Gentlemen. Otherwise. The galaxy is ablaze with the fires of war. Everywhere we turn, brave men and women die at the hands of diabolical heretics, perfidious aliens, and debased mutants. Sons and daughters of the Imperium all. You are mustered here today to turn back the tide. To restore order and light to a dark and miserable universe.
I hereby officially announce the formation of this regiment. Roll the skull dice and let our future take shape.
A proper regiment! Maybe not made of proper soldiers. What sort of grist for the mill are we dealing with here? d100 for demographics
Isaac Cooper
Rolled 31 (1d100)
Nice, let's see if we're anything special.
Nicholas Taylor
Nobility! The finest humanity has to offer! In theory. You'll get no favoritism from me based on whose womb spat you out. d10, how were you recruited?
Aiden Perez
Rolled 3 (1d10)
We're a regiment of high-born soldiers lads, we're here to protect our common folk, and give back to the community, after all, we are the most able.
Thomas Rogers
Elite tithe! So, depending on how shit aweful your world is, you may in fact be human! Fantastic. Speaking of your world, what sort of one was it? D100
Xavier Smith
Rolled 49 (1d100)
We're the best of the best of the best, an elite tithe, of the 1%. We should have quite the reputation.
Mason Lewis
Rolled 35 (1d100)
The best one, sir.
Luis Jackson
I'm getting a feeling of Ye Olde Military families feel off these fuckers. Kinda Prussian-ish.
Joshua Ward
A death world. A bloody DESERT death world. The nobility of a death world? What madness is this? D100, what kind of soldiers have they given me?
Gabriel Green
Rolled 58 (1d100)
Liam Green
Rolled 16 (1d100)
Kayden Myers
...
Jaxon Cook
Mechanized infantry! I suppose it makes sense, vast deserts and all what. D10, what are you good at?
Eli Ortiz
Perhaps we came from a Death World where after the fall, our planet descended on hard times, but a small percent of the humans were incredibly gifted at fighting, reunited the planet, and became the nobility. The nobility was good at fighting off local lifeforms and whatever else came our way, that a martial code of chivalry and errantry came out. When the Imperium visited us, we figured, why not join them and get new things to fight?
Gavin Perry
...
Sebastian Stewart
Rolled 2 (1d10)
Damn it, who let this ogryn out of his cag.. I mean barracks ?
Cameron Reed
"Counter"? What in the Emperor dry wrinkled balls does that mean? Counter insurgency? Police actions and such?
Another d10 for loyalty
Brandon Torres
Rolled 1 (1d10)
Henry Jackson
For chivalry! Emperor Akbar!
Blake Jenkins
Over zealous! Fanatics. d100 for special equipment
Elijah Ramirez
Rolled 44 (1d100)
Truly madmen
Josiah Fisher
These guys sounds like chimera riding Spartans
Mason Hall
"A rare heavy weapon"... Probably mounted on those vehicles. Witness me and such.
D100 for the regimental crees
Charles Hernandez
Rolled 50 (1d100)
The counter-offensive of course. Counter-insurgency is our secondary.
Christopher Thomas
"For the Emperor". Why am I not surprised.
The elite nobility tithed from a desert deathworld, fanatical mechanized infantry who specialize in counter... Something and make use of a rare heavy weapon.
Brody Diaz
There's a few more rolls, who can we call upon in these times? d100
Angel Barnes
>Heretic scum has been knocked unconscious >Heretic scum has been knocked unconscious >Heretic scum has been knocked unconscious
Jaxon Rodriguez
Right right, friends and enemies. D100 followed by another
Ryan Phillips
lets see if me can work dice this time!
Juan Morris
fugg
Jaxson Miller
Put dice+1d100 in the options field
Grayson Campbell
Motion that Ogryn No-Bones be a special character and manservant
Asher Moore
Rolled 26 (1d100)
Seconded.
Parker Ramirez
>Adeptus Astartes
OF BLOODY COURSE
And their enemies
Jackson Scott
Rolled 2 (1d100)
We have many enemies from the ranks of xeno's and heretics, but worst of them all, may the Emperor forgive me for uttering this, are the __________
Camden Cox
... roll another d100 on the friends table
Anthony King
Rolled 43 (1d100)
Blake Watson
,.......Your enemies are the Adeptus Mechanicus.
I can only assume it has something to do with those exotic heavy weapons
Landon Cruz
Right! Let's sum up! You're the elite nobs of a deathworld made up principally of desert. You're mechanized infantry whose speciality is counter...something. You are fanatically loyal and live for thr Emperor's glory. You make use of rare type of heavy weapon. You get along spiffingly with a specific chapter of Astartes, but your worst enemies are the Adeptus bloody Mechanicus. Do I have that right?
Egads trooper. What a mess you are. Let's make heads or tails of it
Adrian Harris
Those robot horses we built really pissed off the techpriests...
Jacob Perry
Considering how desserts do exist outside of middle east, maybe a kind of mongol theme would fit these guys? Also I went over the codex again and I still cannot figure out, that why would anybody not just spam platoon commanders, as they’re so cheap yet double the efficiency of a squad.
