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:* [[2nd Amaris Dragoons|Second Amaris Dragoons]]<ref name=HRUWp154/> - destroyed on [[Nightwish]]<ref name=HRUWp154/> ([[2584]]) by the [[Draconis Auxiliary Corps]].<ref name=HRUWp152/> | :* [[2nd Amaris Dragoons|Second Amaris Dragoons]]<ref name=HRUWp154/> - destroyed on [[Nightwish]]<ref name=HRUWp154/> ([[2584]]) by the [[Draconis Auxiliary Corps]].<ref name=HRUWp152/> | ||
:* [[3rd Amaris Dragoons|Third Amaris Dragoons]]<ref name=HRUWp154/> - destroyed on [[Malibu]]<ref name=HRUWp154/> ([[2584]]) by the [[17th Royal Division|Seventeenth Royal Division]].<ref name=HRUWp152/> | :* [[3rd Amaris Dragoons|Third Amaris Dragoons]]<ref name=HRUWp154/> - destroyed on [[Malibu]]<ref name=HRUWp154/> ([[2584]]) by the [[17th Royal Division|Seventeenth Royal Division]].<ref name=HRUWp152/> | ||
| − | :* [[4th Amaris Dragoons|Fourth Amaris Dragoons]]<ref name=HRUWp154/> - destroyed on [[Apollo]]<ref name=HRUWp155/> ([[2596]]) by [[VIII Corps (Star League)|VIII Corps]], the [[4th Royal Guards|Fourth Royal Guards]] and elements of the [[2nd Marik Auxiliary Corps]].<ref name=HRUWp153/> | + | :* [[4th Amaris Dragoons|Fourth Amaris Dragoons]]<ref name=HRUWp154/> - destroyed on [[Apollo (planet)|Apollo]]<ref name=HRUWp155/> ([[2596]]) by [[VIII Corps (Star League)|VIII Corps]], the [[4th Royal Guards|Fourth Royal Guards]] and elements of the [[2nd Marik Auxiliary Corps]].<ref name=HRUWp153/> |
:* [[5th Amaris Dragoons|Fifth Amaris Dragoons]]<ref name=HRUWp154/> - destroyed on [[FinMark]]<ref name=HRUWp155/> ([[2586]]) by VIII Corps.<ref name=HRUWp152/> | :* [[5th Amaris Dragoons|Fifth Amaris Dragoons]]<ref name=HRUWp154/> - destroyed on [[FinMark]]<ref name=HRUWp155/> ([[2586]]) by VIII Corps.<ref name=HRUWp152/> | ||
:* [[6th Amaris Dragoons|Sixth Amaris Dragoons]]<ref name=HRUWp154/> - destroyed on [[Quarayyat]]<ref name=HRUWp154/> ([[2584]]) by the [[Lyran Auxiliary Corps]].<ref name=HRUWp152/> | :* [[6th Amaris Dragoons|Sixth Amaris Dragoons]]<ref name=HRUWp154/> - destroyed on [[Quarayyat]]<ref name=HRUWp154/> ([[2584]]) by the [[Lyran Auxiliary Corps]].<ref name=HRUWp152/> | ||
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:* [[6th Amaris Fusiliers|Sixth Amaris Fusiliers]]<ref name=HRUWp154/> - destroyed on [[Austerlitz]]<ref name=HRUWp154/> ([[2587]]) by the Thirty-First Armor Division.<ref name=HRUWp153/> | :* [[6th Amaris Fusiliers|Sixth Amaris Fusiliers]]<ref name=HRUWp154/> - destroyed on [[Austerlitz]]<ref name=HRUWp154/> ([[2587]]) by the Thirty-First Armor Division.<ref name=HRUWp153/> | ||
:* [[7th Amaris Fusiliers|Seventh Amaris Fusiliers]]<ref name=HRUWp154/> - destroyed on [[Marisura]]<ref name=HRUWp155/> ([[2589]]) by elements of the Draconis Auxiliary Corps and the 2nd Marik Auxiliary Corps.<ref name=HRUWp153/> | :* [[7th Amaris Fusiliers|Seventh Amaris Fusiliers]]<ref name=HRUWp154/> - destroyed on [[Marisura]]<ref name=HRUWp155/> ([[2589]]) by elements of the Draconis Auxiliary Corps and the 2nd Marik Auxiliary Corps.<ref name=HRUWp153/> | ||
| − | :* [[8th Amaris Fusiliers|Eighth Amaris Fusiliers]]<ref name=HRUWp154/> - destroyed on [[Apollo]]<ref name=HRUWp155/> ([[2596]]) by VII Corps, the 4th Royal Guards and elements of the 2nd Marik Auxiliary Corps.<ref name=HRUWp153/> | + | :* [[8th Amaris Fusiliers|Eighth Amaris Fusiliers]]<ref name=HRUWp154/> - destroyed on [[Apollo (planet)|Apollo]]<ref name=HRUWp155/> ([[2596]]) by VII Corps, the 4th Royal Guards and elements of the 2nd Marik Auxiliary Corps.<ref name=HRUWp153/> |
