10th Mountain Division
They climbed what the enemy marked impassable and turned stone into a breach. The 10th Mountain Division does not attack the obvious road; it takes the ridge above it and makes gravity switch sides.
Group Rank - 171
Bavarian Leib-Regiment
They advance as if summoned by geometry, white crossbelts glowing in the smoke while grapeshot tears men out of the front rank and the rear rank steps forward without hesitation. For over two centuries, the Bavarian Leib-Regiment stood between a throne and the chaos that kept trying to erase it.
Group Rank - 172
French Artillerie Royale
The French Artillerie Royale moved as a single iron-breathed organism, crews drilled to load, sight, and fire with mechanical calm while kingdoms shifted around them. In their batteries, the state found its most articulate voice, speaking in calibrated bursts of smoke and bronze.
Group Rank - 173
Seljuk Ghulams
The Seljuk ghulams were elite slave-soldiers forged into a professional cavalry core, bound by pay, training, and proximity to power rather than blood or tribe. As a disciplined hinge of the Seljuk war machine, they delivered controlled violence that reshaped battlefields from Iran to Anatolia and left a template later empires would copy without apology.
Group Rank - 174
Escadrille Lafayette
The Escadrille Lafayette was a World War I fighter squadron formed in 1916 by American volunteer pilots flying for France before the United States formally entered the war. Celebrated as both a combat unit and a propaganda symbol, it helped shape early air combat doctrine while cementing the myth of the fighter pilot as a modern warrior.
Group Rank - 175
Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga Brigades
The Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga brigades were decentralized mountain infantry formations that emerged as the dominant Kurdish fighting force during the 1991 uprising and later partnered with U.S. forces in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Shaped by guerrilla warfare, clan loyalty, and survival after genocide, they combined local terrain mastery with political fragmentation to secure and hold northern Iraq.
Group Rank - 176
Kurdish Peshmerga (Barzani & Talabani Forces)
The Kurdish Peshmerga are the armed forces of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, rooted in guerrilla traditions that emphasize mobility, local loyalty, and survival in mountainous terrain. Historically divided along Barzani (KDP) and Talabani (PUK) party lines, they have fought external threats and internal rivals alike while remaining central to Kurdish autonomy and defense.
Group Rank - 177
Palmach (Haganah Elite Strike Force)
The elite strike force of the Haganah, formed in 1941 to wage guerrilla war through sabotage, night raids, and rapid assaults during the final years of the British Mandate in Palestine. Hardened by scarcity and constant movement, its fighters helped shape the outcome of the 1948 war and left a lasting imprint on Israel’s military culture.
Group Rank - 178