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Revision as of 00:44, 23 January 2017

Imperial Army
New flag Shireroth.png
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


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.