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:* [[5th Amaris Legionnaires|Fifth Amaris Legionnaires]]<ref name=HRUWp154/> - destroyed on [[Steelton]]<ref name=HRUWp155/> ([[2595]]) by the Eleventh Royal Division and Sixteenth Mechanized Infantry Division<ref name=HRUWp153/> | :* [[5th Amaris Legionnaires|Fifth Amaris Legionnaires]]<ref name=HRUWp154/> - destroyed on [[Steelton]]<ref name=HRUWp155/> ([[2595]]) by the Eleventh Royal Division and Sixteenth Mechanized Infantry Division<ref name=HRUWp153/> | ||
:* [[6th Amaris Legionnaires|Sixth Amaris Legionnaires]]<ref name=HRUWp154/> - destroyed on [[Helbrent]]<ref name=HRUWp154/> ([[2582]]) by the Eleventh Royal Division<ref name=HRUWp153/> | :* [[6th Amaris Legionnaires|Sixth Amaris Legionnaires]]<ref name=HRUWp154/> - destroyed on [[Helbrent]]<ref name=HRUWp154/> ([[2582]]) by the Eleventh Royal Division<ref name=HRUWp153/> | ||
| − | :* [[7th Amaris Legionnaires|Seventh Amaris Legionnaires]]<ref name=HRUWp154/> - destroyed on [[Apollo]]<ref name=HRUWp155/> ([[2596]]) by VIII Corps, the Fourth Royal Guards and elements of the 2nd Marik Auxiliary Corps.<ref name=HRUWp153/> | + | :* [[7th Amaris Legionnaires|Seventh Amaris Legionnaires]]<ref name=HRUWp154/> - destroyed on [[Apollo (planet)|Apollo]]<ref name=HRUWp155/> ([[2596]]) by VIII Corps, the Fourth Royal Guards and elements of the 2nd Marik Auxiliary Corps.<ref name=HRUWp153/> |
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Contents
- 1 Organization
- 2 Command
- 3 Formations and Units within the Rim Worlds Army
- 3.1 Age of War/Reunification War Era
- 3.2 Star League Era
- 3.2.1 Line Formations
- 3.2.1.1 Amaris Cavaliers
- 3.2.1.2 Amaris Chasseurs
- 3.2.1.3 Amaris Dragoons
- 3.2.1.4 Amaris Fusiliers
- 3.2.1.5 Amaris Lancers
- 3.2.1.6 Amaris Legionnaires
- 3.2.1.7 Amaris Republican Guards
- 3.2.1.8 Republican Dragoons
- 3.2.1.9 Republican Lancers
- 3.2.1.10 Republic Light Lancers
- 3.2.1.11 Associated Mercenary Units
- 3.2.1 Line Formations
- 4 Military Ranks
- 5 Unit Insignias
- 6 See Also
- 7 References
- 8 Bibliography
Organization
Command
Formations and Units within the Rim Worlds Army
Age of War/Reunification War Era
By the end of the Age of War and throughout the Reunification War the Rim Worlds Army was notionally based around three brigades of regular forces, with House Amaris' household forces forming another subcommand within the RWA. The RWA claimed a total strength of some twenty-five combined arms regiments but was heavily dependent on conventional armor and infantry, with a total BattleMech strength of approximately five to six regiments, but the BattleMechs possessed by the Republic were distributed amongst the various regular formations in company and battalion strength. When civil war broke out in the Republic in 2575 the chain of command was effectively shattered, with units either remaining loyal to First Consul Gregory Amaris, declaring their support for the Rim Provisional Government and Rift Republican Army or splitting along partisan lines.[1]
The black water naval component of the Rim Worlds Army had a notional strength of seventeen WarShips in 2575. The actual operational naval strength was significantly lower than this, as a number of ships were undergoing refits.[1] By the onset of operations in the Republic by Task Force MAILED FIST as they implemented Operation MAILED FIST - the Star League intervention in the civil war in support of Gregory Amaris - the active Rim Worlds Army fleet had been reduced to nine ships, two of which were destroyers and seven were corvettes. One corvette was destroyed in action at Finmark in 2586; the remaining WarShips remained out of the conflict until Admiral Hakim Wbika launched a successeful strike at an SLDF transport fleet in the Newtown Square system in January 2588. Wbika's raid saw nineteen SLDF JumpShips and twenty-four DropShips destroyed before the convoy escort cruiser SLS Rapacious and SLS Alacrity engaged and destroyed or crippled both destroyers and three corvettes, leaving a single RWA corvette the only survivor of the engagement.[2]
