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:* [[9th Amaris Dragoons|Ninth Amaris Dragoons]]<ref>''[[Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1]]'', p.75</ref>  
 
:* [[9th Amaris Dragoons|Ninth Amaris Dragoons]]<ref>''[[Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1]]'', p.75</ref>  
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:* [[77th Amaris Dragoons|Seventy-Seventh Amaris Dragoons]]
 
:* [[77th Amaris Dragoons|Seventy-Seventh Amaris Dragoons]]
 
:* [[90th Amaris Dragoons|Ninetieth Amaris Dragoons]]<ref>''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 36</ref>  
 
:* [[90th Amaris Dragoons|Ninetieth Amaris Dragoons]]<ref>''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 36</ref>  
 
:* [[99th Amaris Dragoons|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.<ref>''Technical Readout: 3075'', p. 292</ref> The unit's paint scheme is a matte black.<ref>''Technical Readout: 3039'', p. 126</ref>
 
:* [[99th Amaris Dragoons|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.<ref>''Technical Readout: 3075'', p. 292</ref> The unit's paint scheme is a matte black.<ref>''Technical Readout: 3039'', p. 126</ref>
 
:* [[141st Amaris Dragoons]] - The 141st was noted for using nuclear weapons and in wiping out three-quarters of [[Caph]]'s surface.<ref>''House Davion (The Federated Suns)'', p. 204, "Caph"</ref>
 
:* [[141st Amaris Dragoons]] - The 141st was noted for using nuclear weapons and in wiping out three-quarters of [[Caph]]'s surface.<ref>''House Davion (The Federated Suns)'', p. 204, "Caph"</ref>
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:* [[832nd Amaris Dragoons]]<ref name=HLoTV1p105/> - The 832nd Amaris Dragoons was stationed on the [[Rim Worlds Republic]] capitol planet of [[Apollo (planet)|Apollo]] during the [[Amaris Civil War|Amaris Crisis]]. One of its officers, Major [[Phillip Drummond]], defected to the [[SLDF]], during its attack on the planet. <ref>''Invading Clans (sourcebook)'', p. 101</ref>
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:* [[832nd Amaris Dragoons]]<ref name=HLoTV1p103/> - The 832nd Amaris Dragoons was stationed on the [[Rim Worlds Republic]] capitol planet of [[Apollo (planet)|Apollo]] during the [[Amaris Civil War|Amaris Crisis]]. One of its officers, Major [[Phillip Drummond]], defected to the [[SLDF]], during its attack on the planet. <ref>''Invading Clans (sourcebook)'', p. 101</ref>
  
 
=====Amaris Fusiliers=====
 
=====Amaris Fusiliers=====
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=====Amaris Lancers=====
 
=====Amaris Lancers=====
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:* [[11th Amaris Lancers Division|Eleventh Amaris Lancers Division]]
 
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=====Republic Light Lancers=====
 
=====Republic Light Lancers=====
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:* [[13th Republic Light Lancers|Thirteenth Republican Light Lancers]]
 
:* [[13th Republic Light Lancers|Thirteenth Republican Light Lancers]]
 
:* [[23rd Republic 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.
 
:* [[23rd Republic 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.

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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]

Naval Forces

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

Note: After the Reunification War the Fourth Amaris Dragoons became an unofficial member of the Amaris Household Guard.[6]

Amaris Dragoons
Insignia of the Amaris Dragoons
Amaris Fusiliers
Insignia of the Amaris Fusiliers
Urjala[3] (2581)[3] (2583) by elements of the 2nd Marik Auxiliary Corps.[5]
New India[3] (2587) by elements of the 2nd Marik Auxiliary Corps.[5]
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]
Amaris Legionnaires
Insignia of the Amaris Legionnaires

Star League Era

Line Formations

Amaris Cavaliers
Amaris Chasseurs
Amaris Dragoons
Amaris Fusiliers
  • First Amaris Fusiliers
  • Second Amaris Fusiliers
  • Third Amaris Fusiliers
  • Fourth Amaris Fusiliers[9]
  • Fifth Amaris Fusiliers
  • Sixth Amaris Fusiliers
  • Seventh Amaris Fusiliers
  • Eighth Amaris Fusiliers[19]
Amaris Lancers
Amaris Legionnaires
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.[22] Their colors are olive and red.[23]

Republican Dragoons
Republican Lancers
Republic Light Lancers
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.[28]

Ranks and the units they can command
Type of Rank
with Seniority
RRA SLDF Unit type
Enlisted Ranks
E1 * Recruit [29]
E2 Private[29] Private[29]
E3 *[29] Private,
First Class[29]
E4 Corporal[29] *[29]
E5 *[29] Corporal[29]
E6 Sergeant[29] Sergeant[29]
E7 *[29] Over-Sergeant[29]
E8 *[29] Master Sergeant[29]
E9 *[29] *[29]
E10 Sergeant Major[29] Master Sergeant[29]
Officer Ranks
O1 *[29] Ensign[29]
O2 Tetrarch
(Lieutenant)[29]
Lieutenant[29]
O3 *[29] Captain[29]
O4 Lokhagos
(Captain)[29]
Major[29]
O5 Tagmatarchis
(Major)[29]
*[29]
O6 *[29] *[29]
O7 Syntagmatarchis
(Colonel)[29]
Colonel[29]
O8 Taxiarchos
(Brigadier General)[29]
*[29]
O9 * [29] Lieutenant General[29]
O10 Polemarchos
(Lieutenant General)[29]
Major General[29]
O11 Strategos
(General)[29]
General[29]
O12 * [29] Commanding General[29]

Unit Insignias

See Also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Historical: Reunification War, p. 43, "The Rim Worlds Army (RWA) and Rift Republican Army (RRA)"
  2. Historical: Reunification War, p. 135, "Newtown Shoals: Sharks Among Minnows (January 2588)"
  3. 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. 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. 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)"
  6. Historical: Reunification War, p. 43, "Fourth Amaris Dragoons (RWA)"
  7. 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. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named HLoTV1p105
  9. 9.00 9.01 9.02 9.03 9.04 9.05 9.06 9.07 9.08 9.09 9.10 Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p.103
  10. The Star League, p. 80
  11. The Star League, p. 83
  12. Northwind Highlanders (scenario pack), p. 17
  13. Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p.75
  14. Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 36
  15. Technical Readout: 3075, p. 292
  16. Technical Readout: 3039, p. 126
  17. House Davion (The Federated Suns), p. 204, "Caph"
  18. Invading Clans (sourcebook), p. 101
  19. 19.0 19.1 19.2 Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p.78
  20. The Periphery (sourcebook), p. 56
  21. Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p.5
  22. The Star League, p45"
  23. Star Lord (novel), p.??[citation needed]
  24. ComStar (sourcebook), p. 24
  25. The Star League, p. 174
  26. 26.0 26.1 26.2 26.3 Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2, p.77
  27. Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2, p.79
  28. Historical: Reunification War, p. 43, "Command Structure of the RRA"
  29. 29.00 29.01 29.02 29.03 29.04 29.05 29.06 29.07 29.08 29.09 29.10 29.11 29.12 29.13 29.14 29.15 29.16 29.17 29.18 29.19 29.20 29.21 29.22 29.23 29.24 29.25 29.26 29.27 29.28 29.29 29.30 29.31 29.32 29.33 29.34 29.35 29.36 29.37 29.38 29.39 29.40 29.41 29.42 Historical: Reunification War, p.28

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