Imperial Cavalry Guard Regiment

Composition

Manpower

Each Imperial Cavalry Guard Regiment are slightly in excess of 1500 men in manpower.
with each Squadron made up of around 54 men, and each infantry Company roughly 155 men

Vehicles

As an Armored formation Cavalry Guard regiments come well equipped in terms of Armored Fighting Vehicles, with over 140 Main Battle Tanks and roughly 150 Infantry Fighting Vehicles in most configurations. outside of its fleet of AFVs the regiments also come equipped with a fleet of 120 lighter auxiliary vehicles, made up of Jeeps, Fuel Trucks, Field Ambulances and so forth.

MAIN BATTLE TANK

The main vehicle of the Armored Squadrons is the UC90-EMBT41 "Templar Mk.II". which stands for Universal carrier 9th-series 0-edition, Electromagnetic Main Battle Tank with 4cm cannon, 1st version. though often just referred to as UC90, EMBT41 or Templar. this armoured tracked vehicle comes armed with a turret mounted 4cm Hyper-velocity, Autoloading, Stabilized Rail gun and a coaxial machine gun. has a 10 round ready-rack in an ammo cassette in the rear of the turret. while the cassette is stocked the autoloader can reload the cannon every 5 seconds. Once the turret cassette is empty, additional shells stored in the hull of the vehicle would have to be moved into the ammo cassette manually by the crew. This would normally fall on the gunner or commander as the only two crew members in the turret. In the front of the hull there is a 1500 HP engine as well as the Drivers position the hull has a rear ramp for easy evacuation from the vehicle or restocking of ammunition. The turret is equipped with thermal sights, Laser warning receiver, laser rangefinder and a dual-control fire control system. further it has a top mounted automatic close in laser weapon, that combined with the active protection system can provide close in protection, from aerial and ground attacks.

INFANTRY FIGHTING VEHICLE

The main vehicle of reconnaissance and mechanized battalions is the UC91-IFV42 "Crusader Mk.IV" Infantry fighting vehicle that is based on the same hull as the MBT, and thus have the same level of armor. The IFV42 is equipped with a Remote Controlled Turret armed with a 4cm High-velocity Auto-cannon, a coaxial machine gun and a extendable missile launcher. The Launcher carries 2 missiles that, once fired, can be reloaded from inside the vehicle by extending the launcher into the loading position, allowing the missiles to be loaded up into the launcher from within. The turret is equipped with thermal sights, Laser warning receiver, laser rangefinder and a dual-control fire control system that has an Infra-red Search and Track system, enabling the main gun to lock on to moving targets, even flying targets. In the hull there is the same front mounted 1500 HP engine and the drivers position. though unlike the UC90, the UC91 has a crew compartment in the hull behind the drivers position, seating the Gunner and Commander in a side-by-side seating configuration. Behind the crew compartment is the passenger compartment for 6 seated soldiers and a rear ramp.

Structure

Imperial Cavalry Guard Regiments are always made up of one Regimental Headquarters and Headquarters Company, four Combat or Line Battalions and a single support battalion. Further the doctrinal standard dictates that each Cavalry regiment is made up of 1-2 Reconnaissance Cavalry Guard Battalions, 2-3 Armored Cavalry Guard Battalions, 0-1 Mechanized Cavalry Guard Battalions and 1 Regimental Support Battalion. Each Battalion is made up of an HQ platoon and four Companies/Squadrons. In Reconnaissance and Armored Cavalry Guard battalions, a company sized element is called a squadron.

Armored Squadron

Each Armored Squadron is made up of 4 platoons of 4 MBTs with a Squadron HQ of 2 MBTs.

Reconnaissance Squadron

Each Recon Squadron is made up of 4 Platoons of 2 MBTs and 4 IFVs and a HQ of 1 IFV.

Armored Infantry Company

Each Company is made up of 4 Platoons each with a Platoon HQ and 3 Squads mounted in 4 IFVs, and a Company HQ with 2 IFVs.

Shown below is the organization of the 4th Cavalry Guard Regiment of Vektra:

Regimental Headquarters and Headquarters Company (RHHC)

1st Battalion, 4th Vektran Cavalry Guard Regiment (Armored Battalion)

1st Battalion, HHS - (Headquarters)
A Squadron - (Armored)
B Squadron - (Armored)
C Squadron - (Armored)
D Squadron - (Armored)

2nd Battalion, 4th Vektran Cavalry Guard Regiment (Reconnaissance Battalion)

2nd Battalion, HHS - (Headquarters)
E Squadron - (Reconnaissance)
F Squadron - (Reconnaissance)
G Squadron - (Reconnaissance)
H Squadron - (Reconnaissance)

3rd Battalion, 4th Vektran Cavalry Guard Regiment (Armored Battalion)

3rd Battalion, HHC - (Headquarters)
I Squadron - (Armored)
J Squadron - (Armored)
K Squadron - (Armored)
L Squadron - (Armored)

4th Battalion, 4th Vektran Cavalry Guard Regiment (Mechanized Battalion)

4th Battalion, HHC- (Headquarters)
M Company - (Armored infantry)
N Company - (Armored infantry)
O Company - (Armored infantry)
P Company - (Armored infantry)

Regimental Support Battalion

Support Battalion, HHC - (Headquarters)
Supply and Transportation Company
Maintenance Company
Pioneer Company
Medical Company
Artillery Battery

