Magpie Stoner said:

Power armor starts at 7 (Light Powerarmor), and ends at 11 (Astartes Mark VIII chest area). If you go to Artificier armour it's at 12, and Terminator armour is at 14.

TormDK said:

Cool, so Pen would be 11 and I forgot that range should be reduced to about 30m… in the tabletop BaneWolves only use a template instead of 12" and a template like the Hellhound.

Magpie Stoner said:

Agreed, the range should be shorter on the Banewolf, maybe 40 and should have corrosive and possibly felling.

Face Eater said:

See, I specifically didn't add corrosive because eating away armor doesn't seem to be the point of the BaneWolf… the penetration is so high simply because it seeps through armor and turns organic matter to goop, thus leaving the armor intact essentially. which is why I used Toxic and Crippling to represent this… Felling I'm not so sure about, I could go either way but I don't feel without a good explanation it would work… Maybe specific compounds are used in certain operations so depending on which chemical the Bane Wolf is loaded with it could be Felling (2) only against a certain species such as Humans, Orks, or Tyranid…. against nurgle specifically rolling a 3 on the toxic damage would make them sprout a random Major Mutation instead of take any damage from the Chem Cannon.

Here's the regiment I'm running for my first ever campaign. My players and I collaberated on the background for a few days beforehand, to really get some detail into the regiment's histroy and character.

The Nova Kadian 14th Mechanized Regiment, the Steel Panthers

Origin: Frontier World

Regiment Type: Mechanized Infantry

Training Doctrine: Hardened Fighters

Special Equipment Doctrine: Well Provisioned

Regimental Drawback: Rivalry (18th Scintillan Fusiliers)

Regiment Favoured Weapons: Grenade Launcher, Autocannon.

Regiment Commander: Colonel Johann Tychus Marsh

Temperament: Maverick

A fearless officer who leads by example, beloved by his men but held in near-contempt by some in the Calixis sector's command structure due to his independent and often pugnacious temperament. He can usually be found directly supervising the regiment's assaults in his uniquely modified Salamander Command Vehicle, coordinating their blitzkrieg attacks with deadly efficiency, and inspiring his men with decisive but flexible intuition. A gruff but still personable man who enjoys a good smoke and drink when the occasion is appropriate, he is a commanding figure, not tall, but thickly-built with broad-shoulders and prominent cheekbones, dark blond hair, grey eyes and a cleft chin. He has an augmetic lower left arm which he switches out for a power fist in battle. He is somewhat young at only 54 years of age to be in command of a full regiment, but his ingenuity and hard-hitting drive to win have proven that he is more then worthy of his rank.

Regiment History:

The frontier world of Nova Kadia was colonized by elements of the 118th Cadian Mechanized regiment in M39.1442, who were awarded settling rights to the world after conquering it from a perfidious xenos race. An agri-world dominated by rolling hills and long grassy plains, the settlers still took advantage of their mechanical skills and ties to the Adeptus Mechanicus to farm and harvest foodstuffs with the use of large and powerful machinery. Thus most denizens of this world have some, if not extensive, familiarity with the operation and maintenance of tracked vehicles.

In M40.3699, a scouting force from the Tau Empire arrived on Nova Kadia and ended up in conflict with the planetary militia and their elite patrol warriors, the Nova Rangers, a force of fast moving scouts and law-enforcers whose knowledge of their home terrain and hit-and-run tactics enabled them to score several decisive victories against the Tau. Despite this resistance, the xenos decided that the planet would still be incorporated into their Empire, and a much larger invasion force of Fire warriors from the Vior'la Sept arrived to pacify the world. Despite beaming distress calls deep into the Warp, asking for aid from Imperial Guard forces, it was not until twenty-three years later that reinforcements from the Dantean 9th Armoured Regiment and the 18th Scintillan Fusiliers arrived to help drive the Tau aggressors away for good. This long wait for aide, coupled with the imperious and demeaning attitudes of the Scintillan soldiery who looked down at the Nova Kadians as a collection uncouth farm-hands and social inferiors barely worth their time to assist, forged a stubborn and mistrusting edge in the already gruff and independent frontier-worlders. The Scintillan commanders favoured bombardment tactics would also often exact a bloody toll on occupied homesteads and production buildings the frontiersmen could little afford to see destroyed, and further ingrained a fierce dislike of the gaudy and overbearing Scintillans in the planet's populace. Still, the Tau were repulsed and Nova Kadia liberated, but due to the extended conflicts ruining much crop-land and delaying grand-scale harvests for over two decades, the world was unable to meet its Tithes in the normal fashion, and instead its governor decided that the now battle-hardened people should instead volunteer extra numbers for the formation of Imperial Guard regiments.

