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= Nassau Jaegers (holdfast regiment) = From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Nassau Jaegers (NJ) is an online community-made regiment for the video-game Holdfast: Nations at War. As of May 7, 2024, the Nassau Jaegers has 858 members with a noticeable British majority, though significantly less are actually active. The regiment is heavily based on the historical Duchy of Nassau and it's regiments, most notably the Nassau Volunteer Jägers, of which the Nassau Jaegers takes the most inspiration from in the form of modded player skins used within Holdfast: Nations at War.

History
The Nassau Jaegers was officially created on February 9, 2018 by the user known as Longshanks. At this time, the community relied heavily on the use of Teamspeak to communicate with each other as Discord was not in popular use at the time. However, the regiment soon switched to using Discord as their main means of communication a few months later on June 6, 2018 due to the unreliable nature of Teamspeak's voice-messaging services, as well as to become fully independent from a separate community-made regiment known as the QRA.

The Nassau Jaegers experienced what is colloquially known in the community as "The Long Dark", a year-long period that started approximately halfway through 2019 that caused the Nassau Jaegers to cease functioning for an extended period of time, up until approximately halfway through 2020. During this period, members of the Nassau Jaegers scarcely interacted and almost no events were held. The Long Dark ended when Longshanks "purged" a large contingent of far-right wingers from the Nassau Jaegers to attempt to shift the path of regiment. Shortly thereafter members began interacting once more and events began being held once more, putting an end to the Long Dark.

A few years later on April 14, 2022, Longshanks would accuse a user known as Loth of leaking personal information. Loth would deny these accusations, and soon after, Loth and a few other notable members left the Nassau Jaegers Discord server in protest and ended up starting their own server for casual play and interaction. Only some of these members would return to playing Holdfast: Nations at War. These accusations are allegedly true, as photo evidence of Loth posting Longshanks' personal information has been released by Longshanks to confirm the leak.

The Nassau Jaegers still remain active to this day and actively attend both official and unofficial line-battle and naval events for Holdfast: Nations at War, as well as other community-managed events for games such as Arma 3, Total War, Dungeons & Dragons, Helldivers 2, Minecraft, etc.

Internal Organization
The Nassau Jaegers adopts a traditional military rank system with certain privileges given both in the Nassau Jaegers Discord server and in Holdfast: Nations at War most often in the form of being allowed to lead either a line (if playing on a line-battle server) or a ship (if playing on a naval-oriented server). These ranks are accurate to the standard Napoleonic British military rank system.

Satirical Ranks
These ranks are meant to be taken in a satirical manner, and often do not provide any additional privileges to the rank-holder. The rank-holder instead receives the privileges of their actual rank, which is provided alongside the satirical rank.

Kaliba
This rank references the in-joke of the user known as Kaliba being portrayed as a deity or religious figure within the regiment. Often members will express a purposeful cult-like devotion to the "Church of Kaliba" and will remark that Kaliba requires religious offerings of some kind, most often in the form of kills in a video-game.

President
This rank is a reference to the President of the United States, and as such, it is given to the member who is considered the most stereotypically American, which is a user known as Capital.

Vice President
Like the President rank, this rank is a reference to the Vice President of the United States. The current holder of this rank is a user known as Littleflower.

Colonel
This rank was created by Longshanks after "promoting" a user known as Leslie to the rank of Colonel as a joke. It does not grant any additional priviliges.

Longshanks
Longshanks (Shanks, Longshankleton, BasedShanks, Maidshanks, etc) is the "leader" of the Nassau Jaegers, having initially created the regiment on February 9, 2018 and holds the rank of Major. He continues to manage and lead the regiment in Holdfast: Nations at War, as well as other games and the community in general. He is commonly represented by a moustache as a common inside-joke at his facial hair in real life. He is of English nationality and often pokes fun at other nations for various reasons, most notably the United States and Germany, where he references common stereotypes such as obesity and firearm violence for the United States and the Second World War for Germany. Other topics include the Falklands War, the War of 1812, American cuisine, the British Empire and Commonwealth, and other pro-British topics.

Austin55
Austin55 (Austin, the Chairman, or King of Burger) is the second highest-ranking member of the Nassau Jaegers as a Captain. He joined the NJ on October 8, 2021 and is still one of the leading officers of the regiment and has contributed to organizing the Discord server alongside Longshanks and other high-ranking members. Austin is well known for holding and expressing his socialist and, in some cases, communist beliefs within the Discord, and even has his own channel dedicated to the discussion of socialist topics. He references the below quote in his profile:"'Our demands most moderate are: we only want the earth' - James Connolly, 1907"He is of American nationality and shows a mix of pride and humility in this fact. He also has a history working at Burger King hence the nickname "King of Burger". He is also responsible for creating and implementing the uniforms of the historical Nassau Volunteer Jägers into Holdfast: Nations at War in the form of an optional user-created mod, which occasionally gets featured in community-run events.

SkellyRock22
SkellyRock22 (Skellyrock, Skelly, Scottish Napoleon, etc) is the third highest-ranking member of the Nassau Jaegers as a Lieutenant. He is most known for being Scottish, as his Scottish accent is often used for comic-relief in the form of motivational speeches during line-battles and/or naval battles whenever he is the leader of a line or ship. He joined the regiment on December 22, 2021.