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 12,000 Battle Wagon 3,072 GV(MBT)-1 Bandersnatch 2,400 GV(SPG)-2 Jabberwocky 4,176 GV(LU)-3 Boojum 2,400 GV(CV)-4 Red Queen 4,704 Horjin AFV 5,544 Horjin APC 432 Horjin EWV 1,056 IMW-2 Spidertank 288 IMW-3 Snark 4,176 Trump Radar Tracking Autocannon 2,400 80mm Field Gun 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 Fereydoun Payam Attar	.	.	.	.
LIV Legio	Legatus Imperii Alexander Beresford	57,121	6,000	979	414
LV Legio	Legatus Imperii Donnchard	57,121	6,000	979	414
LVI Legio	Legatus Imperii Seaghdha Sarsfield	57,121	6,000	979	414
LVII Legio	Legatus Imperii Charles Livingston	57,121	6,000	979	414
LVIII Legio	Legatus Imperii Evander Cameron	57,121	6,000	979	414
LIX Legio	Legatus Imperii Teófilo O'Higgins	57,121	6,000	979	414
LX Legio	Legatus Imperii Manuel Soublette	57,121	6,000	979	414
LXI Legio	Legatus Imperill Porfirio Uribe	57,121	6,000	979	414

II Corps

Commander: Magister Militum Abolfazl Shahzad Khoroushi

Unit Name	Commandant	Anunia Points	Personnel	AFV/Artillery	Support Vehicles
Retinue of the Magister Militum	Magister Militum Abolfazl Shahzad Khoroushi	.	.	.	.
LXII Legio	Legatus Imperii Tadeo Roa	57,121	6,000	979	414
LXIII Legio	Legatus Imperii Ernst Johan Stackelberg	57,121	6,000	979	414
LXIV Legio	Legatus Imperii Karl Jacob Stackelberg	57,121	6,000	979	414
LXV Legio	Legatus Imperii Klaus Meyer	57,121	6,000	979	414
LXVI Legio	Legatus Imperii Adolf Tegethoff	57,121	6,000	979	414
LXVII Legio	Legatus Imperii Tobias Bremer	57,121	6,000	979	414
LXVIII Legio	Legatus Imperii Peter von Hagenbach	57,121	6,000	979	414
LXIX Legio	Legatus Imperii Gregor Colvin	57,121	6,000	979	414

IX Corps

Commander: Magister Militum Behnam Kambiz Rostami

Unit Name	Commandant	Anunia Points	Personnel	AFV/Artillery	Support Vehicles
Retinue of the Magister Militum	Magister Militum Behnam Kambiz Rostami	.	.	.	.
LXX Legio	Legatus Imperii Joachim Ursus	57,121	6,000	979	414
LXXI Legio	Legatus Imperii Riccardo Huerlingdorp	57,121	6,000	979	414
LXXII Legio	Legatus Imperii Antonio de Nebrija	57,121	6,000	979	414
LXXIII Legio	Legatus Imperii Rostam Hafiz	57,121	6,000	979	414
LXXIV Legio	Legatus Imperii Piarres Nafarroakoa	57,121	6,000	979	414
LXXV Legio	Legatus Imperii Gustavus Peralta	57,121	6,000	979	414
LXXVI Legio	Legatus Imperii Constantine Plantagenet	57,121	6,000	979	414
LXXVII Legio	Legatus Imperii Heinrich Starkey	57,121	6,000	979	414

The Frontier Army

III Corps

Magister Equitum Hugh O'Neill, Dominus, Vir Egregius, Dux Bellorum & patronus di familia.

Unit Name	Commandant	Anunia Points	Personnel	AFV/Artillery	Support Vehicles
Retinue of the Magister Equitum	Magister Equitum Hugh On'Neill	.	.	.	.
Retinue of the Magister Militum	Magister Militum Yasin Bahadur Khoroushi	.	.	.	.
XIV Legio	Legatus Imperii Sigihard Brune	33,589	6,000	798	400
XXI Legio	Legatus Imperii Fridwald Fried	33,589	6,000	798	400
XXII Legio	Legatus Imperii Theodoard Friduman Baumer	33,589	6,000	798	400
XXIII Legio	Legatus Imperii Bruno Rambert Strohkirch	33,589	6,000	798	400
XXIV Legio	Legatus Imperii Gebhard Heike Yount	33,589	6,000	798	400
XXVII Legio	Legatus Imperii Herbert Alle Beckert	33,589	6,000	798	400
XXVIII Legio	Legatus Imperii Reto Sigiheri Schumacher	33,589	6,000	798	400
XXIX Legio	Legatus Imperii Ime Leudoberct Aikema	33,589	6,000	798	400

IV Corps

Unit Name	Commandant	Anunia Points	Personnel	AFV/Artillery	Support Vehicles
Retinue of the Magister Militum	Magister Militum Hassan Soroush Khoroushi	.	.	.	.
I Legio Bersaglieri	Legatus Imperii Ewald Ermenrich Ionesco	33,589	6,000	798	400
II Legio Littorio	Legatus Imperii Waldomar Hermanus Dumitru	33,589	6,000	798	400
III Legio San Marco	Legatus Imperii Meino Ionuț Vasile	33,589	6,000	798	400
IV Legio Monterosa	Legatus Imperii Baugulf Seneca Șerban	33,589	6,000	798	400
V Legio	Legatus Imperii Teodor Doru Vasile	33,589	6,000	798	400
XII Legio Scholae Evocati	Legatus Imperii Quintus Tacitus Cojocaru	33,589	6,000	798	400
XIII Legio	Legatus Imperii Iancu Hortensius	33,589	6,000	798	400
XX Legio	Legatus Imperii Iancu Hortensius	33,589	6,000	798	400

VI Corps

Unit Name	Commandant	Anunia Points	Personnel	AFV/Artillery	Support Vehicles
Retinue of the Magister Militum	Magister Militum Akbar Jalal Alinejad	.	.	.	.
XXX Legio	Legatus Imperii Godascalc Berahthram Vasilescu	33,589	6,000	798	400
XXXI Legio	Legatus Imperii Ștefan Tudor Adam	33,589	6,000	798	400
XXXII Legio	Legatus Imperii Ansovald Aldebrand Popescu	33,589	6,000	798	400
XXXIII Legio	Legatus Imperii Vespasianus Pompeius	33,589	6,000	798	400
XXXIV Legio	Legatus Imperii Darius Hludowig Șerban	33,589	6,000	798	400
XXXV Legio	Legatus Imperii Bahman Eskandar Alinejad	33,589	6,000	798	400
XXXVI Legio	Legatus Imperii Ahmad Jahangir Alinejad	33,589	6,000	798	400
XXXVII Legio	Legatus Imperii Jalal Masood Alinejad	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.