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Militias of Patagonia

The Militias of Patagonia

The Surrealist Confederacy of Patagonia has no unified armed forces to speak of after the Patron abolished the military in order to prevent a coup. It relies on its defense solely on the military strength of so-called "Militias" and mercenary groups in which there are many of them. There are major militia groups such as the Blackshirts and the Patagonian Red Army (PRA) in addition to the many splinter factions spawned from both aforementioned groups. The Patron struggles to maintain military cohesion between many factions considering that the militias of the country have radically different ideologies and their perception of "Futurism". Thus he has to juggle between loyalties in order to maintain his power and placate them. Most militias were formed with the intent of protecting their community's interests but over-time their motivation grew ideological in nature and they became a new caste in Patagonian society known for their martial prowess.

Many left-wing militias like the PRA follow Left-wing futurism that espouses syndicalism and revolutionary direct action. Far-right militias like the Blackshirts believe in Italian Fascism, Evola's radical traditionalism, and Marinetti's interpretation of Futurism. Most militias are equipped with small guns and a few artillery pieces as well as anti-air guns as mobile tanks and armored vehicles are reserved for mercenary groups like the Militaire Sans Frontiere led by Big Boss. Opposing factions often fight each other out in the open in the streets - contributing further to Patagonia's social chaos and anarchy. Most militias are either organized horizontally or are commanded by an influential charismatic figure. They are decentralized and most members could do what they want without impunity or oversight as they have the big guns in the commune. Militia groups like the PRA and GLF grew because they offered protection to vulnerable communities during the Red Terror.

What was the Patagonian Armed Forces composed of the Army, Air Force and the Navy was disbanded after the Surrealist Revolution on 1967. Soldiers in the army either joined newly-established militias or searched for mercenary work throughout the world when they left Patagonian. Some of the Navy defected to Argentina but most fleets stayed in Patagonia where they become left-wing sailor communes. The Air Force devolved to small elite cliques of officers and pilots with their tactical know-how of flying planes. Tribal warfare made a grand return to Patagonia where the Mapuches are now fancying themselves as motorized raiders and the Gauchos have become vigilantes maintaining order in the Pampas region for now. Equipment is often procured through the black market or "generously donated" by nations with special interest in the nation. Patagonia's armed forces now has a hodgepodge of Italian, Soviet, German, British, and American weapons with little standardization. Conflicting ideologies and command structure also makes coordination between the groups hard during military operations as inter-service rivalry are rife.

Blackshirts

Symbol of the Blackshirts


Founded: July 1967

Motto: "Memento Audere Semper"
(Remember to risk always)

Names:

    Black Guard
    Escadron Futuriste

Ideology:

    Fascism
    Falangism (Minority)
    Right-wing Futurism

Headquarters: Neuquen, Patagonia

Leadership

Commander: Centurion Junio Valerio Borghese (Unofficial)
Decanus Ante Pavelic
Capo Salvatore Greco

Manpower

Military Age: 18 Years Old

Active military personnel:
30,000 active personnel (as of 1968)

Overview

The Blackshirts also known as the Black Guard or Escadron Futuriste is a far-right, Futurist militia operating in Patagonia after the Surrealist Revolution. The Patagonian Blackshirts are the spiritual successor to its forefathers, the Italian Blackshirt and the Decima Flottiglia MAS, and their ranks are even made up of Italian and Croatian fascists. Their unofficial commander and spokesperson is Lt. Gen. Prince Junio Valerio Borghese who was the commander of the Decima MAS himself as well as a fascist conspirator in the 1967 Italian coup aimed to overthrow Italian democracy. Borghese, a few number of former Italian Blackshirts and Croatian Ustashas, have set up shop in Patagonia in order to oversee the country's development to a fascist totalitarian government where they uphold the Patron as their "Duce".

The Blackshirts are highly trained owing to their members' former origins as Blackshirts as well as being drilled in Arditi-esque squad tactics where they would charge at the enemy and overwhelm them in the frontlines as well as wreaking havoc behind enemy lines for the main force to proceed. This makes them highly-trained, effective yet brutal among civilians whom they view as beneath them. They uphold a highly elitist philosophy called the "Aristocracy of the Trenches" where they believed that soldiers are more important than civilians and they seek to create a caste where the soldier is above the thinkers, artists, and the industrialist. Though this conflict with the Patron's values, he views them as useful tools and used the Blackshirts as enforcers when it comes to putting Futurist policies into effect to the dismay of the Patagonian Red Army. The Blackshirts are responsible for terrorizing Patagonian folks in order to condition them to accept violence as a fact of life which what led to Mussolini to rise to power in the March on Rome which they hope to re-enact in Puerto Soleil. With Borghese having delusions of turning Patagonia into a fascist state and declare the Patron as their "Il Duce" even though the Patron has little interests in doing so.

Compared to other small-time and leftist militias, the Blackshirts are better equipped as they possess large quantities of WWII and Cold War-era Italian weapons in addition to artillery, anti-air gun, and rocket launchers smuggled out from the Italian Army through connections. They are better-equipped and better-trained yet doesn't have the numerical advantage to the PRA. They are weaker in comparison to the Militaire Sans Frontiere or the Freikorps Patagonien yet they enjoyed greater support from the Patron in comparison. Their role could be compared to Germany's SA: reckless, needlessly violent, chaotic, and veracious in their fights and ideological commitment. Mired in factional conflict with the left-wing PRA as well.

History


Prince Junio Valerio Borghese
Former Decima Commander

The Italian Blackshirts used to be a fascist paramilitary organization founded around the 1920s which was the armed wing to the Italian Fascist Party. Before that, they were made up of former Italian soldiers, ex-socialists, and Italian Arditis without any directions in life and were disillusioned with the post-war gains of Italy. Some were even involved in D'Annunzio's social experiment in the Regency of Carnaro. The Blackshirts terrorized Italian citizens during the political turmoil that is early 1920s Italy as a way to make them accept that political violence is a fact of life in Italy. Which is how the fascists managed to seize power in the March on Rome and declared Mussolini as their Il Duce. The next few years saw the Blackshirts acting as the muscles in order to carry out the will of the Italian Fascist Party and by 1944, they were the Mussolini's Italian Social Republic's last lines of defense in WWII along with the Decima X MAS amidst communist insurgency and Allied offensives.

