Imperial Army

Imperial Army
Active:	6149 ASC - Present
Motto	Ignis et Victoria
In use by:	Imperial Forces
Allegiance:	Shireroth
Type:	Land Forces
Size:	600,000 personnel 2,247 Horjin Armoured Fighting Vehicle 2,687 80mm field gun 5 IMW-3 Snark 1 IMW-1 Walker 354 GV(MBT)-1 Bandersnatch 397 IMW-2 Spidertank 272 GV(SPG)-2 Jabberwocky 12 GV(LU)-3 Boojum 420 GV(CV)-4 Red Queen 184 engineering vehicles 5,700 SUV's 5,500 Medium Trucks 156 landing craft
Nickname:	None yet
Current Commander:	Magister Primum
Conflicts & Deployments	Jaris War Cabbage Crisis Sxiro-Jingdaoese Confrontation Operation Long Haul The River War The Anarchy of Angularis Martial Law in Goldshire Civil War in Goldshire

The Imperial Army is the principal land warfare force of the Imperial Republic of Shireroth. The force is administered by the Ministry of Military Affairs. The professional head of the Imperial Army is the Magister Primum, who is head of the Collegium Magistri Militum or College of the Magisters (i.e. the General Staff).

Formation and Structure

The structure of the Imperial Army is relatively streamlined into legions and corps divided between three armies. A legion of five regiments will have at least two core regiments that pertain to its mission function as well as any additional squadrons or troops required to perform operationally. A legion on operations will typically be reinforced by additional auxiliaries subject to its particular circumstances and objectives, in which case it therefore becomes the beating heart of a battle group, known as a vexillatio. For comparative purposes a Legion is broadly equivalent to a Brigade level formation in the Elwynnese Union Defence Force, although the UDF typically maintains fewer more overpowered fighting formations than the Imperial Army, in line with its doctrine of making short, sharp and decisive interventions. The doctrine of the Imperial Army on the other hand is typically to hold and stabilise territory after enemy formations have been disrupted thoroughly by the strategic forces of the Imperial Republic.

Legions may be transferred into and out of Corps which are broadly territorial in character. The Armies to which these formations are assigned - Field, Frontier and River - define their general mission, offensive and defensive respectively.

The Palatini Corps remains independent of the three armies and is especially concerned with the defence of the Imperial County and Shirekeep, having evolved out of the Kaiser's old bodyguards - the Order of Kampioens and the Apollonian Guard.

Following the Oustfest Massacre administrative divisions were abolished as an unnecessary bridge in the chain of command between the tactical and operational level formations.

Structure of Units

The most typical variety of Imperial Army units are structured as follows:

Type of Unit	Field Army	Corps	Legion	Regiment	Squadron	Troop	Contubernium (Section)	Fire Team/Detail
Contains	3 Corps	8 Legions	5 Regiments	10 Squadrons	5 Troops	3 Sections	2 Fire Teams	4 Individuals
Personnel	144,000	48,000	6,000	1,200	120	24	8	4
Commanded by	Magister Equitum	Magister Militum	Legatus Imperii	Tribunus Laticlavius	Tribunus Angusticlavius (Major) or Primus Ordinus (Senior Centurion)	Centurion (Captain) or Optio (Lieutenant)	Decanus (Corporal)	Chosen Man

Units of the Imperial Army and their subordinate components

Organisation

Order of Battle

• Imperial Army (Exercitus Imperii)
  • Collegium Magistri Militum (General Staff)
  • Palatini Corps
  • Land Command
    • Exercitus Comitatenses (Field Army)
    • Exercitus Limitanei (Frontier Army)
    • Exercitus Ripenses (Riverine Army)

Tables of Equipment

Palatini Corps

Palatini Corps

Commander: Magister Militum Adam Ayreon-Kalirion, Dominus, rector et imperator di Cabbagefall & patronus di familia

Home Base: Shirekeep Garrison

Unit Name	Commandant	Anunia Points	Personnel	AFV/Artillery	Support Vehicles	Aircraft/Rotorcraft
Order of Kampioens	.	.	25,000	100	.	.

By a minor historical quirk, the Kaiser's personal bodyguard, the Kampioen Guards, was for a time placed under the command of the Imperial Navy. After the re-establishment of the Imperial Army, the Kampioen Guards were re-brigaded into the Old Guard as part of the Palatini Corps of the Imperial Army.
The Kampioens were supplanted in their role by the Order of the Sentinels, which reported to the Kaiser directly and sat entirely outside the structure of the Imperial Forces.

