4em;"> <center>'''GV(SPG)-2 Jabberwocky'''<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
[[Image:GV-2 Jabberwocky.png|250px]]</center><br />
|-<br />
|'''Type:'''|| Self-Propelled Gun<br />
|-<br />
|'''Place of origin:'''|| [[Shireroth]]<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
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|-<br />
|'''In service:''' || <br />
|-<br />
|'''Used by:''' || [[Imperial Forces]] <br><br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
----<br />
|-<br />
|'''Designed:''' || 1642 [[Elwynnese Calendar|AN]]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Manufacturer:''' || [[Red Bear LLC]]<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
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|-<br />
|'''Crew:''' || 4<br />
|-<br />
|'''Speed:'''||<br />
|-<br />
|'''Range:'''||<br />
|-<br />
|'''Weight:''' || <br />
|-<br />
|'''Length:''' || <br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
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|-<br />
|'''Main Armament:''' || 155mm Cannon<br />
|-<br />
|'''Rate of fire:''' || <br />
|-<br />
|'''Effective range:''' ||<br />
|-<br />
|'''Maximum range:''' ||<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
----<br />
|-<br />
|'''Cost:'''||85 Anunia Points<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
|}<br />
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[[Category:Weaponry]][[Category:Red Bear LLC]]</div>Tokaray al-osmanhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=File:Mishalan_mechs.jpeg&diff=27485File:Mishalan mechs.jpeg2017-01-24T23:31:46Z<p>Tokaray al-osman: </p>
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<div></div>Tokaray al-osmanhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=Imperial_Army&diff=27446Imperial Army2017-01-23T01:36:47Z<p>Tokaray al-osman: /* The Field Army */</p>
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|align=center colspan=2 | <center>'''Imperial Army'''<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
[[Image:New_flag_Shireroth.png|150px]]</center><br />
|-<br />
|'''Active:'''|| 6149 ASC - ''Present''<br />
|-<br />
|'''Motto'''||''Ignis et Victoria''<br />
|-<br />
|'''In use by:'''|| [[Imperial Forces]]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Allegiance:'''|| Shireroth<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
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|-<br />
|'''Type:''' || Land Forces<br />
|-<br />
|'''Size:''' || 600,000 personnel<br /><small>2,247 [[Horjin Armoured Fighting Vehicle]]<br/>2,687 [[80mm field gun]]<br />5 [[IMW-3 Snark]]<br/>1 [[IMW-1 Walker]]<br />354 [[GV(MBT)-1 Bandersnatch]]<br />397 [[IMW-2 Spidertank]]<br />272 [[GV(SPG)-2 Jabberwocky]]<br />12 [[GV(LU)-3 Boojum]]<br />420 [[GV(CV)-4 Red Queen]]<br />184 engineering vehicles<br />5,700 SUV's<br />5,500 Medium Trucks<br />156 landing craft</small><br />
<br />
|-<br />
|'''Nickname:''' || ''None yet''<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
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|-<br />
|'''Current Commander:'''|| Magister Primum<br />
|-<br />
|'''Conflicts & Deployments'''||<br />
*[[Jaris War]]<br />
*[[Cabbage Crisis]]<br />
*[[Sxiro-Jingdaoese Confrontation]]<br />
**[[Operation Long Haul]]<br />
*[[The River War]]<br />
*[[The Anarchy of Angularis]]<br />
*[[Martial Law in Goldshire]]<br />
*[[Civil War in Goldshire]]<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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<br />
The '''Imperial Army''' is the principal land warfare force of the [[Main Page|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]]'' (<small>i.e. the [[wikipedia:General staff|General Staff]]</small>).<br />
<br />
=Formation and Structure=<br />
<br />
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 [[wikipedia:battlegroup_(Army)|battle group]], known as a [[wikipedia:vexillatio|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.<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
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]].<br />
<br />
Following the [[Oustfest Massacre]] administrative divisions were abolished as an unnecessary bridge in the chain of command between the tactical and operational level formations.<br />
<br />
==Structure of Units==<br />
The most typical variety of Imperial Army units are structured as follows:<br><br><br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
!Type of Unit<br />
![[wikipedia:Field Army|Field Army]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Corps|Corps]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Brigade|Legion]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Battalion|Regiment]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Company (military unit)|Squadron]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Troop (military unit)|Troop]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Section (military unit)|Contubernium<br />(Section)]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Fireteam|Fire Team/Detail]]<br />
|-<br />
!Contains<br />
|3 Corps<br />
|8 Legions<br />
|5 Regiments<br />
|10 Squadrons<br />
|5 Troops<br />
|3 Sections<br />
|2 Fire Teams<br />
|4 Individuals<br />
|-<br />
!Personnel<br />
|144,000<br />
|48,000<br />
|6,000<br />
|1,200<br />
|120<br />
|24<br />
|8<br />
|4<br />
|-<br />
!Commanded by<br />
|[[wikipedia:Magister equitum|Magister Equitum]]<br />
|[[wikipedia:Magister militum|Magister Militum]]<br />
|[[wikipedia:Legatus legionis|Legatus Imperii]]<br />
|[[wikipedia:Tribune|Tribunus Laticlavius]]<br />
|Tribunus Angusticlavius<br><small><small>[[wikipedia:Major (United Kingdom)|(Major)]]</small><br>or<br>''Primus Ordinus''<br><small>(Senior Centurion)</small></small><br />
|Centurion<br><small><small>[[wikipedia:Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|(Captain)]]</small><br>or<br>''Optio''<br><small>(Lieutenant)</small></small><br />
|Decanus<br><small>[[wikipedia:Corporal#United Kingdom|(Corporal)]]</small><br />
|[[wikipedia:Chosen man|Chosen Man]]<br />
|}<br />
<br/><br />
<br/><br />
[[File:Imperial Army Structure.png|thumb|right|Units of the Imperial Army and their subordinate components]]<br />
<br/><br />
<br />
=Organisation=<br />
<br />
==Order of Battle==<br />
<br />
*Imperial Army (Exercitus Imperii)<br />
**Collegium Magistri Militum (General Staff)<br />
**Palatini Corps<br />
**Land Command<br />
***Exercitus Comitatenses (Field Army)<br />
***Exercitus Limitanei (Frontier Army)<br />
***Exercitus Ripenses (Riverine Army)<br />
<br />
==Tables of Equipment==<br />
<br />
===Palatini Corps===<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ [[Palatini Corps]]<br />
|+ Commander: ''Magister Militum'' '''[[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion]]''', ''Dominus, rector et imperator di Cabbagefall & patronus di familia''<br />
|+ Home Base: [[Imperial Forces#Shirekeep Garrison|Shirekeep Garrison]]<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
! scope="col" |Aircraft/Rotorcraft<br />
|-<br />
|[[Order of Kampioens]] ||.||.||25,000||100||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
By a minor historical quirk, the Kaiser's personal bodyguard, the [[Order of Kampioens|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. <br />
<br><br />
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.<br />
<br />
===Land Command===<br />
<br />
====The Field Army====<br />
[[File:20161105 TOE IA Legion HQ Troop.png|250px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><small>Example Table of Equipment (TOE) for a Legate's command troop in the Field Army</small></div>]]<br />
[[File:20161014 TOE IA Comitatus Squadron.png|250px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><small>Example Table of Equipment (TOE) for a Comitatus Squadron in the Field Army</small></div>]]<br />
[[File:20161111 TOE IA AT-Inf Troop.png|250px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><small>Example Table of Equipment (TOE) for a troop of Anti-Tank Infantry in the Field Army</small></div>]]<br />
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. <br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ I Corps<br />
|+ Commander: ''Magister Equitum'' '''Royston Merrick the Younger''', ''Dominus, Vir Egregius, Dux Bellorum & patronus di familia''.<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Compagnia Familia del Merrick||Magister Equitum Royston Merrick Jnr.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Fereydoun Payam Attar||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Alexander Beresford||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LV Legio||Legatus Imperii Donnchard||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LVI Legio||Legatus Imperii Seaghdha Sarsfield||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LVII Legio||Legatus Imperii Charles Livingston||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LVIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Evander Cameron||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LIX Legio||Legatus Imperii Teófilo O'Higgins||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LX Legio||Legatus Imperii Manuel Soublette||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXI Legio||Legatus Imperill Porfirio Uribe||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ II Corps<br />
|+ Commander: Magister Militum Abolfazl Shahzad Khoroushi<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Abolfazl Shahzad Khoroushi||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXII Legio||Legatus Imperii Tadeo Roa||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Ernst Johan Stackelberg||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Karl Jacob Stackelberg||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXV Legio||Legatus Imperii Klaus Meyer||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXVI Legio||Legatus Imperii Adolf Tegethoff||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXVII Legio||Legatus Imperii Tobias Bremer||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXVIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Peter von Hagenbach||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXIX Legio||Legatus Imperii Gregor Colvin||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ IX Corps<br />
|+ Commander: Magister Militum Behnam Kambiz Rostami<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Behnam Kambiz Rostami||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXX Legio||Legatus Imperii Joachim Ursus||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXXI Legio||Legatus Imperii Riccardo Huerlingdorp||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXXII Legio||Legatus Imperii Antonio de Nebrija||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXXIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Rostam Hafiz||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXXIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Piarres Nafarroakoa||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXXV Legio||Legatus Imperii Gustavus Peralta||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXXVI Legio||Legatus Imperii Constantine Plantagenet||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXXVII Legio||Legatus Imperii Heinrich Starkey||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
====The Frontier Army====<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ III Corps<br />
|+ Magister Equitum Hugh O'Neill, Dominus, Vir Egregius, Dux Bellorum & patronus di familia.<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Equitum||Magister Equitum Hugh On'Neill||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Yasin Bahadur Khoroushi||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Sigihard Brune||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXI Legio||Legatus Imperii Fridwald Fried||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXII Legio||Legatus Imperii Theodoard Friduman Baumer||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Bruno Rambert Strohkirch||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Gebhard Heike Yount||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXVII Legio||Legatus Imperii Herbert Alle Beckert||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXVIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Reto Sigiheri Schumacher||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXIX Legio||Legatus Imperii Ime Leudoberct Aikema||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ IV Corps<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Hassan Soroush Khoroushi||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|I Legio Bersaglieri||Legatus Imperii Ewald Ermenrich Ionesco||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|II Legio Littorio||Legatus Imperii Waldomar Hermanus Dumitru||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|III Legio San Marco||Legatus Imperii Meino Ionuț Vasile||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|IV Legio Monterosa||Legatus Imperii Baugulf Seneca Șerban||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|V Legio||Legatus Imperii Teodor Doru Vasile||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XII Legio Scholae Evocati||Legatus Imperii Quintus Tacitus Cojocaru||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Iancu Hortensius||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XX Legio||Legatus Imperii Iancu Hortensius||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ VI Corps<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Akbar Jalal Alinejad||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XXX Legio||Legatus Imperii Godascalc Berahthram Vasilescu||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXI Legio||Legatus Imperii Ștefan Tudor Adam||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXII Legio||Legatus Imperii Ansovald Aldebrand Popescu||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Vespasianus Pompeius||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Darius Hludowig Șerban||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXV Legio||Legatus Imperii Bahman Eskandar Alinejad||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXVI Legio||Legatus Imperii Ahmad Jahangir Alinejad||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXVII Legio||Legatus Imperii Jalal Masood Alinejad||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
====The Riverine Army====<br />
<br />
Responsible for the defence of the [[Elwynn (River)|River Elwynn]] and the approaches to [[Shirekeep]].<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ V Corps Classis Rubrum<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Equitum||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Praefectus Classis||.||9||9||0||1<br />
|-<br />
|VI Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|VII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|VIII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|IX Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|X Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XI Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ VII Corps Classis Albrum<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Praefectus Classis||.||9||9||0||1<br />
|-<br />
|XXXVIII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XXXIX Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XL Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLI Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLIII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLIV Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLV Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ VIII Corps Classis Puteulanum<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Praefectus Classis||.||9||9||0||1<br />
|-<br />
|XLVI Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLVII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLVIII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLIX Legio ||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|L Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LI Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LIII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Ships:<br><br />
[[wikipedia:Landing Craft Assault|Trireme]] - 36 Marines, 4 crew<br><br />
[[wikipedia:Landing ship, infantry|Quadrireme]] - 1,500 Marines, 300 crew<br><br />
[[wikipedia:Landing Ship, Tank|Quinqereme]] - 22 [[Horjin Armoured Fighting Vehicle]], 217 marines, 98 crew<br><br />
<br />
Command Ranks:<br />
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<br />
<br />
====The Reserve Army====<br />
<br />
The Reserve Army was established in [[Goldshire]] in 1644 to provide the Imperial Army with a pool of manpower and formations to replace units worn down through attrition in combat.<br />
<br />
=Recruitment and Training=<br />
<br />
The Imperial Army recruits exclusively from [[Shirekeep]] and the [[Subdivision#Imperial Dominions|Imperial Dominions]] as well as any territory that they might temporarily occupy, such as Goldshire during the period of [[Martial Law in Goldshire|martial law]].<br />
<br />
Recruitment can include the taking in of volunteers, but also frequently relies upon forms of impressment, notably the [[Impressment Service|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 (River)|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. <br />
<br />
=History=<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
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<div>{| class="toccolours" style="float:right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; font-size: 85%; width: 30em;background-color:#FFEFEF;border:1px solid #B82C20;"<br />
|align=center colspan=2 | <center>'''Imperial Army'''<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
[[Image:New_flag_Shireroth.png|150px]]</center><br />
|-<br />
|'''Active:'''|| 6149 ASC - ''Present''<br />
|-<br />
|'''Motto'''||''Ignis et Victoria''<br />
|-<br />
|'''In use by:'''|| [[Imperial Forces]]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Allegiance:'''|| Shireroth<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
----<br />
|-<br />
|'''Type:''' || Land Forces<br />
|-<br />
|'''Size:''' || 600,000 personnel<br /><small>2,247 [[Horjin Armoured Fighting Vehicle]]<br/>2,687 [[80mm field gun]]<br />5 [[IMW-3 Snark]]<br/>1 [[IMW-1 Walker]]<br />354 [[GV(MBT)-1 Bandersnatch]]<br />397 [[IMW-2 Spidertank]]<br />272 [[GV(SPG)-2 Jabberwocky]]<br />12 [[GV(LU)-3 Boojum]]<br />420 [[GV(CV)-4 Red Queen]]<br />184 engineering vehicles<br />5,700 SUV's<br />5,500 Medium Trucks<br />156 landing craft</small><br />
<br />
|-<br />
|'''Nickname:''' || ''None yet''<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
----<br />
|-<br />
|'''Current Commander:'''|| Magister Primum<br />
|-<br />
|'''Conflicts & Deployments'''||<br />
*[[Jaris War]]<br />
*[[Cabbage Crisis]]<br />
*[[Sxiro-Jingdaoese Confrontation]]<br />
**[[Operation Long Haul]]<br />
*[[The River War]]<br />
*[[The Anarchy of Angularis]]<br />
*[[Martial Law in Goldshire]]<br />
*[[Civil War in Goldshire]]<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
The '''Imperial Army''' is the principal land warfare force of the [[Main Page|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]]'' (<small>i.e. the [[wikipedia:General staff|General Staff]]</small>).<br />
<br />
=Formation and Structure=<br />
<br />
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 [[wikipedia:battlegroup_(Army)|battle group]], known as a [[wikipedia:vexillatio|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.<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
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]].<br />
<br />
Following the [[Oustfest Massacre]] administrative divisions were abolished as an unnecessary bridge in the chain of command between the tactical and operational level formations.<br />
<br />
==Structure of Units==<br />
The most typical variety of Imperial Army units are structured as follows:<br><br><br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
!Type of Unit<br />
![[wikipedia:Field Army|Field Army]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Corps|Corps]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Brigade|Legion]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Battalion|Regiment]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Company (military unit)|Squadron]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Troop (military unit)|Troop]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Section (military unit)|Contubernium<br />(Section)]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Fireteam|Fire Team/Detail]]<br />
|-<br />
!Contains<br />
|3 Corps<br />
|8 Legions<br />
|5 Regiments<br />
|10 Squadrons<br />
|5 Troops<br />
|3 Sections<br />
|2 Fire Teams<br />
|4 Individuals<br />
|-<br />
!Personnel<br />
|144,000<br />
|48,000<br />
|6,000<br />
|1,200<br />
|120<br />
|24<br />
|8<br />
|4<br />
|-<br />
!Commanded by<br />
|[[wikipedia:Magister equitum|Magister Equitum]]<br />
|[[wikipedia:Magister militum|Magister Militum]]<br />
|[[wikipedia:Legatus legionis|Legatus Imperii]]<br />
|[[wikipedia:Tribune|Tribunus Laticlavius]]<br />
|Tribunus Angusticlavius<br><small><small>[[wikipedia:Major (United Kingdom)|(Major)]]</small><br>or<br>''Primus Ordinus''<br><small>(Senior Centurion)</small></small><br />
|Centurion<br><small><small>[[wikipedia:Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|(Captain)]]</small><br>or<br>''Optio''<br><small>(Lieutenant)</small></small><br />
|Decanus<br><small>[[wikipedia:Corporal#United Kingdom|(Corporal)]]</small><br />
|[[wikipedia:Chosen man|Chosen Man]]<br />
|}<br />
<br/><br />
<br/><br />
[[File:Imperial Army Structure.png|thumb|right|Units of the Imperial Army and their subordinate components]]<br />
<br/><br />
<br />
=Organisation=<br />
<br />
==Order of Battle==<br />
<br />
*Imperial Army (Exercitus Imperii)<br />