After Mussolini was hanged upside down and fascism in Italy was nearing its end; many Italian fascists, ex-officials of the RSI, former Blackshirts and Decima marines scattered across the world in order to escape the wrath of the Allies as well as the post-war government of Italy. The newly-independent Patagonian Republic was one of them and the country saw mass influx of Italian refugees pouring from the post-war devastation of WWII. Among ordinary folks were fascist Italian political refugees which would then went on to create a fascist political party and presence in Patagonia among the Italian community. While back in Italy, the Italian government was fighting a new secretive and clandestine political war during the Years of Lead from the 50s until the late 80s. Fringe neo-fascist groups fought against what they viewed as subversive communist influence in Italy using acts of terrorism while the CIA and Italian SID allowed this political chaos to continue in order to better their assert their influence over a fearful and panicking populace. Conspiracies, Gladio, and acts of terrorism ensues.


The Blackshirts After the Revolution
"Eja Eja Alala!"

Neo-fascism in Italy would end in 1967 as a major political force when former Decima commander Prince Valerio Borghese conspired a coup against the Conservative Democrat Italian government in what was known as the Golphe Borghese - occurring years earlier in our world. The CIA and SID caught wind of this and attempted to press charges on Borghese and arrest him as they didn't want a fascist coup to upset the fragile political balance in the Mediterranean. However, Borghese managed to escape to Patagonia in a convenient time when the Surrealist Revolution had just overthrew the republican government in Patagonia and removed any sense of order in the country.

Ever since the Surrealist Revolution and the Reign of Terror reigned across Patagonia under the Patron; the Italian fascists formed self-defense community militias in their neighborhoods in order to protect Italians and their property from drug-crazed rampaging communards. For their services, fascism grew in popularity among Italians. The Blackshirts initially had their origins as a mafia family until they began absorbing many self-defense community militias until they grew large enough in posing as a threat to the rivaling Patagonian Red Army. The Patagonian Blackshirts was formed under Borghese direction and they grew to become some sort of scourge for the ordinary Patagonians as far-right and far-left political violence ensues similar to the one in Italy.

Tactics

Patagonian Blackshirt tactics resemble that of the previous Arditi and Italian Blackshirts. They acted like shocktroopers where they put an emphasis on infantry shock tactics. A small company of Blackshirts would charge at the opponent while armed with daggers and grenades in order to confuse the enemy and spread chaos behind enemy lines. If the opponent is primarily armed with guns, the Blackshirt would engage in melee hand to hand combat against the enemy in order to overwhelm them and beat them back. The Blackshirts would plant traps in their area and the main infantry force would arrive to fortify their defenses. They valued quality over quantity unlike the PRA and this helped them maintain an excellent, well-equipped and well-trained fighting force in spite of lacking in numbers.


Their Tactics Emphasized on
Speed and Ruthlessness in Battle

Around this time, the Blackshirt adopted trucks in their military arsenal and they became a motorized force. They have a hodge podge arsenal of military or civilian trucks in their arsenal - mostly procured from the black market or seized from Argentine farmers up north. They adopted a military tactic of shock and awe, and began engaging in motorized warfare. Motorized infantry units would charge against the enemy with artillery and CAS support. The motorized infantry units serve to supplement the Blackshirt shocktroopers in filling the gaps of their positions and to quickly transport infantry units into the frontlines.

As an occupational force, the Blackshirts resort to terror tactics in order to subjugate the local populace and discourage any thoughts of resistance with the sheer barbarity that they display. From razing villages to their foundations, mass looting, and few bouts of rape and pillaging here and there. They are merciless when it comes to dealing with partisans and POWs; preferring to kill them indiscriminately without any thought for the civilian populace while the POWs are killed on the spot in order to free up supplies.

Uniform and Equipment

  • Black shirt, black tie, black fez, and gray khakis (standard uniform)

  • Late Italian Army military uniforms (circa. 1943) with woodlands camouflage motif and a Kevlar vest (standard battle gear)

  • Crude Arditi battle armor made out of salvaged museum knight armors

  • M1C Garand bayonet as daggers

  • Mk 2 grenades

  • Berretta M1934 (standard-issued handgun)

  • Carcano M1891 (service rifle)

  • MAB 38 (standard-issued SMG)

  • FNAB-43 (SMG, only issued to special units)

  • Breda 30 (LMG)

  • Cannone da 47/32 mod. 1935 (Multi-purpose field artillery; anti-tank and anti-infantry)

  • Fiat 626 (Military truck)

  • SPA AS.37 (Military truck)

  • Isotta Fraschini D65 (Military truck)

Gallery

Patagonian Red Army

Symbol of the PRA


Founded: May 1967

Motto: "Workers of the world, unite!"

Names:

    FORA (Federación Obrera Regional Argentina)
    The International Brigades

Ideology:

    Anarcho-syndicalism
    Marxist-Leninism
    Democratic Socialism
    Internationalism
    Left-wing Futurism

Headquarters: Puerto Soleil, Patagonia

Leadership

Commanders: Commissar Tukachevsky
Comrade-Lieutenant Fanny Jacobsky
Comrade-Lieutenant Ernst Busch, and others

Manpower

Military Age: 16 Years Old

Active military personnel:
85,000 active personnel (as of 1968)

Overview

The Patagonian Red Army (PRA) also known by its old name the FORA (Federación Obrera Regional Argentina) or the International Brigades is a left-wing paramilitary force in the Surrealist Confederacy of Patagonia. The PRA had its origins in the Patagonia Rebelde as anarchist miners, unionist bosses, and workers who rebelled against the oppressive landlords and the corrupt Argentine government in the 1920s. Today they have grown to become a massive force in the Patagonian Left and society in general. Partisan units, left-wing revolutionaries, and others who all rebelled against the minority Blanco-government in the Surrealist Revolution formed the nucleus for what would later become the Patagonian Red Army named after the Soviet Red Army even purged Red Army commanders went to Patagonia and helped found the PRA.

