City Dweller Militaries
A typical warlord maintains units of both infantry and cavalry as well as a small fleet of float ships. A weak kheem might only have companies of troops while a stronger kheem or a city-controlling holheem will likley have mutliple regiments to enforce his will. Most warlords have a haphazard collection of artillery as well. In times of crisis, some potentates enlarge their forces through forced drafts from among the civilian population, but most raise citizen militias to supplement their standing regiments.
Ground Forces
Royal infantry are the regular troops of a City Dweller army. They are typically musketeers andwear uniform tunics in the colors of their overlord as well as traditional helmets and leather and metal harness. The helmets and harness plates are usually plain, burnished metal, but some cities and elite units lacquer their metal harness in their lord's colors. A royal infantryman's musket is fitted with a somewaht broad blade which, though it can be used like a bayonet, effectively transforms the weapon into a pole-arm similar to a halberd for close combat.
Although most royal infantry are musketeers, some are armed with rifles.
The Holheem's Guard of Parroom are the fellows you've seen most often in photographs of Martian royal soldiers, but the Holheem of Parroom is not the only potentate on the Red Planet.
Cavalry is, as on Earth, a force much associated with the aristocracy and often hide-bound by tradition, They rely on lance, sword, and occasionally pistols. Their uniforms, helmets, and harnesses are similar to but often more made than those of the infantry.
Officers of all arms dress more traditionally, eschewing the tunic in favor of antique-styled harnessesNaturally the harness are more elaborate than that worn by their men, with more numerous and more highly decorated plates. Their helmets often mount great nodding fans of feathers or elaborate crests of worked metal which has been silvered or gilded to glint heroically in the sun.
Citizen militias are often poorly armed, mostly with close combat weapons and whatever personal firearms the members may own. When they are issued muskets, the guns often do not have the blades for close combat. Militiamen rarely wear uniforms but sometimes a particular unit shows civic or trade association pride by adopting a uniform tunic or wearing some other token of affiliation like a particular scarf or sash.
Aerial Troops
The sailors of royal float ship crews wear uniform tunics only for parade. Most fighting is expected to be done by the ship's complement of marines (armed and uniformed as royal troops) leaving the sailors to be armed as their captain sees fit.
Scouts
Scout is not a true translation of the Martian term for this lonely caste, but it does come close in sound to the Martian word for them while echoing something of their role in Martians society. Indeed, these Martians were among the first to aid Earthmen, serving as scouts and guides during the campaigns to seek out the survivors of the Cephalid empire and break the power of the servants of those vile creatures.
Scouts are a secretive, laconic people, if indeed they are a people at all and not just a loose affiliation of outcasts who have adopted a similar dress and lifestyle.
Thomas Malone's sketch of a scout encountered on his travels.
| cityname | citylogo | pic | details | colors | notes |
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| Parroom |  |
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Armor: coppery bronze Tunic: pale green with blue triangle trim Leathers: brown |
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| Tharsis |  |
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Armor: steel Tunic: "eye spot" green check on white Leathers: white |
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| Barakesh |  |
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Armor: steel Tunic: blue with triangle trim Leathers: gray |
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| Kheldeve |  |
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Armor: brass Tunic: red Leathers: white |
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| Propontis |  |
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Armor: enamled blue Tunic: white with green trim Leathers: black |
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| Wendonis |  |
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Armor: brass Tunic: yellow with red trim Leathers: brown |
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| Lhass |  |
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Armor: brass Tunic: blue with white trim Leathers: brown or black |
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Shaylenka Dominator Cultists |
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Armor: blackened metal Tunic: red with white trim Leathers: white belting; brown gauntlets and boots |