**Collegium Magistri Militum (General Staff)<br />
**Palatini Corps<br />
**Land Command<br />
***Exercitus Comitatenses (Field Army)<br />
***Exercitus Limitanei (Frontier Army)<br />
***Exercitus Ripenses (Riverine Army)<br />
<br />
==Tables of Equipment==<br />
<br />
===Palatini Corps===<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ [[Palatini Corps]]<br />
|+ Commander: ''Magister Militum'' '''[[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion]]''', ''Dominus, rector et imperator di Cabbagefall & patronus di familia''<br />
|+ Home Base: [[Imperial Forces#Shirekeep Garrison|Shirekeep Garrison]]<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
! scope="col" |Aircraft/Rotorcraft<br />
|-<br />
|[[Order of Kampioens]] ||.||.||25,000||100||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
By a minor historical quirk, the Kaiser's personal bodyguard, the [[Order of Kampioens|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. <br />
<br><br />
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.<br />
<br />
===Land Command===<br />
<br />
====The Field Army====<br />
[[File:20161105 TOE IA Legion HQ Troop.png|250px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><small>Example Table of Equipment (TOE) for a Legate's command troop in the Field Army</small></div>]]<br />
[[File:20161014 TOE IA Comitatus Squadron.png|250px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><small>Example Table of Equipment (TOE) for a Comitatus Squadron in the Field Army</small></div>]]<br />
[[File:20161111 TOE IA AT-Inf Troop.png|250px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><small>Example Table of Equipment (TOE) for a troop of Anti-Tank Infantry in the Field Army</small></div>]]<br />
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. <br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ I Corps<br />
|+ Commander: ''Magister Equitum'' '''Royston Merrick the Younger''', ''Dominus, Vir Egregius, Dux Bellorum & patronus di familia''.<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Compagnia Familia del Merrick||Magister Equitum Royston Merrick Jnr.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Joseph Frobisher||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Alexander Beresford||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LV Legio||Legatus Imperii Donnchard||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LVI Legio||Legatus Imperii Seaghdha Sarsfield||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LVII Legio||Legatus Imperii Charles Livingston||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LVIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Evander Cameron||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LIX Legio||Legatus Imperii Teófilo O'Higgins||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LX Legio||Legatus Imperii Manuel Soublette||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXI Legio||Legatus Imperill Porfirio Uribe||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ II Corps<br />
|+ Commander: Magister Militum Alfredo Vargas<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Alfredo Vargas||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXII Legio||Legatus Imperii Tadeo Roa||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Ernst Johan Stackelberg||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Karl Jacob Stackelberg||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXV Legio||Legatus Imperii Klaus Meyer||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXVI Legio||Legatus Imperii Adolf Tegethoff||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXVII Legio||Legatus Imperii Tobias Bremer||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXVIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Peter von Hagenbach||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXIX Legio||Legatus Imperii Gregor Colvin||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ IX Corps<br />
|+ Commander: Magister Militum Wilbur Guinness<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Wilbur Guinness||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXX Legio||Legatus Imperii Joachim Ursus||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXXI Legio||Legatus Imperii Riccardo Huerlingdorp||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXXII Legio||Legatus Imperii Antonio de Nebrija||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXXIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Rostam Hafiz||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXXIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Piarres Nafarroakoa||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXXV Legio||Legatus Imperii Gustavus Peralta||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXXVI Legio||Legatus Imperii Constantine Plantagenet||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXXVII Legio||Legatus Imperii Heinrich Starkey||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
====The Frontier Army====<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ III Corps<br />
|+ Magister Equitum Hugh O'Neill, Dominus, Vir Egregius, Dux Bellorum & patronus di familia.<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Equitum||Magister Equitum Hugh On'Neill||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Yasin Bahadur Khoroushi||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Sigihard Brune||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXI Legio||Legatus Imperii Fridwald Fried||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXII Legio||Legatus Imperii Theodoard Friduman Baumer||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Bruno Rambert Strohkirch||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Gebhard Heike Yount||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXVII Legio||Legatus Imperii Herbert Alle Beckert||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXVIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Reto Sigiheri Schumacher||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXIX Legio||Legatus Imperii Ime Leudoberct Aikema||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ IV Corps<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Hassan Soroush Khoroushi||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|I Legio Bersaglieri||Legatus Imperii Ewald Ermenrich Ionesco||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|II Legio Littorio||Legatus Imperii Waldomar Hermanus Dumitru||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|III Legio San Marco||Legatus Imperii Meino Ionuț Vasile||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|IV Legio Monterosa||Legatus Imperii Baugulf Seneca Șerban||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|V Legio||Legatus Imperii Teodor Doru Vasile||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XII Legio Scholae Evocati||Legatus Imperii Quintus Tacitus Cojocaru||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Iancu Hortensius||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XX Legio||Legatus Imperii Iancu Hortensius||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ VI Corps<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Akbar Jalal Alinejad||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XXX Legio||Legatus Imperii Godascalc Berahthram Vasilescu||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXI Legio||Legatus Imperii Ștefan Tudor Adam||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXII Legio||Legatus Imperii Ansovald Aldebrand Popescu||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Vespasianus Pompeius||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Darius Hludowig Șerban||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXV Legio||Legatus Imperii Bahman Eskandar Alinejad||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXVI Legio||Legatus Imperii Ahmad Jahangir Alinejad||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXVII Legio||Legatus Imperii Jalal Masood Alinejad||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
====The Riverine Army====<br />
<br />
Responsible for the defence of the [[Elwynn (River)|River Elwynn]] and the approaches to [[Shirekeep]].<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ V Corps Classis Rubrum<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Equitum||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Praefectus Classis||.||9||9||0||1<br />
|-<br />
|VI Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|VII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|VIII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|IX Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|X Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XI Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ VII Corps Classis Albrum<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Praefectus Classis||.||9||9||0||1<br />
|-<br />
|XXXVIII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XXXIX Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XL Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLI Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLIII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLIV Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLV Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ VIII Corps Classis Puteulanum<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Praefectus Classis||.||9||9||0||1<br />
|-<br />
|XLVI Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLVII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLVIII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLIX Legio ||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|L Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LI Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LIII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Ships:<br><br />
[[wikipedia:Landing Craft Assault|Trireme]] - 36 Marines, 4 crew<br><br />
[[wikipedia:Landing ship, infantry|Quadrireme]] - 1,500 Marines, 300 crew<br><br />
[[wikipedia:Landing Ship, Tank|Quinqereme]] - 22 [[Horjin Armoured Fighting Vehicle]], 217 marines, 98 crew<br><br />
<br />
Command Ranks:<br />
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<br />
<br />
====The Reserve Army====<br />
<br />
The Reserve Army was established in [[Goldshire]] in 1644 to provide the Imperial Army with a pool of manpower and formations to replace units worn down through attrition in combat.<br />
<br />
=Recruitment and Training=<br />
<br />
The Imperial Army recruits exclusively from [[Shirekeep]] and the [[Subdivision#Imperial Dominions|Imperial Dominions]] as well as any territory that they might temporarily occupy, such as Goldshire during the period of [[Martial Law in Goldshire|martial law]].<br />
<br />
Recruitment can include the taking in of volunteers, but also frequently relies upon forms of impressment, notably the [[Impressment Service|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 (River)|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. <br />
<br />
=History=<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Imperial Forces]]</div>Tokaray al-osmanhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=Imperial_Army&diff=27444Imperial Army2017-01-23T00:45:34Z<p>Tokaray al-osman: /* The Field Army */</p>
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<div>{| class="toccolours" style="float:right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; font-size: 85%; width: 30em;background-color:#FFEFEF;border:1px solid #B82C20;"<br />
|align=center colspan=2 | <center>'''Imperial Army'''<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
[[Image:New_flag_Shireroth.png|150px]]</center><br />
|-<br />
|'''Active:'''|| 6149 ASC - ''Present''<br />
|-<br />
|'''Motto'''||''Ignis et Victoria''<br />
|-<br />
|'''In use by:'''|| [[Imperial Forces]]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Allegiance:'''|| Shireroth<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
----<br />
|-<br />
|'''Type:''' || Land Forces<br />
|-<br />
|'''Size:''' || 600,000 personnel<br /><small>2,247 [[Horjin Armoured Fighting Vehicle]]<br/>2,687 [[80mm field gun]]<br />5 [[IMW-3 Snark]]<br/>1 [[IMW-1 Walker]]<br />354 [[GV(MBT)-1 Bandersnatch]]<br />397 [[IMW-2 Spidertank]]<br />272 [[GV(SPG)-2 Jabberwocky]]<br />12 [[GV(LU)-3 Boojum]]<br />420 [[GV(CV)-4 Red Queen]]<br />184 engineering vehicles<br />5,700 SUV's<br />5,500 Medium Trucks<br />156 landing craft</small><br />
<br />
|-<br />
|'''Nickname:''' || ''None yet''<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
----<br />
|-<br />
|'''Current Commander:'''|| Magister Primum<br />
|-<br />
|'''Conflicts & Deployments'''||<br />
*[[Jaris War]]<br />
*[[Cabbage Crisis]]<br />
*[[Sxiro-Jingdaoese Confrontation]]<br />
**[[Operation Long Haul]]<br />
*[[The River War]]<br />
*[[The Anarchy of Angularis]]<br />
*[[Martial Law in Goldshire]]<br />
*[[Civil War in Goldshire]]<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
The '''Imperial Army''' is the principal land warfare force of the [[Main Page|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]]'' (<small>i.e. the [[wikipedia:General staff|General Staff]]</small>).<br />
<br />
=Formation and Structure=<br />
<br />
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 [[wikipedia:battlegroup_(Army)|battle group]], known as a [[wikipedia:vexillatio|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.<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
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]].<br />
<br />
Following the [[Oustfest Massacre]] administrative divisions were abolished as an unnecessary bridge in the chain of command between the tactical and operational level formations.<br />
<br />
==Structure of Units==<br />
The most typical variety of Imperial Army units are structured as follows:<br><br><br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
!Type of Unit<br />
![[wikipedia:Field Army|Field Army]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Corps|Corps]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Brigade|Legion]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Battalion|Regiment]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Company (military unit)|Squadron]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Troop (military unit)|Troop]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Section (military unit)|Contubernium<br />(Section)]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Fireteam|Fire Team/Detail]]<br />
|-<br />
!Contains<br />
|3 Corps<br />
|8 Legions<br />
|5 Regiments<br />
|10 Squadrons<br />
|5 Troops<br />
|3 Sections<br />
|2 Fire Teams<br />
|4 Individuals<br />
|-<br />
!Personnel<br />
|144,000<br />
|48,000<br />
|6,000<br />
|1,200<br />
|120<br />
|24<br />
|8<br />
|4<br />
|-<br />
!Commanded by<br />
|[[wikipedia:Magister equitum|Magister Equitum]]<br />
|[[wikipedia:Magister militum|Magister Militum]]<br />
|[[wikipedia:Legatus legionis|Legatus Imperii]]<br />
|[[wikipedia:Tribune|Tribunus Laticlavius]]<br />
|Tribunus Angusticlavius<br><small><small>[[wikipedia:Major (United Kingdom)|(Major)]]</small><br>or<br>''Primus Ordinus''<br><small>(Senior Centurion)</small></small><br />
|Centurion<br><small><small>[[wikipedia:Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|(Captain)]]</small><br>or<br>''Optio''<br><small>(Lieutenant)</small></small><br />
|Decanus<br><small>[[wikipedia:Corporal#United Kingdom|(Corporal)]]</small><br />
|[[wikipedia:Chosen man|Chosen Man]]<br />
|}<br />
<br/><br />
<br/><br />
[[File:Imperial Army Structure.png|thumb|right|Units of the Imperial Army and their subordinate components]]<br />
<br/><br />
<br />
=Organisation=<br />
<br />
==Order of Battle==<br />
<br />
*Imperial Army (Exercitus Imperii)<br />
**Collegium Magistri Militum (General Staff)<br />
**Palatini Corps<br />
**Land Command<br />
***Exercitus Comitatenses (Field Army)<br />
***Exercitus Limitanei (Frontier Army)<br />
***Exercitus Ripenses (Riverine Army)<br />
<br />
==Tables of Equipment==<br />
<br />
===Palatini Corps===<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ [[Palatini Corps]]<br />
|+ Commander: ''Magister Militum'' '''[[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion]]''', ''Dominus, rector et imperator di Cabbagefall & patronus di familia''<br />
|+ Home Base: [[Imperial Forces#Shirekeep Garrison|Shirekeep Garrison]]<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
! scope="col" |Aircraft/Rotorcraft<br />
|-<br />
|[[Order of Kampioens]] ||.||.||25,000||100||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
By a minor historical quirk, the Kaiser's personal bodyguard, the [[Order of Kampioens|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. <br />
<br><br />
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.<br />
<br />
===Land Command===<br />
<br />
====The Field Army====<br />
[[File:20161105 TOE IA Legion HQ Troop.png|250px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><small>Example Table of Equipment (TOE) for a Legate's command troop in the Field Army</small></div>]]<br />
[[File:20161014 TOE IA Comitatus Squadron.png|250px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><small>Example Table of Equipment (TOE) for a Comitatus Squadron in the Field Army</small></div>]]<br />
[[File:20161111 TOE IA AT-Inf Troop.png|250px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><small>Example Table of Equipment (TOE) for a troop of Anti-Tank Infantry in the Field Army</small></div>]]<br />
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. <br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ I Corps<br />
|+ Commander: ''Magister Equitum'' '''Royston Merrick the Younger''', ''Dominus, Vir Egregius, Dux Bellorum & patronus di familia''.<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Compagnia Familia del Merrick||Magister Equitum Royston Merrick Jnr.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Joseph Frobisher||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Alexander Beresford||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LV Legio||Legatus Imperii Donnchard||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LVI Legio||Legatus Imperii Seaghdha Sarsfield||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LVII Legio||Legatus Imperii Charles Livingston||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LVIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Evander Cameron||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LIX Legio||Legatus Imperii Teófilo O'Higgins||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LX Legio||Legatus Imperii Manuel Soublette||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXI Legio||Legatus Imperill Porfirio Uribe||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ II Corps<br />
|+ Commander: Magister Militum Alfredo Vargas<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Alfredo Vargas||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXII Legio||Legatus Imperii Tadeo Roa||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Ernst Johan Stackelberg||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Karl Jacob Stackelberg||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXV Legio||Legatus Imperii Klaus Meyer||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXVI Legio||Legatus Imperii Adolf Tegethoff||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXVII Legio||Legatus Imperii Tobias Bremer||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXVIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Peter von Hagenbach||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXIX Legio||Legatus Imperii Gregor Colvin||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ IX Corps<br />
|+ Commander: Magister Militum Wilbur Guinness<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Wilbur Guinness||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXX Legio||Legatus Imperii Joachim Ursus||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXXI Legio||Legatus Imperii Riccardo Huerlingdorp||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXXII Legio||Legatus Imperii Antonio de Nebrija||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXXIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Rostam Hafiz||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXXIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Piarres Nafarroakoa||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXXV Legio||Legatus Imperii Gustavus Peralta||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXXVI Legio||Legatus Imperii Constantine Plantagenet||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXXVII Legio||Legatus Imperii Heinrich Starkey||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
====The Frontier Army====<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ III Corps<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Equitum||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XIV Legio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXI Legio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXII Legio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXIII Legio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXIV Legio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXVII Legio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXVIII Legio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXIX Legio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ IV Corps<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|I Legio Bersaglieri||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|II Legio Littorio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|III Legio San Marco||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|IV Legio Monterosa||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|V Legio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XII Legio Scholae Evocati||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XIII Legio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XX Legio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ VI Corps<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XXX Legio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXI Legio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXII Legio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXIII Legio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXIV Legio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXV Legio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXVI Legio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXVII Legio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
