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Revision as of 15:06, 22 March 2018
Active: | 1637 AN - Present | ||
Motto | Ignis et Victoria | ||
In use by: | Imperial Forces | ||
Allegiance: | Shireroth | ||
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Type: | Land Forces | ||
Size: | 7,200 sentinels 50,400 palatine guards 535,399 legionaries 200,000 Auxiliaries 173 GAV(U)-4 Jackalope (CV) | ||
Nickname: | None yet | ||
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Current Commander: | Magister Primum | ||
Conflicts & Deployments |
The Imperial Army is the principal land warfare force of the Imperial Republic of Shireroth. The force is administered by the Ministry of Military Affairs. The professional head of the Imperial Army is the Magister Primum, who is head of the Collegium Magistri Militum or College of the Magisters (i.e. the General Staff).
Organisation
The structure of the Imperial Army is relatively streamlined into legions and corps divided between four armies. The Palatini Corps, charged with the defence of the Kaiser, Shirekeep and the Imperial County, remains independent of Land Command, having evolved out of the Kaiser's old bodyguards - the Order of Kampioens and the Apollonian Guard.
Formations and Structure
Units are divided into Spear units (i.e. Infantry), Lance units (i.e. Cavalry, Pioneers, Special Forces, etc), and Ballista units (i.e. Artillery).
Spear units form the organic components of the standard salb (legion), which are organised into constituent cohorts, which themselves are composed of maniples. Lance units are organised into specialist corps comprised of independent vexillations, which are composed of squadrons. Ballista units are also organised into specialist corps consisting of independent divisions, which are composed of batteries.
Vexillations and Divisions may function independently (e.g. special forces, THAAD, etc), or are attached to legions in order to provide combined-armed support. Independently-deployed vexillations and divisions will have other support units attached to it. Vexillations serve as a primary source for fresh commissioned officers and are intentionally officer-heavy as a result.
Legions may be designated as Light or Heavy, depending on the level to which its cohorts are equipped and trained for mechanised and air-mobile armoured combat.
Maniples are named with the number of their cohort followed by "Hastati", "Principes", or "Triarii", thus the third maniple of the 1st Cohort is referred to as "1st Triarii" or 1T.
Combat Groups
Legions are nominally organised into ten cohorts of infantry with other units attached in support. When deployed, the legion is reorganised into ten Combat Groups, built up around each of the legion's cohorts. The combat support units' staffs join the Legionary HQ in order to provide continuing support to Legionary HQ and to their own distributed sub-units.
Combat units may be deployed independently of the remainder of the legion. Under these latter circumstances they are often referred to as streïkruppis.
Structure of Units
The most typical variety of Imperial Army units are structured as follows:
Type of Unit | Hohm (Field Army) | Uihmanz (Corps) | Salb (Legion) / Afzælt (Division) | Gauht (Cohort) / Furgsaddâ (Vexillation) | Opratzt (Maniple) / Haß (Squadron) | Aht (Watch) / Fiþn (Troop) | Tiï (File) / Droþ (Lance) | Fire Team/Detail |
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Contains | 3 Corps | 8 Legions 8 Divisions |
10 Cohorts 3 Vexillations |
3 Maniples 10 Squadrons |
3 Watches | 5 Files | 2 Fire Teams | 4 Individuals |
Personnel | 172,800 | 57,600 | 3,600 Infantry 3,600 Specialists |
360 Infantry 1,200 Specialists |
120 | 40 | 8 | 4 |
Commanded by | Magister Equitum | Magister Militum | Legatus Imperii | Cohort Tribune | Decurion (Specialists) or Ordinate (Infantry) or Tormentary Ordinate (Artillery) |
Tesserarius | Prime | Chosen Man |
Order of Battle
- Imperial Army (Exercitus Imperii)
- Collegium Magistri Militum (General Staff)
- Palatini Corps
- Land Command
- Exercitus Comitatenses (Field Army)
- I Corps
- II Corps
- IX Corps
- Exercitus Limitanei (Frontier Army)
- III Corps
- IV Corps
- VI Corps
- Exercitus Ripenses (Riverine Army)
- V Corps
- VII Corps
- VIII Corps
- Exercitus Arboriae (Army of Arboria)
- X Corps
- XI Corps
- XII Corps
- Exercitus Comitatenses (Field Army)
- Collegium Magistri Militum (General Staff)
Tables of Equipment
Palatini Corps
Unit Name | Commandant | Order of Battle | Establishment | Location | Affiliations / Alliances |