The Patagonian Red Army (PRA) acts as a self-defense militia unit protecting local communes, settlements, and acting on the behest of workers' unions in Patagonia. They operate in a decentralized manner where many units who claim to be associated with the PRA have different set of left-wing values and fellow comrades that they view as "commanders" though there are those that operate. The PRA is a truly international and left-wing force as it is modeled after the Spanish Republican Army, the CNT-FAI, and the International Brigades. Communists, anarchists, democratic socialists, and social democrats all work together under the framework of the PRA although ideological friction is still present among units. In addition; the initially Spanish-Argentine PRA draws its international volunteers from Germany, France, Britain, Yugoslavia, Spain, Portugal, Mexico and America. Thus there's a language barrier that could hinder co-operation between units. The adoption of Spanish and English has mostly alleviated this issue. The PRA is an egalitarian fighting force that accepts people of all races, genders, and sexuality into its rank with little fuss.

The PRA claims itself to be the defenders of the "proletarians" and claims to have the people's best interest in its minds. It is true that the PRA has been a positive force in Patagonia in defending the workers from Blackshirt incursions and mediate labor disputes but they have been responsible for the massacres of the exiled nobility, landlords, petite bourgeoise, and the landlords during the Surrealist Revolution. Some rogue members have even get involved in the racketeering business for small business owners in order to get by in the country. The PRA has a rivalry with the Blackshirts whom they proclaim to be reactionaries and literal fascists. Fights occur regularly between the two in the streets as far-left and far-right political violence continues in the country amidst the Reign of Terror. They hold ambivalent views regarding the Patron; commending him for overthrowing the bourgeois and introducing anarchy into Patagonia while at the same time criticizing him for flirting with the far-right at times.

The PRA has always been an ill-equipped and ill-trained militia force yet has a well-motivated men fighting under it with numerical superiority and a large support base as its ace. The PRA enjoys Soviet, Cuban, Uruguayan, and lately Chinese military and financial support in order to increase communist presence in Patagonia. However the Soviets and the Chinese have been in each others' throats in trying to get the PRA on their sides much to the dismay of PRA commanders.

History


La Patagonia Rebelde

The PRA had its origins in the anarcho-syndicalist Argentine trade union FORA as well as many local anarchist miners, farmers, trade unionists, and workers. The Patagonia Rebelde occurred in the early 1920s in the aftermath of WWII when the value of cotton-based wool plummeted. The cotton farmers were devastated and the government could do little in alleviating much of their problems. In reaction, the farmers and the workers of Patagonia in the Santa Cruz province declared a labor strike on August then a general strike on November. Armed confrontations ensued where strikers and policemen were killed on both sides. The landlords and the ranchers were frightful of the FORA and they plead for the Argentine government to intervene militarily. The leader and organizer of this small rebellion was Galician anarchist Antonio Soto of the FORA. They were decried as Bolsheviks and armed rebellion continued in the ports where harbor workers fought against the Argentine Navy.

The Argentine 10th Cavalry Regiment was sent to squash the rebellion after the Chileans allowed their entry into Santa Cruz and surrounding areas. The Rebelde was a messy affair for both the average worker and the ranchers who wished to remain neutral in the revolutionary violence. Angered and pent-up workers once approached a German ranch owner for higher wages when they were met with a hail of bullets by their carbines. In response, the workers burned down the ranch and killed the owner's family. The Argentine Army committed atrocities in Patagonia when it massacred 100 suspected leftist sympathizers. The Rebelde is nearing its end and demoralized workers attempted to negotiate with the Army but they were captured instead and summarily executed. Mass execution and slaughter occurred in Patagonia and news of it didn't reach Argentina - fearing a political backlash from the left. Members of the FORA led by German anarchist Kurt Gustav Wilckens went into hiding and the organization was put in a state of hibernation. They swore revenge against the Argentine state and so they did years later...


The FORA in Their Insurgency
Against the Patagonian Republic

In the Interwar Era and WWII, the land of Patagonia saw massive influx of refugees - primarily from Spain and Russia. This was in accordance to a trend and global occurrence where many Republican Spaniards left Spain after the civil war for Patagonia and Soviet rivals to Bukharin such as Stalin, Trotsky, Tukachevsky, and Rokossovsky all fled for Patagonia and lend political as well as military support for the FORA. Their support was invaluable for development of communism in Argentina which is how the FORA became the primary communist force in Argentina then post-war Patagonia in spite of being rife with factionalism. During WWII, FORA communist partisans rebelled against the pro-Axis military junta that ruled Argentina in the time. They request the Allies to restore democracy in Argentina but instead Patagonia was forcefully detached from the country in order to serve the interests of local landlords and cattle ranchers. Pitting the FORA into another fight once again...

The FORA waged an insurgency against the independent government of the Patagonian Republic which they view as the government of the white minority and bourgeois landowners. Their insurgency started since the 50s and the FORA was known to ally with the Front for the Liberation of the Mapuches (FLM) which they declared solidarity with the oppressed tribals of Patagonia (the Mapuches and the Tehuelche). Acts of terrorism such as car bombings, airplane hijacking, and gunfights in the street was common in Patagonia in what was known as the "Time of Struggles". The FORA aligned itself with big-name socialist rebel groups such as the Sandinistas, PFLP, and the Japanese Red Army in conducting acts of revolutionary violence.


The FORA During the Surrealist Revolution

During the Surrealist Revolution or the May Revolution in 1967, the FORA was at the forefront of a people's revolution against the Blanco government of Patagonia. They saw this spontaneous revolution bursting out of the lower-class' collective anger for the bourgeois as well as an assassination of a military officer's son from a Czech immigrant as being a revolution without direction. The FORA originally wanted to poise itself as the vanguard of the revolution until the Patron beaten them in the ensuing power struggle and are co-opted under his Surrealist regime. Now the FORA gets reorganized after absorbing many leftist guerrilla groups spawned from the Surrealist Revolution that they are now known as the Patagonian Red Army.

