Royal Army (Great Nortend)

Royal Army
Active	1455 — present
Country	Great Nortend
Allegiance	Alexander II
Branch	Army
Size	80,388 (regular men) 10,482 (regular officers) 120,140 (yeomen, volunteers and militiamen) 2,760 (half-pay officers)
Engagements	Battle of Travlesea Battle of Borlockton
Commanders
Commander in Chief	Alexander II
The King's Marischal	The Most Honourable Margrave of Lasmere
Captain of the Forces	Captain-General Sir John Haughton KSA KCMM
Insignia
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The Royal Army of Great Nortend is the major land and terrestrial warfare and defence fore for Great Nortend. It is known fully as His Majesty's Officers and Men at Arms, and consists of a number of separate semi-independent corps, compagnies, troops, and regiments.

History

The present Royal Army was first established in 1455 with the raising of the Duke of Aldesey's Regiment, which is now known as the 1st Regiment of Foot, the Royal Narland Regiment, by the then Duke of Aldesey in the Succession Wars after the death of Charles II in a hunting accident in January of 1455.

Structure

H.M. War Office is the central administration body for both the Royal Army and the Navy Royal, but does not itself command troops. Rather, the King's Marischal, a hereditary position held by the Margrave of Lasmere, has full theoretical command of the troops, subject to the King. In practice, the Captain of the Forces assumes direct command of the Army, based in Army House, in Lendert-with-Cadell, similar to how the Lord High Admiral has direct command of the Navy.

To the Captain of the Forces report five officers, being the general command officers in charge of the four regional commands and the Adjutant-General, the senior-most staff officer in charge of the administration of the Army. These five officers hold the rank of captain-general or lieutenant-general. Subordinate to these are divisions, commanded by major-generals, and brigades, commanded by brigadier-generals.

The five major divisions of the forces are the infantry, the cavalry, the artillery, the engineers, and the services. Each has its own formation structure and to an extent, rank structure. Infantry, artillery and cavalry regiments and engineering battallions are all separate legal entities, as are each of the service corps, albeit established in accordance with the chain of command.

Most regiments (and battalions for engineers) are established on a regional basis, drawing in men and officers from amongst the subjects of a particular region. They are commanded by a colonel. There are presently 54 infantry regiments, 23 cavalry regiments, 15 artillery regiments and 14 engineer battalions. Most infantry and cavalry regiments have one regular army battalion, one national service battalion, and one militia (foot infantry), volunteer (rifles, artillery and engineers) or yeomanry (cavalry) battalion. There are talks to reduce the number of infantry regiments by around half, to 26, by amalgamating regiments; however, this has attracted criticism from both within and without the Army.

Feudal barons

Of the 234 barons who are obliged to render military service owing to their holding tenure per baroniam, a species of tenure per servitium militare, most render their obligations by raising militia or yeomanry battalions. Though the actual servitium debitum became obsolete in practice, it was revived by George I in the 16th century in altered form, better suited to the contemporaneous nature of warfare.

Units

Cavalry

• 1st Cuirassiers: The King's Own Horse Guards
• 2nd Cuirassiers: The Royal Life Horse Guards
• 3rd Cuirassiers: The Queen's Official Mounted Guards

• The King's Mounted Yeoman Guard
• Her Majesty the Queen's Official Mounted Guard

• 1st Dragoons: The Royal Dragoons
• 2nd and 3rd Dragoons: The King's All Hambrian Dragoons
• 4th Dragoons: The Earl of Scode's Regiment
• 5th Dragoons: The Royal Cardoby Regiment of Dragoons
• 6th and 7th Dragoons: The Royal Dun Dragoons
• 8th Dragoons: Prince Richard's Dragoons

• 1st Light Dragoons: Queen Catherine's Own Light Dragoons
• 2nd Light Dragoons: The Duke of Sulhampton's Own Regiment of Horse
• 3rd Light Dragoons: The Royal Light Dragoons

• The King's Own Regiment of Horse (Carabiniers)
• The King's Marischal's Own Regiment of Horse
• The Duke of Mast's Own Regiment of Horse

• 1st Lancers: The Prince of Rhise's Own Lancers
• 2nd Lancers: The Royal Hambrian Lancers

