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I mean in the country altogether, not just within the government.

-The Special Tactics Force 1st Fasces Battalion

The S.T.F. 1st Battalion, as most "1st Battalions" in the military, is the best of the force. While the S.T.F. alone is incredibly elite, the 1st Battalion is the best of the best. Like the rest of the S.T.F., Fasces Battalion is direct property of the Grand Commander- officially, it has nothing to do with the government, but regardless, it is very common for the S.T.F. to accompany actual military forces. Fasces Battalion is permanently stationed within the Political District of Magna Polis.

-The Grand Guard Lictors

The Lictors of the Grand Guard are the personal bodyguards of the Grand Commander. Originally, the S.T.F. served this purpose, but to prevent resentment within the organization, and in response to the assassination of GRIFFITH-I, the Grand Guards were formed. The Guards altogether are composed of no more than 200 men, all of whom were invited from various branches of the military for high experience and very large acts of heroism. The Lictors are the detail assigned directly to the Grand Commander, as well as the Griffith Mausoleum.

-The Gedanke-Polizei

The GP is the GWO's secret police, and it lives up to that. No one has the slightest clue of the Gedanke-Polizei, though some feel that someone, though no one in specific, is doing classified dirty work for the government. The GP operates in other countries where overt involvement is not yet feasible or recommended, usually to prevent a CommuSocialist uprising/election.

-The Emorden-Geist Weapons Manufacturing Corporation Security Task Group 6

Task Group 6 is a battalion-sized force of the E.G.W.M.C.'s "dirty crew" mercenaries. Whenever the Corporation wants something dirty done and can't rely on the government for protection, TG6 is sent forth. Naturally, TG6 performs things that are considered all-around "wrong," ranging from penetrating Quarantine Zones to harvest diseases or infected people to assassinating nosy journalists or economic "vigilantes." TG6 is comparable in combat skills to the Army Advanced Paradrop Service, Marine Fallschirmjaegers, or even the Gedanke-Polizei in some situations.

-The Marine Corps Fallschirmjaegers

The Fallschirmjaegers serve the GWO as airborne shock troops. Through their training, experience, and skill, they have earned a full reputation as special forces, being deployed as counter terrorists, deniable ops troops, special infiltration personnel, and all around special operations troops. They are almost in constant competition with the Army Advanced Paradrop Service, who they view as unnecessary, given that the Fallschirmjaegers were founded first and serve a similar role.

-The Army Advanced Paradrop Service

Originally, the APS was formed as a first-response, swift-to-deploy force of special forces troops to help fight the Liberty Confederation and other uprisings within the GWO. Very similar to the Fallschirmjaegers, but the APS operates on a much smaller scale. APS troops are typically used for very precise, very quick operations, much like the British Special Air Service. APS Commandos also are often deployed to weakpoints in a GWO defensive area as a temporary solution while the heavier forces in the area are deployed.

I've got a few more in mind to be created in the future, but as of right now...

We have the USF (Union Special Forces), often informally called the Spetznaz. They take on the most ballsy, dangerous, badass missions there are, and kick total ass while doing it. They wear full body armor and make the most extensive use of the CAAW-9 and FoS-40 PDWs, as well as our AMPS-S11 automatic shotgun.

The Bagrissaries are the best trained soldiers of Padullahstan, but not much is known about them other than they are taken from their families at age four and trained constantly until they are 17.

None of our forces are elite. They all serve a necessary and equally important function.

And our most experienced troops would be better characterized as peacekeepers than as fighters. As my grandfather puts it, any fool can shoot people but it takes real courage to not shoot back when you're being shot at.

As for actual units, I can point to the Borickio Regiment and the Dracheslander Regiment, who followed me throughout the Suva Islands campaign and the Auftragsreich/Neurepublik campaign. They certainly acquitted themselves as well as any native-born Fatatatutian regiment.

-- Gen. Castro-Stalina, Fatatatutti Foreign Legion

The 'horsemen' wing of the Ramset Fighter Command.

12 pilots who train endlessly in the use of their machines, weapons, and tactics, The best fliers, and warriors in Ramsetia's airforce. Currently piloting specialised variants of the SSx-08 shrike, the 12 pilots are stationed on the Air Carrier 'Rapture'.

Oh awesome! Something I might enjoy talking about as it pertains to my nation/region!

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For my specific nation, DFD's Special Ops is the highest level you can reach in military training. Unfortunately....there is this big long story, blah blah blah, and their whereabouts are for the most part unknown.

