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(144 personnel)

Infantry Battalion

Battalion Command, 4 companies of command element plus 4 platoons, each platoon has a command
element and four ten man squads equipped with skimmers plus 3 ACV jeeps carrying a mixture of
support weapons, mostly100mm mortars (808 personnel)

Artillery Battalion

18 self-propelled rocket assisted howitzers, 3 batteries of 6 launchers, plus 3 command cars and 6
ammo haulers - (162 personnel total)

Replacement Battalion

10 tanks, 25 combat cars, 40 skimmers and 100 ACV trucks (1500 personnel)
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Regimental Personalities

Colonel Hammer

AloisHammer was born into a moderately prosperous professional family on the Dutch-culture
independent colony ofFriesland . His father was an insurance loss adjuster and his mother a nurse. He
spent considerable time with his maternal grandfather who had been an NCO with a Flemishmechanised
regiment on Old Earth and had fought in theSurawak Emergency. Hammer was a bright but not
exceptional student. His grandfather had fought alongside a cousin of one of the Great Houses of
Friesland and called in an oldfavour to get Hammer admitted to theFrieslandMilitaryAcademy .

Hammer was single minded in his pursuit of a commission, it is true to say that he was respected rather
than liked at the Academy.Alois Hammer turned out to be one of those few individuals who show military
genius. He distinguished himself as a junior officer at theSheroba debacle and the invasion of Lyon,
Although his professional ruthlessness appalled his fellow officers, who considered themselves gentlemen,
it soon came to the notice of his political masters who used him for special tasks.

As a reward for services to the Friesland Council, Hammer was promoted to Executive Officer of the
Guards of the Republic, the first 'commoner' to achieve such a distinction. The appointment was not a
success. The amateur gentlemen of the officer's mess deeply resented the admittance of an 'oik' with no
social graces who was utterly uninterested in horse racing and had unsettling, unorthodox views on
soldiering.

At the timeFriesland was attempting unsuccessfully to enforce its political control overMelpomone with
its valuablebluebright extract. Despite overwhelming military superiority on paper, the line regiments
ofFriesland showed a depressing inability to cope with the unorthodox guerrilla tactics of the rebels.

Hammer volunteered to be colonel of the AuxiliaryArmoured Regiment of mercenaries recruited to do
whatFriesland soldiers shied away from. The Auxiliary Regiment was highly successful in crushing the