Russian Ground Forces

###### *From: Russia*

The **Russian Ground Forces**, (Rossi: Сухопутные войска, Sukhoputnyye Voyska, "Overland Force") is the main land warfare uniform service branch of the Russian Armed Forces. They were simply referred to as the **Red Army** the Russian Ground Forces were the succeeding land forces of the Soviet SFSR (1923 - 1961), the Soviet Union (1961 - 2036) from their beginnings in the aftermath of The Great War. The Russian Ground Forces remain the current iteration of the Russian army.

The primary responsibilities of the Russian Ground Forces are the protection of state borders, perform combat on land, the security of occupied territory and the defeat of enemies of the Russian state which was the mission of the Red Army during it’s establishment: “To protect the Russian people, territorial integrity and the civil liberties in the territory of the great Russian state.” Basing it on the previous Soviet Army Ground Forces. The Ground Forces (originally dubbed the Russian Red Army) was established by decree on (O.S.) 14 Noyabyr 1633 (14 November 9A.C.) which also marked the day of the St. Constantine Reform forming the Red Army in St. Constantine and Sarovsnigrad and the first major combat action ever launched by Russia was the Om Sovut Offensive. 14 November became a national holiday in Russia celebrated as "Defenders of the Motherland Day" where it continues to be celebrated today.

Throughout the Cryptid Wars, the Russian Ground Forces continue to be the primary force of Russia and estimated that it's strength remained ca. 3 million to ca. 6 million men. To maintain said strength range, Russian law minimally required a five-year draft obligation from every able man and woman of military age (17), until (O.S.) 1752 (352A.C.) when the Red Army reduced it to a two-year draft obligation, with increased state-funded benefits such as high-paying welfare and family support if chosen for career regular training. By the middle of the Cryptid War era, the Ground Forces would by then have 605, 12,000 strong rifle divisions. There were also a large number of other combat support formations all of which were highly active as to keep up the Russian war effort. Planning for most of the Cryptid War period have multiple or single 'Military Districts' operating in multiple Fronts made of around 3 to 4 armies under the operational capacity of multiple Russian Strategic High Command Entities, with some being able to command Russian Navy fleets.

# Season 0: "For the Union."

### Origins in the New World

#### National Police Force (14 November 1609 — 6 January 1632)

The first form of homeland security force in Russia initially begun at the end of the establishment of the first Russian city state, Nova Nadezhaya by the immediate Soviet Constituent Body (SCB) under the name of the National Police Force (NPF), as a unified force for the succeeding SCB and it's colonies to restore order and domestic security and prevention of crime. The National Police Force would be established by Major General Talgat Rokossovsky and Marshal Aliya Panlifov as well as other led by men and women who had served in the Soviet Red Army and colonial militias which it's initial strength compromising of 500 men equipped with ageing Old World light infantry weapons. Much of the NPF had participated in conflicts around the Uuotoivo Prefecture where they confronted an internecine war against a variety of successor forces that fought for the right to power over other post-Soviet organisations claiming their right to secede the former Soviet Union, these forces include:

* Novaya Rossiya
* Sovutskaya Mira
* The People's Commonwealth
* Red Line

   This led to the first conflict in Russia's New World, called the Kem Troubles (14 Noyabyr 1609 — 6 Sventyabr 1632), as many factions were vying to take over the Uuotovio Prefecture and reestablish the true political successor to the Soviet Union. The revolt of Novaya Rossiya state have broken out on (O.S.) 14 Noyabyr 1609 (14 November 9A.C.) during the SCB's consolidation of power. Simultaneously the NPF, in order to maintain power over the region, Panlifov carried out a mass conscription of civilians in Nova Nadezhaya. At the end of 1615, the NPF's personnel grew to 815 officers, 250 administrators and 8,990 non-commissioned officers, 34.8% of which consisted of conscripts and militiamen. Rising tensions in the Uuotovio Prefecture owing to the ongoing Kem Troubles, coupled by coordinated strikes against NPF personnel from Sovutskaya Mira militias prompted the leaders of the SCB considered the renunciation of a proper military force in Nova Nadezhaya. These sentiments led to the formation of Mosti-1 (Rossi: Моствии, "Bridge") which provided logistical, political and military intelligence to the NPF and were made up of former GRAU and KGB personnel, including Gabriel Towers and the reorganisation of the NPF into a professional soldiery core and was renamed into the National Security Force (NSF) after growing into a 11,000 man strong service force in 1623, this reorganisation and growth improved the SCB's standing in the Uuotovio Prefecture and expanding into Sovutskaya Mira and defeating the state in 1626 in the decisive Battle of Koutuulaa.

After the bloody battles of Galatovo and Nikilstivsky, The Security Treaty Between Nova Nadezhaya and Novaya Rossiya was signed on 11 Sventyabr 1625 where both the militia groups from Novaya Rossiya would be integrated to the NPF and allowed to be stationed in Nova Nadezhaya's to bolster both nations military powers and to deal with the external aggression of The People's Commonwealth and the Red Line's broken up satellite state. This led to a strong demand for either states within the security treaty to expand their military capabilities in order to combat TPC forces, an outbreak of a continuation with wars between TPC and the Novaya states have left the National Police Force grossly unprepared. Before the war, the SCB had completely neglected the critical logistical issue of trying to supply the bloated size of the NPF (which grew to 20,000+ in 1627 after the treaty.) especially with the growing deficit for supplies for the NPF's standard issued AK-74B3 rifles with workshops in Nova Nadezhaya being unable to reproduce any more of these rifles nor components to continue keeping them in service, the reduction in the NPF's abilities to keep up with war with the TPC was greatly weakened and intensified by infighting between Rossiyan and Nadezhayan fighters owed to being previously at war with eachother prior to 1623.

