Duklav's Legion
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| Private | |
| Industry | Private military, intelligence and security services contractor |
| Founded | 2012 |
| Founder | Colonel Baronness Anastasia Duklav |
| Headquarters |
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| Services | Private military force |
Number of employees | 6,000 military, 1,000 corporate |
The Duklav's Legion is a non-government armed force active in much of the world. It is legally a private military company incorporated in Lion's Rock and predominantly active in Belisaria. With some 6,000 'military employees' on its books, it is one of the largest and amongst the best equipped mercenary forces in the world. Its main competitors are the Volsung Regiment and the Awara Clan Incorporated.
History
Duklav's Legion was founded by Baroness Anastasia Duklav, erstwhile Lady of Duklav Castle in Schaumberg and an army officer who served successively in military intelligence and special forces. She was the scion of an ancient, and very well-connected aristocratic family. In the anti-monarchial rebellion of the 2010's, Major Duklav achieved notable success as an operations planner and company commander in the elite Jagdkommando, being decorated for her efforts in combatting terrorism. She became an expert on unconventional and hybrid warfare, especially in the application of social media and information operation in conjunction with traditional, 'kinetic' means of military power. Her espousal of her strong opinions in how best to secure the realm led to clashes with established interests in the military, and made her progressively more unpopular. The baronness was finally suspended on the basis of a drummed-up administrative charge in 2018. Incensed, she promptly resigned her commission and left the country.
Duklav chose to base herself in Lion's Rock, where she was allegedly approached by Leonese intelligence to form and train a mercenary legion. Reaching out to her contacts in the expatriates network, she recruited a large number of former officers and NCOs who had also fallen foul of the new army establishment, thereby forming the nucleus of the new mercenary company.
As of 2024, Baronness Duklav remains the head of the Legion, serving as both its military leader with the rank of colonel, as well as the commercial side as its managing director. Lieutenant colonel Michael Kaminski serves as the Legion's second-in-command and executive officer, as well as the company's COO on the commercial side. Its highest ranking 'civilian' executive is its CFO Andrea Nishimura, formerly the head of Lion's Rock branch of SHBC. The Legion's armed forces are home-based at Talakh, although its corporate headquarters is located in Lion's Rock where it is a public listed company.They have been active throughout throughout the world in military operations of various intensity.
While the founding leadership had been predominantly Schaumbergers, the Legion recruits globally and as of 2024 it mainly uses Latin internally. Recruits do not swear allegiance to any nation state, but to the Legion itself. As its motto states, "Legio Patria Nostra" - the Legion is our Fatherland.
Organisation
Main components
The Duklav's Legion is organised as an air assault regimental combat team of around 5,000 personnel. A highly trained professional unit, the Legion is capable of operating across the full 'spectrum of warfare' in a wide variety of hostile environments, including jungle, mountain and urban operations.
Command and control is exercised by Legion Headquarters, which handles the usual command, communications and administrative functions. The Legion's main manoeuvre elements consists of three battalions. The 1st and 2nd Battalions are line air assault infantry units. The best recruits, or those ordinary Legionaries who show potential, can qualify for the Ranger Battalion. This unit is trained in parachuting, unconventional warfare and special operations, and is often hired separately from the rest of the regiment for missions such as force training and counter-terrorism. The Ranger Battalion also contains the Legion' Pathfinder Company, which marks the landing zone in an airborne or air assault operation, as well as specialising in the reconnaissance and surveillance roles, including long-range penetration.
These manoeuvre battalions are supported by an artillery battalion with three batteries of six L118 light guns and one battery of eight K6 120mm mortars, an air defence battery armed with thirty MS-70 firing posts, an engineer company, a signal company, a medical company, a CRBN defence company, a maintenance company and a logistics company. Like the Legion's combat elements, these components may be hired out separately to clients in need of such specialist assistance.
Operating intimately with these ground elements is the Legion's Aviation Group. It consists of a medium lift squadron with 32 Clios Peregrine medium lift helicopters, a heavy lift squadron with 8 Aigios Heron helicopters, an attack squadron with 6 A129 Mongoose gunships and 6 Super Tucano fixed wing attack aircraft and a small UAV squadron with Phoenix drones.
Small-unit organisation
An infantry battalion consists of a HQ element, three rifle companies, one fast attack company, a mortar battery of eight L16 81mm mortars, a scout/sniper section of six teams and a mini-UAV platoon equipped with AeroVironment RQ-11 Raven.
A battalion is commanded by a Major, assisted by an executive officer with the rank of Staff Captain and a Battalion Sergeant Major with the rank of Warrant Officer.
The fast attack company consists of 18 BMI Jaguar combat cars in four platoons. Each platoon consists of four vehicles, which can be armed with machine guns, automatic grenade launchers or Vesper missiles as the situation dictates. The role of the fast attack company is to serve as the battalion's reconaissance and screening element, as well as a mobile strike force or anti-tank reserve.
A rifle company consists of a command element (including a mortar battery observation party), three rifle platoons of three squads each, plus a heavy weapons platoon. The latter consists of a command team of three and eight two-men weapons teams armed with one Vesper missile launch unit, AT48 Recoilless Rifles or medium machine guns each, as the situation dictates.
A company is commanded by a Captain, assisted by an executive officer with the rank of Lieutenant and a Company Sergeant Major with the rank of Staff Sergeant.