Of the other naval vessels that had been in service with the RWA in 2575, five were scuttled as a result of combat between RWA and RRA forces, two having been destroyed in action and the other three rendered effectively useless, while three had been undergoing refits and spent the entire of the civil war in varying states of disrepair.[1]
Line Formations
Amaris Household Guard
- Amaris Republican Guard[3]
- Tartan Brigade[3] - stationed on Illium[4] (2589) and surrendered to the Sixteenth Mechanized Infantry Division [5]
Note: After the Reunification War the Fourth Amaris Dragoons became an unofficial member of the Amaris Household Guard.[6]
Amaris Dragoons
- First Amaris Dragoons[3] - destroyed on Kikuyu[3] (2584) by the Sixteenth Mechanized Infantry Division.[7]
- Second Amaris Dragoons[3] - destroyed on Nightwish[3] (2584) by the Draconis Auxiliary Corps.[7]
- Third Amaris Dragoons[3] - destroyed on Malibu[3] (2584) by the Seventeenth Royal Division.[7]
- Fourth Amaris Dragoons[3] - destroyed on Apollo[4] (2596) by VIII Corps, the Fourth Royal Guards and elements of the 2nd Marik Auxiliary Corps.[5]
- Fifth Amaris Dragoons[3] - destroyed on FinMark[4] (2586) by VIII Corps.[7]
- Sixth Amaris Dragoons[3] - destroyed on Quarayyat[3] (2584) by the Lyran Auxiliary Corps.[7]
- Seventh Amaris Dragoons[3] - destroyed on Timbuktu[4] (2588) by the Eleventh Royal Division and the Draconis Auxiliary Corps.[5]
- Eighth Amaris Dragoons[3] - destroyed on Treeline[3] (2581) by the Sixteenth Mechanized Infantry Division.[7]
Amaris Fusiliers
- First Amaris Fusiliers[3] - destroyed on Malaga[4] (2589) by the Thirty-First Armor Division.[5]
- Second Amaris Fusiliers[3] - destroyed on Bucklands[3] (2582) by VIII Corps.[5]
- Third Amaris Fusiliers[3] - destroyed on Viborg[4] (2588) by elements of the 2nd Marik Auxiliary Corps.[5]
- Fourth Amaris Fusiliers[3] - destroyed on
- Fifth Amaris Fusiliers[3] - destroyed on
- Steelton[3] (2581) by the Eleventh Royal Division and Sixteenth Mechanized Infantry Division.[5]
- Star's End[3] (2581) by the First Brigade of the Fusiliers of Oriente.[5]
- Persistence[3] (2581) by the Seventeenth Royal Division.[7]
- Sixth Amaris Fusiliers[3] - destroyed on Austerlitz[3] (2587) by the Thirty-First Armor Division.[5]
- Seventh Amaris Fusiliers[3] - destroyed on Marisura[4] (2589) by elements of the Draconis Auxiliary Corps and the 2nd Marik Auxiliary Corps.[5]
- Eighth Amaris Fusiliers[3] - destroyed on Apollo[4] (2596) by VII Corps, the 4th Royal Guards and elements of the 2nd Marik Auxiliary Corps.[5]
Amaris Legionnaires
- First Amaris Legionnaires[3] - destroyed on Medellin[3] (2583) by the Eighteenth Division.[5]
- Second Amaris Legionnaires[3] - destroyed on Taran's World[3] (2595) by the Seventeenth Royal Division.[5]
- Third Amaris Legionnaires[3] - destroyed on Stirling[3] (2583) by elements of the 2nd Marik Auxiliary Corps.[5]
- Fourth Amaris Legionnaires[3] - destroyed on Gwynedd[4] (2590) by the Sixteenth Mechanized Infantry Division.[5]
- Fifth Amaris Legionnaires[3] - destroyed on Steelton[4] (2595) by the Eleventh Royal Division and Sixteenth Mechanized Infantry Division[5]