In my region, The Reich Freedom Fighters (TRFF) are the most skilled, organized, and brutal force of soldiers that we have. Their existence is masking in childhood horror stories and urban legends, so much about them is IC'ly not known. Out of RP, I can tell you the reason they remain so out of sight is because the protection of their identity is one of their highest priorities. They tend to leave little survivors who can tell of an encounter with them. Most of the stories that are told about them originated from survivors who had at one point or another defeated a RFF. Their purpose is to seek out intelligence and put an end to the regional war, but of course, as with every major power source in my war, the lines between "good" and "bad" are never clear. Their current leader Code Six is the darkest character I RP and again, none of my characters go without flaws, so there is a way to take down pretty much everyone in my nation.

Holy Legion
Members of the Prelature of the Augarian Knights and the Holy Mother, the Holy Legion is an ensemble of warrior-priests. These Catholic priests are highly trained in modern warfare, and are equipped with the best weapons in the entire nation (including the X82 ACR), and are used as the elite frontline troops. They are almost unstoppable in their attacks, and, though their tactics are honorable and merciful after combat, they are brutal during. They were disbanded in 2015 following Father Andrew Koredev's rise to power. Very pristine and accurate, they are the polished, above-the-carnage infantry of Augarundus

Royal Guard
The Royal Guard of Augarundus are the elite warriors of the Vitali palace and capitol building. There is not a single hour of the day that they do not maintain their watch, and, with exactly 777 soldiers, they are a massive security force. They were slaughtered in 2015 by the Holy Legion (who had no idea what was going on) under the orders of Father Andrew Koredev and his puppet (who was supposed to become the new head-of-state) High General Klaus Ivanov.

Treachery, the Eighth Legion
There are seven Legions, massive groups of armies, in Augarundus. Each one is named after a deadly sin. The final two Legions, the Eighth and the Ninth (Treachery and Holy Legion respectively) are the most powerful. Treachery is a gathering of a much more rugged force than the Holy Legion, and is the mobile hit-and-run army of Augarundus. They are capable in any environment, and allow the most customization for their soldiers' personal preferences. Soldiers, though extremely loyal, are almost like mercenaries, in that they are largely responsible for themselves (they choose their weapons and equipment, with the option of using the extremely elite standard weaponry of the basic army).


The entire military is rather elite, as the 60 million infantry receive the majority of government funding (alright, 46%), most of which doesn't even go to weaponry and equipment manufactured by Angwer, which is free (ANGWER provides the state with free equipment and receives exemption of the law in return). Troops are not demi-gods, but they are extremely well trained and effective.

The Freedom Party Guards are the most elite, expirenced awesome fighters in the Federal Republic of Pandemicia. They are armed with the latest and greatest of technology that Pandemicia can purchase/produce. They are the most fanatical, devoted and extreme followers of the Pandemician right-wing political party called The Freedom Party. They're one and only objective is the complete the mission with as much destruction/death as they can dish out against the enemy.

Only our elite fighters is Parakeet Special Forces. It well trained special forces in Sornesian People Army than another division. They are equiped with highly upgraded Sa-SR-60 Heavy Sniper Rifle and another gadgets. They are take a part as elite sniper. There is the picture showing Parakeet in training:

The Royal Guard- this is the best of the best, used only for the protection of the King and Queen.


And the Shock Troopers

The ROTC (Reconnaissance Operative Tactical Commandos), our elite special forces.

The Flying Great Warbird Squadron, one of the best fighter squads in the Air Force, commanded by Kalakda's top ace.

In FT, there're the Republic Space Marines, trained to board enemy vessels, or hold off enemy boarding parties.

It would really be a toss up between three separate operation capable groups. The first being TRACT (Tactical Reconnaissance, Action, Counter Terrorism), who answers directly to the Imitoran High Military Command and is not beholden to any specific military branch. TRACT is divided into five separate troops of two platoons, and that's all I'm telling you on that. It is comparable in size, operations, and organization to the US Army 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta, the British SAS, and hints of the US Navy's "DEVGRU"...

Next would be the 5th Air Commando Regiment. Although part of the Air Force, the 5th ACR is an elite airborne special operations unit that can operate in large organized groups as an elite, light infantry unit (US Army Rangers) or smaller platoon and fire teams for Long Range Recon, Deep Target Interdiction, etc., (like the US Army Special Forces). Again, while officially part of the air force, they spend most of their time training and working with specialized units in the Army and Marines.

