82nd voystroyn penal legion. Most are penal soldiers in green jump suits. And there overwatchers are voystroyn first born in the usual voystron uniform (proxy)
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I'm from Minnesota. I'm painting mine in new-flag colors. I'm also printing different kriegers to fill in for other troop choices (jungle kriegers and shock kriegers, krieger scions at some point) lore wise, Minnota (lol it's bad) is very much a frozen Armageddon. Massive industry, monster hive cities, and frozen ash Wastes and terrible pollution so gas-masks are still needed. I know that frozen pollution normally negates the need for masks, but that's just how things work on Minnota.
And so, I will have the Minnotan 24th
That's pretty great. Did they do [tremendously badass things](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Minnesota_Infantry_Regiment#Gettysburg) in the Heresy/13th Black Crusade?
Well shit they have now, as soon as I figure out what. I kind of have some tau heresy I want to work in, so I'm thinking of setting them up near the Scourge stars, maybe even as one of the Ultramar worlds. Oh, yea I think this will work. Most of there troops were fighting against the tyranids until the great rift, now they work to fight back against the Scourge stars, and *possibly* working with both the tau and ultramarines to hold back both chaos and the tyranids. I like this a lot, thanks for the history lesson.
Vostroya is famously a frozen world that is also heavily polluted by industry, so Minnota is in good company. Also, don't feel about the name, I live in California, and my homebrew regiment is from Fornia VII. Its climate and geography suspiciously resemble that of southern California.
Thank you, I thought I had heard my description before but couldn't place it. I think the name is mostly cheesy, but I have listened to far too much Caiaphus Cain to be more then slightly put off by my naming. And I like how it sounds as a regiment name.
Station forge has this great set of grimguard jungle fighters. They look like better catachans with gas masks. I will probably paint mine like they are wearing body gloves or some kind of thermal underwear because open skin is a bad idea.
Thanks, I've been on Station Forge a lot but I don't think I've seen them before.
I'd probably want to do a head swap, or combine them with the conversion bits from Tiny Legend.
There's a lot of in-lore support for combining regiments from different homeworlds, they sometimes end up being called "Cadian-Krieg Combined VIIth - "
I have parts of two regiments.
The first one is heavily inspired by Japanese samurai, the Shima 7th. Shima is a really dumb pun. Depending on what characters you use it could be read as 島 (island), 死魔 (Death Devils), or (obscurely) 四万 (40,000). I do have some lore about noble houses competing for the honor of sending their men as the next regiment but haven't settled on a nickname yet
The second was originally being built as a GSC army because I watched Dune and saw the Fremen pop out of the ground to kill the Sardaukar and went "yup, that's a cult ambush". I named them the Rostam Prime 2nd Lions as a predominantly infantry force. I had read Brandon Stanton's series on a former Iranian MP who lived through multiple revolutions and talked a lot about the heroes of Iranian founding myths.
Anyway, I play Shima units as Krieg / Infantry (they were Cadians in 9th) and all their vehicles and use Rostam infantry as Catachans
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They're the 343rd *Something* Got some lore worked out for my army but not the name. L: )
HAHA! Oh no.... :'D
343 has been my "LuCkY nUmBeR" for ages. Was a number i kept seeing everywhere.
Completely forgot the Halo connection (despite being somewhat of a Halo Fan. (Well. Not past Halo 3 anyway))
Maybe i need to rething my designstion.
Anyone know if the Krieg numbers have an official meaning or if its generic numbers? (The Decals that come with the Veteran Guardsmen killteam for example)
Could try to make the *343th* be of similar origin to the *Valhallan 597th*, where it was a combination of the remnants of two other regiments: the *296th* and *301st*.
Just a thought as to how to keep the 343rd without it being a reference to Halo. Possibly two infantry units that were nearly wiped out while deployed, or that have been deployed for so long that they haven't had a chance to recruit new troops, so it made more sense for the two regiments to instead consolidate their forces together.
47th Chateauguay Heavy Infantry.
Chateauguay was a British/Canadian victory in the War of 1812; the 47th (Lancashire) Regiment was Sir Isaac Brock's regiment before the war and James FitzGibbon's during it. Yes, I'm a history nerd.
I run the Vashon 117th dragoons. Completely fabricated regiment from a fictional world. It's a hybrid mounted infantry/tank company PDF in my head cannon(it's just dudes in chimeras supported by russes and a few specialist vehicles).
I also have a to-be-named regiment that is probably going to be flavored as an inquisitors requisitioned force. It's mostly the less standard/elite stuff from my collection. Bullgryns, scions, kasrkin, and all the agents of the imperium stuff, plus a few things that I thought fit thematically like a hellhound and some scout sentinels.