A rifle platoon consists of three squads headed by a command team of three persons - an Ensign, a sergeant and a platoon signaller.
A squad consists of nine men, organised into two fireteams of four, which forms the basis of manoeuvre and close combat. Each fireteam consists of a rifle-armed team leader, a light machine gunner armed with an Ultimax 100, a rifle-armed assistant machine gunner who carries a spare barrel and extra ammunition, and a weapon specialist, who is either armed with a designated marksman rifle or an assault rifle attached with a 40mm underbarrel grenade launcher, usually one of each per squad.
Each squad is issued with at least six disposable Crossbow recoilless AT launchers or, if encounter with hostile heavy armour is likely, MBT LAW. The Legion aims to equip each squad with at least two passive night vision goggles and two thermal sights each, predominantly models sourced from the commercial market.
Equipment
Personal equipment
| Description | Origin | Type | Ammunition | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flecktarn |  Schaumberg |
Camouflage uniform | N/A | |
| Model S | Combat helmet | An unauthorised copy of the Talaharan T101 | ||
| Scalable Plate Carrier |  Belfras |
Body armour | ||
| Small Arms Protective Insert | Belfras |
Trauma plate | ||
| MOLLE | Belfras |
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| AN/PSQ-20 | Belfras |
Small arms
| Description | Origin | Type | Ammunition | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| L109A1 |  Arthurista |
Fragmentation grenade | N/A | |
| P226 |  Garima |
Pistol | 9x19 parabellum | The compact P229 variant is also in use. |
| MP9 | Garima |
Sub-machine gun | 9x19 parabellum, 6.5×25mm CBJ | |
| Model 870 | Belfras |
Shotgun | 12 Gauge | |
| BR-55C | Belfras |
Assault rifle | 5.56x45 | Standard optics are being upgraded from the old C79 optical sight to the new Specter OS 4x fixed magnification scope with an auxiliary red dot mounted over it. Red dots may also be found, mainly in the Ranger Battalion. Service weapons are slowly being upgraded to feature integrated upper receiver rails. |
| BR-55M | Belfras |
Marksman rifle | 5.56x45/7.62x51 | Both 5.56 and 7.62mm variants are in use, the former being more common. Generally equipped with a gripod, 6x scope and backup RDS |
| Arctic Warfare Magnum | Arthurista |
Sniper rifle | .338 Magnum | Used in small quantities by dedicated sniper teams |
| AS50 | Arthurista |
Anti-material rifle | 12.7x99 | |
| Ultimax 100 |  Lion's Rock |
Light machine gun | 5.56x45 | |
| MG 710 |  Latium |
General purpose machine gun | 7.62x51 | |
| CIL50MG | Lion's Rock |
Heavy machine gun | 12.7x99 | |
| M203 grenade launcher | Belfras |
Underbarrel grenade launcher | 40mm grenade | |
| MGL | Belfras |
Multi-launch handheld grenade launcher | 40mm grenade | |
| CIL 40 AGL | Lion's Rock |
Automatic grenade launcher | 40mm grenade | |
| GL09 Advanced Airburst Weapon | Arthurista |
Handheld automatic grenade launcher | 25mm grenade | A consignment was reportedly stolen from an Arthuristan armoury in 2016, before finding its way to the Legion via black market channels. |
| Crossbow | Arthurista |
Disposable AT launcher | ||
| RCL 84 |  Ghant |
Recoilless Rifle | M3 and M4 variants in use |
Anti-tank guided missiles
| Description | Origin | Type | Ammunition | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MBT LAW | Ghant |
Light man-portable ATGM | ||
| Vesper missile | Arthurista |
Man-portable ATGM |
Anti-air systems
| Description | Origin | Type | Ammunition | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MS-70 | Ghant |
SHORADS | Main anti-air weapon | |
| Stinger | Belfras |
MANPADS | Small quantities used by the Ranger Battalion |
Artillery
| Description | Origin | Type | Ammunition | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| L16 81mm mortar | Arthurista |
Infantry mortar | 81mm | |
| K6 |  Yisrael |
Heavy mortar | 120mm | |
| L118 light gun | Arthurista |
Towed gun | 105mm |
Land vehicles
| Description | Origin | Type | Variants | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BMI Jaguar | Belfras |
Light general purpose vehicle | ||
| HMATV | Arthurista |
Light lorry | ||
| Bv 206 | Ghant |
Light bandtrack | ||
| DAF T-244 | Arthurista |
General purpose lorry | ||
| Marauder (vehicle) |  Sydalon |
MRAP |
Aviation
| Description | Origin | Type | Variants | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A129 Mongoose | Latium |
Attack helicopter | 6 in service, 2 spare, | |
| Aigios Heron | Belfras |
Heavy lift helicopter | 8 in service, 3 spare, | |
| Clios Peregrine | Belfras |
Medium lift helicopter | 32 in service, 5 spare | |
| Hermes 450 | Yisrael |
UAV | ||
| Super Tucano |  Sante Reze |
5 in service, 2 spare | ||
| RQ-11 Raven | Belfras |
Mini-UAV | ||
| S-100 | Arthurista |
Mini-UAV | ||
| Black Hornet Nano | Arthurista |
Micro-UAV | ||
| G.222 | Latium |
Transport aircraft | Ex-Latin Air Force, 3 in service |
Radars
| Description | Origin | Type | Variants | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MSTAR | Arthurista |
Battlefield surveillance radar |