- Sixth Amaris Legionnaires[3] - destroyed on Helbrent[3] (2582) by the Eleventh Royal Division[5]
- Seventh Amaris Legionnaires[3] - destroyed on Apollo[4] (2596) by VIII Corps, the Fourth Royal Guards and elements of the 2nd Marik Auxiliary Corps.[5]
Star League Era
Line Formations
Amaris Cavaliers
Amaris Chasseurs
Amaris Dragoons
- First Amaris Dragoons
- Second Amaris Dragoons
- Third Amaris Dragoons
- Fourth Amaris Dragoons - The first unit to arrive in the Terran Hegemony after Richard Cameron asked Stefan Amaris's help in garrisoning the Hegemony.[9]. The unit employed a nuclear device to destroy the Black Watch Highlanders, a portion of the First Lord's bodyguard unit, during the takeover of Terra.[10][11]
- Fifth Amaris Dragoons
- Sixth Amaris Dragoons
- Seventh Amaris Dragoons
- Eighth Amaris Dragoons
- Ninth Amaris Dragoons[12]
- Tenth Amaris Dragoons[8]
- Seventeenth Amaris Dragoons[8]
- Thirty-Third Amaris Dragoons
- Fifty-Seventh Amaris Dragoons[8]
- Seventy-Seventh Amaris Dragoons
- Ninetieth Amaris Dragoons[13]
- Ninety-Ninth Amaris Dragoons - The 99th Dragoons were made famous for counter-insurgency tactics. The 99th would publicly announce their targets before attacking, tracking any people evacuating the target area. Before engaging the enemy, the Dragoons would first demolish the locations to which the evacuees fled.[14] The unit's paint scheme is a matte black.[15]
- 141st Amaris Dragoons - The 141st was noted for using nuclear weapons and in wiping out three-quarters of Caph's surface.[16]
- 207th Amaris Dragoons[8]
- 832nd Amaris Dragoons[8] - The 832nd Amaris Dragoons was stationed on the Rim Worlds Republic capitol planet of Apollo during the Amaris Crisis. One of its officers, Major Phillip Drummond, defected to the SLDF, during its attack on the planet. [17]
Amaris Fusiliers
Amaris Lancers
Amaris Legionnaires
- First Amaris Legionnaires
- Second Amaris Legionnaires
- Third Amaris Legionnaires[8]
- Fourth Amaris Legionnaires
- Fifth Amaris Legionnaires
- Sixth Amaris Legionnaires
- Seventh Amaris Legionnaires
- Eighth Amaris Legionnaires
- Seventeenth Amaris Legionnaires[18]
- Thirty-Ninth Amaris Legionnaires[20]
Amaris Republican Guards
The Amaris Republican Guard responded to the Rift Republican Army's attack on the 8th Amaris Dragoons and helped put down the Efrimal Long prison outbreak.[21] Their colors are olive and red.[22]
- Sixth Republican Guards Division - Attacked New Dallas in 2766
- Twelfth Republican Guards - "The Minutemen"
- Eighteenth Republican Guards
- 203rd Republican Guard Division - "Sword of Saddam" - Five weeks into the Amaris Crisis, the 203rd Republican Guard Division was assigned to secure Hilton Head on Terra. However, due to a loyalist construction crew, the half-completed HPG was hidden from the unit, allowing its completion by ComStar after the Crisis. The unit established a camp 2 kilometers from the communications center.[23]
Republican Dragoons
Republican Lancers
- 201st Republican Lancers - "The Longhorns"
Republic Light Lancers
- Eleventh Republican Light Lancers[8]
- Thirteenth Republican Light Lancers
- Twenty-Third Republic Light Lancers - "The Stealths" - The Stealths were formed around 2650 by order of Tadeo Amaris. This unit managed to survive the Amaris-Kerensky Civil War and would be hired by the Lyran Commonwealth. As one of the few units with experience and tradition of deploying light and medium mechs it excelled in raids and would be used with great success against the Free Worlds League and the Draconis Combine.
