Human Factions (The Great War of the Worlds)

Human Factions fighting on the Greatest War
Founded in 1914 with the remnants of humanity's most powerful nations, the Coalition of Nations, also called "The Eighth Coalition" (reminiscent of the coalition wars waged against the greatest conquering threat of his time: Napoleon Bonaparte) is the society of nations in which the Coalition of Nations High Command (CN-HighComm) decides the strategy to combat the invader. While all military forces follow orders from their respective national commands, in the High Command the military leaders of each country meet to discuss strategies and exchange new tactics and technologies.

British & Commonwealth Army
Perhaps the most professional fighting force in the world, its forces fight on every continent of the planet, from the central plains of the United States to the cold tundra of Siberia. Their number is quite small in comparison with the armies of Europe, but it is organized in rapid and operational Expeditionary Forces of the Commonwealth. They include members from the British Isles, Canada, India, Australia and New Zealand.

The standard Commonwealth infant weapon is the Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III rifle, along with the Webley Automatic Revolver. Some more experienced units are equipped with Farqhuar-Hill self-loading rifles and Huot light machine guns of Canadian manufacture. The latter have proven to be extremely reliable, as they do not get stuck in the mud or sand of modern battlefields.

Russian Imperial Army
With Russia being the central focus of the Jovian Invasion, the Tsar's Army has seen some of the worst moments of the entire war. In 1914 the Romanov line stabilized just 50 kilometers from Ekaterinburg, an important military bastion in the Urals. The Russian front extends as long as the Arctic to Baku in the Caucasus. For operational reasons, the High Command of the Coalition has divided the Front into various Sectors:

* In the Central Sector, General Brusilov (of great renown after his famous Second Brusilov Offensive, which stopped the enemy in Ekaterinburg) commands all Russian forces in the region.

* In the Northern Sector, General Knox has control of Anglo-French operations from his base in Archangelsk, with the 5th Commonwealth Expeditionary Force.

* In the Caucasus Sector, Baron Wrangel fiercely defends the front line in Baku, where he has resisted courageously since 1912.

* In the Siberian Sector, Admiral Kolchak based in Vladivostok defends the position in the company of Prince Kinmochi's Japanese Imperial Forces, divided between that front and the Chinese Front.

Connecting these two huge fronts, the only lifeline connecting St. Petersburg with the Tsarist forces in Siberia is the Trans-Siberian Railroad. Fiercely defended, maintained and repaired by the brave soldiers of Tomas Masaryk's Czechoslovakian Legion, it is the real hell on Earth. Perhaps the Jovians have not yet understood the importance of this railroad, but still the courageous Czechs give their lives daily to keep it operational.

The most abundant weapon in the Russian arsenal is the Mosin-Nagant M91 rifle, although the Arisaka Type 38 is also very common. Due to certain supply shortages, each leader assigned to each front has implemented special weapons, usually because they are the most abundant in their area of operation.

Brusilov has ordered his troops to be equipped with the American-made Winchester M1915. Most include a sharp bayonet and a Grubb sight to increase their efficiency in the field. The Winchesters can admit Mosin-Nagant loaders, facilitating their supply in the front.

Wrangel equips his soldiers with Shaskas and lances forged with the mysterious alien metal, able to penetrate the armor of enemy infants like a knife cuts butter. His motorized cavalry charges are very famous, in which the Don's Cossacks, mounted on motorcycles, annihilate the enemy without them seeing it coming.

Masaryk gave the order to modify all MG08/15 machine guns (provided by the German government) to the practical and compact SMG 08/18, because Maxim machine guns are very heavy and cumbersome for soldiers who disembark at full speed from trains to repair damaged tracks.

Finally, Kolchak has equipped its troops with the modern and short Arisaka Type 44 Cavalry Carbine, compatible with the chargers of the Arisaka rifles of the Japanese allies. Being of a more trimmed design, they facilitate ambushes in the Siberian forests.