Finally, there is the Imitoran Intelligence Service's Clandestine Services Teams. The only description that has ever been released about this group is that they are a Organization of Rogues and Misfits, Rebels and Mercenaries, who do horrible things to equally horrible people. They are the type of people you'd want to have a drink with, but you wouldn't want your sister having a drink with.

Most regard the Royal Ixolian Marine Corps (RIMC) as an elite body of soldiers, and then within the Corps you find the elite of the elite, the Marine Raiders. As a general rule the Marines, especially the Raiders, tend to be aggressive and idealistic, with strong ideas as to what the Kingdom is all about.

Sornesia wrote:Only our elite fighters is Parakeet Special Forces. It well trained special forces in Sornesian People Army than another division. They are equiped with highly upgraded Sa-SR-60 Heavy Sniper Rifle and another gadgets. They are take a part as elite sniper. There is the picture showing Parakeet in training:

My God...I haven't seen that picture in...a really really long time.

1st Shadow Assassin Squadron (Elite Special Forces)

The Delta Shadow Assassin Squadron is the elite special forces Squad in the entire kingdom. Design for quick response timing, the Squadron was used as a counter-terrorist, assassination, raiders and conducted high level black operations. The Squadron is hand picked by Vamperial Headmaster Revan Piece and Vamperial Master Rathma Phoenix. Even though hundreds attempt to enlist in the squadron, at the most of any time, only two would be picked and the rest encouraged to try again the following year. Even if numbers are few, the squad still keeps its standards. The Squadron consists of 20 men.

21st Vamperial Ranger Battalion

The 21st Ranger Battalion was established to be used as paratroopers behind enemy lines and take out the enemy vital supply lines. In order to do this, a battalion of para-troopers would be used. Trained to conduct gurrellia warfare and black oeprations, the 21st Ranger Battalion is the pride of the 3rd Vamperial Legion. Their duties also involves with tense training with local militia and the Regular Army and currently holds the quickest tactical drop in the legion. Their commander is Vamperial Headmaster Mace.

121st Vamperial Mechainised Regiement

When the time comes for quick raids behind enemy lines, the 121st Mechanisied Regiement is designed for such efforts. With the bulk of its vehicles either IFV's or APC's, their handful of tanks and artillery provide the heavy support they need for a distraction while their fast moving vehicles conduct the raids. Under the skill command of Vamperial Headmaster Morrow, they train other units to be quick, silent and effective in raids.

87th Vamperial 'Lyran' Armour Brigade

Heavy armour is required on the battlefield alongside heavy artillery. When the call comes for heavy units to be required, the Order deploys Armour brigades. The best of the Armour Brigades is the 87th Vamperial Armour Brigade. The only brigade to consist of forigen weponary (Lyran Classes), their Wolfhound Battle Tanks, Artillery and Rottwiller's are effective against stubbon enemy formations while their IFV's, Moblie SAM's and APC's keep ground units and aerial forces off their backs. With destructive power and terror used as their primary weapons, the 87th Vamperial 'Lyran' Armour Brigade will break the enemy formations. Under the command of Vamperial Headmaster Swallow, the brigade earned the nickname 'Lyran' since their equipment is from the Lyran Storefront.

Deck of 52 Aerial Wing

What more to explain? The Deck of 52 Aerial Wing is 52 hand picked ace's to form a wing to answer the call to guard the homeland or lead over squadrons into battle. Hand picked, and lead, by Vamperial Aerial Headmaster Lee King, they use a YA-22 Cossier 'Devil' Fighter Jets as their only aircraft. Attempting to gain a spot isn't easy since they never go above 52 and have very high standards.

12th Vamperial Combat Fleet

A naval fleet consisting of 30 combat ships and additional support ships, the 12th Vamperial Combat Fleet was created as the elite fleet to bring the standards of the navy higher and enlist only the best. Under the command of Vamperial Fleet Admiral Matthew Kennedy, the 12th Vamperial Combat Fleet also has a wing of 120 combat fighter jets spread out over five carriers with additional aircraft for the mission.

The most elite in the Hodori Military are the Redjnaknenmatahsennaknen ja Hohdohree ⁽¹⁾, a division of the Yahmtahsennaknen ja Hohdohree ⁽²⁾ specializing in urban warfare and counter-terror operations, and the Zahdyahmtahsennaknen ja Hohdohree ⁽³⁾, the amphibious branch of the Hodori Infantry.