#### Operation: Mountain Snatcher and the Ratification of the Security Treaty (6 Dekabris' 1631 — 14 Noyabyr 1633)

On 6 Dekabris' 1631 General Rokossovsky issued a "end-all-be-all" military operation plans to the SCB named Operation: Mountain Snatcher which was made to expand Nova Nadezhaya and occupy the TPC's capital city of Tokarev through a coordinated attack via controlling the Vakhohodnoye Mountains to improve the NPF's efforts to isolate dissenting satellite states in the Uuotovio Prefecture and allow the entire region to sue for peace once both Nova Nadezhaya and Rossiya triumphed over Northern Europa. After two years of bitter fighting and 11,000 lost men in the NPF, both dual-powers have achieved complete military hegemony over Uuotovio following the Siege of Tokarev and the subsequent surrender of The People's Commonwealth, ending the Kem Troubles on 6 Sventyabr 1632.

Not one year after victory, Nova Nadezhayan Government unofficially ratified The Security Treaty Between Nova Nadezhaya and Novaya Rossiya, which left Novaya Rossiya in disbelief. The acting president of Nadezhaya, Anderik Ionnov declared war on Rossiya, following a famous speech on 10 Mozhet 1633 which the immediate war aim of Nadezhaya was to complete their consolidation of power and reunify into the true successor state of the Soviet Union.

> "The interests of the state and it's people remain clear. The consolidation of the city state and her expanded territories will be the turning point to the very thing we want out of this great new land, the reformation of the great Soviet Union. Thus we place our hands on the dagger of the men who wish to stop us there, and drive it into their hearts. For The Union."
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   Novaya Rossiya reacted with shock and outrage with the declaration of war and the mobilisation of the NPF in Shok'sha, the capital city of their state. Despite an exhausted military force and incredible military resistance from Rossiyan partisan fighters and militiamen the Nadezhayan military would have controlled most of Novaya Rossiya, with NPF loyalists from the region would soon form their own unnamed governing body (often known as the "Lost Army of Somneskash") which declared war on Rossiya and aligning with the NPF as a co-belligerent army which both sides fought alongside eachother to defeat the resistance forces, this overmatched war incited an immediate surrender 6 months into the 1633 invasion of Rossiya, leaving Shok'sha relatively intact and under Nadezhayan control.

The National Police Force would've branched off into a dedicated national police sector in the new Russian state, during the St. Constantine Reformation and the remaining NPF inventory would've been renamed into the Russian Red Army (in honour of the Soviet Red Army) on 14 Noyabyr 1633. The reformation also included the modernisation of the Russian Red Army with the advent of re-industrialisation movements a year later.

#### Russian Red Army (14 Noyabyr 1633 — 7 Dekabris' 1709)

With 23 years of continuous internecine warfare and defeat of Novaya Rossiya in (O.S.) 1633 (33A.C.) allowed the foundations to the formation of the new Russian state, the dissolution of Mosti-1 and the rise of Fifth General Valentine Iskomorilin Mutsov in 1636 marked the formation of the Russian Red Army General Staff. The congress of Russia would also formed a resolution to the NPF's weaknesses during the Kem Troubles which was by the reorganisation of the Red Army into a strict and formal standing army consisting of professional soldiers, complete with the support of an organised military, educational and economic conditions in the army which strengthened the Red Army's strategic capabilities, according to many military historians. By the end of the mid-1640s Russia's population grew to 1,000,000 and expanded outside of the Uuotovio Prefecture and into Vtoroy Oblast, the second formal region within Russia. This led to the growth of the Russian Red Army to a 90,000 man strong army, with expansion of it's commissioned officers to 9,800.

#### Operation: Sahelanthropus

As the many Russian Ground Forces operating in the southern parts of Russia have been involved in Operation: Sahelanthropus; the Russian Nuclear Programme which employed over 2,000 scientists, engineers, technicians and military personnel including British, Lebenian and Atarox nationals and the use of various RGF units most notably the 104th Motorised Tank Battalion led by Major Ilana Mitsukova which were deputised during Operation: A Winter's Halt of which primary purpose was the rescue nuclear scientists Robert "Paperclip" and Emile "Foil" Emmerich assigned for the special purpose of coordinating the construction of the BVU-1, the first Russian nuclear weapon. In February (O.S.) 1865, human experimentation on nuclear radiation has been authorised by the Winter Palace and allowed the members of Operation: Sahelanthropus to perform radioactive contamination on human bodies.

Researchers in the Russian Nuclear Programme have performed thousands of human radiation experiments to determine the effects of atomic radiation and petamine exposure on human bodies, generally on low-ranking members of the Russian Ground Forces and other powerless personnel involved. Including personnel of D-Force (Short for Dvukhatomnyy, Rossi: Двухатомный, "Diatomic"), the specialised CBRN army branch in the RGF in (O.S.) 1868.

## Equipment

###### ***Main Article:** Equipment of the Russian Ground Forces*

Much of the Russian Ground Forces were built up over the history of the 1st Great Cryptid War, with an emphasis towards maneuver warfare tactics against monster wave attacks in the masses. A great deal of the RGF's main arsenal of armour and small arms infantry equipment consist of older equipment.