The Grevian Imperial Armed Forces

The Grevian Imperial Armed Forces, or the GIAF, is the official armed forces of the Grevian Empire. It consists of the Grevian Army, the Grevian Navy, and the Grevian Air Force. As of 66 IE, it comprises of 45.000.000 enlisted and officers.

Initially formed as the Provisional Grevian Army, the name was changed during the Barbarian Age when the need of a professional army arose. Under the Senate, the GIAF is an all-volunteer army where none of the personnel are forcefully taken in by the army.

## The Grevian Imperial Army

### Army Commands

The GIA had long been organized into the “Army Command” where units are divided up into Army Commands for them to take care of. In peacetime, there are a total of seven army commands as of 66 IE, these are:

* Revia Command
* Rhodon Command
* Farrador Command
* Tertius Command
* Hearth Command
* Nebulon Command
* Dresanaria Command

These Army Commands are each led by Second Marshals, with each given command of the units stationed in their respective Army Commands. These commands could also increase or decrease in size during war when armies advanced and withdraws from a territory. In 66 IE, The Senate ordered that a Joint Operations Command be added to transfer units and to increase cooperation between Army Commands like never before seen.

### The Imperial Legion

The Imperial Legion is the largest military unit of the Grevian Imperial Army, composed of 30-50.000 men supported with a variety of auxilliary cohorts attached to the legion. The size of the Imperial Legion varied throughout its history, with 10.000 men during its founding and around 500.000 men during the reign of Vedrix.

During the reign of Vedrix, the Imperial Legion was meant to be an army but due to its size was further reduced to around 50.000 men by 66 IE. A legion was divided into cohorts (around 10.000 men) with different legions attached different auxilliaries based on the enviroment that the legion is stationed in. These cohorts would ultimately be divided into regiments (around 2.000 men) and these would also be divided into regular battalions (around 200 men).

The standard Imperial Legion was outfitted with two cohorts of tanks, six cohorts of infantry, and two cohorts of artillery. Each legion has their own auxilliaries, whether it be mobile infantry or the special grenadier guards. These auxilliaries would function as an independent cohort, only answering calls from the Primum Legatus, the overall commander of several legions.

Ever since the Barbarian Age, each legion has their own symbols such as that of an ox or that of a direwolf, with these being supplemented with the names of the battles they had participated to enhance the pride of the Legion to that of its enemies. The most prestigious of all the symbol-bearers was the Aquilifer, capable of holding the Aquila or the Imperial Eagle. This job is so important that if the Imperial Eagle is seized then the legion is effectively disbanded until the Aquila is retaken back by the legion and given to a new Aquilifer.

### The Auxilliary Corps

The Auxilliary Cohorts are introduced as support troops attached to each Imperial Legion. They act as special units to the legion, offering differing functions to support the legion in their mission. The Auxilliary Cohorts contain the same amount of troops as those in the Imperial Cohorts.

There are many unit types for auxilliaries, with some of them notably the Grenadier Guards, the Mobile Infantry, and the Graveriders. The Grenadier Guards function as shock troops, sometimes leading the vanguard of a legion while in some situations guarding the rearguard. The Mobile Infantry function as air assault troops, often riding into battle with their helicopters and using infiltration tactics when needed. The Graveriders function as horseman typically recruited from the most fanatic and loyal subjects of the empire, often riding to their deaths with no fear.

## The Grevian Imperial Navy

### Fleet Commands

In the modern sense, fleets are usually, but not necessarily, permanent formations and are generally assigned to a particular ocean or sea. Most fleets are named after that ocean or sea, but the convention in the Grevian Imperial Navy is to use numbers. Fleets are often commanded by a Vice Admiral, who commands the entire fleet through the flagship, which is often a battleship or a supercarrier.

A fleet is normally commanded by a regular admiral, who is often also a commander in chief, but many fleets have been or are commanded by vice admirals or even rear admirals. Most fleets are divided into several squadrons, each under a subordinate admiral. These squadrons in turn are often divided into divisions. The squadrons are typically composed of homogeneous groups of the same class of warship, such as battleships or cruisers.

### Fleet Doctrine

The Imperial Doctrine backdated during the First Grand War, where Grand Admiral Clifton Marks successfully annihilated the fleets of both Magdorland and Forarendt in the Battle of The Abyss Sea. During the battle, Clifton used aerial reconnasaince to his advantage to locate the combined fleets and decimated them. It was after this battle that the Clifton Doctrine, was born.

The doctrine pushed admirals into making intelligence a priority, and after the said intelligence that was gathered was enough, then the admirals would attack the enemy, exploiting every opportunity when it arises. To enforce this doctrine, Grevian warships from the supercarrier to the frigate were given hangars for them to carry aircraft.

One major advantage in the Clifton Doctrine is that it gives advise to admirals on both offense and defence. For defence, when the fleet is outnumbered then it would stay in port, thereby enforcing a “fleet in being” tactic where the enemy has to force themselves to send enough ships to blockade it or else the fleet that is in the port could harass the fleet.