Assault Commandos

The Assault Commandos were a special operations unit of the Royal Army of the Golden Empire.

The Assault Commandos were trained in a number of ground-based missions which required skill beyond that of normal Royal Army soldiers. They received training in demolitions, hostage rescue, abduction and assassination of priority targets, and securing landing sites for followup invasion. Though Commandos were expected to be exemplary soldiers with top-level combat abilities, they were usually used in covert roles, with the Massassi Cohorts utilized for direct assault and shock troop situations.

Commando training took an additional year after basic Royal Army training, and included training in emergency medicine, communications, sniping, demolitions and explosive disarmament, and usually additional languages as well. Commandos promoted internally, but could also transfer out of the unit back to normal Royal Army units. The Commandos maintained five entire cohorts of troops, along with a dedicated support staff of normal Royal Army soldiers.

The Nikina Commandos and the Special Environment Division were subsets of the Assault Commandos in the same chain of command.