====The Riverine Army====<br />
<br />
Responsible for the defence of the [[Elwynn (River)|River Elwynn]] and the approaches to [[Shirekeep]].<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ V Corps Classis Rubrum<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Equitum||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Praefectus Classis||.||9||9||0||1<br />
|-<br />
|VI Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|VII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|VIII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|IX Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|X Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XI Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ VII Corps Classis Albrum<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Praefectus Classis||.||9||9||0||1<br />
|-<br />
|XXXVIII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XXXIX Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XL Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLI Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLIII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLIV Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLV Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ VIII Corps Classis Puteulanum<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Praefectus Classis||.||9||9||0||1<br />
|-<br />
|XLVI Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLVII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLVIII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLIX Legio ||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|L Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LI Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LIII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Ships:<br><br />
[[wikipedia:Landing Craft Assault|Trireme]] - 36 Marines, 4 crew<br><br />
[[wikipedia:Landing ship, infantry|Quadrireme]] - 1,500 Marines, 300 crew<br><br />
[[wikipedia:Landing Ship, Tank|Quinqereme]] - 22 [[Horjin Armoured Fighting Vehicle]], 217 marines, 98 crew<br><br />
<br />
Command Ranks:<br />
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<br />
<br />
====The Reserve Army====<br />
<br />
The Reserve Army was established in [[Goldshire]] in 1644 to provide the Imperial Army with a pool of manpower and formations to replace units worn down through attrition in combat.<br />
<br />
=Recruitment and Training=<br />
<br />
The Imperial Army recruits exclusively from [[Shirekeep]] and the [[Subdivision#Imperial Dominions|Imperial Dominions]] as well as any territory that they might temporarily occupy, such as Goldshire during the period of [[Martial Law in Goldshire|martial law]].<br />
<br />
Recruitment can include the taking in of volunteers, but also frequently relies upon forms of impressment, notably the [[Impressment Service|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 (River)|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. <br />
<br />
=History=<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Imperial Forces]]</div>Tokaray al-osmanhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=Imperial_Army&diff=27443Imperial Army2017-01-23T00:44:19Z<p>Tokaray al-osman: /* The Field Army */</p>
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<div>{| class="toccolours" style="float:right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; font-size: 85%; width: 30em;background-color:#FFEFEF;border:1px solid #B82C20;"<br />
|align=center colspan=2 | <center>'''Imperial Army'''<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
[[Image:New_flag_Shireroth.png|150px]]</center><br />
|-<br />
|'''Active:'''|| 6149 ASC - ''Present''<br />
|-<br />
|'''Motto'''||''Ignis et Victoria''<br />
|-<br />
|'''In use by:'''|| [[Imperial Forces]]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Allegiance:'''|| Shireroth<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
----<br />
|-<br />
|'''Type:''' || Land Forces<br />
|-<br />
|'''Size:''' || 600,000 personnel<br /><small>2,247 [[Horjin Armoured Fighting Vehicle]]<br/>2,687 [[80mm field gun]]<br />5 [[IMW-3 Snark]]<br/>1 [[IMW-1 Walker]]<br />354 [[GV(MBT)-1 Bandersnatch]]<br />397 [[IMW-2 Spidertank]]<br />272 [[GV(SPG)-2 Jabberwocky]]<br />12 [[GV(LU)-3 Boojum]]<br />420 [[GV(CV)-4 Red Queen]]<br />184 engineering vehicles<br />5,700 SUV's<br />5,500 Medium Trucks<br />156 landing craft</small><br />
<br />
|-<br />
|'''Nickname:''' || ''None yet''<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
----<br />
|-<br />
|'''Current Commander:'''|| Magister Primum<br />
|-<br />
|'''Conflicts & Deployments'''||<br />
*[[Jaris War]]<br />
*[[Cabbage Crisis]]<br />
*[[Sxiro-Jingdaoese Confrontation]]<br />
**[[Operation Long Haul]]<br />
*[[The River War]]<br />
*[[The Anarchy of Angularis]]<br />
*[[Martial Law in Goldshire]]<br />
*[[Civil War in Goldshire]]<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
The '''Imperial Army''' is the principal land warfare force of the [[Main Page|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]]'' (<small>i.e. the [[wikipedia:General staff|General Staff]]</small>).<br />
<br />
=Formation and Structure=<br />
<br />
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 [[wikipedia:battlegroup_(Army)|battle group]], known as a [[wikipedia:vexillatio|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.<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
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]].<br />
<br />
Following the [[Oustfest Massacre]] administrative divisions were abolished as an unnecessary bridge in the chain of command between the tactical and operational level formations.<br />
<br />
==Structure of Units==<br />
The most typical variety of Imperial Army units are structured as follows:<br><br><br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
!Type of Unit<br />
![[wikipedia:Field Army|Field Army]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Corps|Corps]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Brigade|Legion]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Battalion|Regiment]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Company (military unit)|Squadron]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Troop (military unit)|Troop]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Section (military unit)|Contubernium<br />(Section)]]<br />
![[wikipedia:Fireteam|Fire Team/Detail]]<br />
|-<br />
!Contains<br />
|3 Corps<br />
|8 Legions<br />
|5 Regiments<br />
|10 Squadrons<br />
|5 Troops<br />
|3 Sections<br />
|2 Fire Teams<br />
|4 Individuals<br />
|-<br />
!Personnel<br />
|144,000<br />
|48,000<br />
|6,000<br />
|1,200<br />
|120<br />
|24<br />
|8<br />
|4<br />
|-<br />
!Commanded by<br />
|[[wikipedia:Magister equitum|Magister Equitum]]<br />
|[[wikipedia:Magister militum|Magister Militum]]<br />
|[[wikipedia:Legatus legionis|Legatus Imperii]]<br />
|[[wikipedia:Tribune|Tribunus Laticlavius]]<br />
|Tribunus Angusticlavius<br><small><small>[[wikipedia:Major (United Kingdom)|(Major)]]</small><br>or<br>''Primus Ordinus''<br><small>(Senior Centurion)</small></small><br />
|Centurion<br><small><small>[[wikipedia:Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|(Captain)]]</small><br>or<br>''Optio''<br><small>(Lieutenant)</small></small><br />
|Decanus<br><small>[[wikipedia:Corporal#United Kingdom|(Corporal)]]</small><br />
|[[wikipedia:Chosen man|Chosen Man]]<br />
|}<br />
<br/><br />
<br/><br />
[[File:Imperial Army Structure.png|thumb|right|Units of the Imperial Army and their subordinate components]]<br />
<br/><br />
<br />
=Organisation=<br />
<br />
==Order of Battle==<br />
<br />
*Imperial Army (Exercitus Imperii)<br />
**Collegium Magistri Militum (General Staff)<br />
**Palatini Corps<br />
**Land Command<br />
***Exercitus Comitatenses (Field Army)<br />
***Exercitus Limitanei (Frontier Army)<br />
***Exercitus Ripenses (Riverine Army)<br />
<br />
==Tables of Equipment==<br />
<br />
===Palatini Corps===<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ [[Palatini Corps]]<br />
|+ Commander: ''Magister Militum'' '''[[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion]]''', ''Dominus, rector et imperator di Cabbagefall & patronus di familia''<br />
|+ Home Base: [[Imperial Forces#Shirekeep Garrison|Shirekeep Garrison]]<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
! scope="col" |Aircraft/Rotorcraft<br />
|-<br />
|[[Order of Kampioens]] ||.||.||25,000||100||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
By a minor historical quirk, the Kaiser's personal bodyguard, the [[Order of Kampioens|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. <br />
<br><br />
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.<br />
<br />
===Land Command===<br />
<br />
====The Field Army====<br />
[[File:20161105 TOE IA Legion HQ Troop.png|250px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><small>Example Table of Equipment (TOE) for a Legate's command troop in the Field Army</small></div>]]<br />
[[File:20161014 TOE IA Comitatus Squadron.png|250px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><small>Example Table of Equipment (TOE) for a Comitatus Squadron in the Field Army</small></div>]]<br />
[[File:20161111 TOE IA AT-Inf Troop.png|250px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><small>Example Table of Equipment (TOE) for a troop of Anti-Tank Infantry in the Field Army</small></div>]]<br />
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. <br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ I Corps<br />
|+ Commander: ''Magister Equitum'' '''Royston Merrick the Younger''', ''Dominus, Vir Egregius, Dux Bellorum & patronus di familia''.<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Compagnia Familia del Merrick||Magister Equitum Royston Merrick Jnr.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Joseph Frobisher||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Alexander Beresford||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LV Legio||Legatus Imperii Donnchard||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LVI Legio|Legatus Imperii Seaghdha Sarsfield||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LVII Legio||Legatus Imperii Charles Livingston||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LVIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Evander Cameron||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LIX Legio||Legatus Imperii Teófilo O'Higgins||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LX Legio||Legatus Imperii Manuel Soublette||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXI Legio||Legatus Imperill Porfirio Uribe||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ II Corps<br />
|+ Commander: Magister Militum Alfredo Vargas<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Alfredo Vargas||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXII Legio||||Legatus Imperii Tadeo Roa||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Ernst Johan Stackelberg||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Karl Jacob Stackelberg||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXV Legio||Legatus Imperii Klaus Meyer||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXVI Legio||Legatus Imperii Adolf Tegethoff||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXVII Legio||Legatus Imperii Tobias Bremer||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXVIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Peter von Hagenbach||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXIX Legio||Legatus Imperii Gregor Colvin||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ IX Corps<br />
|+ Commander: Magister Militum Wilbur Guinness<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||Magister Militum Wilbur Guinness||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXX Legio||Legatus Imperii Joachim Ursus||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXXI Legio||Legatus Imperii Riccardo Huerlingdorp||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXXII Legio||Legatus Imperii Antonio de Nebrija||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXXIII Legio||Legatus Imperii Rostam Hafiz||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXXIV Legio||Legatus Imperii Piarres Nafarroakoa||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXXV Legio||Legatus Imperii Gustavus Peralta||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXXVI Legio||Legatus Imperii Constantine Plantagenet||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LXXVII Legio||Legatus Imperii Heinrich Starkey||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
====The Frontier Army====<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ III Corps<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Equitum||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XIV Legio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXI Legio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXII Legio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXIII Legio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXIV Legio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXVII Legio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXVIII Legio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXIX Legio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ IV Corps<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|I Legio Bersaglieri||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|II Legio Littorio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|III Legio San Marco||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|IV Legio Monterosa||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|V Legio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XII Legio Scholae Evocati||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XIII Legio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XX Legio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ VI Corps<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Militum||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XXX Legio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXI Legio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXII Legio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXIII Legio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXIV Legio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXV Legio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXVI Legio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|XXXVII Legio||.||33,589||6,000||798||400<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
====The Riverine Army====<br />
<br />
Responsible for the defence of the [[Elwynn (River)|River Elwynn]] and the approaches to [[Shirekeep]].<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ V Corps Classis Rubrum<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Magister Equitum||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Praefectus Classis||.||9||9||0||1<br />
|-<br />
|VI Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|VII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|VIII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|IX Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|X Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XI Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ VII Corps Classis Albrum<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Praefectus Classis||.||9||9||0||1<br />
|-<br />
|XXXVIII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XXXIX Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XL Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLI Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLIII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLIV Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLV Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"<br />
|+ VIII Corps Classis Puteulanum<br />
! scope="col" |Unit Name<br />
! scope="col" |Commandant<br />
! scope="col" |Anunia Points<br />
! scope="col" |Personnel<br />
! scope="col" |AFV/Artillery<br />
! scope="col" |Support Vehicles<br />
|-<br />
|Retinue of the Praefectus Classis||.||9||9||0||1<br />
|-<br />
|XLVI Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLVII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLVIII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|XLIX Legio ||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|L Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LI Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|LIII Legio||.||.||.||.||.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Ships:<br><br />
[[wikipedia:Landing Craft Assault|Trireme]] - 36 Marines, 4 crew<br><br />
[[wikipedia:Landing ship, infantry|Quadrireme]] - 1,500 Marines, 300 crew<br><br />
[[wikipedia:Landing Ship, Tank|Quinqereme]] - 22 [[Horjin Armoured Fighting Vehicle]], 217 marines, 98 crew<br><br />
<br />
Command Ranks:<br />
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<br />
<br />
====The Reserve Army====<br />
<br />
The Reserve Army was established in [[Goldshire]] in 1644 to provide the Imperial Army with a pool of manpower and formations to replace units worn down through attrition in combat.<br />
<br />
=Recruitment and Training=<br />
<br />
The Imperial Army recruits exclusively from [[Shirekeep]] and the [[Subdivision#Imperial Dominions|Imperial Dominions]] as well as any territory that they might temporarily occupy, such as Goldshire during the period of [[Martial Law in Goldshire|martial law]].<br />
<br />
Recruitment can include the taking in of volunteers, but also frequently relies upon forms of impressment, notably the [[Impressment Service|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 (River)|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. <br />
<br />
=History=<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Imperial Forces]]</div>Tokaray al-osmanhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=Oustfest_Massacre&diff=27435Oustfest Massacre2017-01-22T17:33:28Z<p>Tokaray al-osman: /* Loyalist Forces */</p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Oustfest Massacre]][http://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=694&t=18637(1)] was the culmination of a conspiracy and putsch by the clique of nobles from the houses of [[House of Osman|Osman]], [[House of Verion|Verion]] and the [[Dark Orchid Society|Simrani]], supported by the majority of the [[Imperial Forces]] against [[Kaiser Dominus]] and the [[Imperial Government]].<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Putschists==<br />
<br />
The Putschists supported the efforts of [[Tokaray al-Osman]] to take power as [[Kaiser Aurangzeb II Steffki]]. The ringleaders of the [[Tokaray Putsch]] included [[Tokaray al-Osman]], [[Ludovic Verion]] and [[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion]]. The plotters were motivated by a combination of personal grievances, ambitions and the ideological influence of [[Khanism]] and the [[Dark Orchid Society]].<br />
<br />
*[[House of Osman]]<br />
*[[House of Verion]]<br />
*[[Dark Orchid Society|House of Simrani]]<br />
*[[Goldshire|Kingdom of Goldshire]]<br />
*[[Ministry of Military Affairs]]<br />
*[[Ministry of the Exterior]]<br />
*[[Office of Bounties and Factorage]]<br />
*[[Chamber of the Crypteia]]<br />
*[[Shirekeep City Guard]]<br />
*[[S.W.O.R.D.]]<br />
*[[Jaysh al-Sathrati]]<br />
*[[Amity]]<br />
*[[Yardistan]]<br />
*[[Iron Company]] / [[Blackstone]]<br />
*[[Babkhi]] Civilians<br />
*[[Imperial Navy of Shireroth#Western Armada|Western Armada]]<br />
*[[Imperial Navy of Shireroth#Coastal Command|Coastal Command]]<br />
*[[Imperial Shirerithian Air Forces#Fighter Command|Fighter Command]]<br />
*[[Imperial Shirerithian Air Forces#Bomber Command|Bomber Command]]<br />
*[[Imperial Shirerithian Air Forces#Strike Command|Strike Command]]<br />
<br />
==Loyalist Forces==<br />
<br />
The Loyalist Forces supported [[Kaiser Dominus]], who has been captured by the putschist group. The fight against the putsch was initially led by acting Squadron Leader [[Rhydian Fithen]] before a more prominent role was taken by the Minister of the Interior, [[Octavius#Mira Octavius-Aryani|Mira Octavius-Aryani]], supported by the [[Prætor]] of the [[Landsraad]], [[Fjǫrleif Hallbjörnsdóttir|Fjǫrleif Llængjarla]]; and Shirekeep's Prefect, [[Audun Joel Ayreon-Kalirion]].<br />
<br />
*[[The Kaiser]]<br />
*[[Imperial Household]]<br />
*[[Prefect|The Prefect of Shirekeep]]<br />
*[[Ministry of the Interior]]<br />
*[[Order of the Sentinels]]<br />
*[[Order of Kampioens]]<br />
*[[ESB-Jörmungandr Group]]<br />
*[[Norse]] Civilians<br />
*[[Landsraad]]<br />
*[[Prætor]]<br />
<br />
Faced by an untenable position in the capital, the Prefect and the Praetor had withdrawn to their estates in Elwynn to raise their regiments of yeomanry and to gather together supports and Imperial Electors who had escaped from the city. Their objective was to begin to put in place Shirekeep under siege and to put resistance to the rule of the usurper onto a legal footing.<br />
<br />
After the death of [[Kaiser Dominus]], [[Rhydian Fithen]] pledged his allegiance to Tokaray al-Osman, who assumed office as [[Kaiser Aurangzeb II Steffki]], and was rewarded with promotion to Squadron Leader, command of his beloved 180 Squadron, and a posting to Yardistan to counter the mustering of Alexandrian and Natopian naval forces.<br />
<br />
==The day of the Oustfest==<br />
<br />
==The course of the Putsch==<br />
<br />