Over fourteen Light Infantry regiments were raised from Nova over the course of the next six years, and though at first lightly equipped and often underestimated, the Nova Kadian troopers began proving their mettle in a variety of conflicts in and around the Spinward front of the Calixis sector. The most noteworthy of any of these battles was the 14th Nova Kadian light infantry, then simply called the Panthers, and their grueling war to liberate the Forge World of Stark Minoris from Ork invasion. Despite taking significant casualties, enough to reduce the regiment to only half of its original fighting strength over a ten-month-long conflict, the flexible and intuitive tactics the Nova Kadians had learned in their war against the Tau allowed them to eventually destroy the Ork forces before they could grow into a full-blown Waaagh!

In a show of thanks for the 14th's efforts in rescuing their production facilities, the Adeptus Mechanicus Magi of Stark Minoris graciously struck a pact with their commanding officers, supplying them with Chimeras from their very own forges and the necessary contingent of Tech-priests and Enginseers care for the machine spirits of said vehicles. Elevated to the status of Mechanized Regiment, the 14th renamed themselves the Steel Panthers and have since gone on to many victories, combining their flexible fast-attack skills with the armored strength of a fully mechanized assault. Masters of blitzkrieg warfare, the 14th Steel Panthers are now often deployed to difficult battlezones, or warfronts where the offensive has stagnated, using the speed and maneuverability of their Chimeras to outflank, penetrate or simply run through enemy defenses.

Soldiers from this regiment tend to be brash, individualistic and self-reliant. They follow the orders of their own leaders with absolute respect and foster close ties with the Adeptus Mechanicus, but tend to distrust any other outside authority, remembering the long years of battling the Tau without any help from the rest of the Imperium. Troopers who have history in their homeworld's Nova Ranger corp are often assigned special gear and rare weaponry, such as Chamoleoline cloaks and modified lascarbines with auxilary grenade launchers.They also maintain an especially bitter dislike of Scintillan soldiers, particularly those from the 18th, whom they have often run into since the liberation of their homeworld and have never ceased to clash with them as a result of the callous actions taken there by the high-born regiment.

Regiment Strength:

6,500 infantry and non-commissioned officers, (1,500 troopers circulating reserve status due to Chimera numbers)

91 Command Officers, (65 Lieutenants, 16 Captains, 8 Majors, 1 Lieutenant-Colonel, 1 Colonel.)

18 Commissariat Personnel (3 Commissars, 3 Junior Commissars, 12 Storm-Troopers).

1900 Vehicle crew members

790 Adeptus Mechanicus Personnel, (1 Magos Logis, 1 Magos Technicus, 60 Tech-Priests, 150 Enginseers, 178 Adepts, 400 Servitors)

Regiment Armory:

500 Chimera Armoured Personnel Carriers

35 Hellhound Flame Tanks

30 Devil Dog Anti-armour Tanks

5 Bane-Wolf Chem Tanks.

17 Salamander Command Vehicles.

12 Atlas Recovery Tanks

20 Sentinel Scout Walkers

Rouge Trader Vessel "Wage of Sin" Armsmen for a campaign im going to be running.

Home World - Imperial World 1/12

Commanding Officer - Sanguine 3/12

Regiment Type - Grenadiers 7/12

With the removal of the auxilary grenade launchers, and the addition of void-sealed to the armor.

krack grenade replaced with smoke grenade

2 grenade launchers/squad repalced with 2 lascutters/squad

Training Doctrines - Close Quarters Battle and Hardened Fighters 14/12

Drawbacks - Scarred by Loss 10/12

Favored Special Weapon: Combat Shotgun

Favored Heavy Weapon: Naval Shotcannon

Standard Issue Gear

Best Craftmanship Void-Sealed Light Carapace 10/34

Lascarbine to Combat Shotgun 20/34

extended magazines 23/34

Bayonete (the mono-knife from close quarters battle with the melee attachment upgrade) 26/34

Respirator 34/34

Having just been watching Sharpe, I'm trying to figure out how one would make the 95th Rifles as a regiment. It's quite difficult, I think, as there's a number of ways that would work.