• 1st Hussars: The King's Own Hussars
• 2nd Hussars: The King's Second Hussars
• 3rd Hussars: The Princess Royal's Own Hussars
• 4th Hussars: The Lord Master of the Horse's Own Hussars
• 5th Hussars

Infantry

• 1st Foot Guards: The King's Own Life Guards
• 2nd Foot Guards: The Hambrian Guards
• 3rd Foot Guards: The Queen's Own Life Guards
• 4th Foot Guards: The City Guard

• 1st Regiment of Foot: Royal Narland Regiment
• 2nd Regiment of Foot: Royal Enley Regiment
• 3rd Regiment of Foot: The King's Royal Teyshire Regiment
• 4th Regiment of Foot: Prince Andrew's Own South Aceshire Regiment
• 5th Regiment of Foot: Royal Cranshire Regiment
• 6th Regiment of Foot: The Queen's Bentshire Regiment
• 7th Regiment of Foot: The Faunslaughter Regiment
• 8th Regiment of Foot: The Royal Barard Regiment
• 9th Regiment of Foot: The Norsax Regiment of Fusiliers
• 10th Regiment of Foot: Great Walecester Regiment
• 11th Regiment of Foot: Duke of Towshire's Regiment
• 12th Regiment of Foot: North Larkshire (Anerburn Foresters) Regiment
• 13th Regiment of Foot: Queen Catherine's Loyal Swent Regiment
• 14th Regiment of Foot: The Gardolian Regiment
• 15th Regiment of Foot: The Prince of Rhise's Own Regiment
• 16th Regiment of Foot: The Monmorian Regiment
• 17th Regiment of Foot: The Lasmere Marchers
• 18th Regiment of Foot: South Larkshire (Plumwelders) Regiment
• 19th Regiment of Foot: The Harvickshire Regiment
• 20th Regiment of Foot: The King's Own and Old Foresters' Regiment
• 21st Regiment of Foot: The Margrave of Bine's Borderers
• 22nd Regiment of Foot: The Corrishire Regiment (Prince of Leaton's Own)
• 23rd Regiment of Foot: The Earl of Roseham's Regiment
• 24th Regiment of Foot: The Duke of Fivewell's Regiment
• 25th Regiment of Foot: The Northannering Regiment (Bees)
• 26th Regiment of Foot: The Royal Murish Fusiliers
• 27th Regiment of Foot: The Eamshire Regiment
• 28th Regiment of Foot: The East Aceshire Regiment
• 29th Regiment of Foot: The Red of Gortland Regiment
• 30th Regiment of Foot: The Oxleyshire Regiment
• 31st Regiment of Foot: The South Heymeadshire Regiment (Chessboards)
• 32nd Regiment of Foot: The Duke of Morney's Regiment
• 33rd Regiment of Foot: Duke of Barminster's Regiment
• 34th Regiment of Foot: The Royal East Gortland Regiment
• 35th Regiment of Foot: The Duke of Limmes's Regiment
• 36th Regiment of Foot: The King's Rhighton Regiment
• 37th Regiment of Foot: The Royal Poltland Regiment
• 38th Regiment of Foot: The Prince of Gervis's Wert Valley Regiment
• 39th Regiment of Foot: The High Alpiners
• 40th Regiment of Foot: The Seffet Regiment
• 41st Regiment of Foot: The Queen's Own Regiment (Suthrepourdeland)
• 42nd Regiment of Foot: The Igoddal Regiment
• 43rd Regiment of Foot: The Duke of Alvington's Own Regiment
• 44th Regiment of Foot: The Herstlow Regiment
• 45th Regiment of Foot: The Prince of Dunricia's Regiment
• 46th Regiment of Foot: The New North Barminstershire Regiment
• 47th Regiment of Foot: The Duke of Essingford's Regiment
• 48th Regiment of Foot: The Royal Duke of Harringow's Regiment
• 49th Regiment of Foot: The Northern Light Infantry Regiment
• 50th Regiment of Foot: The North Essingford and Plumey Regiment

Artillery

• 1st Horse Artillery Regiment: The King's Own Horse Artillery
• 2nd Horse Artillery Regiment: The Royal King's Rhighton Artillery
• 3rd Horse Artillery Regiment: The Royal Castle Artillery

• 2nd Artillery Regiment
• 3rd Artillery Regiment
• 4th Artillery Regiment
• 5th Artillery Regiment
• 6th Artillery Regiment
• 7th Artillery Regiment
• 8th Artillery Regiment
• 9th Artillery Regiment
• 10th Artillery Regiment
• 11th Artillery Regiment
• 12th Artillery Regiment

