Modan Vanguard Division

Modan Vanguard Division
Active:	1692 AN – present
Allegiance:	Constancia,Molivadia
Personnel:	14,561 Officers – 281 Non-Commissioned Officers – 1,080 Other Ranks – 7,200 6,000 Auxiliaries
Type:	Light infantry
Nickname:
Current Commander:	Princess Rosamund

The Modan Vanguard Division, originally raised as the 1662^nd Modan Brigade is a Vanguard Division, raised from residents of Modan, Molivadia, descendants of the Modanese Migration.

At the 59th birthday of Daniyal ibn Daniyal Simrani-Kalirion in 1694, it was officially commissioned into the Imperial Constancian Army in a ceremony at New Drakorda, with select members as part of the Military Household of the Autokrator of Constancia in attendance. At that same ceremony, Shapur Vardan Sarkissian was commissioned into the Imperial Constancian Army as Taxiarchos (Brigadier).

Operationally and administratively, it is part of the 1st Vanguard Corps placed within the 506th (Molivadia) Army. The unit aspires to be trained and equipped to the standards of those formations of the Benacian Union Defence Force patterned on the Black Legions .

Selected in late 1719 to be the Constancian contribution to the Allied Mission in Eastern Apollonia, Hurmu & Lyrica for the 1720 Deployed Regiment in Huyenkula, with actual deployment taking place on XV.1719, at the peak of the 1719–1720 Hurmu civil conflict. Due to an administrative error, the entire brigade was deployed instead of only a regiment. Personnel begin arriving in the Lake District via Huyenkula International Airport and Kaupang International Airport with airfreight containers under the diplomatic seal of the Imperial State of Constancia.

As the senior Imperial Constancian Army officer present, Princess Rosamund, Secretary of State for the Bank, Mint and Press of Hurmu and also part of the Senate of the Lakes, who concurrently holds the rank of Sarlashkar (Major General) and commands the 1668th (Timūr al-Osman Taraghay) Brigade, 1634th ESB-Jörmungandr Division, 505th (Aqabah Province) Army, was given interim command of the brigade, and all Constancians remaining behind in Huyenkula, who have all been called to active duty in accordance with Autokratorial Decree and Imperial Constancian law, and attached to the brigade. Upon her return to Aqaba by the command of her mother the Basilinna, command of the Modan Brigade was given to the Deputy Chief of Mission and charge d'affaires at the Imperial Constancian Embassy, Huyenkula.

Raised as a result of the Hurmu conflict, the Martyr Jamshid-e Osman Combined (Raspur-Surenid) Infantry Regiment was attached to the brigade from 1719 AN to 1721 AN when it was detached to form a separate brigade.

By 1721 AN the status of the Modan Brigade as a Vanguard Division in its own right was recognised.

Order of Battle

Unit	Commander	Establishment	Garrison
Headquarters Echelon
Command Demi-Regiment			Modan, Molivadia
Control Demi-Regiment
1st Demi-Brigade
Motorised Infantry Regiment	Sarhang Navid Michelakis	Officers – 42 NCOs – 201 Other Ranks – 966 M1591(R) marksman rifle (7.62×67mmB) – 15 M1686 assault rifle (7.62×67mmB) – 315 M1689 service pistol (9×19mm) – 42 M1690 machine pistol (9x19mm) – 807 Wren light machine-gun (7.62x67mmB) – 15 Hornet recoilless anti-tank rifle – 15 82mm Mortar – 6 Polybolos heavy machine-gun(12.7×99mm) – 6 Tankgewehr anti-materiel rifle (13.2×92mmSR) – 6 Waspsting man-portable air defence system – 8 CV-56 Horjin infantry fighting vehicle – 46 Pod armoured personnel carrier – 101	Petropolis
Light Infantry Regiment		Officers – 37 NCOs – 180 Other Ranks – 869
2nd Demi-Brigade
Motorised Infantry Regiment		Officers – 42 NCOs – 201 Other Ranks – 966 M1591(R) marksman rifle (7.62×67mmB) – 15 M1686 assault rifle (7.62×67mmB) – 315 M1689 service pistol (9×19mm) – 42 M1690 machine pistol (9x19mm) – 807 Wren light machine-gun (7.62x67mmB) – 15 Hornet recoilless anti-tank rifle – 15 82mm Mortar – 6 Polybolos heavy machine-gun(12.7×99mm) – 6 Tankgewehr anti-materiel rifle (13.2×92mmSR) – 6 Waspsting man-portable air defence system – 8 CV-56 Horjin infantry fighting vehicle – 46 Pod armoured personnel carrier – 101	Modan, Molivadia
Light Infantry Regiment		Officers – 37 NCOs – 180 Other Ranks – 869
Force Support Echelon
Area Defence Group			Modan, Molivadia
Depot Group
Supply Train

Commanders

• Taxiarchos (Brigadier) Shapur Vardan Sarkissian, 1694
• Stratigos (General) Princess Rosamund, XV.1719 -
• Deputy Chief of Mission and charge d'affaires at the Imperial Constancian Embassy, Huyenkula.