Vanguard Division

An adjunct of the Humanist Vanguard, charged with providing support to the Nationalist & Humanist Party as well as aid to the civil power wherever appropriate.

Compared with the financial clout of the Honourable Company and the institutional power of the Raspur Pact, the Humanist movement's main strength was its cadre of activists. In accordance with the strategic directive of 1689 each national-level Humanist party was to organise from the affiliated youth movement a division sized formation available to serve as a support to the party and the state in certain contingent circumstances. These contingent circumstances varied from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. In Nouvelle Alexandrie for instance a Vanguard Division was expected to provide community organisers, event stewards, and humanitarian workers, whilst in the more unsettled circumstances of Benacia their party uniform buttoned up over a considerably larger number of duties.

As far as national circumstances would permit, a Vanguard Division ought to comprise of thirty-thousand youth activists led by salaried officials drawn from the national leadership cadres of the N&H.

Vanguard Divisions

Division	National Party	Notes
1st Vanguard Division		Initially organized into the Princess Isabella's Own Volunteers, mobilized for the Second Elwynnese Civil War, (1692 AN), commissioned as a Brigade in the Imperial Constancian Army Home Guard, mobilized for the Razjanian Insurgency and Third Euran War in (1694 AN) Deployed for Operation Paramount (1698 AN). Activated for the 1699 Summer Offensive against Zeed. Activated for Operation Jungle Bolo (1717 AN)
2nd Vanguard Division	(Modani People's Union)	Activated for Operation Sanctuary (1690 AN). Activated for Unternehmen Verschlinger (1693 AN). Activated for the 1698 N&H Field Camp (Highpass) and participated in Sanaman Civil War. Evacuated to the territories of the Unified Governorates (1699)
3rd Vanguard Division		Attached to Elwynnese Landstorm during Second Elwynnese Civil War (1692 AN – 1696 AN) Activated for the 1698 N&H Field Camp (Highpass).
4th Vanguard Division
5th Vanguard Division		Activated in 1703 AN, to assist the civil power in Lontinien and the Lakes District. Activated for Great Vanic Revolt (1706-1712). Activated for 1710 Hurmu government crisis. Activated for 1716 Siseranist arrests in Hurmu. Activated for the 1718 N&H Field Camp (Ghawlama).
6th Vanguard Division		Inactive since 1709 Veterans association in Tyrador.
7th Vanguard Division		Initially organized via Decree of the Princess of Arboria in Council as the 77th Vanguard Division of the Arboreal Guard from members of the Humanist Vanguard resident in the Principality of Arboria, under the new Commandant of the Arboreal Guard,Daniyal Aurangzeb Kalirion-Osman. Subsequently, in 1696 AN the Arborean foundation was downgraded to the 77th Brigade, as necessarily the stricture could only apply to the Demesne of Arboria and Daniyal ibn Daniyal had recovered sufficiently to exercise his prerogative as Archon over the whole Vanguard Division.
8th Vanguard Division	(Golden Order Party)	Activated and mobilised as military aid to the civil power in late 1695 in light of the Scouring. Reorganised as the Golden Order Militia in late 1702 AN.
9th Vanguard Division	Party of Democratic Humanism (Sanama)	Established in Sanama; Activated for the 1698 N&H Field Camp (Highpass); Reconstituted in Highpass following Sanaman Civil War; Reorganised in the Transelwynn region, under Benacian Union tutelage after 1703. Integration of Sanaman cadres resumed with effect from 1722 AN.
10th Vanguard Division		Activated for Unternehmen Verschlinger (1693 AN).
11th Vanguard Division		Activated for the 1698 N&H Field Camp (Highpass)
12th Vanguard Division		Activated for the 1699 Summer Offensive against Zeed Activated for Operation Jungle Bolo (1717 AN) Activated for Bitter Spring (1730 AN)
13th Vanguard Division
14th Vanguard Division		Activated for Unternehmen Verschlinger (1693 AN). Activated for the 1698 N&H Field Camp (Highpass)
15th Vanguard Division	(Federal Humanist Party)	Activated for the 1699 Summer Offensive against Zeed. Expanded into the Corps d'Tirailleurs Alexandrin as part of the mobilisation of civil society against the Great Vanic Revolt. Activated for the 1718 N&H Field Camp (Ghawlama).
16th Vanguard Division		Raised in 1694 AN to perform garrison and policing duties in Chryse during the Second Elwynnese Civil War (1692 AN – 1696 AN)
17th Vanguard Division		Raised in 1696 AN as the Talons of the Archon to provide a cadre of trained regulars available to the United Thanedom of Dalmacija during the Post-Chidao Troubles. Subsequently reorganised in Arboria (1700 AN – 1703 AN). Returned to Arboria and further reorganised, 1724 AN.
18th Vanguard Division		Raised in 1706 AN to provide a cadre of trained regulars available to the Einhorn Society.
19th Vanguard Division	All-Union Humanist Party	Existence unveiled on 1.I.1710 AN.
20th Vanguard Division	Nationalist and Humanist Party of Oportia	Outlawed by the Private Military Organization Regulation Act.

Organisation

Theoretical organisation and strength of the Vanguard Divisions deployed against Station Kaamiozyr in 1693 AN.

Unit	Officer	NCO	Men	Total
Command Cohort	13	54	360	427
Reconnaissance Regiment	46	180	1,200	1,426
Engineer Regiment	46	180	1,200	1,426
Area Defence Demi-Brigade	140	540	3,600	4,280
Commissariat Demi-Brigade	140	540	3,600	4,280
Infantry Command Troop	2	6	40	48
1st Infantry Brigade	281	1,080	7,200	8,561
2nd Infantry Brigade	281	1,080	7,200	8,561
Total	949	3,660	24,400	29,009