Gentlesophonts:
Expanding on the Regency Navy and Army posts, let's look at the Sword
Worlds in detail. This exercise might serve as an example for expansion
of any Regency subsector military forces.
There are no clear rules (with the exception of possible *Trillion Credit
Squadron*, which I don't have) tying naval forces to any sort of UWP data.
Based upon the `1000 ships per sector' mentioned in the *Rebellion
Sourcebook* we get an `average' of 62.5 ships per subsector. Based upon the
world generation rules, in the Spinward Marches we get an average of 26.7
worlds per subsector with a total average subsector population of 46 billion.
This, combined with the average ship figure, works out to an average of
roughly 700,000,000 people per regular naval combat ship. This is a very
rough number, and specifically does not account for tech level effects, but
I'll use it nevertheless. I welcome any `less soft' figures though.
This number suggests that only Pop 8+ worlds will be able to support regular
naval forces. This doesn't quite `jive' with *5FW* (Joyeuse, a Pop 7
worlds raised a fleet) but it's a fair working point.
Combining this with the *JTAS* #10 "Troops in the Fifth Frontier War"
article we get the following forces for major Sword Worlds:
Tizon (pop 300,000,000; TL 10)
No ships
One corps (1C-10), two divisions (20-10)
Narsil (pop 20,000,000,000; TL 10)
29 ships (J1-10)
Four armies (5C-10), one corps (1C-10)
Anduril (pop 200,000,000; TL 11)
No ships
One corps (1C-11), one division (20-11)
Gram (pop 6,000,000,000; TL 11)
Nine ships (J2-11)
Five corps (1C-11), one brigade (10-11)
Sacnoth (pop 3,000,000,000; TL 12)
Four ships (J3-12)
Five corps (1C-12), one brigade (10-12)
Sting (pop 300,000,000; TL 10)
No ships
One corps (1C-10), two divisions (20-10)
Thus, the entire Confederate Navy consists of 42 ships. The Confederate
Army consists of something around seven armies. These figures seem a little
low but keep in mind there has been no accounting for what are called
reserve or `colonial' forces in the Imperium. These are `older' forces
used to supplement the regular forces. For the Confederate naval reserve
let's assume an additional 42 ships but at one TL below that of the regular
forces: 29 at TL 9 (J1-9), nine at TL 10 (J1-10) and four at TL 11 (J2-11).
These `reserve' forces may have comprised the Joyeuse Fleet of the 5FW.
The Confederate regular army forces are for offworld or `offensive'
operations and do not reflect indigieous defense battalions on each world.
This example could be used to develop naval and army forces for any subsector
in the Regency (or elsewhere). I hope we see it so applied!
Happy Travelling,
David Johnson
Houston, Texas, USA