The Realm Fortress Riflists Regiment

The Realm Fortress Riflists (RFR), also known as the № 45 Artificy Regiment is a special combat engineer regiment of the Tiperyn Realm Guard. It is the only all-volunteer Artificy Regiment in the service, and has typically been used as a theatre-level support unit for high-risk or politically sensitive missions with or without support from maneuver units. Official missionsets for the regiment include breaching actively defended obstacles, clearing mines and improvised explosive devices, securing nuclear and chemical weapons stockpiles, demolishing corps or theatre-level objectives, building field fortifications, and providing combat engineer personnel to attach to The Parachutist Regiment.

Like most other Realm Guard Artificy Regiments, The Realm Fortress Riflists trace their legacy back to the 17th century with the creation of guard and builder regiments to man river and coastal fortifications at home and abroad. Such regiments would be responsible for maintaining the fortifications and its weaponry (including large cannons), as well as defending their area of responsibility against all threats. Originally The Fortress Riflists, the regiment was the only of its kind to man fortifications overseas. Because of the scope of the Holy Tiperyn Realm's colonial empire, The Fortress Riflists grew to be the largest Artificy Regiment. Additionally, due to their more extensive tasks, including limited policing around fortifications and acting as the personal bodyguard for several Viceroys and their palaces. As such, they were the only Artificy Regiment to raise their own infantry companies during the colonial period, and maintained a combat- and expeditionary-oriented culture through to today.

The regiment gained its Realm combat honorific for action during the Grand Campaigns, particularly during Operation Cardenal and the following Zahner Offensive where The Fortress Riflists were responsible for creating breaches in the Teutonic Army's defensive line of fortifications for Crown Alliance forces to flow through. The Realm Fortress Riflists are the only Artificy Regiment in the Realm Guard to have fought in every formal war Tiperyn has engaged in since 1850. They are perhaps one of the few Realm Guard regiments to do so as well—a group that only includes The Parachutist Regiment, The Realm Field Surgery Regiment, and The Ambrosia Signalists.