Engineers

• 1st Engineer Battalion: The Royal Artificers
• 2nd Engineer Battalion: The Royal Mural Engineers Battalion
• 3rd Engineer Battalion: Duremenshire Coast Volunteer Engineers
• 4th Engineer Battalion: The Royal Hambrian Artificers
• 5th Engineer Battalion: The King's Electrical Engineers Battalion
• 6th Engineer Battalion: The First Royal Signals Battalion
• 7th Engineer Battalion: The Queen's Signallers
• 8th Engineer Battalion: The Hambrian Signallers
• 9th Engineer Battalion: The Aceshire Voluntary Engineers
• 10th Engineer Battalion: The Royal Cardish Engineers
• 11th Engineer Battalion: The Swent and Teyshire Voluntary Engineers
• 12th Engineer Battalion: The Walecester and Barminstershire Voluntary Engineers
• 13th Engineer Battalion: The Prince of Morney's Transport Engineers
• 14th Engineer Battalion: The Royal Almedian Volunteer Engineers

Muster and Service

Muster and Service is the name given to the form of military conscription in force in Great Nortend. It derives from the words of the Defence of the Realm Act 59 Edm. IX p. 46 which requires able men to be 'mustered' and 'serve' in His Majesty's Army. Male Erbonian full subjects from their seventeenth birthday are liable to be draughted to muster. Approximately 80% of the eligible male population are mandatorily conscripted. Muster and service may be deferred until a man's 25th birthday, whereafter he may be liable to prosecution.

Service is in the mustered battalion of a local regiment. An average regiment takes in around 2,600 or so mustermen annually. Mustermen undergo three months of initial military training, followed by eight months of active service posted somewhere in Great Nortend or abroad. Thereafter, they remain in the inactive militia for six years, mustered for training regularly annually. Mustermen have the opportunity to become NCOs within their company or battalion after active service. Those of sufficient intelligence or promise may be selected or apply to become commissioned as a muster officer. Mustermen are generally commanded by muster or militia officers.

Mustermen are paid an annual salary of £322 for their initial year, followed by £1/11/0 a day in the militia. They are also entitled to uniform and travelling allowances.

Exemptions

Exemptions from liability to muster are provided by the Act and include those men who are:

• Clergymen of the Church of Nortend (including university students and graduates)
• Members of certain guilds and compagnies
• Deaf, blind, mute or dumb.
• Physically unfit (such as requiring glasses).
• Convicted felons or outlaws.
• Heirs to certain titles of nobility.
• Holders of certain Crown offices.
• Unable by operation of law to take oaths.
• Otherwise exempt having applied for and received special exemption.

Ranks

Other ranks

Insignia	(No insignia)
Rank	Private	Lance Corporal	Corporal	Serjeant	Staff Serjeant	Colour Serjeant	Warranted Officer
Abbreviation	Pt.	L/Cpl	Cpl	Sjt	S/Sjt	C/Sjt	W/O

A company has two colour serjeants who are appointed as company serjeant major and company quartermaster serjeant. Staff serjeant is the equivalent for regiments and corps who do not have colours, such as administrative corps.

A battalion has two warranted officers are appointed as regimental serjeant major and regimental quartermaster serjeants. Only the RSM is entitled to wear the crown surmounting four chevrons.

Officers

Insignia
Rank	Ensign Cornet	Lieutenant	Captain	Major	Commandant	Colonel	Brigadier	Major-General	Lieutenant-General	Captain-General	King's Marischal
Abbreviation	Ens Cnt	Lt	Cpt	Maj.	Cmdt	Col	Brig.	Maj. Gen.	Lt. Gen.	Cpt Gen.	None

Equipment

Name	Photo	Comment
Rifled Guns
Devenson G.U. Mk V		Standard issue rifled assault gun since 1987 for troops.
Devenson G.U. Mk IV (Self-Loading-Rifle)		Semi-automatic self-loading rifled gun which replaced the older bolt-action Mark III during the 1950s. Still used in the service corps and militia.
Pistol
Browning–Royal Armoury Pistol (SLR)		Standard service pistol since the 1960s, though officers are required to purchase their pistols and are not required to use the SLR.

Dress

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