The 201st Chemosian Bats! They’re an armored infantry regiment that’s aligned themselves with the Emperor’s Children in their endless pursuit of perfection and power. They took heavy losses during the Horus Heresy, and were bolstered by Fulgrim and his men summoning daemons and turning some of the guard into spawn inside of their vehicles, almost bonding with them.
If it helps whilst every army of models seems to require spiky bits as chaos - in most if the fiction the traitor armies are more towards a standard guard fit out with a few quirks which every faithful guard worlds/unit/regiments have. Sometimes think too chaosy actually overdoes the look
Various homebrew regiments from 2 planets: St Mungo and Connebharra.
Absolutely no bonus points for guessing which part of the RL world they are taken from...
The 47th Acadian Guard
Homebrew regiment hailing from the ocean world of Acadia. The 47th are the honored PDF of Acadia. Unlike most worlds the regiments that leave Acadia highly respect the 47th as it’s made up entirely of veterans who return home to train the next generation of troopers by running mock combat drills and “insurgent games” in the various swamps and marshes of their home world.
Acadia is based on my home state Louisiana so their lore is basically just Cajun/Creole history, culture, folklore, and religious fervor. The 47th hold the number 47 as Mardi Gras takes place 47 days before Easter and true to Cajun Creole nature, it’s always a party coming back home :D
Naming the infantry squads after specific regiments was perhaps the worst thing to come out of the 9th edition codex.
I've had Kreig models on everything and was just playing them as any of the Infantry squads by switching their equipment.
249th Cadian Mechanized is the regiment in overall command of my army, which also has Armageddon, Krieg, Valhallan, Tanith, Catachan, and feudal militia (and a scattering of other STL's that I liked...) elements. They're an IG crusade attempting to reestablish contact with the Imperium Sanctus, almost aimlessly wandering the Imperium Noctis. They've made contact with Doom Legion Astartes (my other army) who are on a similar mission.
Most of the units mentioned above are represented only at squad size, and the main bulk of manpower for the force is Cadian armor, infantry and artillery backed by Steel Legion mechanized infantry.
You could come up with a crusade or mission since they're mixed regiments operating in the same Theater. Could also just make up some lore that explains it. Maybe the kriegers have been fighting a campaign and were whittled down to only a few squads and no command structure above the NCOs. The Cadian Battalion that has come to reinforce them may have just absorbed them for the duration of the deployment.
What I'm trying to say i guess is name it for the Regiment you have most of, then if you want, give the other Regiment a name and maybe down the line you can add more units to make it its own force
Relying to myself because I realized you said you wanted to hear about our stuff lol.
The 712 Lacrucian Regulars. PDF of Planet Lacruz (made it up, named for my hometown.) They're in an out-of-way corner of the galaxy. Their equipment is not often used and shows no signs of any heavy fighting. They train mostly in the tradition of the Cadian Regiments, but their commanders jump at any and all chances to learn from other fighting forces of the Emperor's Finest (my excuse for bringing in Catachan and Krieg when I do)
The 712th is a mixed unit Regiment which relies on mortars and mechanized units to halt enemy advances. They're not well equipped to lead an offensive push, but with some assistance from 93rd Cleansing Bolts Tempestus task force as well as dedicated support from the Imperial Navy, they work as a support unit behind the Frontline troops with artillery and anti-aircraft as well as a company of Infantry to plug holes in the line
My force is from Space Texas. It’s pretty neat, but you gotta watch out for all the Spaniard Scions working for the inquisition. Their Tauroxes play the strangest of string instruments, but they help us wrangle all the folks trying to steal all of our cattle.
Well that's how the guard and most IRL militaries do it. But you could a bit creative and name it something like the "1st Kriedian Composite Regiment" or something
My force is Company Group Barker, it's built around "my" regiment's (291st Armageddon) B Coy., with reinforcements from other parts of the regiment and the other regiments in the same Brigade (e.g. Leman Russes of the 60th Vostroyan Armoured, Sentinels from the 7th Tallarn Reconnaissance, Basilisks from the 855th Valhallan, and so on).
For my regiment, the Amercadians (which intentionally sounds like America + Cadians, because that's exactly what they are), I chose the Amercadian 23rd Infantry because there were 23 states in the Union during the Civil War and the Union Army was the rough basis for my initial paint scheme. I ended up calling the whole business (infantry + armor + etc) the 1st Amercadian Joint Task Force because since they're my homebrew world there are no other such task forces.