Luis Phillips
The first thing we ought to do I suppose is figure out what "counter" means. I rather do suspect that given your disposition, speed, and status as elite deathworlders, counter means counter everything. You are the bloody cavalry, you are the sun coming over the hill
Next we ought to figure out exactly what sort of rare heavy weapons you use and if that has anything to do with the mechanicus being ripping mad. First for Grav guns
Cameron Rivera
Missile launcher :^)
Jose Gomez
Because company commanders get two orders cost less than double and are hqs instead of elites meaning you can make more detachments for more cp
Cooper Johnson
Okay, why not just spam them then? I often see people often play only one to three.
Jayden Price
So they are friends of White Scars?
Jack Watson
Some people do some don't not every player is a waacfag
Asher Gonzalez
Ait then. They do seem to make catachan flamers quite attractive.
Jordan Stewart
Mahouts of Servo-Elephants and Aug-Glyptodons with exotic solar-powered cannons welded to their backs?
Grayson Gray
What did they do to piss off the cogboys?
Christopher Sanchez
Our factorums produce volkite weaponry, the Admech are not amused.
Samuel Turner
Man, if we had the capability to produce volkite weapons I'm like 90% sure that we would have an explorator fleet knockong on our doorstep.
Owen Russell
No capacity to produce them but the regiment has found some relics that it now uses.
Brody Parker
how about combining the weapons with "mechanized infantry" rocket horses, too fast too furious
Owen Phillips
also always liked the idea of surf-like sailing desert skimmers (maybe solar sails)
Henry Martinez
So pic related?
Asher Gonzalez
nearly, missing some cannons and counterstuffs
Ryan Phillips
weapon maybe "thumper" like grav manipulators. creating inconsitencies in ground texture to destabilize fortifications or disrupt formations...
Eli Baker
why is it always deserts?
oh well at least they're civilized
Aaron Gray
Rolled 83 (1d100)
probably should role for minor Xeno enemies it would be counter-productive if it was just AdMechs
Leo Bailey
you're sent to take back world that were lost to the Imperium's enemies. If the orthodox way was not enough they can use your exotic equipment to do the job much to the chagrin of the Admechs.
Jayden Ortiz
Their Rare Heavy Weapon is probably tech heresy in fashion
Chase Sullivan
Recommending tracked desert crawlers a la the Deserts of Kharak carriers and the like. Imagine the homeworld is a Kharak-esque desert world where huge convoys of sand crawlers sail the sands, hopping from landlocked sea society to landlocked sea society, kinda like Rogue Traders writ small.
Obviously as a mobile force they're kept as a capable reserve, used for breakthroughs once the enemy has left their encampments.
Too slow for a head-on assault, the crawlers are easily destroyed by a creeping barrage from a fixed position, but are very effective against smaller armored units.
Additionally, since they can carry heavy guns or aircraft alongside their infantry inside these carriers, they act as mobile firebases for counterinsurgency operations.
Kinda like a big, sandy yankee station.
Holy hell that art's awesome. What's it from?
Ryder Foster
be happy i didnt clear browser history (yet). i just searched for something like "sand skimmer" with "ship" "boat" "machine" or something like that on google images, but couldnt find it now... link from history; i also checked origin bcs looked cool to me too
seems like they had a sand pirate contest on deviantArt, its an entry.
Michael Jones
Elite, heavy, mech infantry, desert death world, fanatical - anyone else getting a crusader vibe? As in knights templar?
Sure, an overdone cliche for marines, but could be fun for guard. It explains the friendship with marines, and leaves plenty of room for conflict with AdMech.
Maybe an old conflict between them and the AdMech aligned Imperial Knight houses, with these guys despising the newfangled form of knight and believing they embody what the emperor truly envisaged a knight to be.
Lincoln Price
Already these guys sound like they'd be bros with the Black Templars. Might even try to recruit from them at times. (Also, they don't get along with the Ad-Mech either.)
Josiah Nelson
I only want to know if I should get the classic Sly Marbo or the new one... I cant decide!
Camden Ramirez
why not both
sounds also neat, question is whats their weird weapon, maybe something necrony bcs their death world is a tombworld? used like the cross of christ carried amidst them? a shield of some sort
Jaxson Walker
For heavy weapon, could be something to do with conflict against Knights/AdMech constructs. A ballista or lance themed weapon. Play on the whole medieval knight slaying monsters thing.
EMP rocket launcher, RPG like weapon that fires lance/javelin like sabot rounds, a heavy flameror melta similar to the eldar fire lance. Take your pick.
Liam Lewis
hmm how heavy is the question, bcs i know some guys with lance weaponry. they even got big ones or small (eldar anyone? shining spears for small rough rider ones or big vehicle mounted, eventually solar powered?)
