Astragon Army

The Astragon Army was the ground force couterpart to the massive Astragon Navy. Unlike the Imperial Army, its organization was simpler but just as effective.

Organization
Just like the other two organized armies - the Grand Army of the Republic and the Imperial Army - the Astragon Army's most basic unit was a squad. However, only five squad types existed; Infantry, Assault, Sniper, Engineer, and Annihilator.

Infantry squads consisted of the most common type of infantry. In Astragon's five-sector case, they are Anti-Troopers (1st), Shadows (2nd), B1 and/or E4 Baron Droids (3rd), Specters (4th), and Chazarach (5th). They organized into armies, and these did much of the frontline fighting.

Infantry
Anti-Troopers hail originally from Kamino, where they tried to rebel against the Empire. They almost lost, but then Astragon's growing fleet arrived and beat the Imperial Army out of the system long enough to evacuate the cloning facilities and their inhabitants.

Shadows are entirely militia, with no clones in their ranks at all. They have more training than typical Anti-troops, but their weapons loadout is the same.

B1 Battle Droids and E4 Baron Droids were chosen to be the rank-and-file soldiers of Astragon because they could fold up and be fitted on the deployment racks of Multi-Troop Transports and Platoon Attack Craft. Their weapon loads are essentially the same as the previous two types.

Specters are so named because soldiers looking like them have not been seen in thousands of years, resurrected from the Carbonite army hidden on an unidentified planet. Ckasaron himself had to slay Nightsister Silri to access them. Since they have faded to myth, they are thought of as "specters" from a lost age.

Chazarach are a species of reptile that was orginally brought to this galaxy via the Yuuzhan Vong as a slave species. Astragon experimented with them to breed sentient Chazarach that, once proven to be mentally stable, they became soldiers and Astragon citizens. They were armed with a Coufee, a Razor Bug launcher, and 2-4 Blast or Snap bugs.

Assault
Assault squads, or heavy weapons squads, were flexible heavy infantry armed with E-Web blasters, shoulder-fired missile/proton torpedo launchers, and landmines. They were the Shocks (1st), Elites (2nd), Assault Battle Droids and a few other similarly armed droids (3rd), Mandolorian Shock Troopers (4th), and Human Soldiers wearing Yuuzhan Vong armor (5th).

Shocks are heavy weapons experts armed with a light repeating pistol, a heavy missile launcher, four landmines, and two grenades. They are not in the frontlines until they're called up to be.

Elites are the assault wing of the second sector, armed with shoulder-fired proton torpedo launchers instead of missile launchers. Other than that, their weapon load is the same as the Shocks.

Several types of Infantry fall under the Assault Grouping. B2 Super Battle Droids are hardy enough to handle light vehicles with wrist rockets, while Assualt Battle Droids take out more heavily reinforced targets with E60-R Missile Launchers. B3 Ultra Battle Droids also fall under this category, as they have the firepower of multiple B2s by themselves.

The name for the legendary Mandolorian Shock Troops has not changed one bit. They do however, have new tech at their disposal, including an E-web Missile Launcher to share between them, typical shoulder-fired missile launchers, pistols, landmines, and granades.

The 5th sector Assault wing is atypical of its biotech-only organization, consisting of YVH-1 battle droids, which fight just as well as Vong, and they lessen the number of people that need to be trained for years to master the biotech. Their arms always had a blaster cannon on the right and a modular emplacement on the left.

Sniper
Snipers are essential to all armies, thus Astragon included them as well. Generally they are on elevated points of battlefields, or if there is no cover, on the troop decks of gunships. They usually pick off enemy commanders and other lead soldiers, causing enemy armies to fall into disarray quickly. They are called Pinpoints (1st), Chokers (2nd), Assassin Droids (3rd), Lightnings (4th), and there is no sniper wing for the 5th.

Pinpoints are named for their accuracy, not because they are stupid or some other derogatory name. They have sniper rifles, pistols, two grenades, a recon droid, and a deployable automatic turret.

Chokers actually do no choking, but they are armed with beam sniper rifles that kill anyone in one hit and can lance through multiple opponents at once.