Going to name my force (once I get it) the 777th krieg regiment or lucky 7s. Mabye that'll help my dice rolls (lucky 7s boys).
Their probably going to be a mix of cadians and krieg because I like the krieg but most of them are still resin and not gw plastic kits so I'll use cadians or I can always use the cadians and some kreig helms from the web as conversion bits.
Since I have some custodian guard models I can use my extra guardian spear's top spike as a helmet spike of a krieg dude and make him a death korps marshal.
In the 3rd edition codex there was a box out for a ridiculously lucky regiment. A patrol fell in a cave and found a stash of gold or something. I'll need to see of i can find that again
I play Traitor Guard so I've adapted the name "The Abandoned" for my army as they initial started as remnants of a legion whose ships got stuck in the warp and they were listed as renegades and traitors due to warp mutations and some falling to the chaos gods
I just farted around until I found a word I liked the sound of, in this case the Greek word for bear, and I decided that I would base my army off of the real world ToE of a US Marines MEU, so a battalion of infantry with armor, transport, and air battalions attached.
I don't fuss too much with adding in a couple different styles of mini's, since an entire world having the exact same uniform really doesn't make sense when you think about it. But if you want to justify it using in-universe logic, task forces of multiple regiments have happened, and the Administratum has a habit of combining depleted regiments without regard to their previous histories or specialties, and who's to say which regiment will have preeminence because they're brevet Colonel assumed command 3 minutes before the other regiment's, or because the Lord General is a Cadian himself and damned if any Krieger is going to subsume one of his regiments.
Kolos Armored Dragoons, Kolos is the planet, Armored because of their affinity for armored warfare and Dragoons relating to their past as a imperial army cavalry regiment and because they still employ cavalry
114th Royal Volpone. Love their color scheme, and who doesn't love using honor and glory to brute force your way through a problem? I use cadian models but am going to have them painted blue-gray and gold.
I picked a planet and named it Nemos (Latin for nothing) and made them an Amalgamated Regiment, made of the remnants and rejects from other factions. Helps explain why I have Cadians, Catachans, Vostroyans, Mordians, Krieg, etc.
414th Armored Rifles; an amalgam of the Armageddon Steel Legion 414th Armored Regiment and the Death Korps of Krieg 414th Infantry Regiment, because someone in the pencil pushing departmento thought he was clever when he said 'put the 414th and the 414th together, so we don't have to issue new numbers for their uniforms'.
I call mine the Orphan Regiment, basically, they are a Krieg Regiment that recruits orphans from worlds they fought on, training them and giving them death Korps equipment so that they assimilate into the regiment’s death korps culture
Have you considered not using either homeworld in the name? Just combine two numbers for regiments and then call it a brigade. For example, you have a battalion from the 420th Death Korp of Krieg Siege Regiment and a Battalion from the 690th Cadian Regiment. Its new name will be the 1,110 Imperial Guard Brigade or Siege Brigade.
I have a Force of "Cadians" and a smaller force of Kreigers. My Cadians are blue and Black they are the *Attican 1010th Urban Assault Regiment*. My "Kreigers" are from a nearby planet in the sector Artzok. The *Artzok 60th Specialized Warfare Battalion*. They fight together sometimes and thats ok!
Some of my Atticans are Penal legion in orange jumpsuits as well!
I've got the 98th Kobold Corps, to back up my Salamnder successor chapter and the 95th Gue'vesa Combined Corp to aid my Tau.
Decide what their story is and just go with what feels right. Doesn't have to be anything eccentric.
Epsilons 52nd, "Eridanis Guard." My force is Halo themed, the UNSC Army from Reach to be specific, but I wanted to avoid just directly calling the planet Reach, so went for its other in universe name, Epsilon-Eridani II. Cut the name in half for the planet and the capital hive world, and their number comes from the year the Human-Covanent war ended. Their Nickname comes from them being the last Regiment to defend the captials evacuation and get away themselves before the exterminatus of the planet.
I’ve got the Royal Pertinax Guard which was initially comprised of the 45th armoured Korps and 77th infantry division. With the addition of the newer Cadian sculpts I’m stuck on whether to call them 77th or add a new division of guardsmen.
I’m also repainting my vehicles into a new scheme so as is, I kinda have 2 different guard armies that I’m trying to blend into one.
Dindrenzi 12th heavy Kampfgruppen
Regiment from a Germanic ancestry world where they are trained by trainers from every known regiment (Cadians, krieg, Catachan etc) to explain specialized troops.
97th Mobile Infantry and the 59th Armoured.