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Scholae Excubitores | Palatine Legate Justin Guadalim |
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7,200 Palatini 230 Horjin CV56 |
Raynor's Keep | Order of the Sentinels |
Scholae Crypteia | Palatine Legate Qadesh Marozzi | . | 7,200 Palatini 230 Horjin CV56 |
Raynor's Keep | Chamber of the Crypteia |
Scholae Palatinae | Palatine Legate Erik Rukovod | . | 7,200 Palatini 230 Horjin CV56 |
Raynor's Keep | . |
Scholae Kampioenae | Palatine Legate Arturo Hildinger | . | 7,200 Palatini 230 Horjin CV56 |
Tempus Keep, Lichkeep | Order of Kampioens |
Scholae Apollonae | Prefect of Shirekeep Imperial Legate Fritigern Henlein |
. | 7,200 Palatini 230 Horjin CV56 |
Prefectica, Shirekeep | . |
Scholae Evocati | Palatine Legate Javel Avon-El | . | 7,200 Palatini 230 Horjin CV56 |
Fort Foley, Imperial County | . |
Scholae Kalirion | Palatine Legate Daniyal ibn Daniyal Simrani-Kalirion | . | 7,200 Palatini 230 Horjin CV56 |
St. Zor Cantonment, Imperial County | . |
Scholae Sathrati | Palatine Legate Rofolo Nur Pinito Kasha | . | 7,200 Palatini 230 Horjin CV56 |
Sakatopolis, Imperial County | . |
Land Command
The Field Army
The comitatenses comprised the field army of the Imperial Republic, capable of dispatch to conduct fully mobile, mechanised and expeditionary warfare, in contrast to the primarily defensive frontier troops.
Unit Name | Commandant | Anunia Points | Personnel | AFV/Artillery | Support Vehicles |
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Compagnia Familia del Merrick | Magister Equitum Royston Merrick the Younger (on secondment to the ESB-Jörmungandr Group). | . | . | . | . |
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 |
Unit Name | Commandant | Anunia Points | Personnel | AFV/Artillery | Support Vehicles |
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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 |
Unit Name | Commandant | Anunia Points | Personnel | AFV/Artillery | Support Vehicles |
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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
Unit Name | Commandant | Anunia Points | Station | Assigned Forces | Assigned Role |
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Retinue of the Magister Equitum | Magister Equitum Hugh O'Neill | . | . | . | . |
Retinue of the Magister Militum | Magister Militum Yasin Bahadur Khoroushi | . | . | . | . |
XIV Legion | Legatus Imperii Sigihard Brune | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XXI Legion | Legatus Imperii Fridwald Fried | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XXII Legion | Legatus Imperii Theodoard Friduman Baumer | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XXIII Legion | Legatus Imperii Bruno Rambert Strohkirch | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XXIV Legion | Legatus Imperii Gebhard Heike Yount | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XXVII Legion | Legatus Imperii Herbert Alle Beckert | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XXVIII Legion | Legatus Imperii Reto Sigiheri Schumacher | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XXIX Legion | Legatus Imperii Ime Leudoberct Aikema | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
Unit Name | Commandant | Anunia Points | Personnel | AFV/Artillery | Support Vehicles |
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Retinue of the Magister Militum | Magister Militum (brevet) Constantine Loup | . | . | . | . |
I Legion | Legate Ermanaric Parsamyan | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
II Legion | Legate Berjouhi Vithimiris | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
III Legion | Legate Vartan Barsamian | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
IV Legion | Legate Boghos Avagyan | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
Legion of Detachments | Legate Alatheus Saphrax | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XIII Legion | Legate Hermann von Salza | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XX Legion | Legate Odoacer Herstal | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
Unit Name | Commandant | Anunia Points | Personnel | AFV/Artillery | Support Vehicles |
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Retinue of the Magister Militum | Magister Militum Akbar Jalal Alinejad | . | . | . | . |
XXX Legio | Brevet Dux 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. Lost its landing craft to the Corps of Auxiliaries in 1647, placing its future in doubt. As of 1651 it exists, on paper, as the garrison of the Imperial Duchy of Brookshire.
