Tor Korps

The **Tor Korps** or **Army of the Gate** (German: *Armee des Tors*) was the German expeditionary force compiled together to explore beyond the Gate into the Continent. The unit's commander is Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.

## Organization

### Structure

The leadership is held by the Field Marshall and only two lesser officers. This is done as a way to reduce spreading the leadership out by having it in command of three main officers of the German Empire who are in command of multiple lesser officers underneath them.

The Tor Korps was first organized into three units of various sizes: the First Unit commanded by Rommel himself, which is the largest of all the others; the Second Unit, commanded by Colonel Helga Mörder; and the Third Unit, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Werner von Goldberg.

The German Armed Forces High Command later had decided to increase the military presence of Germans on the Continent by a considerable amount after the visit of Empress Guinevere and the declaration of war upon her brother's regime. The Tor Korps was converted from the size of a corp into a massive field army.

## Composition

### First Unit

Erwin Rommel's personal army, they are compiled mainly of the veterans who fought loyally with him during the German Civil War. As the most disciplined and largest of the three units, Erwin kept them mostly in an area around Castle Dagonet until the time calls for action.

### Second Unit

Helga Mörder's unit is essentially a haven for those who lost the civil war. It is compiled of mainly former Waffen-SS and SS Ehrengardes who either joined from the main German armies or were recruited elsewhere, the latter being unknown to High Command. They became infamous on the Continent for their ruthless tactics and merciless killings without provocation.

### Third Unit

Werner von Goldberg's unit is the smallest of the three. Due to the small amount of time it took to carefully choose the right soldiers, a lot of the troops are foreign fighters assigned to him, until the conversion of the entire expedition. The unit is the most beloved on the Continent due to Werner's desire to protect the local populace and their rejection of ruthless tactics, mainly after the Siege of Guinevere.

## Foreign fighters

The Germans had large numbers of non-German volunteers participating in combat and observant positions. The governments of Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Poland gave sufficient manpower support to the German forces, taking up a third of their forces in the first phase. In its largest extent, the Tor Korps had over 2,000 Austrians, 1,800 Hungarians, 1,500 Poles and 1,000 Bulgarians in their army.

The government of Finland, and to a lesser extent the Baltic Federation and Yugoslavia, gave minimal support, mostly due to the risk focusing on Germany's problems rather than their own. Whilst Finland provided the Germans with a sniper company, led by Simo Häyhä, the Baltics and Yugoslavians only provided Germany with 300 troops each.

Following the Treaty of Empires, the United States sent an entire regiment of 1,200 marines to fight alongside the Germans as volunteers. In an effort to give their own men training on a battlefield, Vlaslov assigned 1,000 recruits from his Russian Liberation Army beyond the Gate. Both armies were quickly embedded into Werner von Goldberg's army in order to match Helga's forces.

### Interdimensional forces

On top of the support from Guinevere and other German-supporting nations, the Tor Korps later included the use of people from the Continent to act as an auxiliary army, officially called the "Freikorps" (Free Corps) by the Germans or the "False Ones" by the locals of the Continent. This is due to Werner von Goldberg's request to build an army to act as the auxiliary forces to prevent the use of any rash action or to spend too much of his own troops. Despite the army's high numbers, numbering at over 20,000 soldiers in 1940, they were attached to the Tor Korps but not incorporated into the German Army.