Tactics

PRA's tactics is modeled after Mao's Chinese communist guerrillas during WWII as well as the Viet Cong's. They follow Mao's concept of mobile warfare where smaller PRA units tend to avoid larger enemy forces then trick them into overextending their lines. Leaving gaps in their defenses and their supply lines vulnerable to an enemy incursion. Reading Sun Tzu's Art of War and Mao's Little Red Book was an unspoken rule in that it is a requirement for officers. Officers are expected to be adaptive to the constantly changing situation and are to take initiative as they see fit. Morale is high among PRA soldiers as they aren't ordinary conscripts but rather local militiamen with clear ideals, goals, and something to fight for - be it the land of Patagonia, their brothers, or their families.


The PRA During a Military March

The PRA believed in Mao's concept of a people's war. In case of a military invasion, the PRA would lure any invading force into the countryside or urban cities. The enemy would be forced to fight a guerrilla war which they could not differentiate between an enemy and a civilian. Bleeding them dry with hit and run tactics as they overstretch their supply lines. The PRA would attempt to secure the support of the local populace and then drag the war for so long that public support in the enemy's home state would erode as casualties pile up. An elaborate set of dug-in cave networks and supply lines would be set up reminiscent of the Ho Chi Minh Line to support the PRA's protracted people's war. They are also proficient in urban street warfare as well as close quarters combat.

However, former Red Army officers and more Soviet-minded leaders advocated for mass infantry tactics as well as armored assault. As the PRA had advantages in numbers, Soviet-minded officers argued that PRA forces should conduct a full human wave frontal assault on enemy lines in order to overwhelm them. This was proposed by Comrade-General Kliment Voroshilov after seeing the Red Army swept much of Europe with human wave assaults. But Commissar Tukachevsky argued that the PRA ought to utilize motorized infantry and armored tanks to overwhelm the enemy with artillery and air support. Then infantry units would be used to clean up any remaining enemy forces and to fill the gaps.

Uniform and Equipment

  • Mostly civilian uniform and generic military fatigues with red-black armbands and berets to signify their allegiance to the PRA. Often applies to Argentine units inspired by Chinese and Cuban guerilla tactics.

  • Units under former Soviet and German communist officers would wear former Red Army uniforms complete with ushankas, Telnyashka, budenovkas, Gymnastyorkas, and rarely Spetsodezhda (indicating that they're covertly trained by the KGB).

  • NR-40 knives

  • Tokarevs (standard issue handguns)

  • Makarovs

  • Mosin Nagant M1891 sniper rifles

  • AK-47 (service rifle)

  • AK-74 (in few numbers, only KGB-backed units have them)

  • PPSh-41 SMG

  • RPD LMG

  • DSHk 1938 HMG

  • F1 Grenade

  • Molotov Cocktails

  • PTRS-41 anti-tank gun

  • RPG-7 rocket-propelled launcher

  • 80 T-33 tanks (reserved for Tukachevsky's armored corps)

  • 30 T-55 tanks (reserved for Tukachevsky's armored corps)

  • 50 BM-21 Grads truck-mounted rocket launcher (reserved for Tukachevsky's armored corps)

  • 25 BMP-1 IFVs (reserved for Tukachevsky's armored corps)

  • 50 BTR-60 APCs (reserved for Tukachevsky's armored corps)

Gallery

Militaire Sans Frontieres

Symbol of the MSF


Founded: July 1967

Motto: "Semper fi"
(Always faithful)

Names:

    Army Without Borders
    The Orange Berets

Ideology:

    Martialism
    Mercenary Adventurism
    National Liberation
    Boss' Will

Headquarters: Mother Base, Caribbean Sea (Official)
Bariloche, Patagonia (Unofficial)

Leadership

Commanders: Big Boss
"Shogun" Yukio Mishima
Lieutenant Michael Werbell III

Manpower

Military Age: 21 Years Old

Active military personnel:
90,000 active personnel (as of 1972)

Overview

The Militaire Sans Frontieres (MSF), French for Army Without Borders, is a multinational quasi-mercenary group which has fought in many battles and fronts throughout the world in addition to staffing every sort of soldiers and guerrillas in its corp. Ranging from ex-Green Beret, Vietnam veterans, former Spetznas operatives, ex-SAS, ex-Wehrmacht, and much more as long as they have military experience. Lately they have been reinforcing its corps with guerrilla fighters most notably ex-FARC fighters, former PLO, former KMT soldiers, and Kurds. They are led by the enigmatic yet eccentric Big Boss whose real name is Pierre Demirel and he is a master at stealth and marksmanship. Fomer Foreign Legionnaire and Green Beret soldier in 'Nam; the Colonel's (his title before becoming Big Boss) betrayal in Huey at the hands of the CIA during a trap and napalm bombardment reinforced his belief in that governments are untrustworthy and also self-introspected on the role of soldiers in the Cold War. Which he believes that the governments viewed soldiers like him as "disposable pawns" for the military-industrial complex. MSF soldiers are always ex-something or soldiers trying to run away from their previous life. Motivations wary as some fought for money, glory, and even a personal political cause. But whatever it may be, they're all united by Big Boss' leadership and they at least could die in peace in fighting for a cause they believe in.

The MSF ever since it established a base of operations in Patagonia has an odd yet special relationship with the Confederacy which is mostly influenced by the Big Boss' relationship with the Patron. Owing to Patagonia's abysmal militia system, the MSF effectively became some sort of military for the Patagonian Confederacy as they continually get paid by the Patron in defending his realm with CIA money. They are composed of battle-hardened soldiers and officers with the tactical know-how on how to operate heavy ordnance and fight in modern squad tactics. MSF soldiers are invaluable to the defense of Patagonia ever since large numbers of Patagonian Armed Forces soldiers and officers fled the country after Colonel Ramon Argosti's lynching. The MSF under Big Boss is an exceptionally well-trained and well-equipped group with the newest Russian and American weapons that money could buy in the black market. They have tanks, APCs, and even helicopters that most militias don't have in addition to owning a large oil rig once dubbed Neptune Oil Rig now Mother Base off the coast of Costa Rica. They acquire weapons from the black market through shady military "connections" with the US Armed Forces, the British Royal Army, and the French Army.