The Landsraad, the Palace of the Prefect, the Ministry of the Interior and the broadcasting apparatus of the Office of Information remained under the control of the 'Loyalists'. There was some talk of an evacuation being mounted from the ESB and SEKEF docks by the Elwynnese, yet those same docks were under the guns of the Jaysh al-Sathrati Panzergrenadier Brigade, whose vehicles had pushed into the Cabbagefall Terminal during the night of the coup – making any attempt by the Riverine Forces of the Union Defence Force to force a passage from Eliria into Shirekeep a risky venture. The Jaysh, using assets liberated from the Goldshire Regulars, had also moved howitzers and Buk launchers into positions opposite Raynor's Keep, providing thereby the means to deliver suppressing fire upon Raynortoo Park if the fighting resumed. While the Prefect, the Praetor and the Steward had all made good their escape, the City Guard and the Crypteia had bagged a goodly haul of wounded and fearful electors, who had been herded down to the Cedrist Worship Hall of the Outer Keep. There subtle pressure was being exerted on them to acclaim the new Kaiser and to elect an interim Praetor, seeing as the official officeholder had reputedly fled to her holiday home in Elwynn.<br />
<br />
The Ministry of the Exterior, the Ministry of Military Affairs, and its adjacent flak-towers, bunkers and depots, connected by a ratline network of tunnels, had remained in the hands of the conspirators. The four legions of the Palatini Corps, the Order of Kampioens, upon finding that they had been locked out of their own bases by S.W.O.R.D. and the Logistics Troops of the Shirerithian Supplies Service, had been given pause in their ferocious attack on Raynor's Keep and had retired a small distance to the north in some disorder. The Landsraad Guard (Scholae Equites Singulares) had sent a force of approximately five-hundred guardsmen to scour Raynortoo Park for any survivors of the initial carnage. These had subsequently been caught up in the exchange of fire between the City Guards' Special Assignments Squad in the Iron Gate Tower and a force of Kampioens from the Legion of Octavius.<br />
<br />
The most active resistance in the city had come from the Scholae legions which had been transferred into the Imperial Constabulary by Kaiser Dominus to remove them from the control of the coup plotters, whom he half-suspected but couldn't quite bring himself to believe that they would dare. Ironically, taking their orders now from the Minister of the Interior, the Scholae Triarii had blown the newly inaugurated Kaiser Dominus Bridge, leaving the Goldshire Tower in the hands of the Jaysh and the Shirekeep Tower as a vital anchor point in the Loyalist front. This complicated matters. Without the bridges, the conspirators, hemmed into their enclave were isolated and vulnerable. Yet, succour came in the form of the presence of the Jaysh on the Goldshire side of the River Elwynn, and also from the declaration of the Imperial Army, the Western Armada and the Imperial Shirerithian Air Forces of their loyalty to the new regime. There would soon be landing craft, helicopters and gravtanks available. In the meantime, there were other bridges. <br />
<br />
Al-Osman had declared, during that unnatural calm, that the Kaiser had fallen, under circumstances that remained studiously unexplained, leaving to him the Golden Mango Throne. What the new Kaiser, who announced himself as the second to bear the name of Aurangzeb, proclaimed to the world was a policy of genocide and conquest that perplexed and horrified in equal measure. It did not help soothe the strained nerves of the neighbouring empires that Shireroth had, during the reign of the preceding three Kaisers, built up the largest modern field army in the history of Micras.<br />
<br />
==Pogroms against non-humans==<br />
<br />
==Aftermath==<br />
<br />
Subsequent to the events of the massacre, as the nature of the regime led by Tokaray became more apparent, the Imperial States of [[Elwynn]] and [[Lichbrook]] came out strongly against the new regime installed in Shirekeep, setting in motion the brief but bloody civil war that ensued and led to the downfall of the ''triumvirate'' of Tokaray, Adam and Ludovic. <br />
<br />
[[Category:Battles]]</div>Tokaray al-osmanhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=Oustfest_Massacre&diff=27434Oustfest Massacre2017-01-22T17:24:36Z<p>Tokaray al-osman: </p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Oustfest Massacre]][http://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=694&t=18637(1)] was the culmination of a conspiracy and putsch by the clique of nobles from the houses of [[House of Osman|Osman]], [[House of Verion|Verion]] and the [[Dark Orchid Society|Simrani]], supported by the majority of the [[Imperial Forces]] against [[Kaiser Dominus]] and the [[Imperial Government]].<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Putschists==<br />
<br />
The Putschists supported the efforts of [[Tokaray al-Osman]] to take power as [[Kaiser Aurangzeb II Steffki]]. The ringleaders of the [[Tokaray Putsch]] included [[Tokaray al-Osman]], [[Ludovic Verion]] and [[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion]]. The plotters were motivated by a combination of personal grievances, ambitions and the ideological influence of [[Khanism]] and the [[Dark Orchid Society]].<br />
<br />
*[[House of Osman]]<br />
*[[House of Verion]]<br />
*[[Dark Orchid Society|House of Simrani]]<br />
*[[Goldshire|Kingdom of Goldshire]]<br />
*[[Ministry of Military Affairs]]<br />
*[[Ministry of the Exterior]]<br />
*[[Office of Bounties and Factorage]]<br />
*[[Chamber of the Crypteia]]<br />
*[[Shirekeep City Guard]]<br />
*[[S.W.O.R.D.]]<br />
*[[Jaysh al-Sathrati]]<br />
*[[Amity]]<br />
*[[Yardistan]]<br />
*[[Iron Company]] / [[Blackstone]]<br />
*[[Babkhi]] Civilians<br />
*[[Imperial Navy of Shireroth#Western Armada|Western Armada]]<br />
*[[Imperial Navy of Shireroth#Coastal Command|Coastal Command]]<br />
*[[Imperial Shirerithian Air Forces#Fighter Command|Fighter Command]]<br />
*[[Imperial Shirerithian Air Forces#Bomber Command|Bomber Command]]<br />
*[[Imperial Shirerithian Air Forces#Strike Command|Strike Command]]<br />
<br />
==Loyalist Forces==<br />
<br />
The Loyalist Forces supported [[Kaiser Dominus]], who has been captured by the putschist group. At present the fight against the putsch is being led by acting Squadron Leader [[Rhydian Fithen]] supported by the [[Prætor]] of the [[Landsraad]], [[Fjǫrleif Hallbjörnsdóttir|Fjǫrleif Llængjarla]]; Minister of the Interior, [[Octavius#Mira Octavius-Aryani|Mira Octavius-Aryani]]; and Shirekeep's Prefect, [[Audun Joel Ayreon-Kalirion]].<br />
<br />
*[[The Kaiser]]<br />
*[[Imperial Household]]<br />
*[[Prefect|The Prefect of Shirekeep]]<br />
*[[Ministry of the Interior]]<br />
*[[Order of the Sentinels]]<br />
*[[Order of Kampioens]]<br />
*[[ESB-Jörmungandr Group]]<br />
*[[Norse]] Civilians<br />
*[[Landsraad]]<br />
*[[Prætor]]<br />
<br />
Faced by an untenable position in the capital, the Prefect and the Praetor had withdrawn to their estates in Elwynn to raise their regiments of yeomanry and to gather together supports and Imperial Electors who had escaped from the city. Their objective was to begin to put in place Shirekeep under siege and to put resistance to the rule of the usurper onto a legal footing.<br />
<br />
After the death of [[Kaiser Dominus]], [[Rhydian Fithen]] pledged his allegiance to Tokaray al-Osman, who assumed office as [[Kaiser Aurangzeb II Steffki]], and was rewarded with promotion to Squadron Leader, command of his beloved 180 Squadron, and a posting to Yardistan to counter the mustering of Alexandrian and Natopian naval forces. <br />
<br />
<br />
==The day of the Oustfest==<br />
<br />
==The course of the Putsch==<br />
<br />
The Landsraad, the Palace of the Prefect, the Ministry of the Interior and the broadcasting apparatus of the Office of Information remained under the control of the 'Loyalists'. There was some talk of an evacuation being mounted from the ESB and SEKEF docks by the Elwynnese, yet those same docks were under the guns of the Jaysh al-Sathrati Panzergrenadier Brigade, whose vehicles had pushed into the Cabbagefall Terminal during the night of the coup – making any attempt by the Riverine Forces of the Union Defence Force to force a passage from Eliria into Shirekeep a risky venture. The Jaysh, using assets liberated from the Goldshire Regulars, had also moved howitzers and Buk launchers into positions opposite Raynor's Keep, providing thereby the means to deliver suppressing fire upon Raynortoo Park if the fighting resumed. While the Prefect, the Praetor and the Steward had all made good their escape, the City Guard and the Crypteia had bagged a goodly haul of wounded and fearful electors, who had been herded down to the Cedrist Worship Hall of the Outer Keep. There subtle pressure was being exerted on them to acclaim the new Kaiser and to elect an interim Praetor, seeing as the official officeholder had reputedly fled to her holiday home in Elwynn.<br />
<br />
The Ministry of the Exterior, the Ministry of Military Affairs, and its adjacent flak-towers, bunkers and depots, connected by a ratline network of tunnels, had remained in the hands of the conspirators. The four legions of the Palatini Corps, the Order of Kampioens, upon finding that they had been locked out of their own bases by S.W.O.R.D. and the Logistics Troops of the Shirerithian Supplies Service, had been given pause in their ferocious attack on Raynor's Keep and had retired a small distance to the north in some disorder. The Landsraad Guard (Scholae Equites Singulares) had sent a force of approximately five-hundred guardsmen to scour Raynortoo Park for any survivors of the initial carnage. These had subsequently been caught up in the exchange of fire between the City Guards' Special Assignments Squad in the Iron Gate Tower and a force of Kampioens from the Legion of Octavius.<br />
<br />
The most active resistance in the city had come from the Scholae legions which had been transferred into the Imperial Constabulary by Kaiser Dominus to remove them from the control of the coup plotters, whom he half-suspected but couldn't quite bring himself to believe that they would dare. Ironically, taking their orders now from the Minister of the Interior, the Scholae Triarii had blown the newly inaugurated Kaiser Dominus Bridge, leaving the Goldshire Tower in the hands of the Jaysh and the Shirekeep Tower as a vital anchor point in the Loyalist front. This complicated matters. Without the bridges, the conspirators, hemmed into their enclave were isolated and vulnerable. Yet, succour came in the form of the presence of the Jaysh on the Goldshire side of the River Elwynn, and also from the declaration of the Imperial Army, the Western Armada and the Imperial Shirerithian Air Forces of their loyalty to the new regime. There would soon be landing craft, helicopters and gravtanks available. In the meantime, there were other bridges. <br />
<br />
Al-Osman had declared, during that unnatural calm, that the Kaiser had fallen, under circumstances that remained studiously unexplained, leaving to him the Golden Mango Throne. What the new Kaiser, who announced himself as the second to bear the name of Aurangzeb, proclaimed to the world was a policy of genocide and conquest that perplexed and horrified in equal measure. It did not help soothe the strained nerves of the neighbouring empires that Shireroth had, during the reign of the preceding three Kaisers, built up the largest modern field army in the history of Micras.<br />
<br />
==Pogroms against non-humans==<br />
<br />
==Aftermath==<br />
<br />
Subsequent to the events of the massacre, as the nature of the regime led by Tokaray became more apparent, the Imperial States of [[Elwynn]] and [[Lichbrook]] came out strongly against the new regime installed in Shirekeep, setting in motion the brief but bloody civil war that ensued and led to the downfall of the ''triumvirate'' of Tokaray, Adam and Ludovic. <br />
<br />
[[Category:Battles]]</div>Tokaray al-osmanhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=Oustfest_Massacre&diff=27433Oustfest Massacre2017-01-22T17:22:36Z<p>Tokaray al-osman: </p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Oustfest Massacre]][http://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=694&t=18637(1)] was the culmination of a conspiracy and putsch by the clique of nobles from the houses of [[House of Osman|Osman]], [[House of Verion|Verion]] and the [[Dark Orchid Society|Simrani]], supported by the majority of the [[Imperial Forces]] against [[Kaiser Dominus]] and the [[Imperial Government]].<br />
<br />
==The course of the Putsch==<br />
<br />
The Landsraad, the Palace of the Prefect, the Ministry of the Interior and the broadcasting apparatus of the Office of Information remained under the control of the 'Loyalists'. There was some talk of an evacuation being mounted from the ESB and SEKEF docks by the Elwynnese, yet those same docks were under the guns of the Jaysh al-Sathrati Panzergrenadier Brigade, whose vehicles had pushed into the Cabbagefall Terminal during the night of the coup – making any attempt by the Riverine Forces of the Union Defence Force to force a passage from Eliria into Shirekeep a risky venture. The Jaysh, using assets liberated from the Goldshire Regulars, had also moved howitzers and Buk launchers into positions opposite Raynor's Keep, providing thereby the means to deliver suppressing fire upon Raynortoo Park if the fighting resumed. While the Prefect, the Praetor and the Steward had all made good their escape, the City Guard and the Crypteia had bagged a goodly haul of wounded and fearful electors, who had been herded down to the Cedrist Worship Hall of the Outer Keep. There subtle pressure was being exerted on them to acclaim the new Kaiser and to elect an interim Praetor, seeing as the official officeholder had reputedly fled to her holiday home in Elwynn.<br />
<br />
The Ministry of the Exterior, the Ministry of Military Affairs, and its adjacent flak-towers, bunkers and depots, connected by a ratline network of tunnels, had remained in the hands of the conspirators. The four legions of the Palatini Corps, the Order of Kampioens, upon finding that they had been locked out of their own bases by S.W.O.R.D. and the Logistics Troops of the Shirerithian Supplies Service, had been given pause in their ferocious attack on Raynor's Keep and had retired a small distance to the north in some disorder. The Landsraad Guard (Scholae Equites Singulares) had sent a force of approximately five-hundred guardsmen to scour Raynortoo Park for any survivors of the initial carnage. These had subsequently been caught up in the exchange of fire between the City Guards' Special Assignments Squad in the Iron Gate Tower and a force of Kampioens from the Legion of Octavius.<br />
<br />
The most active resistance in the city had come from the Scholae legions which had been transferred into the Imperial Constabulary by Kaiser Dominus to remove them from the control of the coup plotters, whom he half-suspected but couldn't quite bring himself to believe that they would dare. Ironically, taking their orders now from the Minister of the Interior, the Scholae Triarii had blown the newly inaugurated Kaiser Dominus Bridge, leaving the Goldshire Tower in the hands of the Jaysh and the Shirekeep Tower as a vital anchor point in the Loyalist front. This complicated matters. Without the bridges, the conspirators, hemmed into their enclave were isolated and vulnerable. Yet, succour came in the form of the presence of the Jaysh on the Goldshire side of the River Elwynn, and also from the declaration of the Imperial Army, the Western Armada and the Imperial Shirerithian Air Forces of their loyalty to the new regime. There would soon be landing craft, helicopters and gravtanks available. In the meantime, there were other bridges. <br />
<br />
Al-Osman had declared, during that unnatural calm, that the Kaiser had fallen, under circumstances that remained studiously unexplained, leaving to him the Golden Mango Throne. What the new Kaiser, who announced himself as the second to bear the name of Aurangzeb, proclaimed to the world was a policy of genocide and conquest that perplexed and horrified in equal measure. It did not help soothe the strained nerves of the neighbouring empires that Shireroth had, during the reign of the preceding three Kaisers, built up the largest modern field army in the history of Micras.<br />
<br />
==Putschists==<br />
<br />
The Putschists supported the efforts of [[Tokaray al-Osman]] to take power as [[Kaiser Aurangzeb II Steffki]]. The ringleaders of the [[Tokaray Putsch]] included [[Tokaray al-Osman]], [[Ludovic Verion]] and [[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion]]. The plotters were motivated by a combination of personal grievances, ambitions and the ideological influence of [[Khanism]] and the [[Dark Orchid Society]].<br />
<br />
*[[House of Osman]]<br />
*[[House of Verion]]<br />
*[[Dark Orchid Society|House of Simrani]]<br />
*[[Goldshire|Kingdom of Goldshire]]<br />
*[[Ministry of Military Affairs]]<br />
*[[Ministry of the Exterior]]<br />
*[[Office of Bounties and Factorage]]<br />
*[[Chamber of the Crypteia]]<br />
*[[Shirekeep City Guard]]<br />
*[[S.W.O.R.D.]]<br />
*[[Jaysh al-Sathrati]]<br />
*[[Amity]]<br />
*[[Yardistan]]<br />
*[[Iron Company]] / [[Blackstone]]<br />
*[[Babkhi]] Civilians<br />
*[[Imperial Navy of Shireroth#Western Armada|Western Armada]]<br />
*[[Imperial Navy of Shireroth#Coastal Command|Coastal Command]]<br />
*[[Imperial Shirerithian Air Forces#Fighter Command|Fighter Command]]<br />
*[[Imperial Shirerithian Air Forces#Bomber Command|Bomber Command]]<br />
*[[Imperial Shirerithian Air Forces#Strike Command|Strike Command]]<br />
<br />
==Loyalist Forces==<br />
<br />
The Loyalist Forces supported [[Kaiser Dominus]], who has been captured by the putschist group. At present the fight against the putsch is being led by acting Squadron Leader [[Rhydian Fithen]] supported by the [[Prætor]] of the [[Landsraad]], [[Fjǫrleif Hallbjörnsdóttir|Fjǫrleif Llængjarla]]; Minister of the Interior, [[Octavius#Mira Octavius-Aryani|Mira Octavius-Aryani]]; and Shirekeep's Prefect, [[Audun Joel Ayreon-Kalirion]].<br />
<br />
*[[The Kaiser]]<br />
*[[Imperial Household]]<br />
*[[Prefect|The Prefect of Shirekeep]]<br />
*[[Ministry of the Interior]]<br />
*[[Order of the Sentinels]]<br />
*[[Order of Kampioens]]<br />
*[[ESB-Jörmungandr Group]]<br />
*[[Norse]] Civilians<br />
*[[Landsraad]]<br />
*[[Prætor]]<br />
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Faced by an untenable position in the capital, the Prefect and the Praetor had withdrawn to their estates in Elwynn to raise their regiments of yeomanry and to gather together supports and Imperial Electors who had escaped from the city. Their objective was to begin to put in place Shirekeep under siege and to put resistance to the rule of the usurper onto a legal footing.<br />
<br />
After the death of [[Kaiser Dominus]], [[Rhydian Fithen]] pledged his allegiance to Tokaray al-Osman, who assumed office as [[Kaiser Aurangzeb II Steffki]], and was rewarded with promotion to Squadron Leader, command of his beloved 180 Squadron, and a posting to Yardistan to counter the mustering of Alexandrian and Natopian naval forces. <br />
<br />
==Aftermath==<br />
<br />
Subsequent to the events of the massacre, as the nature of the regime led by Tokaray became more apparent, the Imperial States of [[Elwynn]] and [[Lichbrook]] came out strongly against the new regime installed in Shirekeep, setting in motion the brief but bloody civil war that ensued and led to the downfall of the ''triumvirate'' of Tokaray, Adam and Ludovic. <br />
<br />
[[Category:Battles]]</div>Tokaray al-osmanhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=Oustfest_Massacre&diff=27432Oustfest Massacre2017-01-22T17:14:37Z<p>Tokaray al-osman: /* Putschists */</p>
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<div>The [[Oustfest Massacre]][http://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=694&t=18637(1)] was the culmination of a conspiracy and putsch by the clique of nobles from the houses of [[House of Osman|Osman]], [[House of Verion|Verion]] and the [[Dark Orchid Society|Simrani]], supported by the majority of the [[Imperial Forces]] against [[Kaiser Dominus]] and the [[Imperial Government]].<br />
<br />
==Putschists==<br />
<br />
The Putschists supported the efforts of [[Tokaray al-Osman]] to take power as [[Kaiser Aurangzeb II Steffki]]. The ringleaders of the [[Tokaray Putsch]] include [[Tokaray al-Osman]], [[Ludovic Verion]] and [[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion]].<br />
<br />
*[[House of Osman]]<br />
*[[House of Verion]]<br />
*[[Dark Orchid Society|House of Simrani]]<br />
*[[Goldshire|Kingdom of Goldshire]]<br />
*[[Ministry of Military Affairs]]<br />
*[[Ministry of the Exterior]]<br />
*[[Office of Bounties and Factorage]]<br />
*[[Chamber of the Crypteia]]<br />
*[[Shirekeep City Guard]]<br />
*[[S.W.O.R.D.]]<br />
*[[Jaysh al-Sathrati]]<br />
*[[Amity]]<br />
*[[Yardistan]]<br />
*[[Iron Company]] / [[Blackstone]]<br />
*[[Babkhi]] Civilians<br />
*[[Imperial Navy of Shireroth#Western Armada|Western Armada]]<br />
*[[Imperial Navy of Shireroth#Coastal Command|Coastal Command]]<br />
*[[Imperial Shirerithian Air Forces#Fighter Command|Fighter Command]]<br />
*[[Imperial Shirerithian Air Forces#Bomber Command|Bomber Command]]<br />
*[[Imperial Shirerithian Air Forces#Strike Command|Strike Command]]<br />
<br />
==Loyalist Forces==<br />
<br />
The Loyalist Forces supported [[Kaiser Dominus]], who has been captured by the putschist group. At present the fight against the putsch is being led by acting Squadron Leader [[Rhydian Fithen]] supported by the [[Prætor]] of the [[Landsraad]], [[Fjǫrleif Hallbjörnsdóttir|Fjǫrleif Llængjarla]]; Minister of the Interior, [[Octavius#Mira Octavius-Aryani|Mira Octavius-Aryani]]; and Shirekeep's Prefect, [[Audun Joel Ayreon-Kalirion]].<br />
