Czech Legion (Yugoslav Volunteers) Lore: Yugoslav Volunteers, around 75,000 snuck past Yugoslav borders to help their Czech and Slovak Brothers in their war with the help of wealthy Yugoslav entrepreneurs funding for flights to fly to Czechia and Slovakia to volunteer for the army. These volunteers are all Yugoslav citizens, but are not made up of purely Serbians. The volunteers (rough estimates according to the volunteer command) are made up of: Serbians: 37% (~27,750 troops) Macedonians: 1% (~750 troops) Montenegrins: 3% (~2,250 troops) Bosniaks: 6% (~4,500 troops) Serbian Bosnians: 9% (~6,750 troops) Vojvodina Slovaks: 9% (~6,750 troops) Croatians: 28% (~21,000 troops) Around 68% of these volunteers (~51,000 troops) fought in the Serbian Civil War as partisans, where they learned how to create improvised firearms, improvised armored vehicles, and the use of urban, partisan, and guerrilla warfare. The remaining 32% (~24,000 troops) are fresh “recruits,” integrating into squads with the veterans to learn these asymmetric tactics on the go. The volunteers excel at asymmetric ambushes. In dense forests, they let enemy armored columns advance down narrow roads before detonating explosives to destroy the lead and rear vehicles, trapping the column in place before opening fire from the trees. In cities, they rely heavily on mouse-holing to breach interior walls and move safely between buildings, turning every basement, staircase, and sewer pipe into a hidden bunker to force invaders to waste days clearing a single block. If a city is reduced to rubble, they adapt, using the ruins as fresh, invisible firing positions. Behind enemy lines, they launch aggressive night raids to cut communication wires, hit supply depots, and destroy fuel trucks. Finally, whenever traditional towed artillery is available, the partisans deploy it from deep camouflage to completely obliterate trapped enemy columns.
