1. This page provides a fairly detailed
description of the organization, units, and equipment of the
Wotanberger military. For a graphic summary, click here.
2. Formal unit name is in ALL CAPS,
followed in some cases by its abbreviation [AC].
3. For an explanation of abbreviations/acronyms
, click here.
4. Unit's English nickname, if any, is
in "Quotes", or perhaps "Linked"
5. Unit's special insignia, if any, is
available by clicking on Unit
Insignia.
'C' (HORSE) BTY "Sea
Horse" (R) With 8 Banshees
is attached to GDH.
'D' (AERO-)BTY "Dumbo"
(R) With 6 Puma
HC1 helicopter gunships. This bty were among the Wotanberger
army units sent to the Mustela Islands
in 1890 as part of the newly formed Grand
Duke's African Rifles when Germany and Britain transferred
their respective holdings in the islands to the Grand Duchy.
It remained in the islands until 1950 (except for the period
from 1939 to 1945 when it served in the Seiber Islands), the
year the islands gained full independence. The current nickname
of "D" BTY reflects the fact that for much of its stay in the
islands, it was part the Kikundi
cha Tembo ("Elephant Bn"). (See also THE GRAND DUKE'S OWN NAVAL
ARTILLERY TP below.)
'E' (MOUNTAIN) BTY "Mallory" (R)
Originally equipped with pack howitzers, now with 3 TP each with
4 120 mm mortars.
1 (SIR TREVOR'S OWN)
ROCKET TP "Rocketeer" (A) With
4 Porcupines. Originally organized around members of a British
Royal Horse Artillery Rocket Tp who had served under Sir Trevor
in 1815 and remained in Wotanberg after Waterloo, some of its
current soldiers are their descendents.
2 (THE GRAND DUKE'S OWN)
ROCKET TP "Rocket
Man" (A/R) With 4 Porcupines.
3 (THE GRAND DUKE'S OTHER)
ROCKET TP "Rocket
Boys" (A/R) With 4 Hedgehogs.
4 (THE GRAND DUCHESS'
OWN) ROCKET TP "Flying
Bassets" (A/R) With 4 Basset air
defense missile systems (i.e., British Bloodhounds especially
modified for Wotanberger service). Unit
Insignia.
5 (THE GRAND DUCHESS'
OTHER) ROCKET TP "Ladyhawk"
(A/R) With 4 Hawk
air defense missile systems to be replaced in the next fiscal
year with 4 Bassett II's.
6 (THE CHANCELLOR'S
OWN) ROCKET TP "Redeye!" (R) With 4 Basset
II's. The current nickname reflects that the tp was previously
equippped with with Redeyes.
THE GRAND DUKE'S
OWN NAVAL ARTILLERY TP "NAVAROne"
(A/R) With a World
War I railway gun surreptitiously acquired by the Grand Duke
in early 1919 and then transported to a specially prepared secret
base in the Drachental Military Training Area. (The tp's name
and nickname reflect the fact that this tp's weapon--like many
WWI railway guns--was actually Naval Artillery
modified for use on land.) The original members of the TP were
detached from what is now D Bty after it was transferred to theMustela Islands
to serve what has been described as "Victoria's
Secret"--coastal artillery clandestinely emplaced to
protect the Royal Navy's base on the island of Santa Catarina.
After the Armistice in 1918, it became clear that the coastal
artillery was no longer necessary to protect the islands from
Germany, nor adequate to protect them from anybody else.
REGIMENT TROOPS "Battery
Recharger" (A/R) The Regimental Troops
is made of units--usually detached from the Support Regt--which
provide administrative, logistical, and other support to the
regt. They include a signals tp "Battery Cable"; a military
police tp "Copper
T(o)p"; an ordnance support tp "Gunsmith";
and a small detachment of U.S. advisors--the
1st United States Army Field Artillery Detachment [1st USAFAD]--which
assists the regt with the U.S.-made 120 mm mortars and other
American equipment, which the Grand Duchy can neither confirm
or deny actually exists.
