Albion Army

Albion is one of the nations on the paralell world of Halkegnia, a fantasy world where widespread use of magic led to a roughly 17th century technology level and a medieval society where magic-using nobles rule over non-magical "commoners". Albion is situated on a magically floating island, making it an obvious paralell to the the British Isles (all of the ZnT world seen thus far is a paralell of medieval Europe). Saito Hiraga, a normal Japanese teenager who was transported into the world of Halkegnia, summoned as the "familiar" of Louse Valliere La Blanc, a tempermental mage-in training in the country of Tristain (a parallel of Belgium or the Netherlands, based on its location between "Gallia" and "Germania"), first encounters the nation of Albion in the first season, when it is in the process of a hostile take over by an organization know as Reconquista, led by a man named "Cromwell" (sound familiar from somewhere?).

Anyway, tensions break out between Tristain and Albion, and the two countries go to war. The first invasion is crushed when Saito gets control of an World War II-era AGM Zero fighter and proceeds to shoot down a squadron of Albion dragon-knights, before Louise annihilates a fleet of magical floating ships with her "void magic" powers.

Albion later prepares a second invasion, Tristain's forces launch a counterattack, culminating in Saito fight an army of 70,000, taking out over a third of their ranks before being badly wounded, surviving only as he was rescued by an elf living in hiding in a nearby forest.

The Albion Army consists of both commoners and mages. The commoner forces are mainly armed with either swords, pikes, or longbows, while the mages all carry identical staffs, and attack using fireballs that have a charge up time of a few seconds before firing. The fireballs seem to travel slower than a bullet, as they can be seen flying through the air, although this could be an artifact of Saito's near superhuman speed. The Albion Army also have massive roughly 25-30 foot tall troll-like creatures armed with clubs as heavy forces and large bombard cannons for artillery, each one of the guns have a barrel length three to four times the height of an average man. All of the units appear to wear at least a steel helmet, with some wearing a steel cuirass and or shoulder guards. The mages all wear capes.