Nevithian Ground Forces
Nevithian ground forces are foremost divided upon conventional and trans-newtonian equipment.
Conventional ground forces are seldomly used anymore, their equipment distributed among police forces and armed forces of minor clans. The only conventional compartment still in active service for the greater clans are heavy armoured vehicles, as currently no trans-newtonian adaption of those exists.
However, trans-newtonian power armoured infantry are considered superior to conventional heavy vehicles. While Nevithian powered armour cannot resist a frontal blow from a heavy tank, their smaller size and agility would provide any infantry with an advantage over their opponent.
The trans-newtonian ground forces are currently divided into light infantry, heavy infantry and assault infantry.
Light infantry is the newest aquisition of trans-newtonian forces and currently not in wide spread employment. Only few of their numbers are equipped with power armour, if any at all. Their role is to remain in fortified positions, either at home or in contested territory, and fire from cover with superior weaponry at any opposing force.
Heavy infantry was the first kind of trans-newtonian ground force developed by the Nevithians and already underwent several advancements in their technology and deployment. Originally, heavy infantry consisted of several small military formations to operate similiar to special operation forces.
Today, heavy infantry is the backbone of the Nevithian military and each soldier is equipped with a suit of powered armour that enhances the soldier's physical powers and durability. They carry a broad range of weaponry, although their usual equipment consists of small arms, supplemented by explosives and heavy weaponry when equired for their task.
Assault infantry is a new form of specialised heavy infantry that heavily features melee weaponry and a custom branch of powered armour with an emphasis on strength, speed and agility. Their primary task is to break enemy lines and involve ranged targets in close combat situations, taking a the role of trans-newtonian shocktroops.
Unlike other infantry units, assault infantry is organised in sections and subsetions that each operate in a small field of operations and depend on a corps or regiment for support, to which they are a subordinate branch. As military tactics currently go, assault infantry is not intended or capable of solitary operations.
The corps is the currently largest organisatory level for the trans-newtonian Nevithian military, with the two existing instances of identical composition:
1st Imperial Powered Armour Corps
- 1st Imperial Powered Armour Regiment
- 2nd Imperial Powered Armour Regiment
- 3rd Imperial Powered Armour Regiment
- 1st Imperial Assault Section
1st Imperial Powered Armour Corps soldiers and assets:
~60,000 Regular power armoured troopers and field officers
~22,500 Drivers, pilots, LACV* and artillery crews
~10,000 Assault troopers
~8,000 Recruits
~4,500 Administrative officers and personnel
Total: ~105,000 Nevithians
6,250 Troop transports
3,000 LACVs
600 Experimental strikefighters**
28 Artillery batteries
Total: 9,250 light vehicles, 600 aircraft, 84 artillery assets
* Light Armoured Combat Vehicle, the Nevithian counterpart to an armoured car. Usually equipped with anti-personnel weaponry in form of machine guns and a single, usually turreted, light anti-tank calibre to escort fast troop transports over only moderatly dangerous terrain or long distances at high speeds.
** Military aircraft have not yet been deployed in any Nevithian conflict. With their technology a novelty on the battlefield, current strikefighters feature bombs and missiles only, their intened function similiar to artillery over longer distances.
Further military:- 2nd Imperial Powered Armour Corps, identical composition to the 1st Corps
- The greater clans of Darrus, Hil'Suv, Karmen, Torpua and Man'Kerta each support one Powered Armour Regiment
- The greater clans of Veradun and Rediom each support two Powered Armour Regiments