<br />
*[[The Kaiser]]<br />
*[[Imperial Household]]<br />
*[[Prefect|The Prefect of Shirekeep]]<br />
*[[Ministry of the Interior]]<br />
*[[Order of the Sentinels]]<br />
*[[Order of Kampioens]]<br />
*[[ESB-Jörmungandr Group]]<br />
*[[Norse]] Civilians<br />
*[[Landsraad]]<br />
*[[Prætor]]<br />
<br />
After the death of [[Kaiser Dominus]], [[Rhydian Fithen]] pledged his allegiance to Tokaray al-Osman, who assumed office as [[Kaiser Aurangzeb II Steffki]], and was rewarded with promotion to Squadron Leader, command of his beloved 180 Squadron, and a posting to Yardistan to counter the mustering of Alexandrian and Natopian naval forces. <br />
<br />
==Aftermath==<br />
<br />
Subsequent to the events of the massacre, as the nature of the regime led by Tokaray became more apparent, the Imperial States of [[Elwynn]] and [[Lichbrook]] came out strongly against the new regime installed in Shirekeep, setting in motion the brief but bloody civil war that ensued and led to the downfall of the ''triumvirate'' of Tokaray, Adam and Ludovic. <br />
<br />
[[Category:Battles]]</div>Tokaray al-osmanhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=Oustfest_Massacre&diff=27431Oustfest Massacre2017-01-22T17:12:47Z<p>Tokaray al-osman: </p>
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<div>The [[Oustfest Massacre]][http://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=694&t=18637(1)] was the culmination of a conspiracy and putsch by the clique of nobles from the houses of [[House of Osman|Osman]], [[House of Verion|Verion]] and the [[Dark Orchid Society|Simrani]], supported by the majority of the [[Imperial Forces]] against [[Kaiser Dominus]] and the [[Imperial Government]].<br />
<br />
==Putschists==<br />
<br />
The Putschists are supporting the efforts of [[Tokaray al-Osman]] to take power as [[Kaiser Aurangzeb II Steffki]]. The ringleaders of the [[Tokaray Putsch]] include [[Tokaray al-Osman]], [[Ludovic Verion]] and [[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion]].<br />
<br />
*[[House of Osman]]<br />
*[[House of Verion]]<br />
*[[Dark Orchid Society|House of Simrani]]<br />
*[[Goldshire|Kingdom of Goldshire]]<br />
*[[Ministry of Military Affairs]]<br />
*[[Ministry of the Exterior]]<br />
*[[Office of Bounties and Factorage]]<br />
*[[Chamber of the Crypteia]]<br />
*[[Shirekeep City Guard]]<br />
*[[S.W.O.R.D.]]<br />
*[[Jaysh al-Sathrati]]<br />
*[[Amity]]<br />
*[[Yardistan]]<br />
*[[Iron Company]] / [[Blackstone]]<br />
*[[Babkhi]] Civilians<br />
*[[Imperial Navy of Shireroth#Western Armada|Western Armada]]<br />
*[[Imperial Navy of Shireroth#Coastal Command|Coastal Command]]<br />
*[[Imperial Shirerithian Air Forces#Fighter Command|Fighter Command]]<br />
*[[Imperial Shirerithian Air Forces#Bomber Command|Bomber Command]]<br />
*[[Imperial Shirerithian Air Forces#Strike Command|Strike Command]]<br />
<br />
<br />
==Loyalist Forces==<br />
<br />
The Loyalist Forces supported [[Kaiser Dominus]], who has been captured by the putschist group. At present the fight against the putsch is being led by acting Squadron Leader [[Rhydian Fithen]] supported by the [[Prætor]] of the [[Landsraad]], [[Fjǫrleif Hallbjörnsdóttir|Fjǫrleif Llængjarla]]; Minister of the Interior, [[Octavius#Mira Octavius-Aryani|Mira Octavius-Aryani]]; and Shirekeep's Prefect, [[Audun Joel Ayreon-Kalirion]].<br />
<br />
*[[The Kaiser]]<br />
*[[Imperial Household]]<br />
*[[Prefect|The Prefect of Shirekeep]]<br />
*[[Ministry of the Interior]]<br />
*[[Order of the Sentinels]]<br />
*[[Order of Kampioens]]<br />
*[[ESB-Jörmungandr Group]]<br />
*[[Norse]] Civilians<br />
*[[Landsraad]]<br />
*[[Prætor]]<br />
<br />
After the death of [[Kaiser Dominus]], [[Rhydian Fithen]] pledged his allegiance to Tokaray al-Osman, who assumed office as [[Kaiser Aurangzeb II Steffki]], and was rewarded with promotion to Squadron Leader, command of his beloved 180 Squadron, and a posting to Yardistan to counter the mustering of Alexandrian and Natopian naval forces. <br />
<br />
==Aftermath==<br />
<br />
Subsequent to the events of the massacre, as the nature of the regime led by Tokaray became more apparent, the Imperial States of [[Elwynn]] and [[Lichbrook]] came out strongly against the new regime installed in Shirekeep, setting in motion the brief but bloody civil war that ensued and led to the downfall of the ''triumvirate'' of Tokaray, Adam and Ludovic. <br />
<br />
[[Category:Battles]]</div>Tokaray al-osmanhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=Oustfest_Massacre&diff=27430Oustfest Massacre2017-01-22T17:12:28Z<p>Tokaray al-osman: </p>
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<div>The [[Oustefest Massacre]][http://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=694&t=18637(1)] was the culmination of a conspiracy and putsch by the clique of nobles from the houses of [[House of Osman|Osman]], [[House of Verion|Verion]] and the [[Dark Orchid Society|Simrani]], supported by the majority of the [[Imperial Forces]] against [[Kaiser Dominus]] and the [[Imperial Government]].<br />
<br />
==Putschists==<br />
<br />
The Putschists are supporting the efforts of [[Tokaray al-Osman]] to take power as [[Kaiser Aurangzeb II Steffki]]. The ringleaders of the [[Tokaray Putsch]] include [[Tokaray al-Osman]], [[Ludovic Verion]] and [[Adam Ayreon-Kalirion]].<br />
<br />
*[[House of Osman]]<br />
*[[House of Verion]]<br />
*[[Dark Orchid Society|House of Simrani]]<br />
*[[Goldshire|Kingdom of Goldshire]]<br />
*[[Ministry of Military Affairs]]<br />
*[[Ministry of the Exterior]]<br />
*[[Office of Bounties and Factorage]]<br />
*[[Chamber of the Crypteia]]<br />
*[[Shirekeep City Guard]]<br />
*[[S.W.O.R.D.]]<br />
*[[Jaysh al-Sathrati]]<br />
*[[Amity]]<br />
*[[Yardistan]]<br />
*[[Iron Company]] / [[Blackstone]]<br />
*[[Babkhi]] Civilians<br />
*[[Imperial Navy of Shireroth#Western Armada|Western Armada]]<br />
*[[Imperial Navy of Shireroth#Coastal Command|Coastal Command]]<br />
*[[Imperial Shirerithian Air Forces#Fighter Command|Fighter Command]]<br />
*[[Imperial Shirerithian Air Forces#Bomber Command|Bomber Command]]<br />
*[[Imperial Shirerithian Air Forces#Strike Command|Strike Command]]<br />
<br />
<br />
==Loyalist Forces==<br />
<br />
The Loyalist Forces supported [[Kaiser Dominus]], who has been captured by the putschist group. At present the fight against the putsch is being led by acting Squadron Leader [[Rhydian Fithen]] supported by the [[Prætor]] of the [[Landsraad]], [[Fjǫrleif Hallbjörnsdóttir|Fjǫrleif Llængjarla]]; Minister of the Interior, [[Octavius#Mira Octavius-Aryani|Mira Octavius-Aryani]]; and Shirekeep's Prefect, [[Audun Joel Ayreon-Kalirion]].<br />
<br />
*[[The Kaiser]]<br />
*[[Imperial Household]]<br />
*[[Prefect|The Prefect of Shirekeep]]<br />
*[[Ministry of the Interior]]<br />
*[[Order of the Sentinels]]<br />
*[[Order of Kampioens]]<br />
*[[ESB-Jörmungandr Group]]<br />
*[[Norse]] Civilians<br />
*[[Landsraad]]<br />
*[[Prætor]]<br />
<br />
After the death of [[Kaiser Dominus]], [[Rhydian Fithen]] pledged his allegiance to Tokaray al-Osman, who assumed office as [[Kaiser Aurangzeb II Steffki]], and was rewarded with promotion to Squadron Leader, command of his beloved 180 Squadron, and a posting to Yardistan to counter the mustering of Alexandrian and Natopian naval forces. <br />
<br />
==Aftermath==<br />
<br />
Subsequent to the events of the massacre, as the nature of the regime led by Tokaray became more apparent, the Imperial States of [[Elwynn]] and [[Lichbrook]] came out strongly against the new regime installed in Shirekeep, setting in motion the brief but bloody civil war that ensued and led to the downfall of the ''triumvirate'' of Tokaray, Adam and Ludovic. <br />
<br />
[[Category:Battles]]</div>Tokaray al-osmanhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=Kaiser_Aurangzeb_II_Steffki&diff=27429Kaiser Aurangzeb II Steffki2017-01-22T17:01:27Z<p>Tokaray al-osman: </p>
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<div>{{Steffki}} Was the regnal name of [[Tokaray al-Osman]] the usurper of the Mango Throne who deposed and murdered the [[Kaiser Dominus]] in the year 1644. He was the 155th Kaiser.<br />
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[[Kaiser Aurangzeb II Steffki|Aurangzeb]] held power in Shirekeep for two-hundred and seventy six days, from Amnure the 13th of Nomeziooqu 1644 until Hyre the 12th of Gevraquun in the year 1645.<br />
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[[Category:House of Osman]][[Category:Kaisers]]</div>Tokaray al-osmanhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=Kaiser_Aurangzeb_II_Steffki&diff=27428Kaiser Aurangzeb II Steffki2017-01-22T16:59:34Z<p>Tokaray al-osman: </p>
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<div>{{Steffki}} Was the regnal name of [[Tokaray al-Osman]] the usurper of the Mango Throne who deposed and murdered the [[Kaiser Dominus]] in the year 1644. He was the 155th Kaiser.<br />
<br />
[[Kaiser Aurangzeb II Steffki|Aurangzeb]] held power in Shirekeep for two-hundred and seventy six days, from Amnure the 13th of Nomeziooqu 1644 until Hyre the 12th of Gevraquun in the year 1645.<br />
<br />
[[Category:House of Osman]][[Category:Kaisers]]</div>Tokaray al-osmanhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=Kaiser_Aurangzeb_II_Steffki&diff=27427Kaiser Aurangzeb II Steffki2017-01-22T16:59:08Z<p>Tokaray al-osman: </p>
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<div>{{Steffki}} Was the regnal name of [[Tokaray al-Osman]] the usurper of the Mango Throne who deposed and murdered the [[Kaiser Dominus]] in the year 1644. He was the 155th Kaiser.<br />
<br />
[[Aurangzeb II Steffki]] held power in Shirekeep for two-hundred and seventy six days, from Amnure the 13th of Nomeziooqu 1644 until Hyre the 12th of Gevraquun in the year 1645.<br />
<br />
[[Category:House of Osman]][[Category:Kaisers]]</div>Tokaray al-osmanhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=File:GAV-2_Wyvern.png&diff=27422File:GAV-2 Wyvern.png2017-01-21T16:08:40Z<p>Tokaray al-osman: </p>
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<div></div>Tokaray al-osmanhttps://shireroth.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Kaiser&diff=27421The Kaiser2017-01-21T15:09:40Z<p>Tokaray al-osman: /* Even More Recent Kaisers */</p>
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<div>{{ShirerothFactbox}}<br />
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'''The Kaiser''' is the monarch of the [[Imperial Republic]] of [[Shireroth]]. Historically this position has been more autocratic, but with successive constitutional reforms zie has become more akin to a constitutional monarch, in fact not dissimilar to the role of the President of the United States of America. Zir roles are primarily externally-facing - the [[Imperial Government]], which zie leads, having responsibility for foreign affairs and military matters - and therefore zie often assumes the role of representative of Shireroth abroad, as well as being a symbol of imperial unity, culture and history.<br />
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== The Constitutional Position of the Kaiser ==<br />
Historically, the powers granted the Kaiser were limitless. Zie was the fons honorum, granting all titles and holding all lands, granting them feudally in fief. It was only later after some Kaisers wielded their powers too rashly, and some contributors to Shireroth's lands became fearful of the cultural heritage of their territories being protected, that the current [[Charter of the Imperial Republic|constitutional]] settlement was reached.<br />
[[Image:Kaiserseal6303.png|thumb|left|The Imperial seal, as of ASC 6303, used for decrees.]]<br />
The Kaiser is granted powers by [[the Imperial Charter]] and the [[Cedrism|the Gods]]; both also restrict zir actions. The Kaiser traditionally administers, legislates and appoints people to certain offices via [[Imperial Decree]].<br />
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==The Religious (Cedrist) Position of the Kaiser==<br />
Originally, the Kaisers of Shireroth simply served as nothing more than warrior kings and politically leaders of the Realm. Their presence in folklore, myths and in religion only grew over time. The tale of [[Rrakanychan]] who was defeated by one of the early Kaisers (some sources mention Raynor I, but others depict one of his successors as the hero) is a primary example of the central role of the Kaisership in [[Cedrism]]. With the need to strengthen central authority, Kaisers often used religious customs and myths to unite the several ethnic groups under one banner. <br />
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While not holding any official religious position, the Kaiser is depicted as highest representative of the Gods (above the High Priests) an,d it's not uncommon for a Kaiser to transcend into godhood. Kaiser [[Mog I]] became infamous for granting land to another nation and became [[God of Political Blunders]] while [[Raynor II]] made an attempt to - literally - catapult himself into godhood by constructing a huge catapult. Kaiser [[Gaelen IV]] made an attempt to expand the position of the Kaiser by establishing the [[Imperial Cult]], which received little popularity among the population.<br />
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== Succession ==<br />
Being an important position, to some extent in terms of legal power but mostly in terms of prestige, respect and authority to lead the Imperial Republic, succeeding to the Golden Mango Throne is very competitive.<br />
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In the old days, Imperial Decrees laid down a Line of Succession of specific individuals - friends, allies, people in whose hands he could trust Shireroth. Later this evolved to be just one individual - their chosen successor - and for many years this was a position reserved for the [[Steward]]. In contemporary Shireroth, Stewards tend to be appointed on an ad-hoc basis, and successors are usually named some time before the death or abdication of the reigning Kaiser. However, this is not always the case. For example, when [[Kaiseress Mira Raynora Minor|Mira Raynora Minor]] abdicated without an heir, the resulting [[Cabbage Crisis]] saw Octavius raised to the Kaisership by [[Landsraad]] election as [[Kaiser Aiomide]].<br />
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==Imperial Household==<br />
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== Tradition ==<br />
Kaisers generally reign for three months at most. This brings constant change to the government, and is justified in [[Layers of simulation|fantasy]] terms by the fact that three real-world months corresponds to over 90 [[ASC]] years on Micras.<br />
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Upon taking the throne, new Kaisers choose royal names. These names can be of either [[Shirerothian]] mythological figures (usually from [[Cedrism]]) or of some other interest of the Kaiser. For instance, the name of [[Kaiser Yarad I]] means "metal", whereas some others, such as [[Kaiseress Jadie I]] and [[Kaiseress Carol I]], choose not to use a different regnal name.<br />
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It is an important custom that all Kaisers are descended from the first Kaiser, the unifier of Shireroth, [[Raynor I]]. Therefore each Kaiser associates zirself with one of the [[Imperial Bloodline|Imperial Bloodlines]].<br />
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=== Epithets ===<br />
A short-lived tradition started by [[Kaiser Mors IV|Mors IV]] saw Kaisers attaching an additional ''epithet'' to their name after their reign, based on what they believed was the most significant contribution in their reign. The epithets and their significances are as follows:<br />
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; [[Kaiser Mors IV]] "Nerrolar" : "Arbiter" in Benacian language, for his work in keeping the Lorelei Conflict from boiling over.<br />
; [[Kaiser Ari i]] "Kaukainen" : "Distant" in Finnish, for not really doing anything significant and being absent a lot of the time.<br />
; [[Kaiser Alejian I]] "The Guardian" : For guiding the nation through difficult times with the threat of the [[Grand Commonwealth]] and [[SPEAR]].<br />
; [[Kaiser Los III]] "Radarai" : "The Scribe" in Hyperborean, for the creation of [[ShireWiki]].<br />
; [[Kaiser Mahamantot I]] "the Lawbreaker": Known as a lawbreaker for taking the Throne from [[Letifer III]]. Recognised by [[Mors V]] as official Kaiser and thanked for his attempts to revive Shireroth (even if it meant breaking existing laws).<br />
; [[Kaiser Leto III]] "the Bold" : for his doubtful reign.<br />
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A later move saw other Shirerithians give past Kaisers epithets based on any significant events or characteristics of their reign. These are not official. It [http://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=62306#p62306 has been suggested] that Kaisers should formally open the Landsraad, and during that first opening the previous Kaiser should be given an epithet, but this has never happened.<br />
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====Less Recent Kaisers====<br />
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; [[Kaiser Yarad I]] "the Atomist" : Ushering in New Feudalism, this Kaiser reduced the state to its smallest components.<br />
; [[Kaiseress Semisa I]] "the Resurrector" : As well as being named after the Cedrist Goddess of resurrection, her reign saw an explosion in Landsraad activity. Also she wanted to be remembered as such.<br />
; [[Kaiser Letifer II]] "the Indisposed" : For he was.<br />
; [[Kaiser Alejian II]] "the Protector" : Brother-epithet to the previous Alejian, this Kaiser was a preserver rather than a reformer.<br />
; [[Kaiser Meskan II]] "the Soloralist" : This great reforming Kaiser was taken of a strange Eastern-Apollonian religion.<br />
; [[Kaiseress Carol I]] "the Maternal" : For she was mom, and led Shireroth during one of its longest and darkest periods of inactivity.<br />
; [[Kaiser Letifer III]] "the Unprepared" : Named for the inactivity of his later reign.<br />
; [[Kaiser Mahamantot I]] "the Semi-Unofficially Official" : One of the greatest Anti-Kaisers of our history, and the only one included on the [[List of Kaisers]].<br />
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====Recent Kaisers====<br />
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; [[Kaiser Fish XII]] "the Bastionator" : The Kaiser who saw Shireroth move its forums from its own hosting to the [[Bastion Union]] forums.<br />
; [[Kaiseress Rei I]] "the Blue" : Our first Kaiser of Safirian ethnicity.<br />
; [[Kaiser Cedris I]] "the Almost-Ousted" : ... for that he was (almost).<br />
; [[Kaiser Aurangzeb]] "the Remarkably Surprised to Have Survived Long Enough to Abdicate" : The nation was surprised as much as he was.<br />
; [[Kaiser Wythe I]] "the Educator" : He reestablished the University.<br />
; [[Kaiser Yardistanislaus I]] "the Ambassador" : He took an interest in foreign affairs.<br />
; [[Kaiser Ometeotl II]] "the Apathetic" : This Kaiser didn't care much.<br />
; [[Kaiseress Mira Raynora Major]] "the Constitutionalist" : Under the first Mira Raynora Major, the latest Charter was passed, ushering in a new epoch of Shirerithian history.<br />
; [[Kaiseress Mira Raynora Minor]] "The Younger" : She succeeded Mira Raynora Major as Kaiseress.<br />
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====Even More Recent Kaisers====<br />
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; [[Kaiser Aiomide]] "The Historian" : The Kaiser spent much time developing a history of the Keep.<br />
; [[Kaiseress Semisa II]] "The Blue Fool" : A Kaiseress of Safirian origin, widly criticised.<br />
; [[Kaiser Trantor IV]] "The Hated" : Probably the most unpopular Kaiser in recent Shirerithian history.<br />
; [[Kaiser Mo'll I]] "The Old" : The Kaiser was a kind and wise old man who ruled Shireroth from his small cottage in Lunaris.<br />
; [[Kaiser Mors IV]] "The Returned" : After having ruled before, in the 2nd century, Kaiser Mors IV returned from the grave to once again take the Imperial throne.<br />
; [[Kaiser Sehml]] "The one without an epithet because nobody could think of one for him" : The epithet of this Kaiser, liked by many, speaks for itself.<br />
; [[Kaiser Redquill]] "The Meek" : Redquill's reign was one of avoiding conflict, asking opinions, and basically trying to give everyone what they wanted.<br />
; [[Kaiseress Isa IV]] "The Shortlived" : The Kaiseress died several years after ascending from a heart attack.<br />
; [[Kaiser Ayreon III]] "The Mangocounter" : The Kaiser spent much of his reign working on budgets and economic proposals.<br />
; [[Kaiser Verion I]] "The Financier" : Awarded for Verion's perceived contributions to the Shirithian economy, the epithet proved to be ironic when it was discovered that Verion had transfered large sums of money to [[S.W.O.R.D.]] using secret financial constructions.<br />
; [[Kaiser Daniel III]] "The Not Nearly as Controversial as Last Time So Good On Him" : Not much to remember. He was very clean I guess. *cough*<br />
; [[Kaiseress Kizzy]] "The Benevolent" : Always wanted to do the right thing, even if she didn't always succeed.<br />
; [[Kaiser Hjalmar]] "The Steady": For being a steady pair of hands at the helm of the Shirithian ship of state who skillfully navigated it past the many rocks and shoals of (international) politics.<br />
; [[Kaiser Hjalmar Redquill]] "The Balancer" :For successfully maintaining a harmonious equilibrium in the Imperial Republic where countervailing forces might have made a wreck of the efforts of a lesser man.<br />
; [[Kaiser Dominus]] "The Limp-foot" : Didn't do too bad for a man who fell into a bear trap in his youth. Shame about being devoured and subsumed into the corporeal form of an emergent [[Dæmons|demon]].<br />
