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| − | == Overview == | + | ==Overview== |
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| | + | The Roudland Army is testing, testing |
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| − | The Roudland Army is generally accepted to be the world’s foremost land-fighting force, capable of defeating any of the world’s armies, even from the other two hyperpowers. Its professionalism and successes are well-documented, and the Army not only has the toughest training regime of any of the Roudland Forces, but potentially of any armed force in the world. The Army is the largest and best-funded of the four [[Roudland Military]] Services, and has the widest array of technologies, weapons and vehicles attributed to a single service.
| + | ===First Point=== |
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| − | === Organisation === | + | ===Second Point=== |
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| − | Organised to fight potentially protracted battles and campaigns far from the territory of Roudland, the Army has within itself smaller ‘armies’ that are near self-contained, and able to move at speed across land using their own transport and logistics corps. The armies are numbered 1 through 30 (with the exception of 13), and contain 400,000 men each, along with armour, vehicles and air transport support.
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| − | The first 9 armies are what constitutes the ‘Roudland Army’ in the traditional sense; they are the units that can be seen deployed across the world, and are closely linked with the other services such as the Navy and Air Force. The Active Reserve armies are paid and semi-mobilised mirror armies that can be converted to full frontline armies within weeks, though they are not deployed outside Roudland. Inactive Reserve armies are unlike Active Reserves in that they do not field modern military equipment (some units are still using G3s and M113s) and are not mobilised in any form; they are ‘weekend soldiers’ that train as units in scattered locations across Roudland. In addition to this, they do not have air transport forces or armoured corps, and are not regarded part of any formal fighting force in the way that the Active Reserves are. Mobile Infantry armies are conscripted national service armies that provide a body for young adults to fulfil their national service commitment in a military capacity, and are not to be regarded as part of the regular army. The only instance in which a MI unit has been mobilised for combat was the mechanised division that was training aboard RSS Donaldson during the Abbayish Civil War. In real terms they would require around 4 months to prepare for mobilisation. In contrast to this, the Territorial Guard are somewhere between Active and Inactive reserve forces, being equipped with only some of the modern equipment that is afforded to the regulars, but with a semi-permanent mobilisation status. They are primarily designed to act as a civil military force; that is one to deal with the aftermath of a large disastrous event.
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| − | === Structure ===
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| − | The Army is considered to be the ‘primary’ force; the arm of the military with which the government of Roudland pursues its armed foreign policy agenda. To this end, it has amazingly deep integration with other forces such as the Navy and Air Force due to their support roles to the Army. Navy and Air Force comms systems are powered by Archer-Battlefire, and to large degree of cooperation takes place between the forces to enable speedy transportation, deployment and support. This was witnessed in full with the liberation of the DSUT, in which the Navy worked for weeks transporting soldiers, land vehicles and planes to the continent, whilst simultaneously giving coastal support and security, which was then overlapped by the Air Force acting for the Navy Air Arm, During this time the Army moved upon its objectives, liaising with the Navy and Air Force for support. The integration of systems from each service contributed to this ease of cooperation.
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| − | For several years the Army has had attached to it the stigma of being somewhat backwards in comparison to other forces. To counter this, the Roudland Army instigated a programme of modernisation beginning in 1999. At the present moment it is reaching its completion, and this takes the form of the Archer Communications System, an essential element of the Advanced Army Warfighter system; the new infantry system that places Roudland’s infantry head and shoulders above others.
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