History


Vietnam Veterans Formed the
Bulk of the MSF Force

MSF's history started in 1967 when the Colonel, Big Boss' previous name, was betrayed by the United States government when the government concluded a deal with the French in disposing the Colonel in a napalm trap in exchange for American nukes in France. With this sudden betrayal in Huey, the Colonel and what remained of his Green Beret men broke through the VC lines and had a long march to Saigon where they managed to beat back the ARVN and occupy the city for a time. Widespread looting occurred and they finally escaped South Vietnam by hijacking US Navy patrol boats and sailed off to the South China Sea as wandering pirates.

The Green Berets' castaways formed the nucleus to the MSF's corps. The first big break was in the Colombian Civil War where they provided the FARC with military and technological assistance for a price. During this time, the Colonel met Yukio Mishima who was the leader of the Tatenokai and their relations grew to the point they became comrades. After the civil war in Colombia, the MSF won the respect of FARC and some even enlisted into their ranks on 1968. In the same year, the MSF under the Colonel went on an expedition to the deepest darkest depths of Patagonia after the Surrealist Revolution in October 1968. Around the same time, Yukio Mishima who is now working for the MSF helped the US in retrieving a wrecked Metal Gear Salami off the coast of Cuba before the Cubans could acquire it to the dismay of the Colonel.

After a bloody conflict between the MSF and the local bandits, the Colonel managed to reach Neuquen and talked with the Patron. After much discussions, an agreement was reached where the MSF could establish a presence in the country and the Patron would pay for their services. The MSF grew in numbers yet they were weary in accepting any Patagonians into the corps. Fearing that they would be loose cannons. Since then, the MSF has become a multinational lucrative mercenary force whose influence can be felt in any corner where there is conflict and their services have been used by the American, British, French, and Soviet government in their proxy wars. They have fought in many conflicts such as the Cenepa War, the Rhodesian Bush War, the Congo Wars, and much more where they drew recruits from warzones. Under the Colonel, the MSF became a member of the Mercenaire Internationale and was closely aligned with Siegfried Muller's Les Infants Teribles before the Mercenary Split of 1972.


The Colonel vs the Boss in
Operation Virtuous Fighter

Yet the MSF changed in its entirety along with the Colonel himself when the Colonel was given a mission by the US and French government to assassinate a highly-dangerous spy and supersoldier by the name of the "Boss" whose real name is Valentina for taking secret documents of America's plan in nuking Vietnam and attempting to hand it to the Chinese. The Colonel was conflicted as he could feel that his target was in a similar predicament to him years before but in exchange for killing her, the Colonel would be removed from the hit list to which he reluctantly accept. When the Colonel was airlifted to Burma in order to confront her; she tells him that she believes in a world that is just and made whole again amidst Cold War divisions. She shares the Colonel's beliefs in that soldiers are ultimately pawns to the government. The Boss, dubbed the world's best soldier, understood that the Colonel had a mission in Operation Virtuous Fighter and he dares him to fight her.

However, the two regrettably fought each other to the death in hand-to-hand combat with the Colonel victorious at the end. As a sign of respect for his fallen foe, he mercy killed her and went on to adopt the name "Big Boss" to which he uses to this day in overtaking her as the world's best soldier. In accordance to her views of an united world devoid of war as well as a homeland for free-spirited soldiers; Big Boss went on to formulate the "Boss' Will" in memory of the Boss and he decided that the best course of action in making the world whole again was to assist national liberation movements and Third World governments in resisting against American - Soviet influence. The MSF were a big help for the Kurdish and Biafran independence cause, and the MSF began to only take missions for certain governments that fitted their views albeit with a price to be paid...

Tactics

The MSF acts less like a conventional armed force as a mercenary group but rather engages in asymmetric warfare which blurs the frontlines. MSF soldiers are given mission-based operations in which they are given a general aim and are told to take initiatives in order to achieve that aim. This has made MSF soldiers to be very adaptive to constantly changing battle situations. The MSF operate in companies-size units and rarely do they ever directly confront enemies in conventional warfare. Their decentralized nature means that little co-ordination exists in spite of the high e spirit de corps yet the lack of a focal point to strike decisively would make them a persistent threat to an occupying force.


Big Boss and an MSF Soldier
Sneaking into a Compound

In asymmetric warfare, the MSF regularly conducts hit-and-run attacks in order to bleed the target dry and has co-ordinated with other ideological militias such as the Blackshirts and Patagonian Red Army in a campaign of disinformation against the enemy. An MSF company would usually be given an open-ended mission. MSF soldiers often operate in stealth and in the dark in order to leave as little trace as possible for their operation. Assassination of an enemy commander is preferable in order to leave the enemy force in a state of disarray. They are one of the first to engage in cyber-warfare by jamming radio communication, hacking military ARPANETs, and much more. Armored cars were used as recon and APCs/IFVs served to transport troops at a rapid speed through every inch of the frontlines. MSF tanks often utilized the M551 Sheridan which could be transported by air and parachuted to support behind-enemy-line units.

MSF troops would paratroop behind enemy line to harass enemy supply lines as well as from the rear. Or fight in combined arms warfare by utilizing helicopters to transport troops from behind the enemy lines while the enemy is bombarded with artillery then encircle them using APCs. MSF as a decentralized mercenary force means that troops are more spread-out in other theaters of war and that the soldiers often follow their "gut feeling" above all else.