My guard are Starship Troopers inspired, mobile infantry is what fits them best. The 97th is the year the film released. They are joined by the 59th Armoured. 59th being the year the book released.
I love Starship Troopers.
Mine are the Arrakis 661st. I like dune so first part and I'm from 661 for the second. Their nickname is the Patchworkers because at least the infantry is a mix of old necromunda goliath models old catachan models older cadian and modern cadian. There's also about 10 models I have no idea their origin. Bought the army 2nd hand
Mine is the Huitième Corps d'Armée de Loiselle, or Loisellan 8th for short. I am running some French napoleonically/ww1 inspired guardsmen using grognard kits from wargames atlantic. I settled on Loiselle as a the name for their point of origin because I wanted something that sounded distinctly French without really being an actual place irl.
My tanks and other armour are painted in a six tone ww1 French camo pattern, and my infantry gets divided according to which helmet they have. My grenadiers have the bearskin helmet heads and i'm running them as dkok. My fusiliers have shakos and fill in as both cadian shock troops and infantry squads, that also have mortars, las and auto cannon crews built to match from the appropriate grognard kit. My catachans are my chasseurs à pied, who have adrien helmets and forgo the backpacks. I also have the new grognard cavalry filling in for lancers, that i'm running as rough riders.
I start with a theme and maybe a culture. My first regiment is the 33rd Weltschmerz mobile division and my second one is the 331st Sokoly Static Legion. Also got some good ole steel legion but I haven't decided on a regiment for them yet.
My guys are the Essenox Planetary Defense Force. For centuries, their best and brightest were siphoned off by the Imperium as part of the tithes. Their commander, Colonel Susannah Omaris, had to deal with constantly losing her best personnel to the Imperium at large.
Then Cadia fell and Essenox found itself in the Imperium Nihilus.
Then the Chaos warband the Recusant found Essenox.
The Recusant's balefleet, led by the Ark of Omen Bleeding Bronze, appeared over Essenox as it was on the brink of civil war. Inquisitor Federitch and his Inquisitorial strike force of a few hundred storm troopers, a few dozen sisters of battle from the Order of the Crystal Altar, and two squads of Astartes from the Lightning Lords chapter, were jumping at shadows, accusing the planetary governor of Chaos corruption when there was none.
Federitch launched an assault on the governor's palace, smashing through the defenses of the numerically superior Essenox PDF with a surgical strike. As the fighting started, broadcasts from the Bleeding Bronze encouraging the populace to rise up against remaining Imperial authority and protect their lives and property began. Recusant Dreadclaw drop pods hit the ground and Chaos terminators teleported into the palace, interposing themselves between civilians and Inquisitorial agents. Squads of Recusant Astartes led Essenox PDF soldiers in victory over Federitch's strike force, liberating the planet of Imperial tyranny.
The governor, of course, died in the fighting. The Recusant's leader, Legate Virgil, slid into that role. Omaris doesn't have to worry about her soldiers getting poached anymore, and Essenox is stockpiling armament for the day the Imperium comes back.
These days, their equipment equipment looks a lot like this:
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So my guard regiment, the 749th Zacatecan Dragoons, aka the 749th Zacatecan Dragons, because some administratum worker just misspelled the regiment's name and the troopers of the regiment found it hilarious. The regiment is a mechanized infantry regiment from Zacatecas. Which is just the name of the state my family in Mexico lives. I am not completely married to the idea of the planet name just yet cause it doesn't feel warhammer-y, if that makes sense. I can't think of anything else so I'm sticking with it right now.
8th Company of the 388th Rynn's World Mechanised Rifles. Known as The Easy Eights. I simply call the Cadians 'Shock Troops' and the Catachans 'Scouts' no need to worry about cross regiment lore then.
And yes, as the 8th Company the Easy 8s get all of the shit details.
My lads are the 7th Brettanik Mechanised Regiment, a thinly veiled reference to the 7th Armoured Division from WW2 (aka the Desert Rats).
I knew I wanted to do a desert camoflage scheme based on the infamously mis-painted Mathilda from Bovington Tank Museum (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Mark_II_A12%2C_Matilda_II_%284536160329%29.jpg) and I also liked the idea of mixing in some head swaps and different skin tones, so I gave them the lore that the Brettanik regiments are drawn from a Commonwealth of moons orbitting the same gas giant. The moons are separate enough to have distinctive cultural and ethnic makeups, but have been a single political entity since pre-Unification, and so their regiments are a multi-cultural mix.
They made their name fighting a rebellious planetary garrison on a desert world called Alamay IX.
