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The Imperial Legion is the dedicated land warfare force of The Imperial Roman Armed Forces. It is the largest branch of the IRAF, consisting of roughly one and a half million active personnel. The Legion is responsible for conducting land-based operations on behalf of the Roman Empire, and is commanded by a High Legate.

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The Legion is commanded supremely by High Legate Lepidus, from the Imperial Military Complex in Rome. From the top, command is seperated into four distinct regions: East Europa, West Europa, Africa, and West Asia. Each region’s troops are commanded by an Upper Legate who is generally responsible for the command of troops fighting in their region. Counting the HL, these five Legates form the core members of the Legion High Council.

Aside from the HL and Regional commanders, several other senior command positions exist and sit on the High Council. The Empires four main overseas territories provide a brevet Upper Legate, truly only a Vice Legate, that represents and commands the troops in their respective territory. They sit on the High Council but they do not provide a vote on the Council’s decisions.

The position of Upper Legate is awarded rarely beyond Regional Commanders, as it is viewed as a theater level position. In addition, Colonial commanders are awarded the position in a brevet capacit, much to their own chagrin. Outside of that, the position is only awarded in the rarest of occasions. Below the position of Upper Legate, is that of Vice Legate. They command Legion Groups, formations of 2+ Legions. Generally, 2-4 groups form a theater of war. Under Vice Legate, is a Colonel-Legate. CL, as it’s referred to in short hand, is something of a nebulous position. Colonel-Legates can be commanders of both Legions and Legion groups. At the lowest general staff position, is Legate. Legates command Legions, the base strategic land unit of the IRAF.

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Doctrine of the Legion is based on combined arms doctrine. In essence, it’s based around the use of mechanized shock infantry and armor to galvanize an opponent followed up by mass infantry assaults relying on superiority in numbers to achieve success.

This ties into another major doctrinal concept, that being the generalist policy. In an attempt to stop units from being particularly vulnerable to any one thing, Legion Doctrine constructs all Legions to serve a jack-of-all-trades position. Each Legion is composed of infantry, artillery, armor, cavalry, and aerial units. By following this doctrine, in theory a Legion can serve in any necessary land role.

In a text book siege against a city defended by a comparable force, a Legion would execute its attack as follows. First, aerial and artillery elements would assault the city, seeking to inflict maximum material damage, and “shock” the enemy. This is known as the Bombardment Stage. Following that, mechanized infantry and armor would seige the city and, in contrast to air and artillery, seek to inflict maximum personnel casualties. This is intended to capitalize on the disarray caused by prior bombardment and further reduce the enemy force. This is known as the Shock Stage. If possible, the shock stage should seek to fully defeat the opponent. Finally, following the Bombardment and Shock stages, is the Assault stage. Supported by more artillery and infantry-support armor, mass infantry seeks to take the location by sheer numbers, this time seeking to take physical territory rather then inflicting material damage or personnel casualties. If the Assault stage results in an enemy route as opposed to a defeat, Shock elements are deployed to stop such an action.

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Men of the Legion

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Small Arms

MGM91M2, Universal Purpose Machine Gun of the Legion, deployed to Mechanized Infantry Units

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Mortars, Artillery, AT and AA Guns

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Ground Vehicles