Frontier World or Feudal World

Choleric or Maverick Commanding Officer (Sharpe is both)

Light Infantry or Guerrilla Regiment

Sharpshooters Doctrine definitely, but Survivalists and Scavangers would go with that too (I'm leaning towards Survivalists (Temperate))

To pay for the extra stuff, we might have to take The Few drawback, which would fit the small numbers that make up the 95th Rifles.

As for gear, they'd have Favoured Weapons of Long-Las and… well, I'm not sure what Heavy Weapon they'd have. They'd also upgrade their carbines to full lasguns, or pay 10 points to have a Long-Las each as standard gear. I think the rest of their stuf would be extra rations, etc, for their long treks behind enemy lines.

Temperate isn't really a terrain type, its a climate. I know I wouldn't allow it for Survivalists, but to each their own.

HappyDaze said:

I know, but I couldn't think of a terrain type that accurately portrayed the rocky plains that Sharpe and his Rifles fight on in Spain.

HappyDaze said:

But they aren't well provisioned, or at least no better than any other part of the army in that setting.

Scrubland would probably cover it - it's mostly uncultivated, and has very sparse vegetation.

It's certainly not entirely accurate, but in many war games Spain is considered to be desert terrain.

That's because there is a tremendous range of terrains that fall under the broad heading of 'desert' such that it's about as specific as saying highlands or wetlands.

Since HOTE came out I have been toying with "Dragoon" regiments. While they dont fight mounted like Rough Riders, theys till have the mounts so they are almost mechanized regiments. Anyway here is my idea:

Homeworld: Imperial World

Commanding Officer: Phlegmatic

Regiment Type: Line Infantry

Training/Doctrines: Cavalry Mounts and Hardened Fighters

Additional Gear: Storm Trooper Carapace and a Laspistol sidearm

The mount is:

WS:40, BS:01, STR:50, TOUGH:40, AG:40, INT:10, PER:25, WP:20, FEL:10 WOUNDS:16

Skills: Athletics, Dodge

Tallants/Traits: Unnatural STR/TOUGH(2), Natural Armor (3), Bred for War, Quadraped, Crushing Blow, Hardy, Sprint

Spazmunke said:

Looks pretty cool, I had played around with giving cavalry mounts to a drop regiment but might I suggest you swith from Line infantry to Grenadiers, just change the starting talent and skill to that of line infantry. with grenadiers you have access to more gear and specifically light carapace. For ten kit points you can upgrade that armor to best which will make it the same as stormtrooper carapace but at half the weight of light carapace. or simply five points for good quality and you have light carapace at 6 armor points. or a similar feat can be achieved with the close quarter doctrine but I think that would actually be more build point prohibitive.

First Regiment my group is playing is the Ithilian Rangers 5th "Headhunters" a Guerilla Regiment specializing in seek and destroy tactics and assassinations. Ithilia's a Hive gone feral, with the populace just barely remembering their technology.

group is currently as such:

Sergeant- son of a prominent chieftan heading one of the clans that live in the Hive ruins, Our sergeant is not only our face, he's also the only member of the squad with the clout and rank to keep the rest of us from killing eachother

Heavy Gunner- ironically the sneakiest out of us, our heavy really hates the weapon specialist and constantly sets up "accidents" to befall him. however, given his poor luck, it generally doesn't work.

Medic (Yours truly)- a surly old guardsman who's survived long enough to watch three whole squads that he was assigned to die. on top of being the medic, he's also the de facto close quarters specialist and a skilled interrogator

Weapons specialist- our sniper, the Weapons specialist is completely oblivious to the hatred our heavy has for him, instead focusing on the mission, and making sure everyone else does too.

I would, but I dont agree with the other stuff that Grenadiers gives you. FFG doesnt seem to understand that grenadiers are really just Heavy Infantry.

Also, I like the ST Carapace. Most GMs would give you at least an integrated microbead in the helmet and possibly a photo-visor as well.

Spazmunke said:

I get what you're saying, I think it's pretty damned silly myself but just replace the auxiliary grenade launcher with an equivalent scarcity rating and switch the two regular grenade launchers with two favored basic weapons or even a couple of melta lances since you're mounted.

Magpie Stoner said:

Yeah, a Heavy Infantry that isn't tied to grenades, grenade launchers, and indirect fire would be pretty cool - especially if they had the option of taking Hot-Shot or Triplex Lasguns as their Main Weapon.

All right, I think I've done enough praying to the machine spirit to get this !$(%ing forum to let me post this. I've been fudging around with a regiment based loosely on XCOM, and I think I finally finallized what I wanted.

