Royal and Confederate Army (New Harren): Difference between revisions

While serving as a standard military branch and border patrol force during peacetime, the Royal and Confederate Army is intended during wartime to functionally serve as a {{wp|corps}} sized formation attached to the larger [[Royal and Imperial Army (Urcea)|Royal and Imperial Army]] when fully mobilized. Prior to full mobilization, the Royal and Confederate Army is designed to serve as a defensive force to allow time for the Royal and Imperial Army to be deployed to [[Cusinaut]].  

===Origins===

The Royal and Confederate Army was formed during the early stage of the [[Final War of the Deluge]] as a wartime necessity. Prior to the conflict, [[New Harren]] had no official armed forces and was under the protection of the [[Armed Forces of the Apostolic Kingdom of Urcea]], meaning that the [[Royal and Imperial Army (Urcea)|Royal and Imperial Army]] was responsible for defending the borders of the Kingdom and prosecuting war against its enemies as necessary. As the conflict shifted from a defensive war with [[Algoquona]] to a general war with [[Varshan]] with the [[Invasion of Cetsencalia]], the Royal and Imperial Army needed to rapidly redeploy from [[Cusinaut]] to [[Cetsencalia]] and [[Quetzenkel]], leaving very few spare units to continue the conflict with [[Algoquona]] even on a defensive posture. Accordingly, an agreement was reached with the constituent tribes of [[New Harren]] for them to provide their tribal militias for a new standing army that they would maintain influence within. With the constituent tribes providing a majority of the manpower, later supplemented by volunteers from the Rectory of New Harren and from abroad, an officer corps was created using [[LUDC]] officers on global assignment, particularly from [[Yonderre]] and the [[Deric States]], as neither were involved in the war with [[Varshan]]. [[Guillaume d'Agostino]], a native of [[Yonderre]], was given the rank of Prafáti Princeps Glássariaei (equivalent to {{Wp|commandant}}) and placed in command of the Army.

Following the end of the [[Final War of the Deluge]], many of the tribal militias activated for wartime service went home, and consequently the major source of the Army's manpower - confederated units - effectively ceased to exist with the beginning of the [[Treaty of Electorsbourg (2024)|Electorsbourg peace talks]]. Regardless, [[Guillaume d'Agostino]] maintained many of its volunteer forces and liberated units in good order, implementing new training regimens and unit organization following the war. Many of the liberated units would remain with the army; having previously been Algosh conscripts from impoverished areas of the Four Neighbors, most of them had gained considerable experience and became the professional core of the Army along with some volunteers from the Rectory of New Harren. The wartime structure continued through late 2026, when questions about the Army's future came into doubt. At the end of the year, d'Agostino entered into negotiations with the constituent nations of the Kingdom to establish a new organizational structure for the Army which would be centered around a professional volunteer core with rotating, rationalized adaptations of tribal militia forces. These negotiations succeeded and the new organizational system entered force in mid-2027, and with it the Army received additional funding from the government of New Harren as well as additional equipment from recently decommissioned units of the [[Armed Forces of the Apostolic Kingdom of Urcea]], allowing for new training and better equipped professional units.

==Organization==

[[Category: Final War of the Deluge]]

[[Category: Military]]