Volsung Regiment

Volsung Regiment

Type	Private
Industry	Private military, intelligence and security services contractor
Founded	2012
Founder	Colonel Sigurd Olafsson
Headquarters	Rökkurlynd
Services	Private military force
Number of employees	4,000 military, 600 corporate

The Volsung Regiment is a non-government armed force active in much of the world. It is legally a private military company incorporated and based in Rökkurlynd. As of 2024 it has some 4,000 'military employees' on its books, of which roughly 50% consist of defectors from the Elatian military or security services. Prominent competitors of the Regiment include the Duklav's Legion and Awara Clan Incorporated.

Overview

One of the most prolific of Elatia's exports subsequent to the Great Freeze of the late-80's and early-90's was soldiers. A significant portion of these defectors consist of former members of the Blessed Army or the Ecclesia Guard, usually career officers and non-commissioned officers rather than conscripts. These people already possess military training, many being veterans of the civil conflicts against insurgents and rebels of the 1990's, or more recently in the Enyaman Civil War, but lack qualifications needed to thrive in a modern quasi-market economy. Accordingly, many turn to the only skill which they have thoroughly mastered, that being the employment of arms.

Sigurd Olaffson was an Elatian of Rokkuringur ancestry and used it as the basis for the regiment's norse-themed gimmick. He was the first to realise the potential of a fighting regiment with its core based on former Elatians. Formerly a staff officer in the Valgtean Naval Infantry and a veteran of the conflicts of the 1990's, he was forced to flee the country in the wake of Marcus the Purifier's purge of the Elatian security system soon after the latter's ascension as Supreme Prophet in the early 2010's. Whilst Olafsson survived, many of his friends and family were hunted down and executed. Olafsson used his organisational talents to found a military unit which is run as a commercial enterprise, attracting the latent pool of skilled military personnel residing in Rokkyurlynd and forged it into a formidable private military company.

Reputation

The Volsung Regiment has often been compared with another major global PMC, the Duklav's Legion. Compared to the latter, the Volsung Regiment is measurably smaller and less well-resourced. However, compared with the Legion's reputation for clinical professionalism, the Regiment is reknown for its ferocity and ruthlessness. In particular, whilst it will scrupulously adhere to the laws and customs of war when taking prisoners of uniformed personnel from 'regular' armies and other mercenary organisations, it has been known to execute insurgents or even insurgent-backing civilians out of hand, especially where they back an Elatian-supported cause.

Organisation

The Volsung Regiment consists of three motorised infantry battalions, a light tank company and supporting arms. Roughly 50% of its personnel are Elatian defectors. The remainder is comprised of a mix of native Rokkuringur, Enyaman veterans of the recent civil war, and recruits from around the world. For these reasons, Latin is used as the main command language, although Nordic is also widely spoken. The Regiment practices a mixed-gender recruitment policy.

Rifle Battalions

Each Rifle Battalion is primarily mounted on Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicle. It comprises of three rifle companies, a mortar platoon equipped with eight 81mm mortars, a scout-sniper platoon and an armoured car platoon.

Each rifle company in turn can be broken down into a company HQ, three infantry platoons, plus an anti-armour squad armed of twelve men armed with six Vesper missiles or 84mm recoilless rifles.

Each rifle platoon consists of three nine-men squads, a radio operator, a platoon sergeant and a platoon commander. Each squad is divided into a squad leader and two four-men fireteams, with one fireteam having a medium machine gun, the other with an under-barrel grenade launcher.

The armoured car platoon is equipped with six Cougar armoured cars formerly belonging to Gristol-Serkonos.

Light Tank Company

The Light Tank Company is comprised of fourteen Type-126 Light Tanks of surplus Gristol-Serkonos stock. They have been retrofitted with laser rangefinders.

Combat Support Battalion

The Combat Support Battalion of the Regiment comprises of the following elements, which are detached to support the rifle battalions as necessary:

• Heavy mortar company (12x 120mm K6 mortars in three platoons)
• Anti-air Company (24x Stinger launchers in three platoons)
• Scout Company
• Engineer Company
• Drone Company

Logistics Support Battalion

The Logistics Support Battalion is comprised of the following elements:

• Medical Company
• Signal Company
• Logistics Company
• Maintenance Company

Equipment

Description	Origin	Type	Ammunition	Notes
Multicam	Belfras	Camouflage uniform	N/A
Helmet 90	Ghant	Combat helmet
Scalable Plate Carrier	Belfras	Body armour
Small Arms Protective Insert	Belfras	Trauma plate
MOLLE	Belfras
AN/PSQ-20	Belfras

Small arms

Description	Origin	Type	Ammunition	Notes
HG 85	Garima	Fragmentation grenade	N/A
P99	Ghant	Pistol	9x19 parabellum
Model 870	Belfras	Shotgun	12 Gauge
FA-5	Ghant	Assault rifle	5.56x45	Gradually being upgraded to the FA-5C standard
FA-4	Ghant	Battle rifle	7.62x51	In limited use as a marksman rifle
Arctic Warfare Magnum	Arthurista	Sniper rifle	.338 Magnum	Used in small quantities by dedicated sniper teams
AW50	Arthurista	Anti-material rifle	12.7x99mm
MMG613/A4	Gristol-Serkonos	Medium machine gun	7.62x51	The Regiment uses the A4 model which is shortened, lightened, has reduced rate of fire, accessory rails and improved quick-change barrel. Used in both the squad support weapon and sustained fire roles.
M2 HB	Belfras	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
Crossbow	Arthurista	Disposable AT launcher
84mm RCL	Ghant	Recoilless Rifle

Anti-tank guided missiles

Description	Origin	Type	Ammunition	Notes
NLAW	Ghant	Light man-portable ATGM
Vesper missile	Arthurista	Man-portable ATGM

Anti-air systems

Description	Origin	Type	Ammunition	Notes
Stinger	Belfras	MANPADS

Artillery

Description	Origin	Type	Ammunition	Notes
L16 81mm mortar	Arthurista	Infantry mortar	81mm	Battalion-level weapon
K6	Yisrael	Heavy mortar	120mm	Brigade-level weapon

Land vehicles

Description	Origin	Type	Variants	Notes
Apollo Motors Battleaxe	Arthurista	Light general purpose vehicle
HMATV	Arthurista	Light lorry
Bronco All Terrain Tracked Carrier	Lion's Rock	Bandtrack
DAF T-244	Arthurista	General purpose lorry
Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicle	Onekawa-Nukanoa	Infantry mobility vehicle	Equipped with 12.7mm remote weapon system
Cougar	Gristol-Serkonos	Armoured car	Retrofitted with laser rangefinders
Type-126 Light Tank	Gristol-Serkonos	Light tank	The Regiment possesses 14 active and 3 spare vehicles. Refrofitted with laser rangefinders

Aviation

Description	Origin	Type	Variants	Notes
Hermes 450	Yisrael	UAV
RQ-11 Raven	Belfras	Mini-UAV