Land Command

The Field Army

Example Table of Equipment (TOE) for a Legate's command troop in the Field Army

Example Table of Equipment (TOE) for a Comitatus Squadron in the Field Army

Example Table of Equipment (TOE) for a troop of Anti-Tank Infantry in the Field Army

The comitatenses comprised the field army of the Imperial Republic, capable of dispatch to conduct fully mobile, mechanised and expeditionary warfare, in contrast to the primarily defensive frontier troops.

I Corps

Commander: Magister Equitum Royston Merrick the Younger, Dominus, Vir Egregius, Dux Bellorum & patronus di familia.

Unit Name	Commandant	Anunia Points	Personnel	AFV/Artillery	Support Vehicles
Compagnia Familia del Merrick	Magister Equitum Royston Merrick Jnr.	.	.	.	.
Retinue of the Magister Militum	Magister Militum Joseph Frobisher	.	.	.	.
LIV Legio	Legatus Imperii Alexander Beresford	.	.	.	.
LV Legio	Legatus Imperii Donnchard	.	.	.	.
Legatus Imperii Seaghdha Sarsfield	.	.	.	.
LVII Legio	Legatus Imperii Charles Livingston	.	.	.	.
LVIII Legio	Legatus Imperii Evander Cameron	.	.	.	.
LIX Legio	Legatus Imperii Teófilo O'Higgins	.	.	.	.
LX Legio	Legatus Imperii Manuel Soublette	.	.	.	.
LXI Legio	Legatus Imperill Porfirio Uribe	.	.	.	.

II Corps

Commander: Magister Militum Alfredo Vargas

Unit Name	Commandant	Anunia Points	Personnel	AFV/Artillery	Support Vehicles
Retinue of the Magister Militum	Magister Militum Alfredo Vargas	.	.	.	.
LXII Legio		Legatus Imperii Tadeo Roa	.	.	.
LXIII Legio	Legatus Imperii Ernst Johan Stackelberg	.	.	.	.
LXIV Legio	Legatus Imperii Karl Jacob Stackelberg	.	.	.	.
LXV Legio	Legatus Imperii Klaus Meyer	.	.	.	.
LXVI Legio	Legatus Imperii Adolf Tegethoff	.	.	.	.
LXVII Legio	Legatus Imperii Tobias Bremer	.	.	.	.
LXVIII Legio	Legatus Imperii Peter von Hagenbach	.	.	.	.
LXIX Legio	Legatus Imperii Gregor Colvin	.	.	.	.

IX Corps

Commander: Magister Militum Wilbur Guinness

Unit Name	Commandant	Anunia Points	Personnel	AFV/Artillery	Support Vehicles
Retinue of the Magister Militum	Magister Militum Wilbur Guinness	.	.	.	.
LXX Legio	Legatus Imperii Joachim Ursus	.	.	.	.
LXXI Legio	Legatus Imperii Riccardo Huerlingdorp	.	.	.	.
LXXII Legio	Legatus Imperii Antonio de Nebrija	.	.	.	.
LXXIII Legio	Legatus Imperii Rostam Hafiz	.	.	.	.
LXXIV Legio	Legatus Imperii Piarres Nafarroakoa	.	.	.	.
LXXV Legio	Legatus Imperii Gustavus Peralta	.	.	.	.
LXXVI Legio	Legatus Imperii Constantine Plantagenet	.	.	.	.
LXXVII Legio	Legatus Imperii Heinrich Starkey	.	.	.	.

The Frontier Army

III Corps

Unit Name	Commandant	Anunia Points	Personnel	AFV/Artillery	Support Vehicles
Retinue of the Magister Equitum	.	.	.	.	.
Retinue of the Magister Militum	.	.	.	.	.
XIV Legio	.	33,589	6,000	798	400
XXI Legio	.	33,589	6,000	798	400
XXII Legio	.	33,589	6,000	798	400
XXIII Legio	.	33,589	6,000	798	400
XXIV Legio	.	33,589	6,000	798	400
XXVII Legio	.	33,589	6,000	798	400
XXVIII Legio	.	33,589	6,000	798	400
XXIX Legio	.	33,589	6,000	798	400

IV Corps

Unit Name	Commandant	Anunia Points	Personnel	AFV/Artillery	Support Vehicles
Retinue of the Magister Militum	.	.	.	.	.
I Legio Bersaglieri	.	33,589	6,000	798	400
II Legio Littorio	.	33,589	6,000	798	400
III Legio San Marco	.	33,589	6,000	798	400
IV Legio Monterosa	.	33,589	6,000	798	400
V Legio	.	33,589	6,000	798	400
XII Legio Scholae Evocati	.	33,589	6,000	798	400
XIII Legio	.	33,589	6,000	798	400
XX Legio	.	33,589	6,000	798	400