; [[Kaiser Aurangzeb II Steffki]] "The Bloody" : Less an epithet than a statement of intent.<br />
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==Titles and Style==<br />
Any Kaiser is entitled to the following titles: Kaiser of the Imperial Republic of Shireroth, Thane of the Shirelands, Keeper of the Apollo Legacy, Wielder of the [[The Sword of Vengeance|Sword of Vengeance]], Grand Master of the Orders of the Dragon, Griffin, Phoenix, and Chimera, Sovereign of the Golden Mango Throne.<br />
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In addition to those traditional domestic titles is the Kaiser also entitled to bear the [[Stormark|Storish]] title of [http://vikings.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=1363 Prince of Hvalafell] and the [[Natopia|Natopian]] title of [http://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=198&t=15931 Count of Dracoheim].<br />
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Any holder of the Golden Mango Throne is also entitled to the style of Imperial Niftiness or ''Imperial Magnificence'' for those who find the concept of 'nift' a little too twee.<br />
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== Past Kaisers ==<br />
Many citizens have had the honour of being Kaiser. They are listed below:<br />
<br />
*[[Erik Mortis]]<br />
*[[James Raine]]<br />
*[[Harvey Steffke]]<br />
*[[Aurefiction]]<br />
*[[Gryphon Avocatio]]<br />
*[[Ari Rahikkala]]<br />
*[[Jadie Doran]]<br />
*[[Scott Alexander]]<br />
*[[Gregory Russell]]<br />
*[[Shyriath|Shyriath Bukolos]]<br />
*[[Eoin Dornan]]<br />
*[[Bill Dusch]]<br />
*[[Renee Alyssa]]<br />
*[[Hypatia's Mom]]<br />
*[[Jonas Windsor]]<br />
*[[Hesam Jayatar]]<br />
*[[Ric Lyon]]<br />
*[[Jacobus Loki]]<br />
*[[Corey van der Sluijs]]<br />
*[[Ardashir Khan]]<br />
*[[Malliki Tosha]]<br />
*[[Carl Jackson]]<br />
*[[Rossheim]]<br />
*[[Octavius]]<br />
*[[Jack]]<br />
*[[Benkern]]<br />
*[[Ryker]]<br />
*[[Hallbjörn Haraldsson]]<br />
*[[Edgard]]<br />
<br />
The royal names of the Kaisers, with the dates of their reigns (in [[ASC]]) and the [[Imperial Bloodline|line]] from which they descend, can be found in the [[List of Kaisers]]. The First and Second Eras are fictional history whereas the Third Era and beyond are real.<br />
<br />
==See Also== <br />
*[[The Imperial Charter]], <br />
*[[Landsraad]], <br />
*[[Imperial Bloodline]]s, <br />
*[[DecreeBook]],<br />
*[[List of Kaisers]].<br />
<br />
[[Category: History]] [[Category: Government]]<br />
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'''The Kaiser''' is the monarch of the [[Imperial Republic]] of [[Shireroth]]. Historically this position has been more autocratic, but with successive constitutional reforms zie has become more akin to a constitutional monarch, in fact not dissimilar to the role of the President of the United States of America. Zir roles are primarily externally-facing - the [[Imperial Government]], which zie leads, having responsibility for foreign affairs and military matters - and therefore zie often assumes the role of representative of Shireroth abroad, as well as being a symbol of imperial unity, culture and history.<br />
<br />
== The Constitutional Position of the Kaiser ==<br />
Historically, the powers granted the Kaiser were limitless. Zie was the fons honorum, granting all titles and holding all lands, granting them feudally in fief. It was only later after some Kaisers wielded their powers too rashly, and some contributors to Shireroth's lands became fearful of the cultural heritage of their territories being protected, that the current [[Charter of the Imperial Republic|constitutional]] settlement was reached.<br />
[[Image:Kaiserseal6303.png|thumb|left|The Imperial seal, as of ASC 6303, used for decrees.]]<br />
The Kaiser is granted powers by [[the Imperial Charter]] and the [[Cedrism|the Gods]]; both also restrict zir actions. The Kaiser traditionally administers, legislates and appoints people to certain offices via [[Imperial Decree]].<br />
<br />
==The Religious (Cedrist) Position of the Kaiser==<br />
Originally, the Kaisers of Shireroth simply served as nothing more than warrior kings and politically leaders of the Realm. Their presence in folklore, myths and in religion only grew over time. The tale of [[Rrakanychan]] who was defeated by one of the early Kaisers (some sources mention Raynor I, but others depict one of his successors as the hero) is a primary example of the central role of the Kaisership in [[Cedrism]]. With the need to strengthen central authority, Kaisers often used religious customs and myths to unite the several ethnic groups under one banner. <br />
<br />
While not holding any official religious position, the Kaiser is depicted as highest representative of the Gods (above the High Priests) an,d it's not uncommon for a Kaiser to transcend into godhood. Kaiser [[Mog I]] became infamous for granting land to another nation and became [[God of Political Blunders]] while [[Raynor II]] made an attempt to - literally - catapult himself into godhood by constructing a huge catapult. Kaiser [[Gaelen IV]] made an attempt to expand the position of the Kaiser by establishing the [[Imperial Cult]], which received little popularity among the population.<br />
<br />
== Succession ==<br />
Being an important position, to some extent in terms of legal power but mostly in terms of prestige, respect and authority to lead the Imperial Republic, succeeding to the Golden Mango Throne is very competitive.<br />
<br />
In the old days, Imperial Decrees laid down a Line of Succession of specific individuals - friends, allies, people in whose hands he could trust Shireroth. Later this evolved to be just one individual - their chosen successor - and for many years this was a position reserved for the [[Steward]]. In contemporary Shireroth, Stewards tend to be appointed on an ad-hoc basis, and successors are usually named some time before the death or abdication of the reigning Kaiser. However, this is not always the case. For example, when [[Kaiseress Mira Raynora Minor|Mira Raynora Minor]] abdicated without an heir, the resulting [[Cabbage Crisis]] saw Octavius raised to the Kaisership by [[Landsraad]] election as [[Kaiser Aiomide]].<br />
<br />
==Imperial Household==<br />
<br />
== Tradition ==<br />
Kaisers generally reign for three months at most. This brings constant change to the government, and is justified in [[Layers of simulation|fantasy]] terms by the fact that three real-world months corresponds to over 90 [[ASC]] years on Micras.<br />
<br />
Upon taking the throne, new Kaisers choose royal names. These names can be of either [[Shirerothian]] mythological figures (usually from [[Cedrism]]) or of some other interest of the Kaiser. For instance, the name of [[Kaiser Yarad I]] means "metal", whereas some others, such as [[Kaiseress Jadie I]] and [[Kaiseress Carol I]], choose not to use a different regnal name.<br />
<br />
It is an important custom that all Kaisers are descended from the first Kaiser, the unifier of Shireroth, [[Raynor I]]. Therefore each Kaiser associates zirself with one of the [[Imperial Bloodline|Imperial Bloodlines]].<br />
<br />
=== Epithets ===<br />
A short-lived tradition started by [[Kaiser Mors IV|Mors IV]] saw Kaisers attaching an additional ''epithet'' to their name after their reign, based on what they believed was the most significant contribution in their reign. The epithets and their significances are as follows:<br />
<br />
; [[Kaiser Mors IV]] "Nerrolar" : "Arbiter" in Benacian language, for his work in keeping the Lorelei Conflict from boiling over.<br />
; [[Kaiser Ari i]] "Kaukainen" : "Distant" in Finnish, for not really doing anything significant and being absent a lot of the time.<br />
; [[Kaiser Alejian I]] "The Guardian" : For guiding the nation through difficult times with the threat of the [[Grand Commonwealth]] and [[SPEAR]].<br />
; [[Kaiser Los III]] "Radarai" : "The Scribe" in Hyperborean, for the creation of [[ShireWiki]].<br />
; [[Kaiser Mahamantot I]] "the Lawbreaker": Known as a lawbreaker for taking the Throne from [[Letifer III]]. Recognised by [[Mors V]] as official Kaiser and thanked for his attempts to revive Shireroth (even if it meant breaking existing laws).<br />
; [[Kaiser Leto III]] "the Bold" : for his doubtful reign.<br />
<br />
A later move saw other Shirerithians give past Kaisers epithets based on any significant events or characteristics of their reign. These are not official. It [http://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=62306#p62306 has been suggested] that Kaisers should formally open the Landsraad, and during that first opening the previous Kaiser should be given an epithet, but this has never happened.<br />
<br />
====Less Recent Kaisers====<br />
<br />
; [[Kaiser Yarad I]] "the Atomist" : Ushering in New Feudalism, this Kaiser reduced the state to its smallest components.<br />
; [[Kaiseress Semisa I]] "the Resurrector" : As well as being named after the Cedrist Goddess of resurrection, her reign saw an explosion in Landsraad activity. Also she wanted to be remembered as such.<br />
; [[Kaiser Letifer II]] "the Indisposed" : For he was.<br />
; [[Kaiser Alejian II]] "the Protector" : Brother-epithet to the previous Alejian, this Kaiser was a preserver rather than a reformer.<br />
; [[Kaiser Meskan II]] "the Soloralist" : This great reforming Kaiser was taken of a strange Eastern-Apollonian religion.<br />
; [[Kaiseress Carol I]] "the Maternal" : For she was mom, and led Shireroth during one of its longest and darkest periods of inactivity.<br />
; [[Kaiser Letifer III]] "the Unprepared" : Named for the inactivity of his later reign.<br />
; [[Kaiser Mahamantot I]] "the Semi-Unofficially Official" : One of the greatest Anti-Kaisers of our history, and the only one included on the [[List of Kaisers]].<br />
<br />
====Recent Kaisers====<br />
<br />
; [[Kaiser Fish XII]] "the Bastionator" : The Kaiser who saw Shireroth move its forums from its own hosting to the [[Bastion Union]] forums.<br />
; [[Kaiseress Rei I]] "the Blue" : Our first Kaiser of Safirian ethnicity.<br />
; [[Kaiser Cedris I]] "the Almost-Ousted" : ... for that he was (almost).<br />
; [[Kaiser Aurangzeb]] "the Remarkably Surprised to Have Survived Long Enough to Abdicate" : The nation was surprised as much as he was.<br />
; [[Kaiser Wythe I]] "the Educator" : He reestablished the University.<br />
; [[Kaiser Yardistanislaus I]] "the Ambassador" : He took an interest in foreign affairs.<br />
; [[Kaiser Ometeotl II]] "the Apathetic" : This Kaiser didn't care much.<br />
; [[Kaiseress Mira Raynora Major]] "the Constitutionalist" : Under the first Mira Raynora Major, the latest Charter was passed, ushering in a new epoch of Shirerithian history.<br />
; [[Kaiseress Mira Raynora Minor]] "The Younger" : She succeeded Mira Raynora Major as Kaiseress.<br />
<br />
====Even More Recent Kaisers====<br />
<br />
; [[Kaiser Aiomide]] "The Historian" : The Kaiser spent much time developing a history of the Keep.<br />
; [[Kaiseress Semisa II]] "The Blue Fool" : A Kaiseress of Safirian origin, widly criticised.<br />
; [[Kaiser Trantor IV]] "The Hated" : Probably the most unpopular Kaiser in recent Shirerithian history.<br />
; [[Kaiser Mo'll I]] "The Old" : The Kaiser was a kind and wise old man who ruled Shireroth from his small cottage in Lunaris.<br />
; [[Kaiser Mors IV]] "The Returned" : After having ruled before, in the 2nd century, Kaiser Mors IV returned from the grave to once again take the Imperial throne.<br />
; [[Kaiser Sehml]] "The one without an epithet because nobody could think of one for him" : The epithet of this Kaiser, liked by many, speaks for itself.<br />
; [[Kaiser Redquill]] "The Meek" : Redquill's reign was one of avoiding conflict, asking opinions, and basically trying to give everyone what they wanted.<br />
; [[Kaiseress Isa IV]] "The Shortlived" : The Kaiseress died several years after ascending from a heart attack.<br />
; [[Kaiser Ayreon III]] "The Mangocounter" : The Kaiser spent much of his reign working on budgets and economic proposals.<br />
; [[Kaiser Verion I]] "The Financier" : Awarded for Verion's perceived contributions to the Shirithian economy, the epithet proved to be ironic when it was discovered that Verion had transfered large sums of money to [[S.W.O.R.D.]] using secret financial constructions.<br />
; [[Kaiser Daniel III]] "The Not Nearly as Controversial as Last Time So Good On Him" : Not much to remember. He was very clean I guess. *cough*<br />
; [[Kaiseress Kizzy]] "The Benevolent" : Always wanted to do the right thing, even if she didn't always succeed.<br />
; [[Kaiser Hjalmar]] "The Steady": For being a steady pair of hands at the helm of the Shirithian ship of state who skillfully navigated it past the many rocks and shoals of (international) politics.<br />
; [[Kaiser Hjalmar Redquill]] "The Balancer" :For successfully maintaining a harmonious equilibrium in the Imperial Republic where countervailing forces might have made a wreck of the efforts of a lesser man.<br />
; [[Kaiser Dominus]] "The Limp-foot" : Didn't do too bad for a man who fell into a bear trap in his youth. Shame about being devoured and subsumed into the corporeal form of an emergent [[Dæmons|demon]].<br />
<br />
==Titles and Style==<br />
Any Kaiser is entitled to the following titles: Kaiser of the Imperial Republic of Shireroth, Thane of the Shirelands, Keeper of the Apollo Legacy, Wielder of the [[The Sword of Vengeance|Sword of Vengeance]], Grand Master of the Orders of the Dragon, Griffin, Phoenix, and Chimera, Sovereign of the Golden Mango Throne.<br />
<br />
In addition to those traditional domestic titles is the Kaiser also entitled to bear the [[Stormark|Storish]] title of [http://vikings.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=1363 Prince of Hvalafell] and the [[Natopia|Natopian]] title of [http://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=198&t=15931 Count of Dracoheim].<br />
<br />
Any holder of the Golden Mango Throne is also entitled to the style of Imperial Niftiness or ''Imperial Magnificence'' for those who find the concept of 'nift' a little too twee.<br />
<br />
== Past Kaisers ==<br />
Many citizens have had the honour of being Kaiser. They are listed below:<br />
<br />
*[[Erik Mortis]]<br />
*[[James Raine]]<br />
*[[Harvey Steffke]]<br />
*[[Aurefiction]]<br />
*[[Gryphon Avocatio]]<br />
*[[Ari Rahikkala]]<br />
*[[Jadie Doran]]<br />
*[[Scott Alexander]]<br />
*[[Gregory Russell]]<br />
*[[Shyriath|Shyriath Bukolos]]<br />
*[[Eoin Dornan]]<br />
*[[Bill Dusch]]<br />
*[[Renee Alyssa]]<br />
*[[Hypatia's Mom]]<br />
*[[Jonas Windsor]]<br />
*[[Hesam Jayatar]]<br />
*[[Ric Lyon]]<br />
*[[Jacobus Loki]]<br />
*[[Corey van der Sluijs]]<br />
*[[Ardashir Khan]]<br />
*[[Malliki Tosha]]<br />
*[[Carl Jackson]]<br />
*[[Rossheim]]<br />
*[[Octavius]]<br />
*[[Jack]]<br />
*[[Benkern]]<br />
*[[Ryker]]<br />
*[[Hallbjörn Haraldsson]]<br />
*[[Edgard]]<br />
<br />
The royal names of the Kaisers, with the dates of their reigns (in [[ASC]]) and the [[Imperial Bloodline|line]] from which they descend, can be found in the [[List of Kaisers]]. The First and Second Eras are fictional history whereas the Third Era and beyond are real.<br />
<br />
==See Also== <br />
*[[The Imperial Charter]], <br />
*[[Landsraad]], <br />
*[[Imperial Bloodline]]s, <br />
*[[DecreeBook]],<br />
*[[List of Kaisers]].<br />
<br />
[[Category: History]] [[Category: Government]]<br />
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'''The Kaiser''' is the monarch of the [[Imperial Republic]] of [[Shireroth]]. Historically this position has been more autocratic, but with successive constitutional reforms zie has become more akin to a constitutional monarch, in fact not dissimilar to the role of the President of the United States of America. Zir roles are primarily externally-facing - the [[Imperial Government]], which zie leads, having responsibility for foreign affairs and military matters - and therefore zie often assumes the role of representative of Shireroth abroad, as well as being a symbol of imperial unity, culture and history.<br />
<br />
== The Constitutional Position of the Kaiser ==<br />
Historically, the powers granted the Kaiser were limitless. Zie was the fons honorum, granting all titles and holding all lands, granting them feudally in fief. It was only later after some Kaisers wielded their powers too rashly, and some contributors to Shireroth's lands became fearful of the cultural heritage of their territories being protected, that the current [[Charter of the Imperial Republic|constitutional]] settlement was reached.<br />
[[Image:Kaiserseal6303.png|thumb|left|The Imperial seal, as of ASC 6303, used for decrees.]]<br />
The Kaiser is granted powers by [[the Imperial Charter]] and the [[Cedrism|the Gods]]; both also restrict zir actions. The Kaiser traditionally administers, legislates and appoints people to certain offices via [[Imperial Decree]].<br />
<br />
==The Religious (Cedrist) Position of the Kaiser==<br />
Originally, the Kaisers of Shireroth simply served as nothing more than warrior kings and politically leaders of the Realm. Their presence in folklore, myths and in religion only grew over time. The tale of [[Rrakanychan]] who was defeated by one of the early Kaisers (some sources mention Raynor I, but others depict one of his successors as the hero) is a primary example of the central role of the Kaisership in [[Cedrism]]. With the need to strengthen central authority, Kaisers often used religious customs and myths to unite the several ethnic groups under one banner. <br />
<br />
While not holding any official religious position, the Kaiser is depicted as highest representative of the Gods (above the High Priests) an,d it's not uncommon for a Kaiser to transcend into godhood. Kaiser [[Mog I]] became infamous for granting land to another nation and became [[God of Political Blunders]] while [[Raynor II]] made an attempt to - literally - catapult himself into godhood by constructing a huge catapult. Kaiser [[Gaelen IV]] made an attempt to expand the position of the Kaiser by establishing the [[Imperial Cult]], which received little popularity among the population.<br />
<br />
== Succession ==<br />
Being an important position, to some extent in terms of legal power but mostly in terms of prestige, respect and authority to lead the Imperial Republic, succeeding to the Golden Mango Throne is very competitive.<br />
<br />
In the old days, Imperial Decrees laid down a Line of Succession of specific individuals - friends, allies, people in whose hands he could trust Shireroth. Later this evolved to be just one individual - their chosen successor - and for many years this was a position reserved for the [[Steward]]. In contemporary Shireroth, Stewards tend to be appointed on an ad-hoc basis, and successors are usually named some time before the death or abdication of the reigning Kaiser. However, this is not always the case. For example, when [[Kaiseress Mira Raynora Minor|Mira Raynora Minor]] abdicated without an heir, the resulting [[Cabbage Crisis]] saw Octavius raised to the Kaisership by [[Landsraad]] election as [[Kaiser Aiomide]].<br />
<br />
==Imperial Household==<br />
<br />
== Tradition ==<br />
Kaisers generally reign for three months at most. This brings constant change to the government, and is justified in [[Layers of simulation|fantasy]] terms by the fact that three real-world months corresponds to over 90 [[ASC]] years on Micras.<br />
<br />
Upon taking the throne, new Kaisers choose royal names. These names can be of either [[Shirerothian]] mythological figures (usually from [[Cedrism]]) or of some other interest of the Kaiser. For instance, the name of [[Kaiser Yarad I]] means "metal", whereas some others, such as [[Kaiseress Jadie I]] and [[Kaiseress Carol I]], choose not to use a different regnal name.<br />
<br />
It is an important custom that all Kaisers are descended from the first Kaiser, the unifier of Shireroth, [[Raynor I]]. Therefore each Kaiser associates zirself with one of the [[Imperial Bloodline|Imperial Bloodlines]].<br />
<br />
=== Epithets ===<br />
A short-lived tradition started by [[Kaiser Mors IV|Mors IV]] saw Kaisers attaching an additional ''epithet'' to their name after their reign, based on what they believed was the most significant contribution in their reign. The epithets and their significances are as follows:<br />
<br />
; [[Kaiser Mors IV]] "Nerrolar" : "Arbiter" in Benacian language, for his work in keeping the Lorelei Conflict from boiling over.<br />
; [[Kaiser Ari i]] "Kaukainen" : "Distant" in Finnish, for not really doing anything significant and being absent a lot of the time.<br />
; [[Kaiser Alejian I]] "The Guardian" : For guiding the nation through difficult times with the threat of the [[Grand Commonwealth]] and [[SPEAR]].<br />
; [[Kaiser Los III]] "Radarai" : "The Scribe" in Hyperborean, for the creation of [[ShireWiki]].<br />
; [[Kaiser Mahamantot I]] "the Lawbreaker": Known as a lawbreaker for taking the Throne from [[Letifer III]]. Recognised by [[Mors V]] as official Kaiser and thanked for his attempts to revive Shireroth (even if it meant breaking existing laws).<br />
; [[Kaiser Leto III]] "the Bold" : for his doubtful reign.<br />
<br />
A later move saw other Shirerithians give past Kaisers epithets based on any significant events or characteristics of their reign. These are not official. It [http://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=62306#p62306 has been suggested] that Kaisers should formally open the Landsraad, and during that first opening the previous Kaiser should be given an epithet, but this has never happened.<br />
<br />
====Less Recent Kaisers====<br />
<br />
; [[Kaiser Yarad I]] "the Atomist" : Ushering in New Feudalism, this Kaiser reduced the state to its smallest components.<br />
; [[Kaiseress Semisa I]] "the Resurrector" : As well as being named after the Cedrist Goddess of resurrection, her reign saw an explosion in Landsraad activity. Also she wanted to be remembered as such.<br />