Angel Torres
im appearantly too sleepy to even see you have listed eldar... not feeling so smart anymore -.-
ok will at least provide a spin to it: eldar lances mounted on manticore rockets, bcs they cant fully power them, only for shorter ranges and nobody likes CQC with big mech stuffs, so strap it on a rocket, should be haretech enough to let the admech perk up, also cant remember if black templar were the guys who said "fuck it use xeno stuff to kill xeno if it kills faster than our stuff kills them"
now to bed for me
Ethan Wood
Right, I've come back from the front, good to see you haven't made a complete dogs breakfast of things
I like the idea of crawlers or desert vehicles being used as mobile firebases for close support. As the nobility, I expect your families probably own these vehicles, which are themselves likely an old and unknown chimera redesign. Ones running off of centuries of Jerry rigging and customization. This combination of technological idiosyncrasies and dogmatic Imperial fanatacism is probably quite enough to out you on the wrong side of a particularly devout or conservative clanker. As you see the vehicles as your property and your possessions, family heirlooms not to be trifled with by borderline heretical outsiders.
Also your home is full of sand, and there is nothing a cogboy hates more, excepting perhaps salt water. Perhaps your home deserts are salt flats, for extra injury
As you lot are interested in missiles, the whirlwind is a close support battery usually only used by space Marines. There's also any number of potentially unusual launchers or patterns.
Josiah Moore
>A proper regiment This fighting-force is a fully fledged Regiment, meaning that we will see plenty of action across the star's. >Nobility As the nobility of our planet, we were born into wealth and privileged and it shows. With long lineages of accomplished warriors, viewing war as an honorable duty of the powerful and part-art and part-science, it is no surprise that we are learned in war, the Imperium, and religion. As such, we are well educated with an understanding of High and Low Gothic, trained with a variety of vehicles, and our resolve is strong. >Death World As Death Worlder, the people of our planet are noticeably tougher and stronger than most others. However, we do carry a degree of superstition and paranoia with us and we are slow to warm up to people not from our planet. >Predominant Desert Climate Our people are again, tougher and more resilient, seeing as how we come from a death world, it also means we've not only learned to control our pain and body, but we've also learned extreme patience. Although studied by our noble troopers, we are less effective in Jungle, Hive, and Oceanic combat. As desert worlders, we enjoy visible terrain, so we prefer Agriworlds, Iceplanets, wastelands, mountains, etc. >Elite Tithe As an Elite Tithe, this means that there are stringent standards for joining our Regiment, and considering the characteristics of our population, that means each of us is far superior to any of the average Guardsmen we meet across the stars. There is pride in that. There is a drawback to this, while we may have our average Guardsmen at near-Stormtrooper quality, we lack the typical numbers of a Regiment. >Mechanized infantry This meshes quite well with the previous. With superior speed and firepower, we make quick movements, and slaughter our enemies. Perhaps we have the ability to kite melee-focused troops like Orks around and outshoot most of our ranged opponents.
Tyler Collins
Spitballing here but what if we played a sort of colonialist\dune inspired thing, Mainline: royal blood, inhabit relatively temperate poles of planet huge sand crawlers, look like kataphracts Roughriders, long las, other auxilia : poor desert dwellers beduin \freemen On TT you could combine Armageddon (chainmail long coats) with tallharn
Brandon Brooks
Should we roll up our Astartes friends and our cogboy enemies?
Ethan Nelson
>Counter This could mean many things, but in this context a counter-offensive is most likely if we are mechanized. >A rare heavy weapon One of our vehicles weapon's as previously stated. >Regimental Creed: For the Emperor The Emperor comes first in all things. >Loyalty Rating: Overzealous We view ourselves as no more than the instruments of the Emperor and we act accordingly. We do not retreat unless ordered to, we are all willing to fight to the last with zealotry and optimism that the servants of the Emperor shall prevail. Chaos influence and any insurrections have never happened or come to our planet. >Imperial Friend: Adeptus Astartes Chapter Any of the pious ones: Blood Angels >Imperial Enemy: Adeptus Mechanicus This probably has to do with our general fanaticism and our rare heavy weapons. We don't fight them for the Emperor's sake, but it's safe to say we don't like them, and wouldn't want to help them out.
Culturally they are obviously reminiscent of heavily religious Middle Eastern cultures sprinkled with some European knightly orders, but with modern and futuristic influences. We have many similarities to the Tallaran's, but also to the Vostroyan, Steel Legion, and Catachan regiments. Our average Guardsman is strong, at peak-human combat effectiveness, of course we are limited in numbers, but that's actually good for a mechanized regiment, as we have no issue making our entire force mechanized, when we need to.
I think the society they are from inhabits the whole planet, not just the easy parts, hence why they've profited from the death world. I like the sand crawler and drilling idea's from the thread. I think the soldiers of non-royal blood should be mainly in the PDF and rarely used with the real Regiment, to bolster numbers, we are elite tithe after all. I like your appearance idea, make them a combination of Bedouin/AfrikaKorps/futuristic.
Adam Taylor
What if the planet was colonized by inhabitants/descendants of humans from aincent Afrik on Terra?
Brandon Gray
get all the heavy daka intended for devastator squads