Dalek army

Dalek army
Also called:	Imperial Dalek Army, Dalek Imperial Army
Affiliation:	Dalek Empire, Imperial Daleks, Renegade Daleks, Restoration Empire, New Dalek Empire, New Dalek Paradigm, Resurrected Dalek Empire
Bases:	Skaro, Crucible
Leader:	Dalek Emperors, Davros

The "Dalek army" referred to the gathered forces of the Dalek race, (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks) typically when discussing their ground forces. (TV: Planet of the Daleks, et. al) However, the ability for Daleks to operate in atmospheres (TV: The Stolen Earth) and space through flight meant a "Dalek army" could do more than simply attack on ground. (TV: The Parting of the Ways) The Dalek army could thus besiege and attack locations in space, in atmospheres, and on ground, (TV: The Parting of the Ways, The Stolen Earth) attacking targets by flying above or landing on the ground. (TV: Doomsday)

During a Dalek invasion, the Dalek army would work alongside the Dalek Fleet, with Daleks operating in the fleet easily joining the "army" unit if the attack called for it. (TV: The Parting of the Ways, Revolution of the Daleks) Being a warrior race totally focused on conquest and extermination, (TV: The Witch's Familiar, et. al) every individual Dalek was part of the overall Dalek army, even if that specific Dalek was currently operating aboard a warship of the Dalek Fleet branch. (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks, et. al) Despite therefore being part of the army and holding a command position within it, various Dalek officers, such as Supreme Daleks, would not see active combat and instead commanded away from the frontline. (AUDIO: Out of Time)

Structure

Formation

The overall army branch was divided into individual armies of Daleks, (TV: Planet of the Daleks, et. al) which could be further split into units as small as squads or large units, including battalions, (PROSE: Birth of a Legend) legions, (PROSE: The Third Wise Man) and divisions also existed under the overall (PROSE: Dalek Survival Guide)

As observed by Landinalakallinian, battalions were commanded by Dalek Captains, each battalion being comprised of two equal-sized companies commanded by a Dalek Lieutenant. Dalek Captains and Lieutenants did not seem to be distinguishable from exterior appearance, with the Gallifreyan professor suggesting that they relied on forms of radio identification signals to identify each other instead of more obvious rank markings. (PROSE: The Dalek Problem)

Tactics

For Dalek invasions, Dalek saucers or other such ships would attack from above, while Dalek ground forces would attack on the ground or while flying themselves. (TV: The Last Day, The Day of the Doctor, et. al)

History

By one account, during the neutronic war, the humanoid Dalek Warlord Zolfian tasked his Chief Scientist Yarvelling with creating an army of Dalek War Machines for use against the Thals. Originally robotic, these War Machines came to be used as casings by the surviving Dalek mutants. (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe, COMIC: Genesis of Evil)

The Dalek Empire named its overall army branch the Imperial Dalek Army. (COMIC: Emperor of the Daleks!) The New Dalek Paradigm and Resurrected Dalek Empire called their overall army the Dalek Imperial Army. (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe)

By implanting the Human Factor on a number of Daleks, the Second Doctor created an army of humanised Daleks which turned against the Emperor and his Black Dalek Leaders, instigating the Dalek Civil War. (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe, TV: The Evil of the Daleks)

During the Duplicate Incident, Davros, in an attempt to dissuade the Fifth Doctor from killing him, offered him "total power at the head of a new Dalek army". (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks)

Having survived the Last Great Time War, the Dalek Emperor created what the Ninth Doctor identified as an "army of Daleks out of the dead", having harvested humans to create new Daleks. Aboard the Game Station, Captain Jack Harkness likewise identified the Daleks as an invading army. This army, along with the Dalek Fleet and the Emperor himself, were all destroyed by Rose Tyler as the Bad Wolf. (TV: The Parting of the Ways)

Composed of four Daleks, the Cult of Skaro escaped the Time War in the Void Ship known as the Sphere and brought with them the Genesis Ark, a dimensionally transcendental Time Lord prison ship containing millions of bronze Daleks, constituting an army. After the Cult of Skaro emerged on Earth in the 2000s, the Genesis Ark was opened, with the Dalek army attacking humans and the invading Cybus Cybermen alike in the Battle of Canary Wharf. The conflict was soon ended when the Tenth Doctor sent both the Daleks and the Cybermen into the Void. Though the Cult themselves used an emergency temporal shift escape, (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe, TV: Doomsday) the Dalek forces remained in the Void and ultimately perished along with everything else trapped there as a result of a "greater battle". (TV: The Next Doctor)

Upon taking control of Defence Drone casings, Dalek mutants created from human DNA heralded themselves as the "New Dalek Army", only to be exterminated by a Dalek Death Squad which the Thirteenth Doctor had lured to Earth. (TV: Revolution of the Daleks)