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{{Infobox military unit
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| unit_name = Arcerion Maneuver Training Centre
The Tundra Wars were a series of military campaigns waged from 1690-1712 by the Kingdom of [[Faneria|Fhainnlannachaeran]] against the feudal polities of Reothadt and [[Lyukquar]]. While technically separate campaigns, the 1698 invasion of Lyukquar resulted from Lyukqui support for local lords and rebels within Haibne after its annexation in 1691.
| native_name = AMTC
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| image = AMTC Colours.PNG
| conflict          = Tundra Wars
| dates = 1919-present
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| country = [[Arcerion]]
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| type = {{army|Arcerion}}
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| role = Training Centre and Mechanized Warfare School
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| size = 2,200 (2026)
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| garrison  = Midland Barracks, Presdale Garrison
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| motto = The Cavalry!
| place            = [[Faneria]], Northern [[Levantia]]
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| current_commander = Colonel Eric Fisher
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| commander1 = LCol Michael Smith
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| commander1_label = Chief Instructor
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| commander2 = WO1 John de Brees
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| commander2_label = Regimental Sergeant-Major
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| result            = Annexation of the [[Lyukquar]] and [[Haibne]] regions and establishment of the Haibne, Searastaigh, Oirthir, and Astaigh Vicariates
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}}The '''Arcerion Maneuver Training Centre (AMTC)''' is the [[Arcer Army]]'s functional centre of excellence for collective training and is the mechanized and armoured warfare authority for higher headquarters and all land formations in [[Arcerion]]. It is housed under the [[Arcerion Army Training Centre (AATC)]], the overarching headquarters for staff and force generation formations. It is housed as part of [[Presdale Garrison]] in [[Geography of Arcerion|Central Arcerion]], at the Midland Barracks.
| combatants_header = Belligerents
== Overview ==
| combatant1        = {{flagicon|Faneria}} [[Faneria|Fhainnlannachaeran]]
=== History ===
| combatant2        = *Grand Duchy of Lyukquar
[[File:Tank class.jpg|thumb|Armoured crewmen from 1 Arcerion Tank Regiment (1 ATR) get classes on tank-infantry cooperation during a class at AMTC in 1933. ]]
*Duchy of The Wash
The Training Centre was established at the end of the First Great War, to create more cohesive and effective mechanized and armoured formations as a result of the industrialization and motorization of modern Occidental militaries in the antebellum period post-1GW. Its initial core staff was a mixture of armoured NCOs, infantrymen creating the nascent motorization efforts, and senior officers and scholars on modern warfare.
*Archduchy of Reothadt
Over successive decades the training centre changed and grew, with large ranges and staff assisting with the creation of more hard structures and garrison buildings in Presdale. This benefitted Arcerion with the successful implementation of Arcerion's modern army during the Second Great War. After the Second Great War, budgetary cuts affected the Training Centre, and an emphasis on light infantry and smaller, low-intensity conflicts such as the [[Fourth Bush War]] created a perceived lessened need for large-scale armorued formation training. As such, during the Fourth Bush War the Cronan Patrol Competition was created, to foster esprit de corps and create an emphasis on excellent light infantry and skirmishing tactics, with the staff from the Royal Easthampton Borderers providing the Subject Matter Expertise (SME) on the issue.  
| combatant3        =
| commander1        = *Rih [[Conn Suthar-Màrtainn]]
*General noname
*Rih [[Sean Suthar-Màrtainn]]
*Vicar noname
*General noname
| commander2        = *Archduke
*Duke
*General
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*random woodsman
*Duke
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| units1            = {{flagicon|Faneria}} Royal Army of the Fhainn (Army of the North) <br/> {{flagicon|Faneria}} Throneswatch House Guard <br/> Popular Army of the Great Northern Crusade
| units2            = King's Army <br/> Grand Army of Lyukquar <br/> Archduke's Levies <br/> Minor Feudal Armies
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| casualties1      = significant
| casualties2      = significant
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{{Template:History of Faneria}}
==Invasion of Reothadt==
The Archduchy of Reothadt was a feudal Fhainnin-Coscivian-Minor Gaelic state along the [[Kilikas Sea|Kilikas]] coast founded by political marriages in 1463, and had fought protracted border conflicts with Faneria for several decades prior to the initial invasion on behalf of the marriage of the Vicar of Gleathan to one of the Archduke's daughters. After the death of Archduke ______ in 1690, Vicar ______ pressed a claim to the Archduchy, and received support from ''Rih'' [[Sean Suthar-Màrtainn]] to invade the area with supporting levies from [[Connsmonann]] and [[Vrael]].


