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Robanians (vol.1)

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Robanian army infantry- September Invasion (524) to Westerlands War (531)

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2nd Guards Division, 22nd Rifle Regiment
Despite the gradual building of their forces and production of domestic armaments, the Robanian military was ill-prepared for the September invasion, and deployed their defensive assets hurriedly and with little forethought, consumed by panic as they rushed to secure the front. This resulted in a string of crippling defeats, the brunt of which was endured by the 1st Guards Army during the winter of 524 and 25. It wasn't until General Endri Larmos was assigned to the role of Field Marshall that the tide would start to turn, and it would later be those very same ragged, outnumbered, outgunned conscripts that would push the last Chergarian troops out over the eastern border. Pvt. Vasil Tarczek- pictured above- was one among them, and lucky enough to be among those who lived to tell the tale afterward- at the age of eighteen. Needless to say, after all he'd seen, he declined the military's offer of officer candidacy and the handsome pay that would ensue, instead opting to return to his apprenticeship as a metalworker.

4th Infantry Division, 14th Mountain Rangers Regiment
As the Chergarian front advanced westward after taking Pansk, they found themselves moving over increasingly difficult terrain in the Pordsky mountain range, with its thick Boreal forests, hazardous frozen lakes and rivers, narrow mountain passes, and foul winter weather. With the initial state of panic within the ranks of the Robanian military having since settled, defending commanders leaped at the opportunity, and the Battle of Dobrinja Pass would become the place at which the war would finally turn in Robania's favor. With aircraft grounded and the Chergarian 201st armored division slowed and forced into a bottleneck, they were easy pickings for a series of ambushes, culminating in a final, pivotal armored engagement in the Prost Valley, where a weakened armored push ran headlong into tanks of the 2nd Guards 15th Armored Regiment. One among them (Sgt. Ifan Storogof) seen above, the 4th Infantry's 14th Mountain Rangers were a highly mobile unit that formed the backbone of Robania's counterattacks in the Pordsky range, providing up-to-date intel in addition to taking potshots that would eventually make the Chergarians' 201st Armored ripe for destruction upon exiting Dobrinja Pass. Storogof never got to bear witness to the fruit of his and his comrades' efforts, however, having been killed in a firefight with Chergarian mechanized infantry.

4th Infantry Division, 5th Rifles Regiment
With the Chergarian threat finally pushed out of Robania, the former defenders now found themselves roped into the affairs of Lusivakia and the Commonwealth, whose assistance proved instrumental in Robania's resistance efforts. With the Commonwealth and their allied states hoping to draw the Union's attention to a new front- while simultaneously strengthening Commonwealth naval presence in the South Sea through capturing ports in the Ingelstern Straight- Robanian soldiers once again found themselves on the front lines, this time in Hetland, at the forefront of the Commonwealth's Dolton Offensive, an effort to seize the country from Hetlandic troops and their Chergarian allies. This marked the beginning of the Westerlands War, which coincided with new Robanian gender rights legislation allowing women to fight alongside men (rather than serve as auxiliarists). Girls were never considered for the draft, but nonetheless, during the war from 525 to 531, almost fourteen percent of Robanian combat personnel were female- more than sixty percent of whom would never return home. Pictured is L.Cpl. Tasha Bostoy (machine-gunner; 4th infantry, 5th rifles regiment), who joined that statistic in the process of suppressing Hetlanders from the window of a farmhouse during the Dolton offensive in Hetland, May 526.
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