Depending on operational needs, RHHC can organize the regiment or parts of it, into Combined Battalions. In Combined Battalion organization, the first combat company/squadron stay with its parent headquarters, while the others can be swapped with a different Type Battalion.
example of a Combined battalion:

1st Battalion, 4th Vektran Cavalry Guard Regiment (Combined Battalion)

1st Battalion, HHS - (Headquarters)
A Squadron - (Armored)
B Squadron - (Armored)
F Squadron - (Reconnaissance)
N Company - (Armored infantry)

Logistics

Logistical Support

The regimental support battalion provides the logistical support of the regiment

Support Battalion, HHC - (headquarters)
Is the HQ of the support battalion, here the tasks for the battalion is organized.

Supply and Transportation Company
Provides the entire regiment with supplies such as Fuel, Food and Ammunition.

Maintenance Company
Maintains the regiments large fleet of vehicles.

Pioneer Company
Provides combat engineering capabilities to the regiment.

Medical Company
Provides the Medical care of the Regiment. dispatching medics to each infantry platoon, coordinating casualty collections points for each company, with transfer of injured to the Regimental Aid Post.

Artillery Battery
Provides Indirect fire support to the Regiment.

When the regiment is deployed into combat, the Support Battalion will set up a Regimental Support Area, in rear of the regiments area of operations. in the RSA the Medical Company will run a Regimental Aid Post, for the treatment of serious wounds and the care of injured before movement to a hospital or lift off world. the Maintenance Company will operate a Field Workshop, for advanced repairs of components that has been swapped out in the field, it is also where the they Coordinate with Pioneer company in regards to vehicle recovery tasks. Supply and Transport have a Supply Center in the RSA, from where they will coordinate and dispatch supplies out to all units. it also coordinates with Maintenance and Pioneer companies for dispatching of temporary Forward Arming and Refuelling Points (FARP) closer to the front line. In the RSA the Artillery Battery will set up a Fire Direction Center which computes firing solutions based on map coordinates, receives fire requests and feedback from observers and field units, and communicates directions to the Gun groups/sections. It also receives commands from higher headquarters. further the Artillery Battery has a number of Gun groups, which does the actual shooting of indirect fire. these may be set up in the RSA, or may be somewhere else depending on operational needs.

Recruitment

As with all Imperial Regiments, recruitment is done on a planetary basis. which means that all members serving in a regiment are planetary residents of the same world. this in turn means that if any member were to move residence to a different world, they would have to be transferred to a different regiment.
outside of the planetary restrictions, all the regular requirements of imperial conscription and service applies: Imperial citizenship, minimum 16 years of age, of sound mind and body, height of no lower than 150cm and no higher than 210cm. Cavalry regiments specifically tend to keep most members under 190cm in height, due to the limited space inside armored vehicles.

History

Honours

In the Imperial Military it is tradition that regiments keep track of all larger battles and military campaigns they have taken part in, especially the victories. These are collectively known as battle honours, and serve as a way to see each regiments history. following this tradition regiments often adorn regimental regalia, such as banners or crests, with the given names of these battle or campaigns. Many regiments also use their battle honours as a basis for the naming conventions of their companies, but there is no formalized standard since this is based in individual regimental traditions.

Honorifics

Certain regiments conduct themselves so honourably and achieve so great fame, that they are granted an honorific title. such a title would often be based on an acceptable pre-existing nickname already in common use within the regiment, a regimental mascot or relevant unit type of past eras. which would be used in combination with the planetary origin of the regiment. this means there can be no two regiments from the same planet with the same honorific title. further to the codified planetary limit on honorifics, its tradition that there will be no two regiments, no matter the planetary origin that will hold the same honorific title. regimental honorific titles are though so hard to earn it has yet ever to be relevant to codify this tradition. All regimental honorific titles must be plural, since it is granted to a regiment and not a single individual, though within regiments that have earned a honorific title it often occurs that individual soldiers will semi-informally be referred to by the singular-form of the title.

Examples of potential regimental honorific titles for Cavalry Guard regiments:
Boars, Bulls, Bears, Cuirassiers, Cossacks, Cataphracts, Dragoons, Equites, Ghosts, Hussars, Ironsides, Knights, Lions, Lancers, Phantoms, Rhinos, Raiders, Riders, Scouts, Uhlans, Warthogs, Wolves etc.

Outside of the regiment being known by and allowed the use of a unique title, being granted a honorific title also earns the regiment the right to modify the structure of the regiment outside of its doctrinal standard structure. Further its is also allowed to add or change elements of the service and parade dress uniform standard. The title and the rights it gives can not be taken away from a regiment. If regiments was to be merged the Honours and Honorifics would transfer, and in the very unlikely situation of 2 titled regiments being merged the more senior title would be retained. this would free up a title, the only other way for a title to become available again is if a titled Regiment was to be disbanded.

Notable regiments with honorific titles:
1st Polympian "Legionaries" Infantry Guard Regiment
1st Kaasian "Rangers" Infantry Guard Regiment
2nd Hursan "Hussars" Cavalry Guard Regiment

Type

Cavalry

Overall training Level

Semi-professional

Assumed Veterancy

Trained

Used by

• The Dominion of The Polympian Empire