At the turn of the millennia, the rising threat in Varhsan and nearby Indigenous nations meant the training centre saw a renaissance, with increased funding and another land purchase bringing it to 5,000sq kilometers. This culminated with the largest Arcer mechanized offensive since the 2nd Great War, Operation Pullman, which saw the effective use of I Arcer Corps on the drive to Anzio, effectively destroying elements several times their size thanks to the thorough training and education provided for years prior to the Army's infantry, artillery, and armoured officers.  
The war with Reothadt went extremely well at first, with the Archduke being killed within a year by his son ______, who swore fealty to the ''Rih'' in exchange for nominally maintaining his position under the title of Vicar of Haibnelann - the name of the geographic region, whereas Reothadt was the fief of the Archduke. Several local lords, namely ____ of the Duchy of Wyhsar, refused this move and continued to fight on.
== Formation Structure ==
==Intermediate Period==
=== Headquarters ===
Most of the resisting Dukes and lords were besieged and crushed with relative ease between invading and local troops, but Wyhsar had the advantages of being a swampy region on Reothadt's border with the neighboring nation of Lyukquar, which supported them with weapons and supplies as they continued to launch raids and foment resistance against Fanerian troops, killing Fanerians wherever they found them and making the absorption of Haibne incomplete. Further complicating things, ''Rih'' Sean elected to pass the Edict of Habhainnsk, forcibly unlanding several prominent lords whose loyalty was questionable, spurring large numbers of people to flock to local militias and 'The Wash' and refuse Fanerian rule as their lords were killed or deposed. This state of affairs continued for another seven years until 1698, with Fanerian troops launching several unsuccessful attacks into Wyhsar, earning it the nickname 'The Wash' from Aenglish mercenaries after seasonal flooding drowned several hundred Fhainnin soldiers and scattered thousands more during the disastrous second assault.
The headquarters for the Training Centre is comprised of a Headquarters Company and a supporting Logistics and Signals Detachment. It provides command, control, logistics, and communications functions for the formation, including personnel management as well as intake and outflow of candidates. The HQ is also responsible for liaising with similar organizations in Ixnay, and working with both Army Headquarters as well as foreign Defense Attaches for the training of foreign militaries or foreign governments that wish to submit their brigades to the rigorous standards and modern education provided by AMTC.  
==Invasion of Lyukquar==
=== Staff and Training Group ===
The original casus belli of the Lyukquar campaign was the death of a Royal diplomat from highwaymen on the road to the Duchy's capital, Lansgadh, which was blamed on the Grand Duke - but in all likelihood the killing of his entourage was an attack by rebels striking out from the nearby Wash. ''Rih'' [[Sean Suthar-Màrtainn|Sean]] had been attempting to cause friction between the states for some time, and while the claim of deliberate assassination was a thin pretext at best, he had his own army to rely on along with raising troops from Connsmonann and Haibnelann, the latter of which had been formally annexed in 1691 with the exception of the Duchy of the Wash. For its part, Lyukquar had been supplying The Wash in a bid to prevent Royal attentions against itself. The declaration of war against the Grand Duchy was generally considered unlikely, as unlike Reothadt, its army had (albeit dated) cannon and a small corps of professional soldiery, and the campaigning previously shown by Faneria had been incredibly lackluster and slow considering its manpower and theoretical technological advantage.
The Staff and Training Group is the primary educational and academic force at AMTC. They provide Observers, Controllers, and Trainers (OCTs) which are full-time officers and NCOs that staff exercises, acting as both mentors, educators, and referees on exercises. Generally, these are some of the most experienced commanders in the Arco military, and while not handpicked preference is given to the Training Centre during posting seasons as this allows the force generation of quality officers and NCOs for future deployments. The bulk of staff are made up of infantry, engineer, armour, and artillery officers, however there is liaisons from other branches such as Logistics, Special Operations, Signals, and the Military Police to advise on specialist activities such as road traffic management, march discipline, electronic warfare, or the forward resupply of combat formations.  


The Staff and Training Group also house the Air Coordination Cell, which works with the [[Arcer Air Force|Arcerion Air Force]] to provide aerial fires and tactical airlift from airframes as small as UAVs up to and including larger prop-driven cargo aircraft.  
[[Sean Suthar-Màrtainn]] formally declared war on the 9th of March, 1698, raising personal levies and gathering his standing troops to form a separate army from the Vicarial levies containing the rebellion in Reothadt. In a shocking display of competence, he lead his men through the Deamhainn mountains rather than making the long trek to the west around them, marching onto the northern plains behind the assembled Lyukqui army and sacking the city of Geoghegan before marching on Lansgadh. The Grand Duke fled, meeting up with his army as his capital surrendered and returning to retake it. By then, the Fanerian army had moved west to try and intercept, and the two forces managed to miss each other entirely, with Lansgadh being liberated in August. ''Rih'' Sean then changed tact, signing a peace agreement with the Grand Duke in exchange for a halt to the support being given to The Wash.