Uniform and Equipment

  • Vietnam War camo, Ghillie and sneaking suits, olive fatigues and balaclava

  • Heavily armored battle dress with gas mask and helmet

  • T-45 and T-51 power armors

  • S&W M19 (revolver)

  • Browning Hi-Power (pistol)

  • M1911 (pistol)

  • MAC-10 (submachine gun)

  • Uzi (submachine gun)

  • Sterling (submachine gun)

  • M-16 (assault rifle) with M7 bayonets

  • AKM (assault rifle)

  • FN FAL/L1A1 (battle rifle)

  • HKG3 (battle rifle)

  • M17 Ithaca (shotgun)

  • Remington Model 10 (shotgun)

  • M-60 (general purpose-machine gun)

  • FN MAG (light machine gun)

  • M2 Browning (heavy machine gun)

  • Bazookas (anti-tank RPG)

  • M72 LAW (anti-tank RPG)

  • Carl Gustav (anti-tank RPG)

  • FIM-43 Redeye (MANPADS)

  • Flamethrowers

  • Various smoke and stun grenades

  • Mark 2 (fragmentation grenades)

  • 35 AMX-13 (light tank)

  • 80 M48/M60 (MBTs)

  • 120 M1551 Sheridans (light tank)

  • 240 M113 (APCs)

  • 610 M161 (jeep)

  • 480 M35 (cargo truck)

  • 145 M8 Greyhound (armored car)

  • 55 Cadillac Gage Commando (armored car)

  • 24 OV-10 Bronco (COIN aircraft)

  • 30 OV-2 Skymaster (recon aircraft)

  • 10 SH-3 "Sea King" (ASW, SAR, and utility helicopter)

  • 13 CH-47 "Chinook" (cargo transport helicopter)

  • 47 UH-1 "Huey" (utility helicopter)

  • 38 AH-1J "SeaCobra" (attack helicopter)

  • 70 H-13 Sioux (utility and recon helicopter)

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Los Felices

Symbol of the Gay Liberation Front


Founded: June 1969

Motto: "Be gay, do crime!"

Names:

    Gay Guerrilla Group
    Gay Liberation Front
    Purple Hand

Ideology:

    Gay Liberation
    Gay Rights
    Socialism
    Armed Struggle

Headquarters: Puerto Soleil, Patagonia

Leadership

Commander: Brother Bayard Rustin
Sister Marsha P. Johnston
Sister Martha Shelley

Manpower

Military Age: 21 Years Old

Active military personnel:
25,000 active personnel (as of 1970)

Overview

The Gay Liberation Front or the Los Felices (the "Happy Ones" in Spanish) is an armed gay liberation group acting as a militia in Patagonia. Primarily based in Puerto Soleil where the gay scene is lively and active without restraint. The Los Felices was initially formed in the United States in 1969 in reaction to the Stonewall Riots between the police and gay bar patrons. Now it has relocated to Patagonia ever since President George Wallace took a hardline stance against gay marriage and cracked down on most counter culture movement groups including the Gay Liberation Front. In their "Violet Manifesto", they renounced peaceful direct protest as a tool for gay emancipation and has since called for armed struggle against the reactionary government in the United States as of 1970. They aligned themselves with armed revolutionary groups such as the Black Panther Party and the Weathermen. Reports indicate that they received training by the PRA and Jones' Guyanese commune.

The Los Felices manage gay brothels and bars throughout Patagonia for gay people to lounge in and engage in sexual acts. They are a fierce defender of gay rights and have been known to drive out bigots from the Blackshirts or Freikorps out of gay neighborhoods and parlors with force of arms alone. They act as a community police of gay expats themselves in their neighborhood. They have two wings: the Committee for Homosexual Freedom and the Gay Guerrilla Theater. The CHF is the political wing to pressure the US government to legalize gay marriage using activism and the GGT engages in political theater Bertold Brecht-style. They also dress like bikers in leather and armed with whips.

History

The United States Gay Liberation Front (GLF) was formed in the aftermath of the Stonewall Riots. The riots are considered by many to be the prime catalyst for the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBT rights in the United States.

On 28 June 1969 in Greenwich Village, New York, the New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, a well known gay bar, located on Christopher Street. Police raids of the Stonewall, and other lesbian and gay bars, were a routine practice at the time, with regular payoffs to dirty cops and organized crime figures an expected part of staying in business. The Stonewall Inn was made up of two former horse stables which had been renovated into one building in 1930. Like all gay bars of the era, it was subject to countless police raids, as LGBT activities and fraternization were still largely illegal. But this time, when the police began arresting patrons, the customers began pelting them with coins, and later, bottles and rocks. The lesbian and gay crowd also freed staff members who had been put into police vans, and the outnumbered officers retreated inside the bar.

Soon, the Tactical Patrol Force (TPF), originally trained to deal with war protests, were called in to control the mob, which was now using a parking meter as a battering ram. As the patrol force advanced, the crowd did not disperse, but instead doubled back and re-formed behind the riot police, throwing rocks, shouting "Gay Power!", dancing, and taunting their opposition. For the next several nights, the crowd would return in ever increasing numbers, handing out leaflets and rallying themselves. But the situation escalated when one of the policemen shot a gay man in accident which galvanized the opposition and they began destroying private property throughout town. The National Guards were called in by George Wallace and they shot the protesters on sight as a show of force to destroy the morale of the GLF.


GLF Members Setting Up
"Stonewall Nation" Commune

Gay civil rights activists such as Bayard Rustin, Marsha P. Junston, and Martha Shelley escaped to Patagonia in 1969 as it was one of the few countries in the world to completely legalize gay rights and endorsing it. They brought along gay American and British expatriates to move to Patagonia as refuge and were welcomed by Le Patron. The GLF then rebranded itself as Los Felices as an armed rebel group advocating for the violent overthrow of the US government in order for gay rights to advance. They received arms from the PRA and were trained by the Guyanese government under Jim Jones in the 70s.

They also initiated gay locals into their ranks and were now in possession of gay bars throughout Patagonia and a Harley Davidson manufacturing plant to supply them with tuned-up bikes. The Los Felices became a motorized force of gay bikers willing to defend their own gay community as well as allies in the gay liberation. But there has been factionalism within its ranks. Namely; the lesbian Lavender Menace formed by Martha Shelley, Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries led by Marsha P. Johnston, and the GLF proper led by Bayard Rustin.

Tactics


Gay Biker Gangs in the Los Felices

The Los Felices builds up grassroot support among gay people as well as straight people by partaking in charitable activities in goodwill. They have converted empty brothels to homeless shelters, set up soup kitchens, and mental help centers for those who want to come out as gay. For this, they accumulated a lot of goodwill and their biker patrols have been known to defend communities from senseless Blackshirt pillagings. They are anti-capitalist and follow an anarchist-style, horizontally-based hierarchy. Which means that the commander is chosen democratically by their own men and rankings does not exist within the GLF. They call each other as "Sisters" and "Brothers" as call-signs and put heavy emphasis in tightening fraternal bonds between members of the GLF.