Unit Name | Commandant | Anunia Points | Personnel | AFV/Artillery | Support Vehicles |
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Retinue of the Magister Equitum | . | . | . | . | . |
Retinue of the Praefectus Classis | . | 9 | 9 | 0 | 1 |
VI Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
VII Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
VIII Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
IX Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
X Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
XI Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
Unit Name | Commandant | Anunia Points | Personnel | AFV/Artillery | Support Vehicles |
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Retinue of the Praefectus Classis | . | 9 | 9 | 0 | 1 |
XXXVIII Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
XXXIX Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
XL Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
XLI Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
XLII Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
XLIII Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
XLIV Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
XLV Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
Unit Name | Commandant | Anunia Points | Personnel | AFV/Artillery | Support Vehicles |
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Retinue of the Praefectus Classis | . | 9 | 9 | 0 | 1 |
XLVI Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
XLVII Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
XLVIII Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
XLIX Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
L Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
LI Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
LII Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
LIII Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
The Army of Arboria
Established as the Reserve Army 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. Deployed to Natopian Arboria in 1647/1648 in the aftermath of the War of Jingdaoese Immolation and renamed as the Army of Arboria in mid 1648.
Recruitment, training and advancement
Following the defeat of Monarchist Forces during the opening phase of the Benacian Reconquest, the Imperial Army can recruit from throughout the length and breadth of the Imperial Republic without any longer having to cringe to the separatist and particularist vanities of the rulers of the Imperial States.
Recruits to the infantry arm learn their trade through basic training after being enrolled into the Hastii maniple of their designated Cohort. (Condensed blurb of legionary training goes here). Trainee Specialists are generally chosen from the ranks of the newly inducted munifex, based on certain aptitude tests, and will be transferred across to the Lance or Ballista Corps, if they are not chosen for development within the Spear career path. This leads to some resentment that the infantry seeks to retain the most promising specialists for maturation into its own future principals and ordinates. Specialist basic training will typically take place at the closest MoMA Garrison or Station to the transferring legion before assignment to unit. Basic training will normally, not counting transfers and remedial courses, take twenty-four weeks to complete.
The entry route for officers into the Imperial Army is through the specialist Vexillations of the Lance and Ballista Corps. Beginning their careers at the Draconary or Cornet rank, trainee officers will complete their initial officer training in one of the MoMA Garrisons before being assigned to a Vexillation or Division of one of the four armies to learn their specialism. Specialist Officers, upon reaching the rank of Decurion, will frequently undertake tours of duty outside of their parent unit and indeed specialism in order to broaden the depth of their experience and to prevent their thinking from becoming hidebound and narrowly focused. Upon reaching the rank of cohort tribune, officers can expect to spend at least one tour of duty in charge of an infantry cohort. Those who excel in combined arms operations can eventually expect to find themselves regularly posted into the staff of a legion or battle group with the aspiration, one day, of attaining the exalted rank of legate and to receive the Lion Staff, a baton of rank blessed by the Kaiser himself.
A key route to advancement through the Imperial Army is through gaining the favour and patronage of more senior officers. The rotation through various postings, known as the cursus honorum militae, is the principle means by which junior officers build the necessary network of contacts and reservoir of favours rendered and owed to assure advancement at the yearly Corps and Army assessment boards. There have been noted instances of senior officers abusing the patronage system prevalent in the Imperial Forces to solicit sexual favours and bribes. The Chamber of the Crypteia will usually clear up the most flagrant instances of corruption in public office, although other creative punishments have been utilised. In spite of this it is not technically illegal to purchase promotion, providing one is of sufficient nobility and the wealth has been inherited by virtue of birth and breeding rather than acquired through anything so demeaning as a trade. In spite of the officer corps being heavily skewed towards the grades of the nobility, there remains a need to ensure that some officers hold knowledge specific to their specialism-in-arms. Accordingly promotions from the ranks of the ordinate are not unknown, however these officers are not well regarded, particularly if they cannot afford the mess bills from their regular wages, and tend to remain condemned to the junior ranks for the majority of their subsequent careers. Many will, in the fullness of time, find their way into the Corps of Auxiliaries or the other branches of the Shirerithian Supplies Service where prejudices against the Immeritus are considerably less prevalent.
