Valkem Authority Army

The army acts as the Valkem Authority’s main land forces. Utilizing a variety of land vehicles and equipment to take on the enemies of the Valkem Authority.

Shock Trooper Brigade
The Shock Trooper Brigade is the VA’s medium armoured infantry utilizing armour capable of resisting high amounts of punishment. Shock Troopers are also used in riot control against any rebellious movements. The Order is led by the Knight of the Imperial Phoenix. He or She is chosen by each new Emperor and it is the highest honor any member of the Order can achieve. The Order is relatively small compared to other divisions and corps within the military but the knights of the order receive the highest quality of training within the entire empire. Generally knights of the order are stationed in the palace or the Burning Phoenix, but its not entirely uncommon for them to be assigned to other nobility within empire. The Emperor may assign a guard unit to an Archduke, Grand Duke or Duke as they are usually important enough to receive such protection.

Goliath Heavy Infantry Corps
The Goliath Heavy Infantry Corps is the VA’s heavily armoured infantry which are equivalent to walking tanks. Goliath troops are deployed in place of tanks when fighting in tighter areas such as inside hostile forts or military facilities and biomes such as jungles or swamps.

Special Operations Brigade
The Special Operations Brigade deals with covert operations against the Valkem Authority’s enemies. They specialize in sabotage, infiltration, and intel gathering such as spying or cracking into a data vault.

Search and Rescue Task Force
The SnR Task Force deals with rescuing fellow VA soldiers from hostile environments, downed naval vessels, aircraft, and civilians from natural disasters.

Military Police
The Military Police deals with maintaining order within the Army, and Marines. Their duties include disciplining soldiers who break military laws, and assisting the Shock Trooper Brigade during a riot.

Strike Team
Typically four to six soldiers and usually led by a Sergeant.

Squad
Typically eight to sixteen soldiers and usually led by a Staff Sergeant.

Platoon
Two or four squads either sixteen or forty-four men, and usually led by a 2nd Lieutenant or Lieutenant.

Company
Two or five platoons either sixty or two-hundred men, and usually led by a Captain.

Battalion
Three or five companies either three-hundred or one-thousand men, and usually led by a Lieutenant Colonel.

Brigade
Three or more battalions either one-thousand five-hundred men or three-thousand two-hundred men, and usually led by a Colonel.

Division
Three brigades either ten-thousand or sixteen-thousand men, and usually led by a Brigadier.

Corps
Two or five divisions either twenty-thousand or forty-thousand men, and usually led by a Lieutenant-General.