Endersburg

Background: From for as long as their history keeps track, the world of Endersburg have been besieged by the vile whims and decadence of the Eldar race. Indeed, when the Holy Emperor of Mankind first arrived with his great armies, he found a determined people ready to finally pay the pain they had been subjected to for so long back a thousand-fold on the vile Xeno race. There are many a story on Endersburg of their brave soldiers fighting side-by-side with their brethren in the Imperial Army, using their knowledge gleaned from centuries of combating their hated foe in their unending crusade to rid the universe of this ancient race. There are even grand tales of regiments fighting alongside Astartes Legions in their quest, although what Legions specifically have been lost to the annals of time.

Unfortunately, when the Horus Heresy riped the Imperium asunder, Endersburg found itself on the defencive once more, for the Eldar used this time of great strife to try to regain their grip on lost ground, including reestablishing their dark desires on the populace of the suddenly vulnerable world. However, they would soon learn that the people of Endersburg are not so easily overcome.

Even as the majority of their soldiers rushed to the aid of Holy Terra, a few returned to their homeworld and raised a valiant defence against the Xeno threat. Intergrating the technocracy earned and maintaned during the Great Crusades, Endersburg troops took part in a large cat-and-mouse game, reacting, counter-reacting, anticipating, and generally being a pain in the rear whenever the aliens decided to test the human defences.

Unfortunately, even when the Emperor defeated Horus, and the Imperial reinforcements were able to releave the beleagered defenders, Endersburg would find that, even in the centuries, the Eldar had marked them as a target, and the world has been fighting ever since.

However, cursed as it may be, the people of Endersburg are a resolute people, and have vowed to continue their crusade against the Xeno, hoping to one day ride the universe of the vile Dark Eldar.

A fortress world, Endersburg raises some of the finest alien hunters in the Imperium. While they have adapted their techniques in fighting the many other enemies of mankind, any child born to the world of Endersburg will always have a deep seeded hatred for the vaguely huminoid Xeno race that has plagued them so.

Strategic: The Imperial Guard regiments raised by Endersburg are in the firm belief that strategically speaking, even if all you have is a hammer, it does not mean you have to fight brutishly. Remaining completely static just leaves your opponent time to find holes in your defence, and charging in one large mob just makes you easy to predict and counter. As such, Endersburg raises a great deal of mechinized and drop troop infantry, often times deploying them around Armoured Regiments during an assault, or reinforcing dug-in defences under attack. Due to this constant shifting around, Endersburg troops are quite used to the idea of intergrating with regiments of other types during an operation, and it isn't unusual for them to be mix regiments when conditions warrent.

Unfortunately, since they, from birth, are always under the constant specter of being taken prisoner, tortured, then used in whatever vile whim their captor is wanting to take part in, Endersburgians have a very strict view of what they consider honorable behavier, and have a very low tolerance for decadence, even mild forms (and even forms that don't technically count). This often puts them at odds with anyone of the "upper-crust" of the greater Imperial society, although Endersburg Guardsmen are professional enough to not let it effect their performance. Even when dealing with the rest of the Imperium, an Endersburgian often times comes off as a little tightly wound, and are often the slowest to relax if given the opportunity.

Tactical : "Shoot first, shoot fast, shoot last." -Old Endersburg proverb

The Endersburg fighting style is very much a product of their having to fight a constantly shifting, elusive enemy. Because the Dark Eldar will often fight with the least amount of clothing possible in order to maintain a graceful melee fighting style, Endersburg Guardsmen counter by focusing on marksmanship with high damage output weapons with little regard to armor piercing abilities. Even though they take part in close-combat training as part of standard Guardsman protocol, many Endersburgians are used to the idea that there is often very little they can do if their opponent gets close, and fighting Eldar often leaves only one chance to avoid getting close at that. Due to this, regiments from this world have gained a very well deserved reputation of being nearly unmatched triggermen, and it is rare to find a one among them who fall short in shooting competitions.

Technology : If there is one area in which Endersburg can be said to be blessed, it is technology. Due to their system neighboring the Forge World of Rasifix, and often in return for lending PDF support against the Dark Eldar menace, Endersburg is allowed many wonders of the Machine Spirit, as well as the training needed to maintain such gifts. While Endersburg has long given their allegience to the Holy God Emperor, they do have a higher than average acceptance of the teaching of the Ommnisiah. The Dark Eldar has not let this go unnoticed, however, and have often tried to attack this advantage, using their own vile Xenosorcery to corrupt the machine spirits directly. However, due to this constant assault, many Endersburgians have actually become quite adept at such tactics as well, and a number of their regiments are called upon for their advanced Vox-warfare capabilities.