1. RNTNH, Hodori Infantry KTD
2. YTNH, Hodori Infantry
3. ZYTNH, Hodori Infantry Marine Corps

In order from most experienced to least
1. Special Operations Task Force
These people are trained for anything. They are the best of the best. A soldier here has a kill ratio of 1 to 300 Marines 1 to 400 army men
and 1 to 1000 civilian kill ratio. The training is brutal only half of all applicants are accepted and half of those people die in training. Very few people here about 200 out of 750000.
2.PFIS Team the team used by the intelligence service. Kill ratio 1 to 15
3. Pan-Freeland marine corps
These people are not as well trained as SOTF but still receive better training then the army. The kill ratio for a marine to an average soldier is 1 to 10. A fair amount of people make it here about 100000 of Pan-Freeland's 750000 Land troops are here
4. Army operations task force
The army's special forces receive decent training. about 15000 people make it to the army special forces. Kill ratio of 1 to 10
5. PFPS and PFSIS SWAT
The swat teams of the national police service and special investigative service. Trained for things like hostage standoffs. Estimated kill ratio 1 to 8

Imperial Guards: 5,430 soldiers (1 Brigade) The personal guards of the Royal Family, well trained soldiers and officers, entrance exams are very rigorous with a 95% failure rate.

Special Air Service: 5,430 soldiers (1 Brigade) The Air Force's special forces, must go through a rigorous entrance exam, and must know how do use SCUBA equipment, and must be able to parachute from a plane.

Special Boat Service: 5,430 soldiers (1 Brigade) The Navy's special forces, must go through a rigorous entrance exam, and must know how do use SCUBA equipment, and must be able to parachute from a plane.

Army Commandos: 5,430 soldiers (1 Brigade) The Army's special forces, must go through a rigorous entrance exam, and must know how do use SCUBA equipment, and must be able to parachute from a plane.

Task Force 5: 271 soldiers (1 Company) A separate branch of the military separate from the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Imperial Guards, they are only selected from former members of the SAS, SBS, Army Commandos, and Imperial Guards. Entrance exams have a 90% failure rate.

Household Bodyguards: 100 soldiers is separate part of the Imperial Guards, they wear traditional armour, and use traditional weapons, are very well trained with their weapons, yet are mostly ceremonial. There are always at least 20 at each of the royal family's 4 houses, and at least 10 are always with the Crown Prince, and King.

1st Reconnaissance Regiment[GRU]

Hand picked from the most promising/experienced contract soldiers. They undergo intense training, and are commonly used to disrupt enemy operations far behind their lines, along with clandestine operations in foreign countries. All operatives are adapt in the usage of small arms, hand to hand fighting, medical training, along with piloting aircraft.


23rd Guards "Treneska" Motorrifle Division

An all volunteer troop formation, they have been in every conflict the state has been involved in. Their training standards are higher then that of others, and are equipped with the latest equipment.


106th Guards "Naszran" Red Banner and 76th Guards "Veblensk" Air Assault Divisions


Primarily contract soldiers, they represent the highest level of training of non SpetsNaz formations and are the most experienced soldiers in the country.

The First Fleet, the most experienced fleet in the navy, they have fought several large battles and numerous small clashes during the Civil War against the Communists.

17th JSOS Reconnaissance Regiment (Joint Special Operations Service)
The 17th is the home unit of the famed "Saints" Sniper/Scout teams. The Saints origins pre-date the republic and the IFAF. Now most of the original members of the Saints are serving as instructors at the Badb Catha International Military Academy, however those men who have come to replace them strive to fill the shoes of the most venerated in the history of Skibereen. The Sniper/Scout teams of the 17th train and execute all weather all terrain recon work as well destroying enemy morale via priority target engagement. Other units utilize and train Sniper/Scouts howfer those of the 17th are expected to operate in all theaters under any circumstances.

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Fuerzas de Elite Revolucionarias

Elite forces are usually regular infantrymen who have become interested in specialization into more asymmetric forms of warfare and have a major combat experience, unlike the Blackguards which also have a heavy intelligence, infiltration and ELInt focus, the Elite Forces are instead the shock troops designated to take over and/or defend beachheads, mountains, urban areas, jungles, forests, deserts among other specialties of them. Although being a minority in the military, they are still much more common than the Blackguards.