VI Corps

Unit Name	Commandant	Anunia Points	Personnel	AFV/Artillery	Support Vehicles
Retinue of the Magister Militum	.	.	.	.	.
XXX Legio	.	33,589	6,000	798	400
XXXI Legio	.	33,589	6,000	798	400
XXXII Legio	.	33,589	6,000	798	400
XXXIII Legio	.	33,589	6,000	798	400
XXXIV Legio	.	33,589	6,000	798	400
XXXV Legio	.	33,589	6,000	798	400
XXXVI Legio	.	33,589	6,000	798	400
XXXVII Legio	.	33,589	6,000	798	400

The Riverine Army

Responsible for the defence of the River Elwynn and the approaches to Shirekeep.

V Corps Classis Rubrum

Unit Name	Commandant	Anunia Points	Personnel	AFV/Artillery	Support Vehicles
Retinue of the Magister Equitum	.	.	.	.	.
Retinue of the Praefectus Classis	.	9	9	0	1
VI Legio	.	.	.	.	.
VII Legio	.	.	.	.	.
VIII Legio	.	.	.	.	.
IX Legio	.	.	.	.	.
X Legio	.	.	.	.	.
XI Legio	.	.	.	.	.

VII Corps Classis Albrum

Unit Name	Commandant	Anunia Points	Personnel	AFV/Artillery	Support Vehicles
Retinue of the Praefectus Classis	.	9	9	0	1
XXXVIII Legio	.	.	.	.	.
XXXIX Legio	.	.	.	.	.
XL Legio	.	.	.	.	.
XLI Legio	.	.	.	.	.
XLII Legio	.	.	.	.	.
XLIII Legio	.	.	.	.	.
XLIV Legio	.	.	.	.	.
XLV Legio	.	.	.	.	.

VIII Corps Classis Puteulanum

Unit Name	Commandant	Anunia Points	Personnel	AFV/Artillery	Support Vehicles
Retinue of the Praefectus Classis	.	9	9	0	1
XLVI Legio	.	.	.	.	.
XLVII Legio	.	.	.	.	.
XLVIII Legio	.	.	.	.	.
XLIX Legio	.	.	.	.	.
L Legio	.	.	.	.	.
LI Legio	.	.	.	.	.
LII Legio	.	.	.	.	.
LIII Legio	.	.	.	.	.

Ships:
Trireme - 36 Marines, 4 crew
Quadrireme - 1,500 Marines, 300 crew
Quinqereme - 22 Horjin Armoured Fighting Vehicle, 217 marines, 98 crew

Command Ranks: Non-commissioned and Junior Officer ranks as Imperial Army standard > Trierarchus/Trierarchi (pl.) (Captain: commander of 1 ship) > Nauarchus (Colonel of Ships: commander of 10 ships/a squadron) > Nauarchus Princeps (Brigadier of Ships: commander of two or more squadrons) > Praefectus Classis (Fleet Prefect: commander of a fleet) > Corps command ranks as Imperial Army standard

The Reserve Army

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.

Recruitment and Training

The Imperial Army recruits exclusively from Shirekeep and the Imperial Dominions as well as any territory that they might temporarily occupy, such as Goldshire during the period of martial law.

Recruitment can include the taking in of volunteers, but also frequently relies upon forms of impressment, notably the Press-Gang. This Press-Gang, also known as the Impressment Service operated on a large scale with a force of men in likely river ports and towns in the Imperial County and Mishalan. These men were armed and possessed "warrants" from the MoMA for their operations. Their "catches" were conveyed to Receiving Ships in the midstream of the Blue and White branches of the Elwynn which then, when their cargo holds are full, take their "haul" downriver and out to sea - eventually depositing them on the island of Zy-Rodun for personality adjustment, indoctrination and basic training.

History

The Imperial Army campaigned in the Civil War in Goldshire where its poor performance against an ill-equipped and fractious alliance of rebels prompted a review of its organisation and structure. In 1644 the Kaiser Dominus decreed an increase in the allocation of manpower to the Imperial Army, increasing its size from 275,000 personnel across 347 regiments to 600,000 personnel in 500 regiments. The same decree mandated for the first time the establishment of 100 Imperial Legions, as the brigade strength fighting formations of the Imperial Army.