Weaponry: Another area that Endersburg is blessed, although for slightly different reasons, is the area of weaponry. On the one hand, their previously established connections to Rasifix has allowed many Endersburg availibility to many rare devices, one of which being plasma weaponry. However, it is these relations that allow Endersburg the ability to maintain the technology gained from another relation: the Adeptus Astartes. Back when the Imperium was conquering the galaxy in the name of mankind, a number of Endersburgian soldiers fought alongside the Emperor's Finest, and in return gained availability to Bolter weaponry, which they then brought back to their homeworld. This arsenal has been maintained and added to by the world of Rasifix, and a great deal of IG regiments from Endersburg are blessed by the Ministratum to use these mighty weapons in the ongoing wars against humanity's enemies. Of course, not all of the Endersburg regiments are allowed such rare weapons. The ones that don't often try to compensate by using overcharged G8 Lasguns and strategically deployed Hellguns, but these regiments are the minority.

Endersburg 235th Rangers

Background: The Endersburg 235th Rangers, "the Talon", is one of the more highly decorated, if young, Drop Troop regiments raised by the world of Endersburg. Led by the rather twitchy but competant Colonel Albert Charlington, the Talon has taken part in a successful campaign against the Ork warlord Haffinmorin, as well as the cleansing of Hive World Denson against their long hated enemy the Dark Eldar. Denson in particular was notable for the crazy running gun-battle that took place on the sprawling overlapping bridge roads connecting the spires of the world. As the Densonian PDF fought desperately on the bridges, the Enderburgians took the fight directly to the enemy, deploying and re-deploying from their Valkyrie attack craft in hot persuit of targets. Sometimes they would even jump from one bridge to another bridge below in the constant shuffle to mantain the strategic upper hand. Now they are being called up to the Callaxis sector, their expertise needed against the rising Dark Eldar presence as the fight against the traitors grinds on.

Stats
Fortress World: 3 (Hatred: Dark Eldar)
Choleric: 2
Drop Troops: 3
Sharpshooters: 4
Electro-Vox Warfare: 4
The Few: -5
(11 total)

Equipment: Upgrade to Boltgun (Main Weapon) 20
Add Favorite Basic weapon to regiment (Storm Bolter): 10
Chrono: 2

Favorite Weapons: Storm Bolter (Basic), Plasgun (Basic), Missile Launcher (Heavy)

Alpha complexian troubleshooters

Hive world 3pts

Guerillia regiment 4pts

Billious 2pts (paranoia)

Scavengers 3pts

Combat drugs 2pts (stimm)

Favoured foe 3pts ( forbidden lore: cults/ hatred: mutants)

Incompotent leadership +5pts

Extra kit:

Laspistol +2 charge packs 5pts
dose of spook (rare) 15pts
haluciogen grenade (scarce) 8pts
tranq (abundant) 2pts

Armour:

Flak vest

Weapons:

Lascarbine (main weapon)*
knife **
Grenades:
2 blind
2 stun
2 frag

* local variant :
Lightweight material (-10 single handed firing)
Piercing (felling)
Heating issues (overheats)
Erratic (unreliable)

** local variant:
Shearing (razor sharp +2 pen)
Poor grip (flies off in random direction)
Brittle (breaks easily in combat)

I'm not sure what weapons the Freman would use as favoured weapons… perhaps Lascannon and melta-gun?

Black crusade, tome of excess has some sound based weapons. Maybe you can repurpose the stats for, fremen archeotech available to officers?

Paranoia!!!

I was wondering how to make a Guerilla Regiment which wold not be clone of Tanith Firs&Only (Scotirish freedom fighters in SPACE), so I took offhand name from the very first Gaunts Ghosts novels, and with vague vision of John Connors and Captain Powers postapocalyptic fight against the machnies I made this:

89th Afgali Ravagers

Origin : Post-cataclysmatic World (3pts)

Type : Guerilla Regiment (4pts)

Commanding Officer : Phlegmatic (1pt)

Doctrines: Anti-Aircraft , Anti-Armour (8pts)

Drawbacks : Poorly Provisioned (-4 pts)

Total points : 12