The Los Felices has a massive arsenal of Harley Davidson and Indian motorcycles with their tuned-up, chopper motorcycles to cruise the streets of Patagonia as vigilantes and patrolmen. They have caches of guns with Eastern European origins with the AK being the most common rifle in their disposal. As a highly motorized force, they would use mobility to their advantage in rapidly moving from one frontline to another as well as transporting supplies in a rapid manner. They would exploit gaps within the enemy's frontlines and co-ordinate with the PRA in acquiring artillery support in softening the enemy resistance. Then they would encircle them and finish them off in close quarter combat. They also use unconventional weapons in gaining an edge over the opponent such as using glitter bombs and golf clubs to disorient and bludgeon the enemy.

Uniform and Equipment

  • Leather biker jackets and chopper pants (standard uniform)

  • Single earrings, colored hankies, and pride flags

  • Luger (service pistol)

  • FN FAL (standard issue rifle)

  • M1 Garand (bolt-action rifle)

  • Ithaca 37 (shotgun)

  • Mossberg 500 (shotgun)

  • Uzi (submachine gun)

  • M60 (light machine gun)

  • RPG-2 (rocket-propelled grenade)

  • Harley Davidson motorbikes

  • Suzuki motorbikes

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Founded in
Bariloche
Motto
"Und Hoch"
Headquarters
Klein Deutschland, Bariloche
Commanders
Fuhrerprinzip Pffefer von Salomon
Sturmbannfuhrer Walther Stennes
Obersturmbannfuhrer Otto Skorzeny
Ideologies
Nazism
Pan-Germanism
Military Personnel
18,000 active

The Freikorps Patagonien is a German militia/paramilitary group operating in Patagonia which primarily consists of German emigres in Patagonia as well as former German mercenaries from Ruanda-Urundi, Bundeswehr washouts, and Nazi fugitives. The Freikorps was set up by former SA banner leader Walther Stennes who once revolted against Hitler in 1932. The Patagonian Freikorps branch was established by Stennes with the assistance of former operative Otto Skorzeny in order to advance the Nazi cause from South America and protect German communities from the ongoing Futurist chaos. The Freikorps believes in Pan-Germanism, Neo-Nazism, and Aryan supremacy and their fascistic ideals makes them an ally of the much larger Blackshirts. The Freikorps often clash with the Red Army and the GLF in Puerto Soleil.

The Freikorps' tactic emphasizes speed and firepower as a small elite fighting force which only accepts the best of the best of Germans in Patagonia. They are proficient in urban street fighting much like their Weimar forefathers and the average member is required to at least participate in a bloody bar brawl as a part of their initiation ritual. Since they believe themselves to be the human master race, the Freikorps has highly elitist requirements for joining and their personnel are trained by the best former SS and Wehrmacht commanders who managed to escape to Patagonia. In the frontlines, the Freikorps use artillery support to great effect in order to soften enemy resistance and utilize "human blitzkrieg" - moving infantry units as if their panzers and attempting to encircle. Much of their equipment come from WW2 Wehrmacht stock as well as modern weapons funneled in by their Bundeswehr connections. The Freikorps are one of the few militias to utilize armored tanks.

  • Wehrmacht field uniforms and Stahlhelm

  • Gewehr 41 (service rifle)

  • StG-44 (issued to elite stormtroopers)

  • HK G3

  • MP44 submachine gun

  • Panzerfaust

  • Carl Gustav recoilless rifle

  • Model 43 stick grenades

  • MG 42 machine gun

  • 15cm sFH 18 howitzers

  • 100 Panzer IIIs

  • 54 Panzer IVs

  • 30 Tiger Is and IIs

  • 3 Leopard Is (smuggled for testing)


Founded
None
Motto
"Live fast, die young"
Headquarters
None, Nomadic
Commanders
Toqui Thunderbird
Lambo
Ideologies
Occult Tribalism
Futurism
Military Personnel
42,000 active

If their forefathers and ancestors could see their Mapuche children now, they would weep for the loss of their culture and spirit at the hands of futurism. Their children have now turned to Futurism like wasps and lamps. Enchanted by the mystique of speed and ultraviolence; they casted off the chains of thousand year old tradition and ancestor worship in favor of the drug that is speed and worshipping the cult of the machine which gears accelerate towards an unknown future. Slave to their own primal desires and fighting for their God on Earth - Le Patron. These Mapuches are known as "Road Warriors" by the locals whom have accepted their presence with great weariness. The Road Warriors are a nomadic tribe whom rode through the countryside on tuned-up trucks and cars befitting of their title as the "masters of the highways". The Road Warriors scour and molest the lands of Patagonia with oil spills and road tracks which serve to mark their presence in the Pampas lands. The Mapuche go hand in hand with the Gaucho with their trucks and mechanical horses. They roam the waste and raid the Chilean together like brothers forged in fire. Their connections with purist Mapuches (Huiliches) are severed in Chile and they only need Le Patron for guidance.

The Mapuches are organized into so-called "Butalmapu" or confederations which basically acts as a military unit comparable to a battalion with a military command. These Butalmapus are led by a Toqui or war chiefs chosen by loncos (wealthy Mapuche village chiefs) and below Toquis are Michimaloncos who are all warriors who have fought directly on the ground in battle. From a young age, young Mapuche men were raised to become Michimaloncos and taught to drive cars with little fuel they have with some day becoming a Toqui in the future. Butalmapus coordinate military operations with other Butalmapus scattered throughout Patagonia and their tactics emphasized shock and awe where they use motorized units to great effect in overwhelming enemies by blitzing through their defenses. Mapuches often coordinate their offensives with Gauchos where Gauchos provided Butalmapus with men.