Once recruits have been returned to their units their ongoing training then becomes a part of the normal manipular and cohors unit training cycle. Training for operations will normally take the form of waging war against local dissidents, separatists and communities that have neglected to pay their taxes or make a timely submission to the Golden Mango Throne. For those legions garrisoned in the territories of the Imperial States, where attacking the local population is not an option, short term deployments to Batavia, Voltrue and the former Empire of Minarboria will provide the opportunity for combined-arms practice against recalcitrant minority groups.
Equipment
Uniforms
Issued to each serving member of the Imperial Army, adjusted according to rank:
4 x M1644 IA Field Uniform Tunics (Green)
2 x M1644 IA Field Uniform Trousers (Grey)
1 x Belt, brown leather
1 x M1644 IA Jackboots (Blacked Leather)
2 x T-shirt, olive drab
1 x M1639 Stahlhelm
1 x M1644 forage cap
1 x M1645 grey gas mask with filter & hose
1 x Hood, grid fleece
1 x Protective goggles, with dark lenses and cotton band
1 x Wool scarf, olive drab
2 x General purpose gloves with leather palm
4 x Woolen socks (Grey)
4 x Sports boxers (Black)
Kit
Issued to each serving member of the the Imperial Army:
1 x Rifle rucksack, olive drab
1 x Rucksack, large
1 x Bread bag
1 x Laundry bag
1 x Waterproof lining bag
1 x M1645 gas mask carry case
1 x Soup tin, aluminum, 2.5 litres.
1 x Mess tin, 460 grams.
1 x Enameled steelware coffee pot, 2 litres.
1 x Enameled steelware mug, 500 ml.
1 x Field cutlery set.
1 x First aid kit
1 x Shoe care set
1 x Sewing kit
1 x Tent accessory set
1 x Wool blanket
1 x Poncho
1 x Shelter half
Weaponry
Issued to Milites assigned to an Infantry Section or contubernium:
1 x M1610 Rifle (Semi-Automatic)
1 x M1645 combat knife
1 x Survival machete
1 x Hatchet
1 x Claw hammer
5 x M14 Fragmentation Hand Grenade
5 x M15 White Phosphorus Anti-Lich Grenade
5 x M16 Mustard Gas Anti-Singer Grenade
5 x M18 Red Smoke Hand Grenade
5 x 100 Rounds, 7.9x55mm Gotz
History
Following the re-establishment of the Imperial Army in the wake of the Tarjeisson Reforms of the Martial Code, a legion of five regiments would have at least two core regiments that pertained to its mission function as well as any additional squadrons or troops required to perform operationally. A legion on operations was expected to be reinforced by additional auxiliaries subject to its particular circumstances and objectives, in which case it form the core of a battle group, known as a vexillatio. An Imperial Legion of the 1630s and 1640s was therefore broadly equivalent to a Brigade level formation in the Elwynnese Union Defence Force, although the UDF typically maintained 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 was typically to hold and stabilise territory after enemy formations have been disrupted by the strategic forces of the Imperial Republic.
Legions could be transferred into and out of Corps which were broadly territorial in character. The Armies to which these formations are assigned - Field, Frontier, River and later Arborial - defined their general mission, whether primarily offensive and defensive according to their designation. According to Imperial Doctrine, only the Field Army was expected to undertake offensive actions at the operational and strategic levels.
Following the Oustfest Massacre administrative divisions were abolished as an unnecessary bridge in the chain of command between the tactical and operational level formations.
Operating initially under the constraints of the Martial Code, the Imperial Army recruited 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 included the taking in of volunteers, but also frequently relied upon forms of impressment, notably the Impressment Service. This service, known colloquially as the Press-Gang, 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" being then conveyed to Receiving Ships in the midstream of the Blue and White branches of the Elwynn which then, when their cargo holds are full, would take their "haul" downriver and out to sea - eventually depositing them on the island of Zy-Rodun for personality adjustment, indoctrination and basic training. The main defect of this training method was that it tended to encourage ruthlessness, brutality and subservience at the cost of flexibility, flair, imagination and individual initiative. Imperial legions trained in this fashion tended to follow set procedures and schedules with scant regard to their relevance to prevailing local conditions, one consequence of which was that operations would frequently miscarry once timetables - inevitably - went awry.
