Duklav's Legion

Duklav's Legion

Type	Private
Industry	Private military, intelligence and security services contractor
Founded	2012
Founder	Colonel Baronness Anastasia Duklav
Headquarters	Military: Talakh Corporate: Lion's Rock
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

Baroness Anastasia Duklav

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, 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 the Arthuristan Strategic Intelligence Bureau 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, Lady 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

Duklav's Legion organisational chart

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

A Legionnaire recon team on patrol

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
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-55_Assault_Rifle	Belfras	Assault rifle	5.56x45	BR-55's of various lengths are in service. Troopers are issued with the long rifle version with 508mm barrel, which are being gradually upgraded with telescoping stocks. Recon units, the Ranger battalion and the Pathfinder Group often carry the BR-55C carbine with 368mm barrel. Support personnel may be found with the BR-55C. 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.
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