Associated Mercenary Units
Military Ranks
Prior to the civil war, the Rim Worlds Army used a rank system with Greek titles. During the civil war the RRA Rebel forces kept the original Greek rank structure, while the RWA Loyalist forces adopted the same rank structure as the SLDF. After the Reunification War the Greek rank structure was phased out completely and replaced with the SLDF rank structure.[26]
| Type of Rank with Seniority |
RRA | SLDF | Unit type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enlisted Ranks | |||
| E1 | * | Recruit [27] | |
| E2 | Private[27] | Private[27] | |
| E3 | *[27] | Private, First Class[27] |
|
| E4 | Corporal[27] | *[27] | |
| E5 | *[27] | Corporal[27] | |
| E6 | Sergeant[27] | Sergeant[27] | |
| E7 | *[27] | Over-Sergeant[27] | |
| E8 | *[27] | Master Sergeant[27] | |
| E9 | *[27] | *[27] | |
| E10 | Sergeant Major[27] | Master Sergeant[27] | |
| Officer Ranks | |||
| O1 | *[27] | Ensign[27] | |
| O2 | Tetrarch (Lieutenant)[27] |
Lieutenant[27] | |
| O3 | *[27] | Captain[27] | |
| O4 | Lokhagos (Captain)[27] |
Major[27] | |
| O5 | Tagmatarchis (Major)[27] |
*[27] | |
| O6 | *[27] | *[27] | |
| O7 | Syntagmatarchis (Colonel)[27] |
Colonel[27] | |
| O8 | Taxiarchos (Brigadier General)[27] |
*[27] | |
| O9 | * [27] | Lieutenant General[27] | |
| O10 | Polemarchos (Lieutenant General)[27] |
Major General[27] | |
| O11 | Strategos (General)[27] |
General[27] | |
| O12 | * [27] | Commanding General[27] | |
Unit Insignias
- Amaris-Republican-Guards.png
Amaris Republican Guards
(Apollo’s Python) 
1st Amaris Armored
(The Timbuktu Terrors)
Insignia of the Amaris Dragoons Brigade
5th Amaris Fusiliers
(Perdition’s Gates)
3rd Amaris Legionnaires
(Red Dot Riders)
8th Republican Legionnaires
(The New India Irregulars)
See Also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Historical: Reunification War, p. 43, "The Rim Worlds Army (RWA) and Rift Republican Army (RRA)"
- ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 135, "Newtown Shoals: Sharks Among Minnows (January 2588)"
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 3.21 3.22 3.23 3.24 3.25 3.26 3.27 3.28 3.29 3.30 3.31 3.32 3.33 3.34 3.35 3.36 3.37 3.38 3.39 3.40 3.41 Historical: Reunification War, p. 154, "Rim Worlds Republic Front (Jump-Off - 2587)"
- ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 Historical: Reunification War, p.155
- ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13 5.14 5.15 5.16 5.17 5.18 5.19 Historical: Reunification War, p. 153, "Rim Worlds Republic Front (2588-2596)"
- ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 43, "Fourth Amaris Dragoons (RWA)"
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 Historical: Reunification War, p. 152, "Rim Worlds Republic Front (Jump-Off - 2587)"
- ↑ 8.00 8.01 8.02 8.03 8.04 8.05 8.06 8.07 8.08 8.09 8.10 8.11 Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p.105
- ↑ The Star League, p. 80
- ↑ The Star League, p. 83
- ↑ Northwind Highlanders (scenario pack), p. 17
- ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p.75
- ↑ Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 36
- ↑ Technical Readout: 3075, p. 292
- ↑ Technical Readout: 3039, p. 126
- ↑ House Davion (The Federated Suns), p. 204, "Caph"
- ↑ Invading Clans (sourcebook), p. 101
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p.78
- ↑ The Periphery (sourcebook), p. 56
- ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p.5
- ↑ The Star League, p45"
- ↑ Star Lord (novel), p.??[citation needed]
- ↑ ComStar (sourcebook), p. 24
- ↑ The Star League, p. 174
- ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2, p.89
- ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 43, "Command Structure of the RRA"
- ↑ 27.00 27.01 27.02 27.03 27.04 27.05 27.06 27.07 27.08 27.09 27.10 27.11 27.12 27.13 27.14 27.15 27.16 27.17 27.18 27.19 27.20 27.21 27.22 27.23 27.24 27.25 27.26 27.27 27.28 27.29 27.30 27.31 27.32 27.33 27.34 27.35 27.36 27.37 27.38 27.39 27.40 27.41 27.42 Historical: Reunification War, p.28