Dwarven Marines

The Dwarven Marines were special forces serving in the Dwarven Domain Military. Their specialty is being able to fight in any place, in any way.

Equipment
The Dwarven Marines wore a special pressurized, gas-proof, windproof, fireproof, waterproof, temperature-controlled suit of leather, made thin enough in order to seem like a single layer of normal clothing. Above that, they wore heavy plate armor, with special hinged plates in order to cover all chinks in the armor at all times. On all of this, they had pouches and hidden equipment, including rope, rations, lock picks, spring-loaded knife-shooters, knives, and a pair of wings that could be pulled up from the thigh to form a wingsuit for altitudes up to 80 ft above the ground. Their chestplate had four built-in carabiners to which many items could be strapped, including crates, more plate armor, chainmail, oars, ammunition of all kinds, snowshoes, explosives, skis, flotation devices, hand mortars, and portable modular ballistae.

Weapons used by the Marines included repeater rifles, megarepeater rifles, hand mortars, automatic pistols, sniper crossbows, shotguns, hand cannons, blunderbusses, swords, axes, maces, clubs, staffs, knives, and flamethrowers.

All Marines were trained in the use of all of the above-mentioned weapons and more, along with knowledge of aerial operations, ground operations, naval operations, aerial-to-naval operations, aerial-to-ground operations, naval-to-ground operations, underground operations, mountain operations, fighting on skis and snowshoes, urban operations, hand-to-hand fighting, and any other sort of warfare.

Ranks
At any time, there are one thousand operating Dwarven Marines, commanded by Commander Thridag. Under him, there are ten captains, each commanding a company of 100 troops. Each captain has a lieutenant, and the company can be split into half-companies for smaller operations. Within each company, there are five platoons/squadrons of twenty, each commanded by a sergeant and a corporal, allowing for platoons to be split into two squads each. Each officer is of all ranks below his rank in addition to their rank (so a commander would also command a company, and command a platoon within that company).

Rank is indicated by the markings on the forehead of the helmet of each trooper, with a dot representing a private, a square representing a corporal, a pentagon a sergeant, a hexagon a lieutenant, a single diagonal line representing a captain, and an "x" representing a commander.

Squadron Nicknames

 * 1) Sabretooth Squadron
 * 2) Tiger Squadron
 * 3) Bear Squadron
 * 4) Wolf Squadron
 * 5) Jackal Squadron
 * 6) Hyena Squadron
 * 7) Fox Squadron
 * 8) Devil Squadron
 * 9) Vulture Squadron
 * 10) Owlbear Squadron
 * 11) Hammerhead Squadron
 * 12) Flathead Squadron
 * 13) Minotaur Squadron
 * 14) Ram Squadron
 * 15) Weasel Squadron
 * 16) Dog Squadron
 * 17) Python Squadron
 * 18) Tegu Squadron
 * 19) Puma Squadron
 * 20) Caracal Squadron
 * 21) Badger Squadron
 * 22) Coyote Squadron
 * 23) Ocelot Squadron
 * 24) Culpeo Squadron
 * 25) Wolverine Squadron
 * 26) Monitor Squadron
 * 27) Mammoth Squadron
 * 28) Viper Squadron
 * 29) Lynx Squadron
 * 30) Jaguar Squadron
 * 31) Dingo Squadron