Sludge - Royalist Faction: The Barony of Pyrmia III

Key to the defense networks of the Barons lands are the 12th regiment of Royal Marines, Duke Sigmunds Rifles. From their regimental headquarters at Witrburg in the Kortze Mountains they watch for the lowlands signal fires from the Grand Chimerical Observatory. 

The 12th are a regiment inured to the hardships of the frontier from their constant patrols of the bandit ridden Thornwald Forest and its vital supply lines. With each passing season more aid requests for the airship companies of the 12th Royal Marines grow across the Pyrmian borderlands.

Highly trained and disciplined, the Royal Marines are loyal to the Chimera Throne unto death. Armed with the finest Strithian bayonet rifles they often fight in close order drill, hailing the foe with a withering fusillade of lead.  

Royal Grenadiers are specialized shock troops often found alongside the marines. Equipped with carbines and pig iron stick grenades they are skilled at storming enemy fortifications or breaking line formations.
   

                    Royal Grenadiers in combat at the Horn of Jotanin - spring of 578CE

   

"...into that blasted field the Royal Marines advanced, with each volley of fire scores of the Khans infantry toppled from the earthworks. They pressed onward into the trench lines, bayonets and rifle butts slick with blood. They overran the palisades and put the artillery pits to the torch. Their wrath was furious.

By dawn the marine flag flew over that infernal blockhouse. So it was by the divine will of the Chimera that the siege of Vanheim was ended...   
-excerpt from Duke Sigmunds Memento Mori - The Royal Marines at Vanheim