Amestria/Military

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The **Amestrian Armed Forces** consist the armed service branches of the Dominion of Amestria. Given that Amestria is a small colonial country with a population of around 200 million and a weak government which insists on keeping taxes on its major industries and populations low, the Amestrian military is small and almost exclusively focused on the defense of the country's primary system, its main spaceport, its many outlying stations, and the planet Eganor.

Amestria's primary military partner is Karstedt, from whom it purchases a lot of military equipment and whose officers regularly train Amestrian units.

## Amesmarine

The **Amesmarine** is the astronaval service of the **Armed Forces** of the Dominion of Amestria, also known as the "whites." The Amesmarine is notable as the only branch of the Amestrian Armed Forces still under firm aristocratic control: officers are selected based on social rank and personal education. The Amesmarine is very small, composed of only a few ships, most of them former Karstmarine vessels, but it also operates the Marine Guard Division.

### Ship designs

#### Shuttles

  A-1R Scout | Gunship
  U-28A Robin | Long-Range Reconnaissance Vessel

### Marine Guards

The 1st Marine Guard Division is an elite unit under the command of the Amesmarine, distinguished by their excellent Karian-supplied equipment and powered armor. The Amestrian Marine Division's primary purpose is to engage in offensive astronaval operations, especially contested landings, and consists Amestria's primary power projection instrument. They also serve as elite marines aboard Amestrian warships.

Competition between the Marine Division and the Army is fierce. The two services rarely communicate, relations are poor, and mistrust abounds. The 1st Marine Guards Division is often thought of by the Amestrian government as the government's last line of defense against an attempted coup by Maus' armed forces. As a result, it is often based in the Amestrian capital and is charged with keeping government buildings secure.

## Amestrian Militia

The Amestrian Militia is a voluntary paramilitary organization created using von Maus' prestige and with the support of the Amestrian Territorial Guard. Not strictly authorized by the House of Lords, the Amestrian Militia nonetheless has around 300,000 members — men and women between the ages of 17 and 45 — organized into units based on their location, for a total of 30 divisions.

These units train regularly together and most members buy and maintain their own gear, while vehicles are provided by the Territorial Guard. Each unit has a mobilization plan whereby its members will assemble at a rally point, arm themselves, and await instructions from the Territorial Guard. The militia can be called in full or in part, as has happened on occasion to put down uprisings and keep the peace. All members are screened for radical beliefs. They must be patriotic Amestrians and the organization has a stridently anti-popularist, anti-Varadinian character.

## Project 11

Project 11 is a clandestine stay-behind network organized by the Amestrian Territorial Guard in tandem with the Amestrian Militia. Very few individuals know of its existence outside of Lieutenant General Hans-Jurgen von Maus and his immediate staff.

Stay-behind units recruit their members from the Amestrian militia. Promising, strong-headed, and enthusiastic leaders are occasionally poached, brought to a secret training facility, and given grueling training in the arts of insurgent warfare, espionage, sabotage, and recruitment. These leaders then return to their communities and begin the process of organizing a stay-behind network in their community.

They work with Project 11 organizers to establish cashes of weapons, explosives, and even vehicles. Protocols and contingencies are established, especially for outlying stations and outposts which Maus expects to not be able to hold in the event of an invasion. The goal is to create information networks which can reliably report on the enemy's dispositions, occupations, and movements; to generate insurgencies and attacks in the enemy's rear; and to create and arm elements which can sabotage an occupier's defenses from the inside when the regular army returns to retake the location.

## Army

The Amestrian Territorial Guard, also known as the Amestrian Army, is the primary professional military force of the Dominion of Amestria. The Army is formally an institution which is subordinate to the Amestrian cabinet and its Minister of Defense, but in practice the Territorial Guard has had a great degree of institutional autonomy since the Second Concourse War. The Army has been led by Lieutenant General Hans-Jurgen von Maus, an exceedingly popular war hero. As a result of Territorial Guard's poor showing during the Second War, von Maus has earned a great deal of autonomy to form his own divisions, procure his own equipment, and develop his own strategies with very limited civilian oversight, becoming a dangerous armed power lurking in the background of the Amestrian political system.

Once in his position, Maus has proved himself to be an able manipulator of public opinion, a populist, and an able bureaucratic knife-fighter. He has also shown himself to be extremely paranoid, convinced that another invasion is just around the corner, and that only proper preparation can forestall the possibility.

As a result, Maus regularly tests the capabilities of his forces in both conventional and insurgent warfare, hosting exercises and liaising with foreign governments without the knowledge or involvement of the Amestrian government. He is far too popular to reign in, and Amestrian aristocrats fear that he might resort to the unthinkable should they try to remove him.

The Territorial Guard's peacetime force numbers 40,000, organized into four divisions.

## Notable Equipment

### Small Arms

* **M106 Army**  popular sidearm
* **904 Revolver**  popular sidearm
* **PI-551 Semi-Automatic Pistol**
	+ Timberlane PI-551  service sidearm
	+ Timberlane PI-100  surplus used when unavailable
* **Timberlane AAR-5 Assault Rifle**
	+ Timberlane AAR-5  service rifle
* **KAR-59 Assault Rifle**
	+ KAR-59  assigned to special units when available
* **Strauss-Lamm SM-12 Submachine Gun**
	+ Strauss-Lamm SM-12  used by special assault forces
	+ Timberlane SM-100  surplus used when unavailable
* **Timberlane SH-100 Pump-Action Shotgun**  used by special assault forces
* **Timberlane SNR-5 Sniper Rifle**  used by special forces

### Vehicles

#### Light Tanks

* **HGAF-10-SM-1**
	+ LT-4  cavalry tank
* **HGAF-10-SM-5**
	+ LT-6 RC  reconnaissance vehicle

#### Main Battle Tanks

* **Kriegsmesser 1**  main battle tank
	+ Kriegsmesser 1
	+ Kriegsmesser 1A
	+ Kriegsmesser 1A2
	+ Kriegsmesser 1A3
	+ Kriegsmesser 1A4
	+ Kriegsmesser 1A5
	+ Kriegsmesser 1A6
	+ Kriegsmesser 1A7
	+ Kriegsmesser 1A8  current version
* **MBT 1**  attempt at making an Amestrian MBT based on the Kriegsmesser 1A7, using Hasari components
	+ MBT 1  a few in service
* **Kreigsmesser 2**  modern main battle tank
	+ Kriegsmesser 2A4  used in small numbers
* **20-KA**
	+ MBT 20-KA  contender to replace Kriegsmesser 1A8

### Infantry Carriers

* **ABTV-12**
	+ ABTV-12