Guardias Negras Revolucionarias

Wherever some curious tourist and military enthusiast asks about the Blackguards or "Guardias Negras", the answers will come from the simplistic "they are the best of the best, the pinnacle of freedom fighters" to even the even more exaggerated "they are trained since birth to fight for freedom, one of them can defeat an entire platoon alone". Nonetheless it is a fact that due to the extensive, almost lifetime training of their youngest members, the number of people who give up and their extremely small numbers, they have acquired an almost legendary status among the people of the Confederacy. The primary difference between Blackguards and Elite Forces, is that while the elite forces have a balanced focus on both solid, preferably permanent offense and defense in terrains they are specialized with, the Blackguards are a force specialized in offensive maneuvers and even more in infiltration, sabotage and intelligence gathering. They are divided into the following specializations, of which one is only a rumor:

Guardias Negras Montañeras(Mountaineer Blackguards)

With many of them having come as veterans from the second civil war whose most combat experiences happened in the hilly and mountainous northeast of Spain, the Mountaineer Blackguards consist into elite soldiers with climbing, mountaineering and arctic warfare skills fitting for the cold climates of the landscape they are most trained and skilled in combat or infiltration with.

Guardias Negras de Jungla, Bosque y Ciudade(JBC Blackguards)

Originally from the most skilled and highlighted anarchist militia veterans who operated in both urban warfare and through the forests of Spain. Although most of them never have been into tropical jungles, following the establishment of Anarchilopolis, their training also include a 6-months training in the Amazon rainforest, making of them the most versatile of the Blackguards land-based forces. Much of their training, due to the nature of the environments they operate at, is focused in close quarters battle. Their urban warfare specialization also does not exclude propaganda, intelligence and psychological warfare which are other of their focuses.

Guardias Negras del Aire(Air Blackguards)

The Air Blackguards, also known as "La Quinta Columna" for certain reasons, are a mechanized elite force of paratroopers specialized in HALO paradrops, which are, depending on their operation profile, either supported or not by the M135 MacGavin Airborne multimission effects vehicle, specially its APC variant, among other light armored vehicles. Their training focus on stealth, urban warfare, securing airheads and propaganda, due to their primary role of breaking and establishing safe landing zones behind enemy lines, stirring dissent against oppressive governments, inciting revolutions among the local population, and their secondary role of infiltration and intelligence gathering. In certain ways they are more of an intelligence unit than of a conventional military unit, with a large quantity of ELInt specialists among them, and their success will usually be heavily influenced by their capability of convincing the locals of liberated cities that they are not there to invade their nation, but to give them a chance of establishing a better government or no government at all by their own choice. As the backbones of memetic and ideological warfare of the Confederacy, their contribution to reducing the length of a war by managing to break local support from government is crucial. Their nickname is due to the fact one of their goals is to create a fifth column from the own inhabitants of a targeted dictatorship.

Marinos Negros(Blackmarines)

Composed by amphibious warfare specialists, and specially by frogmen, the Blackmarines are among the most crucial in overseas operations of all Blackguards special forces. Their capability of sneaking beneath the waves, coupled with their amphibious assault skills allow them to infiltrate deep into the sludged bowels of coastal cities or inside hostile ships.

Guardias Negras de Espionaje(Spy Blackguards)

Organized into an ideologically-loaded, somewhat informal and also social networking based non-western covert cell structure, it is the most mysterious and obscure of all Blackguards forces, this military intelligence force also is specialized fully into very in depth incursions behind enemy lines for intelligence gathering, although its largest highlight in skills is the ability of infiltration inside hostile societies and of breeding future sleeper cells, agent provocateurs and specially, the most envisioned goal of all, successfully establishing agents of influence. It has been crucial to the dismantlement of organized crime in the Confederacy after successfully infiltrating one of their operatives into the largest criminal organization, where in a long ladder, this operative have successfully climbed to the position of second in command from the entire organization, contributing secretly to its fall. The Spy Blackguards must not seek to enter history, for when successful, their actions are not attributed to them. Another noticeable fact about it is the claim that most of its members are women, who usually perform better in psychological warfare than men, and because most societies have men in authority positions, it's thus better for gathering information, because Spy Blackguards are masters in the arts of seduction and deception, and willing to go as far as necessary to get what they need.

Sección 51(Section 51)

According to some conspiracy "theory" websites, a mysterious secret organization inside the Blackguards called Section 51 exists, formed only by the "best of the best of the best", which is a Black Ops force specialized in false-flag operations, coup d'etats and staging major conspiracies against foreign governments. Some come far enough in their theories to claim in their sites that the Section 51 is only a single part an entire "Secret Military" in Third Spanish States which includes secretive divisions in the Navy and Air Force as well, claimed to be created to allow a much heavier interventionism beneath the facade of an isolationist country, by supporting revolutionaries and making "accidents" happen, among other things, if those sites can be believed.