The main Opposing Force (OPFOR) unit is staffed by 4th Mechanized Brigades' Northlea Rifle Regiment (2nd Battalion, 2NRR). It is unique in the way that it is the only line unit within the Arcer Army permanently assigned to AMTC, and serves as the enemy combatants across a wide variety of exercises and scenarios.
''Rih'' Sean died of a pneumonic illness in 1700 contracted while on campaign, and had no male heirs, passing his crown to his daughter [[Sear Mari Suthar-Màrtainn|Sear Mari]]. Sear, a mere child handling challenges to her legitimacy at the time, was eager to finish the campaigns in the north, but her father's army was still present and cleaning up the largest spots of rebel activity in 1701. The ''Banrih'' and her advisors placed the Army of the North under the command of General Connal Mayes and commanded him to invade Lyukquar without pretext, leading to the Battle of Feldsdún in 1702 and the First and Second Battles of Lansgadh in 1702-1703, followed by a victorious eight-month siege of the capital. General Mayes returned to the south victorious, leaving Haibnelann in a state of relative peace and Lyukquar, while shattered, effectively unable to resist conquest by loyal nobles and their private armies, leading to a frenzied minor crusade in which poorer lords grabbed what they could in the north. Lyukquar had no formal surrender, but was simply quashed and disintegrated over the next decade. The Wash formally surrendered in 1711 and the last noteworthy holdouts in Lyukquar were dispersed by late 1712, although true peace would take decades.
=== Doctrine Staff and Maneuver Academy ===
== Aftermath ==
The Doctrinal Staff and the Maneuver Academy are a smaller academic function within AMTC. They study, research, and publish articles and journals for scholarly readers on modern warfare and its applications. It is comprised of officers either undergoing their time in a staff role, senior officers on special assignment based on their command and staff experience, or civilians scholars and researchers. It is the smallest unit within the Training Centre, comprising roughly sixty staff and based out of the Ellis Library within Presdale Garrison.  
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Haibnelann and Lyukquar were of secondary importance during the Sutharine Succession Crisis and First Kin War that immediately followed them, and are generally considered to have weakened the Vicariates of Connsmonann and Gleathan significantly, damaging key supporters of the Suthar-Màrtainn family and creating an opportunity for the Barh-Màrtainns to stake a serious claim to the throne. The long war also petered out into a guerilla war, and while the locals were pacified within a generation, continued minor uprisings and rebel activity created a drain on Royal resources and busied those same allies with supporting the new Vicariate in Haibne. Lyukquar remained a fragmented state under martial law well into the 1700s, and remained an economically backwards part of the country until the mid-1850s, after which it was finally elevated to a set of undersized Vicariates under weak leaders. The human cost of the campaign is estimated to be anywhere from 200,00 to half a million lives, as the wars caused food shortages and peasant flight as well as decapitating much of the local leadership. The northern Kilikas coast lagged behind the Vandarch Basin significantly in education, development, and population relative to other parts of Faneria long after the Wars, and became a major recipient of development programs under the Republic.
== Exercises ==
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=== EX CRONAN SHIELD ===
[[Category:Wars involving Faneria]]
EX CRONAN SHIELD is the annual verification exercise for Arcerion's high-readiness brigade. ITs purpose is to simulate a variety of scenarios from domestic response to civil unrest, an invasion onto Arcer Sovereign territory, as well as combatting insurgency or other militant actions against the state. Taking place bi-annually, it is the culmination of a Brigade's year-long work up and after a successful verification by AMTC, Army Headquarters will usually assign the brigade to an operational deployment.  
 
=== EX MOORLAND WARRIOR ===
The main offensive or expeditionary-focused exercise is held once annually and is comprised of both live-fire training and collective combined arms maneuver warfare. It is modelled off of Operation Pullman and fighting a near-peer adversary either in Arcerion or abroad in other areas of Crona. The main effort is to exercise mission command principles such as NCO initiative, decentralized leadership, and robust logistical support to a brigade fighting an enemy with similar capabilities. It is considered one of the most difficult exercises, as the OPFOR train and conduct this exercise regularly and know the terrain, so attacking brigades are fighting an educated, well-trained, and experienced defender. The results have been seen internationally, as 2/3rds of Arcerion's component forces for the Final War of the Deluge had participated in MOORLAND WARRIOR at least once.  
 
=== EX METAL CROWN ===
=== Cronan Patrol Competition ===
== Types of Training ==
=== Live Fire Ranges ===
=== Collective Training ===
=== Individual Readiness Training ===
=== Advanced Officer and NCO Maneuver Training ===
 
==== Combat Team Leadership Course ====
 
== Multinational Engagements ==
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