; [[Kaiser Letifer II]] "the Indisposed" : For he was.<br />
; [[Kaiser Alejian II]] "the Protector" : Brother-epithet to the previous Alejian, this Kaiser was a preserver rather than a reformer.<br />
; [[Kaiser Meskan II]] "the Soloralist" : This great reforming Kaiser was taken of a strange Eastern-Apollonian religion.<br />
; [[Kaiseress Carol I]] "the Maternal" : For she was mom, and led Shireroth during one of its longest and darkest periods of inactivity.<br />
; [[Kaiser Letifer III]] "the Unprepared" : Named for the inactivity of his later reign.<br />
; [[Kaiser Mahamantot I]] "the Semi-Unofficially Official" : One of the greatest Anti-Kaisers of our history, and the only one included on the [[List of Kaisers]].<br />
<br />
====Recent Kaisers====<br />
<br />
; [[Kaiser Fish XII]] "the Bastionator" : The Kaiser who saw Shireroth move its forums from its own hosting to the [[Bastion Union]] forums.<br />
; [[Kaiseress Rei I]] "the Blue" : Our first Kaiser of Safirian ethnicity.<br />
; [[Kaiser Cedris I]] "the Almost-Ousted" : ... for that he was (almost).<br />
; [[Kaiser Aurangzeb]] "the Remarkably Surprised to Have Survived Long Enough to Abdicate" : The nation was surprised as much as he was.<br />
; [[Kaiser Wythe I]] "the Educator" : He reestablished the University.<br />
; [[Kaiser Yardistanislaus I]] "the Ambassador" : He took an interest in foreign affairs.<br />
; [[Kaiser Ometeotl II]] "the Apathetic" : This Kaiser didn't care much.<br />
; [[Kaiseress Mira Raynora Major]] "the Constitutionalist" : Under the first Mira Raynora Major, the latest Charter was passed, ushering in a new epoch of Shirerithian history.<br />
; [[Kaiseress Mira Raynora Minor]] "The Younger" : She succeeded Mira Raynora Major as Kaiseress.<br />
<br />
====Even More Recent Kaisers====<br />
<br />
; [[Kaiser Aiomide]] "The Historian" : The Kaiser spent much time developing a history of the Keep.<br />
; [[Kaiseress Semisa II]] "The Blue Fool" : A Kaiseress of Safirian origin, widly criticised.<br />
; [[Kaiser Trantor IV]] "The Hated" : Probably the most unpopular Kaiser in recent Shirerithian history.<br />
; [[Kaiser Mo'll I]] "The Old" : The Kaiser was a kind and wise old man who ruled Shireroth from his small cottage in Lunaris.<br />
; [[Kaiser Mors IV]] "The Returned" : After having ruled before, in the 2nd century, Kaiser Mors IV returned from the grave to once again take the Imperial throne.<br />
; [[Kaiser Sehml]] "The one without an epithet because nobody could think of one for him" : The epithet of this Kaiser, liked by many, speaks for itself.<br />
; [[Kaiser Redquill]] "The Meek" : Redquill's reign was one of avoiding conflict, asking opinions, and basically trying to give everyone what they wanted.<br />
; [[Kaiseress Isa IV]] "The Shortlived" : The Kaiseress died several years after ascending from a heart attack.<br />
; [[Kaiser Ayreon III]] "The Mangocounter" : The Kaiser spent much of his reign working on budgets and economic proposals.<br />
; [[Kaiser Verion I]] "The Financier" : Awarded for Verion's perceived contributions to the Shirithian economy, the epithet proved to be ironic when it was discovered that Verion had transfered large sums of money to [[S.W.O.R.D.]] using secret financial constructions.<br />
; [[Kaiser Daniel III]] "The Not Nearly as Controversial as Last Time So Good On Him" : Not much to remember. He was very clean I guess. *cough*<br />
; [[Kaiseress Kizzy]] "The Benevolent" : Always wanted to do the right thing, even if she didn't always succeed.<br />
; [[Kaiser Hjalmar]] "The Steady": For being a steady pair of hands at the helm of the Shirithian ship of state who skillfully navigated it past the many rocks and shoals of (international) politics.<br />
; [[Kaiser Hjalmar Redquill]] "The Balancer" :For successfully maintaining a harmonious equilibrium in the Imperial Republic where countervailing forces might have made a wreck of the efforts of a lesser man.<br />
; [[Kaiser Dominus]] "The Limp-foot" : Didn't do too bad for a man who fell into a bear trap in his youth. Shame about being devoured and subsumed into the corporeal form of an emergent demon.<br />
<br />
==Titles and Style==<br />
Any Kaiser is entitled to the following titles: Kaiser of the Imperial Republic of Shireroth, Thane of the Shirelands, Keeper of the Apollo Legacy, Wielder of the [[The Sword of Vengeance|Sword of Vengeance]], Grand Master of the Orders of the Dragon, Griffin, Phoenix, and Chimera, Sovereign of the Golden Mango Throne.<br />
<br />
In addition to those traditional domestic titles is the Kaiser also entitled to bear the [[Stormark|Storish]] title of [http://vikings.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=1363 Prince of Hvalafell] and the [[Natopia|Natopian]] title of [http://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=198&t=15931 Count of Dracoheim].<br />
<br />
Any holder of the Golden Mango Throne is also entitled to the style of Imperial Niftiness or ''Imperial Magnificence'' for those who find the concept of 'nift' a little too twee.<br />
<br />
== Past Kaisers ==<br />
Many citizens have had the honour of being Kaiser. They are listed below:<br />
<br />
*[[Erik Mortis]]<br />
*[[James Raine]]<br />
*[[Harvey Steffke]]<br />
*[[Aurefiction]]<br />
*[[Gryphon Avocatio]]<br />
*[[Ari Rahikkala]]<br />
*[[Jadie Doran]]<br />
*[[Scott Alexander]]<br />
*[[Gregory Russell]]<br />
*[[Shyriath|Shyriath Bukolos]]<br />
*[[Eoin Dornan]]<br />
*[[Bill Dusch]]<br />
*[[Renee Alyssa]]<br />
*[[Hypatia's Mom]]<br />
*[[Jonas Windsor]]<br />
*[[Hesam Jayatar]]<br />
*[[Ric Lyon]]<br />
*[[Jacobus Loki]]<br />
*[[Corey van der Sluijs]]<br />
*[[Ardashir Khan]]<br />
*[[Malliki Tosha]]<br />
*[[Carl Jackson]]<br />
*[[Rossheim]]<br />
*[[Octavius]]<br />
*[[Jack]]<br />
*[[Benkern]]<br />
*[[Ryker]]<br />
*[[Hallbjörn Haraldsson]]<br />
*[[Edgard]]<br />
<br />
The royal names of the Kaisers, with the dates of their reigns (in [[ASC]]) and the [[Imperial Bloodline|line]] from which they descend, can be found in the [[List of Kaisers]]. The First and Second Eras are fictional history whereas the Third Era and beyond are real.<br />
<br />
==See Also== <br />
*[[The Imperial Charter]], <br />
*[[Landsraad]], <br />
*[[Imperial Bloodline]]s, <br />
*[[DecreeBook]],<br />
*[[List of Kaisers]].<br />
<br />
[[Category: History]] [[Category: Government]]<br />
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<br />
|align=center colspan=2 | <center>'''Rrakanychan Watch'''<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
[[Image:The Watch.png|150px]]</center><br />
|-<br />
|'''Active:'''|| 3623 ASC - ''Present''<br />
|-<br />
|'''Motto:'''||''Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Rrakanychan B'algurd wgah'nagl fhtagn''<br />
|-<br />
|'''In use by:'''|| [[Ministry of Military Affairs]]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Part of:'''||[[Shirerithian Supplies Service]], [[Imperial Forces]]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Allegiance:'''|| [[Shireroth]]<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
----<br />
|-<br />
|'''Type'''||Special Forces<br />
|-<br />
|'''Role:''' || <br />
*Counter-espionage<br> <br />
*Counter-Revolutionary Warfare<br><br />
*Political propaganda<br><br />
*Occult research<br />
*Counter-terrorism<br />
*Reconnaissance<br />
*Exorcism & hostage rescue<br />
|-<br />
|'''Size:''' || 24,841<br />
|-<br />
|'''Nickname:''' || ''None yet''<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
----<br />
|-<br />
|'''Current Commander:'''|| Dux [[wikipedia:Meng Po|Meng Po]]<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
|}<br />
The '''Rrakanychan Watch''' is traditionally garrisoned in the town of Demonsfall in Goldshire, is tasked with the Defence of the Realm from perceived threats eminating from beyond the material universe. This entails the monitoring and containing the forces and avatars of Balgurd as well as less typical anomalous phenomena sometimes encountered in the provincial counties or overseas. It's primary concern is with the prevention of the End-Times, or at the very least the allowance of some prior warning. <br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
Its earliest cadres were recruited from the dissenters and deserters of such luminous entities as the [[Piscatores Alexandrii]] and the [[Assayers]] (both organisations that tended to hold to the view that the obligations of membership only ended with death, and were proactive in upholding that particular detail). Those recruits who survived were at least resourceful when it came to self-preservation. In subsequent years a gentleman's agreement was reached to coordinate the activities of these particular enterprises, permitting secondments and information exchanges, thereby reducing the number of incidental stabbings and smeltings to an acceptable minimum.<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
Not to be confused with the [[Imperial Order of Technomaezji]] whose responsibility is to prevent an apocalypse that is ''anthropogenic'' in origin.<br />
<br />
=Organisation=<br />
*Director (Dux Meng Po)<br />
**Headquarters Command Squadron (120 personnel; 600 points)<br />
**Headquarters Secretariat Squadron (120 personnel; 600 points)<br />
*Intelligence Directorate<br />
**Headquarters Command Squadron (120 personnel; 600 points) <br />
**RrW1 Regiment: Counter-espionage (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points) <br />
**RrW2 Regiment: Reconnaissance (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points) <br />
*Military Directorate<br />
**Headquarters Command Squadron (120 personnel; 600 points)<br />
**RrW3 Regiment: Special operations group (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW4 Regiment: Kinetic intervention (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW5 Regiment: Hostage rescue (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW6 Regiment: Counter-terrorism (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
*Political Directorate<br />
**Headquarters Command Squadron (120 personnel; 600 points)<br />
**RrW7 Regiment: Population conversion & integration (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW8 Regiment: Counter-revolutionary warfare (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points) <br />
**RrW9 Regiment: Political propaganda (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
*Spiritual Directorate<br />
**Headquarters Command Squadron (120 personnel; 600 points)<br />
**RrW10 Regiment: Exorcism (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points) <br />
**RrW11 Regiment: Occult research (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW14 Regiment: Counter-Cedrist occult phenomena (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW15 Regiment: Counter-Treesianoid occult phenomena (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW16 Regiment: Counter-Zurvanite occult phenomena (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW17 Regiment: Counter-Catologian occult phenomena (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW18 Regiment: Counter-Minarborian occult phenomena (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW19 Regiment: Counter-Vanic occult phenomena (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW20 Regiment: Counter-miscellaneous occult phenomena (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
*Scientific Directorate<br />
**Headquarters Command Squadron (120 personnel; 600 points)<br />
**RrW12 Regiment: Quarantine (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW13 Regiment: Applied biological and chemical research (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
<br />
=Activities=<br />
As an organisation, the Rrakanychan Watch has somewhat outgrown its original counter-demonic mandate to become a special forces division in its own right, with some of its operational specialisms overlapping with areas that the military intelligence agency [[S.W.O.R.D.]] considers to be exclusively its own preserve. In spite of those recent outgrowths, the Spiritual Directorate remains the dominant section within the division. <br />
<br />
For an organisation steeped in the mythology of Cedrism, the Rrakanychan Watch is remarkably pragmatic when it comes to dealing with the manifestations of hostile entities derived from alternative belief systems - a philosophy that was best summarised by Dux Meng Po in the remark ''"Just because we don't believe in it, doesn't mean that it won't try to kill us"''.<br />
<br />
Rrakanychan Watch was instrumental in the collection of research materials from Kezan[http://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=874&t=18417(1)] that were subsequently to feature prominently in the deposition, disposal and transmutation of the late [[Kaiser Dominus]] during the [[Oustfest Massacre]] of 1644.<br />
<br />
=History=<br />
The Rrakanychan Watch was first created by order of the [[Ardashir Moqtada al-Osmani|Khan of Vijayanagara]], in 3623 ASC as Section A of MoMA Directorate of Anomalous Phenomena (Formerly Directorate of the Dark Arts). Known as the Rrakanychan Station by some of the more irreverent of its officers, the name stuck and remained associated with it over the years of its existence.<br />
<br />
==The recruitment of Piscatores==<br />
The Piscatores Alexandrii had abandoned their library in Bonedale (formerly [[Brookshire]], now [[Lichbrook]]) after the events that had lead to the rise of the Lichgravine.[http://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=540&t=5964&p=47755&hilit=Piscatores#p47755(1)] As a consequence of the actions of one rogue magus, the dead now roamed the continent of Benacia in such numbers that people came to see the sight of a shambling revenant as being completely unremarkable.<br />
<br />
The Piscatores however remarked and remembered. What began, slowly at first, in 4565 ASC, with the zombots[http://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=540&t=5950(2)] soon proliferated throughout the lands of the machine god. Transhumanism had given way to the postmortal. From the vantage point of their new hiding place, the Piscatores watched as the dominion of the undead grew, first the old ancestral land of Brookshire, then in the forsaken, frankly forgotten realms of Cibolan, and then, latterly, by the doleful caravans of the dead processing westwards, in ever greater numbers to Minarboria, refuge of [[Malarbor|Malarbor's]] own schismatic shrub. For an increasing number of those who had watched these events unfold, it was clear that the time had come to take a stand once more against the coming of the night. For those who held this view, the persuasion had taken hold, ever more firmly, indeed to the point of conviction, that in the rising horde of necrorobotic workers, societally displacing humanity - or ''breathers'' as they were contemptuously known in the lands of the dead, were to be found the [[Guide to Cedrism#Dæmons|Dæmons]] and [[The Descendi|Descendi]], the twisted soulless wretches that would serve in the armies of [[Balgurd]] as the end times approached. For a society dedicated to hunting down and rooting out the Demon Fish of Balgurd it would be a dereliction of duty to ignore such a peril.<br />
<br />
Yet there were those who disagreed, a majority in fact, and those who would not embrace the Liches as fellow sentients, and thus as worthy of protection as any mortal human, were cast out from the Holy Order, with much in the way of mutual recrimination and anathema.<br />
<br />
It was ironic then, that those who were expelled from the Piscatores for seeking to destroy the Liches found their first introduction to the Imperial Government courtesy of a revenant known as [[Laqi Hyrrion]], who served as [[MoMA]] during the reign of [[Kaiser Aiomide]]. But he was only ever an imitation [[Lich]], and, to be fair, blissfully unaware of their intentions. <br />
<br />
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<br />
|align=center colspan=2 | <center>'''Rrakanychan Watch'''<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
[[Image:The Watch.png|150px]]</center><br />
|-<br />
|'''Active:'''|| 3623 ASC - ''Present''<br />
|-<br />
|'''Motto:'''||''Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Rrakanychan B'algurd wgah'nagl fhtagn''<br />
|-<br />
|'''In use by:'''|| [[Ministry of Military Affairs]]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Part of:'''||[[Shirerithian Supplies Service]], [[Imperial Forces]]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Allegiance:'''|| [[Shireroth]]<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
----<br />
|-<br />
|'''Type'''||Special Forces<br />
|-<br />
|'''Role:''' || <br />
*Counter-espionage<br> <br />
*Counter-Revolutionary Warfare<br><br />
*Political propaganda<br><br />
*Occult research<br />
*Counter-terrorism<br />
*Reconnaissance<br />
*Exorcism & hostage rescue<br />
|-<br />
|'''Size:''' || 24,841<br />
|-<br />
|'''Nickname:''' || ''None yet''<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
----<br />
|-<br />
|'''Current Commander:'''|| Dux [[wikipedia:Meng Po|Meng Po]]<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
|}<br />
The '''Rrakanychan Watch''' is traditionally garrisoned in the town of Demonsfall in Goldshire, is tasked with the Defence of the Realm from perceived threats eminating from beyond the material universe. This entails the monitoring and containing the forces and avatars of Balgurd as well as less typical anomalous phenomena sometimes encountered in the provincial counties or overseas. It's primary concern is with the prevention of the End-Times, or at the very least the allowance of some prior warning. <br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
Its earliest cadres were recruited from the dissenters and deserters of such luminous entities as the [[Piscatores Alexandrii]] and the [[Assayers]] (both organisations that tended to hold to the view that the obligations of membership only ended with death, and were proactive in upholding that particular detail). Those recruits who survived were at least resourceful when it came to self-preservation. In subsequent years a gentleman's agreement was reached to coordinate the activities of these particular enterprises, permitting secondments and information exchanges, thereby reducing the number of incidental stabbings and smeltings to an acceptable minimum.<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
Not to be confused with the [[Imperial Order of Technomaezji]] whose responsibility is to prevent an apocalypse that is ''anthropogenic'' in origin.<br />
<br />
=Organisation=<br />
*Director (Dux Meng Po)<br />
**Headquarters Command Squadron (120 personnel; 600 points)<br />
**Headquarters Secretariat Squadron (120 personnel; 600 points)<br />
*Intelligence Directorate<br />
**Headquarters Command Squadron (120 personnel; 600 points) <br />
**RrW1 Regiment: Counter-espionage (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points) <br />
**RrW2 Regiment: Reconnaissance (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points) <br />
*Military Directorate<br />
**Headquarters Command Squadron (120 personnel; 600 points)<br />
**RrW3 Regiment: Special operations group (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW4 Regiment: Kinetic intervention (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW5 Regiment: Hostage rescue (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW6 Regiment: Counter-terrorism (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
*Political Directorate<br />
**Headquarters Command Squadron (120 personnel; 600 points)<br />
**RrW7 Regiment: Population conversion & integration (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW8 Regiment: Counter-revolutionary warfare (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points) <br />
**RrW9 Regiment: Political propaganda (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
*Spiritual Directorate<br />
**Headquarters Command Squadron (120 personnel; 600 points)<br />
**RrW10 Regiment: Exorcism (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points) <br />
**RrW11 Regiment: Occult research (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW14 Regiment: Counter-Cedrist occult phenomena (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW15 Regiment: Counter-Treesianoid occult phenomena (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW16 Regiment: Counter-Zurvanite occult phenomena (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW17 Regiment: Counter-Catologian occult phenomena (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW18 Regiment: Counter-Minarborian occult phenomena (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW19 Regiment: Counter-Vanic occult phenomena (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW20 Regiment: Counter-miscellaneous occult phenomena (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
*Scientific Directorate<br />
**Headquarters Command Squadron (120 personnel; 600 points)<br />
**RrW12 Regiment: Quarantine (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW13 Regiment: Applied biological and chemical research (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
<br />
=Activities=<br />
As an organisation, the Rrakanychan Watch has somewhat outgrown its original counter-demonic mandate to become a special forces division in its own right, with some of its operational specialisms overlapping with areas that the military intelligence agency [[S.W.O.R.D.]] considers to be exclusively its own preserve. In spite of those recent outgrowths, the Spiritual Directorate remains the dominant section within the division. <br />
<br />
For an organisation steeped in the mythology of Cedrism, the Rrakanychan Watch is remarkably pragmatic when it comes to dealing with the manifestations of hostile entities derived from alternative belief systems - a philosophy that was best summarised by Dux Meng Po in the remark ''"Just because we don't believe in it, doesn't mean that it won't try to kill us"''.<br />