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.
The highly variable performance of the Imperial Army (woeful in the Civil War in Goldshire, superb during the Auspicious Occasion, merely adequate throughout the Sxiro-Jingdaoese Confrontation) had increased the impetus for a more thorough reorganisation of the Imperial Army so as to impart greater tactical flexibility. The result of which was the Octavian Reforms of 1652 AN which rebuilt the legions around drastically scaled down and simplified Infantry regiments, know known as cohorts, supported by independent vexillations or unit detachments of specialists integrated at the Corps level and assigned to legions according to operational necessity. The reforms were first trialled in the Frontier Army as it deployed to stabilise the west following the Auspicious Occasion.
As part of the Octavian Reforms, and in view of their performance in the marginally successful border war which had resulted in the establishment of the Lywall Protectorate, the inventory of 2,400 80mm Field Guns and 12,000 Kern Industries Battlewagons were withdrawn from frontline service and donated to the Goldshire Regulars in order to augment that force's firepower and self-defence capability.
At some point around late 1653 a mood of existential despair began to grip the officer corps. It was as though, as one remarked:
Whenever we tried to pick up one thread of detail from either the Tarjeisson or the Octavian system and tried to incorporate them into our TO&E (Table of Organisation and Equipment) we would lose that same thread almost immediately, as though the universe were somehow conspiring against us, and the overall picture would fray and warp to the point where any semblance of coherence and order in our unit formation was rapidly lost.
— Legate Porfirio Uribe, LXI Legion, Memoirs (Suppressed by order of the Chamber of the Crypteia)
Another anonymous official remarked:
A large part of the struggle was getting back to first principles. In theory the Octavian cohorts worked well for the legions, but in practice moving from regiments of ten squadrons to cohorts of three maniples, with armoured, artillery and engineering vexillations bolted on at the legion and corps level rather than being formally integrated into the legion as of old was a shock to the system. Moreover, none of us were at all sure what we were meant to do with the auxiliaries who seemed to drift between corps and garrison and commands in a cheerful obliviousness and with no clear sense of what their parent formation and function actually was. It was always a pain trying to incorporate auxiliaries, who were meant to provide combat support services to our mobile formations into the order of battle as they always seemed more intent upon doing their own thing. Half the time you had to watch the auxiliaries assigned to your command to make sure that they didn't try to drift off and loot the nearest village. They were a great trial.
The Corps of Auxiliaries was a formation of the Shirerithian Supplies Service, intended to provide combat logistical support services to the three arms of the Imperial Forces, they formed the bedrock of the garrisons (the regional military districts into which the continental commands such as Benacia Command were divided) to which Imperial Army corps and legions were assigned. In spite of the brief of the auxiliaries being to support the combat arms, the magisters, as well as the admirals and air marshals for that matter, found the pretensions of garrison and station commanders to be a continual source of irritation.
War of Lost Brothers
Unit type | Apollonia | Benacia | Total |
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Legionaries | 126,425 | 29,376 | 155,801 |
GV(MBT)-1 Bandersnatch | 2,043 | 111 | 2,154 |
GV(SPG)-2 Jabberwocky | 608 | 40 | 648 |
GV(LU)-3 Boojum | 104 | 84 | 188 |
GV(CV)-4 Red Queen | 608 | 183 | 791 |
GV(CT)-6 Walrus | 156 | 192 | 348 |
Horjin AFV | 1,612 | 46 | 1,658 |
Horjin APC | 3,265 | 526 | 3,791 |
Horjin EWV | 4 | 0 | 4 |
IMW-2 Spidertank | 1,175 | 0 | 1,175 |
IMW-3 Snark | 22 | 2 | 24 |
GAV(U)-4 Jackalope (CV) | 19 | 0 | 19 |
GAV(U)-4 Jackalope (UT) | 373 | 0 | 373 |