Editing Pirates of the Baltic Sea (section)

====Navy====

The Finnish Navy has 250 ships in one naval fleet, the Coastal Fleet. The fleet is based in Turku, which is also the location of Navy Command headquarters. And Turku is on the Finnish coast, right at the other end of the Åland Archipelago. Meaning that the Finnish Fleet is right next door to the Buccaneers. 

In addition to the base in Turku and the Naval Academy in the capital, the Finnish Navy has two more bases on the coast of the Gulf of Finland. One is the base of the Coastal Brigade, a brigade-level unit responsible for amphibious warfare, naval reconnaissance and special operations of the Finnish Navy. The other is the Swedish-speaking Nyland Brigade, or Nylands Brigad in Swedish. The Brigade trains troops for combat in coastal environments. It also trains personnel for the International ATU unit (Amphibious Task Unit), which is a special crisis management force that can be employed in coastal environments. While both the Coastal Brigade and the Nyland brigade are infantry-based, they are capable of posing a threat to ships. Their armament includes both truck-mounted and infantry-carried anti-ship missiles and coastal missiles.

The core of the Coastal Fleet is four multi-purpose frigates and eight missile boats, with about twenty mine layers and mine sweepers. Finns could easily and swiftly block sea approach with mines. The rest of the fleet is mostly transport vessels and auxiliary craft that include among other things three Pollution Control Vessels. But of greatest concern to the Buccaneers is that out of the entire fleet, close to 200 ships are Landing Craft. They could easily transport the entire complement of Finnish Marines – two Coastal Jaeger battalions. The worst nightmare the Buccaneers have of provoking a conflict with Finns is not the frigates, but waking up to find Coastal Jaegers swarming all over the place.

Buccaneer wisdom on Finnish Navy: “Piss this bunch off and the Coastal Jaegers come over and announce that they are here to drink vodka and kick ass, and they are already out of vodka.”