<br />
=History=<br />
The Rrakanychan Watch was first created by order of the [[Ardashir Moqtada al-Osmani|Khan of Vijayanagara]], in 3623 ASC as Section A of MoMA Directorate of Anomalous Phenomena (Formerly Directorate of the Dark Arts). Known as the Rrakanychan Station by some of the more irreverent of its officers, the name stuck and remained associated with it over the years of its existence.<br />
<br />
==The recruitment of Piscatores==<br />
The Piscatores Alexandrii had abandoned their library in Bonedale (formerly [[Brookshire]], now [[Lichbrook]]) after the events that had lead to the rise of the Lichgravine.[http://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=540&t=5964&p=47755&hilit=Piscatores#p47755(1)] As a consequence of the actions of one rogue magus, the dead now roamed the continent of Benacia in such numbers that people came to see the sight of a shambling revenant as being completely unremarkable.<br />
<br />
The Piscatores however remarked and remembered. What began, slowly at first, in 4565 ASC, with the zombots[http://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=540&t=5950(2)] soon proliferated throughout the lands of the machine god. Transhumanism had given way to the postmortal. From the vantage point of their new hiding place, the Piscatores watched as the dominion of the undead grew, first the old ancestral land of Brookshire, then in the forsaken, frankly forgotten realms of Cibolan, and then, latterly, by the doleful caravans of the dead processing westwards, in ever greater numbers to Minarboria, refuge of [[Malarbor|Malarbor's]] own schismatic shrub. For an increasing number of those who had watched these events unfold, it was clear that the time had come to take a stand once more against the coming of the night. For those who held this view, the persuasion had taken hold, ever more firmly, indeed to the point of conviction, that in the rising horde of necrorobotic workers, societally displacing humanity - or ''breathers'' as they were contemptuously known in the lands of the dead, were to be found the [[Guide to Cedrism#Dæmons|Dæmons]] and [[The Descendi|Descendi]], the twisted soulless wretches that would serve in the armies of [[Balgurd]] as the end times approached. For a society dedicated to hunting down and rooting out the Demon Fish of Balgurd it would be a dereliction of duty to ignore such a peril.<br />
<br />
Yet there were those who disagreed, a majority in fact, and those who would not embrace the Liches as fellow sentients, and thus as worthy of protection as any mortal human, were cast out from the Holy Order, with much in the way of mutual recrimination and anathema.<br />
<br />
It was ironic then, that those who were expelled from the Piscatores for seeking to destroy the Liches found their first introduction to the Imperial Government courtesy of a revenant known as [[Laqi Hyrrion]], who served as [[MoMA]] during the reign of [[Kaiser Aiomide]]. But he was only ever an imitation [[Lich]], and, to be fair, blissfully unaware of their intentions. <br />
<br />
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<br />
|align=center colspan=2 | <center>'''Rrakanychan Watch'''<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
[[Image:The Watch.png|150px]]</center><br />
|-<br />
|'''Active:'''|| 3623 ASC - ''Present''<br />
|-<br />
|'''Motto:'''||''Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Rrakanychan B'algurd wgah'nagl fhtagn''<br />
|-<br />
|'''In use by:'''|| [[Ministry of Military Affairs]]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Part of:'''||[[Shirerithian Supplies Service]], [[Imperial Forces]]<br />
|-<br />
|'''Allegiance:'''|| [[Shireroth]]<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
----<br />
|-<br />
|'''Type'''||Special Forces<br />
|-<br />
|'''Role:''' || <br />
*Counter-espionage<br> <br />
*Counter-Revolutionary Warfare<br><br />
*Political propaganda<br><br />
*Occult research<br />
*Counter-terrorism<br />
*Reconnaissance<br />
*Exorcism & hostage rescue<br />
|-<br />
|'''Size:''' || 28,201<br />
|-<br />
|'''Nickname:''' || ''None yet''<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
----<br />
|-<br />
|'''Current Commander:'''|| Dux [[wikipedia:Meng Po|Meng Po]]<br />
|-<br />
| align=center colspan=2 |<br />
|}<br />
The '''Rrakanychan Watch''' is traditionally garrisoned in the town of Demonsfall in Goldshire, is tasked with the Defence of the Realm from perceived threats eminating from beyond the material universe. This entails the monitoring and containing the forces and avatars of Balgurd as well as less typical anomalous phenomena sometimes encountered in the provincial counties or overseas. It's primary concern is with the prevention of the End-Times, or at the very least the allowance of some prior warning. <br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
Its earliest cadres were recruited from the dissenters and deserters of such luminous entities as the [[Piscatores Alexandrii]] and the [[Assayers]] (both organisations that tended to hold to the view that the obligations of membership only ended with death, and were proactive in upholding that particular detail). Those recruits who survived were at least resourceful when it came to self-preservation. In subsequent years a gentleman's agreement was reached to coordinate the activities of these particular enterprises, permitting secondments and information exchanges, thereby reducing the number of incidental stabbings and smeltings to an acceptable minimum.<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
Not to be confused with the [[Imperial Order of Technomaezji]] whose responsibility is to prevent an apocalypse that is ''anthropogenic'' in origin.<br />
<br />
=Organisation=<br />
*Director (Dux Meng Po)<br />
**Headquarters Command Squadron (120 personnel; 600 points)<br />
**Headquarters Secretariat Squadron (120 personnel; 600 points)<br />
*Intelligence Directorate<br />
**Headquarters Command Squadron (120 personnel; 600 points) <br />
**RrW1 Regiment: Counter-espionage (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points) <br />
**RrW2 Regiment: Reconnaissance (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points) <br />
*Military Directorate<br />
**Headquarters Command Squadron (120 personnel; 600 points)<br />
**RrW3 Regiment: Special operations group (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW4 Regiment: Kinetic intervention (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW5 Regiment: Hostage rescue (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW6 Regiment: Counter-terrorism (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
*Political Directorate<br />
**Headquarters Command Squadron (120 personnel; 600 points)<br />
**RrW7 Regiment: Population conversion & integration (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW8 Regiment: Counter-revolutionary warfare (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points) <br />
**RrW9 Regiment: Political propaganda (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
*Spiritual Directorate<br />
**Headquarters Command Squadron (120 personnel; 600 points)<br />
**RrW10 Regiment: Exorcism (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points) <br />
**RrW11 Regiment: Occult research (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW14 Regiment: Counter-Cedrist occult phenomena (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW15 Regiment: Counter-Treesianoid occult phenomena (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW16 Regiment: Counter-Zurvanite occult phenomena (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW17 Regiment: Counter-Catologian occult phenomena (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW18 Regiment: Counter-Minarborian occult phenomena (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW19 Regiment: Counter-Vanic occult phenomena (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW20 Regiment: Counter-miscellaneous occult phenomena (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
*Scientific Directorate<br />
**Headquarters Command Squadron (120 personnel; 600 points)<br />
**RrW12 Regiment: Quarantine (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW13 Regiment: Applied biological and chemical research (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
<br />
=Activities=<br />
As an organisation, the Rrakanychan Watch has somewhat outgrown its original counter-demonic mandate to become a special forces division in its own right, with some of its operational specialisms overlapping with areas that the military intelligence agency [[S.W.O.R.D.]] considers to be exclusively its own preserve. In spite of those recent outgrowths, the Spiritual Directorate remains the dominant section within the division. <br />
<br />
For an organisation steeped in the mythology of Cedrism, the Rrakanychan Watch is remarkably pragmatic when it comes to dealing with the manifestations of hostile entities derived from alternative belief systems - a philosophy that was best summarised by Dux Meng Po in the remark ''"Just because we don't believe in it, doesn't mean that it won't try to kill us"''.<br />
<br />
=History=<br />
The Rrakanychan Watch was first created by order of the [[Ardashir Moqtada al-Osmani|Khan of Vijayanagara]], in 3623 ASC as Section A of MoMA Directorate of Anomalous Phenomena (Formerly Directorate of the Dark Arts). Known as the Rrakanychan Station by some of the more irreverent of its officers, the name stuck and remained associated with it over the years of its existence.<br />
<br />
==The recruitment of Piscatores==<br />
The Piscatores Alexandrii had abandoned their library in Bonedale (formerly [[Brookshire]], now [[Lichbrook]]) after the events that had lead to the rise of the Lichgravine.[http://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=540&t=5964&p=47755&hilit=Piscatores#p47755(1)] As a consequence of the actions of one rogue magus, the dead now roamed the continent of Benacia in such numbers that people came to see the sight of a shambling revenant as being completely unremarkable.<br />
<br />
The Piscatores however remarked and remembered. What began, slowly at first, in 4565 ASC, with the zombots[http://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=540&t=5950(2)] soon proliferated throughout the lands of the machine god. Transhumanism had given way to the postmortal. From the vantage point of their new hiding place, the Piscatores watched as the dominion of the undead grew, first the old ancestral land of Brookshire, then in the forsaken, frankly forgotten realms of Cibolan, and then, latterly, by the doleful caravans of the dead processing westwards, in ever greater numbers to Minarboria, refuge of [[Malarbor|Malarbor's]] own schismatic shrub. For an increasing number of those who had watched these events unfold, it was clear that the time had come to take a stand once more against the coming of the night. For those who held this view, the persuasion had taken hold, ever more firmly, indeed to the point of conviction, that in the rising horde of necrorobotic workers, societally displacing humanity - or ''breathers'' as they were contemptuously known in the lands of the dead, were to be found the [[Guide to Cedrism#Dæmons|Dæmons]] and [[The Descendi|Descendi]], the twisted soulless wretches that would serve in the armies of [[Balgurd]] as the end times approached. For a society dedicated to hunting down and rooting out the Demon Fish of Balgurd it would be a dereliction of duty to ignore such a peril.<br />
<br />
Yet there were those who disagreed, a majority in fact, and those who would not embrace the Liches as fellow sentients, and thus as worthy of protection as any mortal human, were cast out from the Holy Order, with much in the way of mutual recrimination and anathema.<br />
<br />
It was ironic then, that those who were expelled from the Piscatores for seeking to destroy the Liches found their first introduction to the Imperial Government courtesy of a revenant known as [[Laqi Hyrrion]], who served as [[MoMA]] during the reign of [[Kaiser Aiomide]]. But he was only ever an imitation [[Lich]], and, to be fair, blissfully unaware of their intentions. <br />
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|align=center colspan=2 | <center>'''Rrakanychan Watch'''<br />
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[[Image:The Watch.png|150px]]</center><br />
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|'''Active:'''|| 3623 ASC - ''Present''<br />
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|'''Motto:'''||''Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Rrakanychan B'algurd wgah'nagl fhtagn''<br />
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|'''In use by:'''|| [[Ministry of Military Affairs]]<br />
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|'''Part of:'''||[[Shirerithian Supplies Service]], [[Imperial Forces]]<br />
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|'''Allegiance:'''|| [[Shireroth]]<br />
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|'''Type'''||Special Forces<br />
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|'''Role:''' || <br />
*Counter-espionage<br> <br />
*Counter-Revolutionary Warfare<br><br />
*Political propaganda<br><br />
*Occult research<br />
*Counter-terrorism<br />
*Reconnaissance<br />
*Exorcism & hostage rescue<br />
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|'''Size:''' || 28,201<br />
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|'''Nickname:''' || ''None yet''<br />
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|'''Current Commander:'''|| Dux [[wikipedia:Meng Po|Meng Po]]<br />
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The '''Rrakanychan Watch''' is traditionally garrisoned in the town of Demonsfall in Goldshire, is tasked with the Defence of the Realm from perceived threats eminating from beyond the material universe. This entails the monitoring and containing the forces and avatars of Balgurd as well as less typical anomalous phenomena sometimes encountered in the provincial counties or overseas. It's primary concern is with the prevention of the End-Times, or at the very least the allowance of some prior warning. <br />
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Its earliest cadres were recruited from the dissenters and deserters of such luminous entities as the [[Piscatores Alexandrii]] and the [[Assayers]] (both organisations that tended to hold to the view that the obligations of membership only ended with death, and were proactive in upholding that particular detail). Those recruits who survived were at least resourceful when it came to self-preservation. In subsequent years a gentleman's agreement was reached to coordinate the activities of these particular enterprises, permitting secondments and information exchanges, thereby reducing the number of incidental stabbings and smeltings to an acceptable minimum.<br />
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Not to be confused with the [[Imperial Order of Technomaezji]] whose responsibility is to prevent an apocalypse that is ''anthropogenic'' in origin.<br />
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=Organisation=<br />
*Director (Dux Meng Po)<br />
**Headquarters Command Squadron (120 personnel; 600 points)<br />
**Headquarters Secretariat Squadron (120 personnel; 600 points)<br />
*Intelligence Directorate<br />
**Headquarters Command Squadron (120 personnel; 600 points) <br />
**RrW1 Regiment: Counter-espionage (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points) <br />
**RrW2 Regiment: Reconnaissance (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points) <br />
*Military Directorate<br />
**Headquarters Command Squadron (120 personnel; 600 points)<br />
**RrW3 Regiment: Special operations group (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW4 Regiment: Kinetic intervention (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW5 Regiment: Hostage rescue (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW6 Regiment: Counter-terrorism (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
*Political Directorate<br />
**Headquarters Command Squadron (120 personnel; 600 points)<br />
**RrW7 Regiment: Population conversion & integration<br />
**RrW8 Regiment: Counter-revolutionary warfare (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points) <br />
**RrW9 Regiment: Political propaganda (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
*Spiritual Directorate<br />
**Headquarters Command Squadron (120 personnel; 600 points)<br />
**RrW10 Regiment: Exorcism (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points) <br />
**RrW11 Regiment: Occult research (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW14 Regiment: Counter-Cedrist occult phenomena (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW15 Regiment: Counter-Treesianoid occult phenomena (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW16 Regiment: Counter-Zurvanite occult phenomena (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW17 Regiment: Counter-Catologian occult phenomena (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW18 Regiment: Counter-Minarborian occult phenomena (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW19 Regiment: Counter-Vanic occult phenomena (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW20 Regiment: Counter-miscellaneous occult phenomena (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
*Scientific Directorate<br />
**Headquarters Command Squadron (120 personnel; 600 points)<br />
**RrW12 Regiment: Quarantine (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
**RrW13 Regiment: Applied biological and chemical research (1,200 personnel; 6,000 points)<br />
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=Activities=<br />
As an organisation, the Rrakanychan Watch has somewhat outgrown its original counter-demonic mandate to become a special forces division in its own right, with some of its operational specialisms overlapping with areas that the military intelligence agency [[S.W.O.R.D.]] considers to be exclusively its own preserve. In spite of those recent outgrowths, the Spiritual Directorate remains the dominant section within the division. <br />
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For an organisation steeped in the mythology of Cedrism, the Rrakanychan Watch is remarkably pragmatic when it comes to dealing with the manifestations of hostile entities derived from alternative belief systems - a philosophy that was best summarised by Dux Meng Po in the remark ''"Just because we don't believe in it, doesn't mean that it won't try to kill us"''.<br />
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=History=<br />
The Rrakanychan Watch was first created by order of the [[Ardashir Moqtada al-Osmani|Khan of Vijayanagara]], in 3623 ASC as Section A of MoMA Directorate of Anomalous Phenomena (Formerly Directorate of the Dark Arts). Known as the Rrakanychan Station by some of the more irreverent of its officers, the name stuck and remained associated with it over the years of its existence.<br />
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==The recruitment of Piscatores==<br />
The Piscatores Alexandrii had abandoned their library in Bonedale (formerly [[Brookshire]], now [[Lichbrook]]) after the events that had lead to the rise of the Lichgravine.[http://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=540&t=5964&p=47755&hilit=Piscatores#p47755(1)] As a consequence of the actions of one rogue magus, the dead now roamed the continent of Benacia in such numbers that people came to see the sight of a shambling revenant as being completely unremarkable.<br />
<br />
The Piscatores however remarked and remembered. What began, slowly at first, in 4565 ASC, with the zombots[http://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=540&t=5950(2)] soon proliferated throughout the lands of the machine god. Transhumanism had given way to the postmortal. From the vantage point of their new hiding place, the Piscatores watched as the dominion of the undead grew, first the old ancestral land of Brookshire, then in the forsaken, frankly forgotten realms of Cibolan, and then, latterly, by the doleful caravans of the dead processing westwards, in ever greater numbers to Minarboria, refuge of [[Malarbor|Malarbor's]] own schismatic shrub. For an increasing number of those who had watched these events unfold, it was clear that the time had come to take a stand once more against the coming of the night. For those who held this view, the persuasion had taken hold, ever more firmly, indeed to the point of conviction, that in the rising horde of necrorobotic workers, societally displacing humanity - or ''breathers'' as they were contemptuously known in the lands of the dead, were to be found the [[Guide to Cedrism#Dæmons|Dæmons]] and [[The Descendi|Descendi]], the twisted soulless wretches that would serve in the armies of [[Balgurd]] as the end times approached. For a society dedicated to hunting down and rooting out the Demon Fish of Balgurd it would be a dereliction of duty to ignore such a peril.<br />
<br />
Yet there were those who disagreed, a majority in fact, and those who would not embrace the Liches as fellow sentients, and thus as worthy of protection as any mortal human, were cast out from the Holy Order, with much in the way of mutual recrimination and anathema.<br />
<br />
It was ironic then, that those who were expelled from the Piscatores for seeking to destroy the Liches found their first introduction to the Imperial Government courtesy of a revenant known as [[Laqi Hyrrion]], who served as [[MoMA]] during the reign of [[Kaiser Aiomide]]. But he was only ever an imitation [[Lich]], and, to be fair, blissfully unaware of their intentions. <br />
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