Founded in
None
Motto
"The gaucho and his horse are one,
the man on foot is half a gaucho"
Headquarters
None, Nomadic
Commanders
Garibaldi II
Pietro Ferdinando
Ideologies
Agrarianism
Conservatism
Social Libertarianism
Military Personnel
41,000 active

"A man without his horse is not a Gaucho" a Patagonian gaucho horse-rider once said. These were the words that the mythical gauchos lived by for decades in the Patagonian steppes and the La Pampas plains as depicted in Patagonian westerns. The gauchos are a community of ranchers and horseback nomads who roam the Patagonian lands on their stallions while guarding the sanctity of the Pampas plains. They can be found from the southern tip of Patagonia to the Freistaat von Rio Grande. Unlike the Mapuches who have lost their ways, the Gauchos still fiercely defended their way of life for decades even under encroaching Chilean and Argentine. It was only until the Surrealist Revolution did the gauchos increased in size and strength as they are now supplied with arms and mechanical horses in order to patrol the plains better against Argentine troops. Even then the gauchos serve no one, not even the Patron, but themselves as they stick true to live free men after years of rebelling against government rule alongside the unions.

The Gaucho's tactic emphasize asymmetric warfare and valued one-man army/desperados who can take on a squad of soldiers on their own using their own wits and tactics. Gauchos don't undergo military training for they are self-trained in guns and know how to live off the land. Gauchos have a home turf advantage when fighting in their own lands. They wield cowboy rifles and some gauchos ride on mechanical horses - artificial horses powered with car engines for added speed and agility; making them a force to be reckoned with.


Founded in
Comodoro Rivadavia
Motto
"Death to Parasites"
Headquarters
Port of Comodoro Rivadavia
Commanders
Captain Valery Sablin
Captain Federico Toranzo Montero
Ideologies
Anarcho-Communism
Populism
Military Personnel
13,000 active and 35 warships

The South Atlantic Ocean is calm with the breeze of the cooling wind and steady waves. It is in the south where the navy men of the Free Sailors roam. With their warships collecting rust yet active and meaner than ever as they engage piracy in the ocean and counter Argentine naval raids. The origin of the Free Sailors could be traced back to the formation of a small Patagonian Navy in 1950 which primarily consisted of patrol boats, destroyers, and light cruisers. In the aftermath of the May Revolution, sailors of the Patagonian Navy led by Captain Federico Toranzo Montero revolted against their Vice Admiral superiors and proclaimed the establishment of a "red navy". The Free Sailors would be a democratically-managed naval arm of Patagonia where sailors vote for their superiors and decisions are democratically-chosen through majoritarianism. Their ranks would be replenished when naval Captain Valery Sablin escaped from the USSR during a mutiny in the 60s and became an important part of the Free Sailors - refining their tactics and maintaining naval equipment. The Free Sailors is a green water navy that only operates in the South Atlantic Ocean. Specializing in maritime interdiction and wolfpack submarine warfare. They defend Patagonia's coast and without it, Patagonia would be left vulnerable to Argentine commando raids.

  • Almirante Brown-class heavy cruisers (PRA Magellan, PRA Almirante)

  • Arethusa-class light cruisers (PRA Svoboda, PRA Mapuche, PRA Victoria, PRA Marquis)

  • Brooklyn-class light cruisers (PRA Colorado, PRA General Belgrano)

  • Puerto Madryn-class destroyers (PRA Puerto Soleil, PRA Rio Gallegos, PRA Neuquen, PRA Rivadavia)

  • Fletcher-class destroyers (PRA Juan Negrin, PRA Largo Caballero, PRA Kronstadt)

  • Allen M. Sumner-class destroyers (PRA Washington, PRA Franklin, PRA Jefferson)

  • D'Estienne d'Orves-class frigates (PRA Catalonia, PRA Fiume)

  • Flower-class frigates (PRA Maximato, PRA Rojos, PRA Subcommandante)

  • Independencia-class corvettes (PRA Andes, PRA Visby, PRA Malvinas)


Founded in
Neuquen
Motto
"The sky is our home"
Headquarters
Antonio Soto AF Base, Neuquen
Commanders
Ace Jean Damozay
Ace Svetlana Komarova
Ideologies
Politically Neutral
Military Personnel
8,000 active and 200 airplanes

Back then, military jets were a rare sight in Patagonia as the former Patagonian Air Force flew warplanes on military restricted airspace. But when the carnivals of military parades and marches came, citizens used to greet airplanes with cheers and adoration as they once represented the pride of the Republic's military. But those days were no more. Warplanes have become a common sight as they fly over cities in daring stunts and maneuvers as they fought the Argentine Air Force in the sky. The people once adored the sight of "steel birds" in the sky but they've come to fear them as they mistook Patagonian planes for Argentine ones amidst all the chaos.

After the revolution, remnants of the Patagonian Air Force were the only military branch that was left intact as the Army experienced desertion and the Navy mutinied. Pilots, officers, technicians, and signalmen were the only people around in Patagonia to know the secret craft of aircraft piloting and maintenance. They've formed fraternal order based on knighthoods known as the "Silver Falcons" established throughout air bases scattered throughout Patagonia. They follow an air-superiority doctrine and their sole duty have been defending Patagonian skies from Argentine planes and bomb border posts with their multirole fighters. Supplied with the best foreign pilots coming to Patagonia for action as well as aircrafts smuggled by foreign nations claiming a stake over the country's militia politics.

  • 20 F-5 Tiger II fighter jets

  • 10 F-4 Phantom fighter-bombers

  • 20 Mirage III multirole fighters

  • 30 MiG-21 multirole fighters

  • 10 Fouga Magister trainers and light attack

  • 10 T-28 Trojan trainers

  • 15 Cessna O-2 Skymaster recons

  • 10 A-37 attack aircraft

  • 5 B-57 Canberra bombers

  • 20 UH-1 utility helicopters

  • 30 Alloutte III utility helicopters

  • 10 Mi-8TV attack helicopters

  • 10 Douglas C-47 transport plane

Freikorps Patagonien

The Road Warriors/Mapuches

Patagonian Rangers/Gauchos

The Free Sailors

Silver Falcons

Surrealist patagonia

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