 Because along the Moroccan Regulares and the Foreign Legion the Requetés were usually deployed as shock troops, their casualties were above the average Nationalist losses.The number of KIAs is estimated between 4,000 and 6,000; the total number of casualties is given between 13,000 and 34,000.Theoretically Comunión Tradicionalista amalgamated within the state party, but the movement operated unofficially or on a semiclandestine basis.