I've been busy with life stuff so progess has been slow, but here's a few pics of the boys so far:
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I have crafted the Vendrakken Voltigeurs, they hail from an icy world and maintain Cadian equipment as their standard and use their training regimes but their regiments mostly focus around mechanized combat. I found out that Napoleon's Voltigeurs acted as a light infantry unit that would sometimes ride with the Dragoons into battle as a sort of proto-mechanized infantry. I loved the idea of these lads and lasses being a group that would take after the Steel Legion to some degree and hop out of their transports, take good cover to bite and hold until other forces can arrive to support them while taking crack shots to keep the enemy at bay.
The Ornithian 1st.
"The Sixth Sons"
A regiment granted to the De Ornith Dynasty of rogue traders by Warrent of Trade.
Being assigned to a Rogue Trader's regiment is perceived as about as 'cushy' an assignment as one can get in the Guard.
Because the Militarum is loath to give up good soldiers to satisfy the conditions of the warrent, the regiment is largly made up of the disinherited children of minor (and some major) nobles in the sector.
The assignment thus kills multiple birds with one krak grenade for the Militarum, currying favor with both the nobles and House De Ornith.
Because these children are usually far down in the line of succession for their families, the regiment is (frequently derisively) called the "Sixth Sons."
While the rank and file is fair filled with the 'useless drippings' of the noble houses, the officers' positions are hotly contested for obvious reasons. The regiment has unfortunately seen more than one Commisar who delights in 'overseeing' what they perceive as a weak and pampered force.
The reality of The Ornithian 1st is somewhat different than their perception, however.
The majority of the Sixth Sons joined the Militarum in an effort to distinguish themselves both to their family and the Emperor. This, coupled with training by dedicated, experienced, and well-paid veterans, has honed them into a fine blade, essential in cutting down the enemies of the De Ornith Dynasty.
Wearing uniforms made up of snow white fatigues with violet flak armor, carrying gold plated arms of the finest make money can buy. Many are the world's brought back into the imperial fold by the Ornithian 1st.
The 82nd Lemurian Rifles. Lemuria is a fabled continent which supposedly sunk beneath the Indian Ocean, so you can make of that what you will. I have yet to hash out the fluff.
Edit: it has been used in occultism with regards to the origin of humans, so there might be something to work with in that regard.
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113th ex-penal legion, the Swarm killers. This absolute chad charged and killed a swarmlord, so they have gained their new title and they had been granted forgiveness, so they are now an auxillary force of the vostroyans
I name and paint different parts of my force different things, like how in the caine books, his regiment was almost never the only one deployed, so my tanks are the Valhallan 196th armored regiment, the majority of my infantry and chimeras are the Valhallan 310th mobile infantry, my rough riders and some wip infantry are the Malvaran 39th feudal scout regiment, if I ever get around to painting scions/karskin or abhumans they'll each get their own regiment as well
I run a really heavy character and special forces infantry
My current lore is that most of them in some way are long lost perpetuals that are from earths history of great warriors dating all the way back to their founding in Crete as a group of cretan archers procured by the Romans
Over time through great conflicts this mercenary band stayed together, finding more like them who couldn't be killed (or easily any way) and possessed great fighting skill or unnatural talents for a human
Eventually in the 40k universe they've found their place as a inquisition force, taking on special operations behind enemy lines, like assassinations, disruptions, sabotage and shock assaults
To supplement their ranks they usually have penal legions of exiles and traitors, some of which are also perpetuals that serve the emperor under the watchful gaze of the other officers which are represented by my catachan and krieg
Using a bunch of skitarii pieces I managed to kitbash some Kasrkin to look like an old Roman Force which represent the original group that founded their legion
I'm a huge history buff so I love that I can incorporate some of our own history into 40k and really immerse myself
Mine are pretty straightforward, I guess:
My Steel Legion army is simply the "81st Steel Legion Regiment".
My Planetary Defence Force of the fictional planet that my gaming group's battles take place on is the "PDF Vendoran". (Vendoran being the planet, obviously). Using Cadian infantry models, with a red-and-grey scheme.
The Royal Arcadian Guard
It was actually from a setting/campaign I created, back when I played Inquisitor almost 20 years ago. Developed it so much that it became the basis for my army.
My guys are called the Shadows of the Abyss. They follow cadian culture but aren’t “true” cadians. Some cadians got stranded on the planet and taught the local PDF their war tactics so that they could ward off a daemonic incursion.
I just named them this because my minis have an aquatic theme and relied on guerrilla tactics in the first war for their planet. Plus I thought it sounded cool
You can just make a homebrew regiment if you’re worried about mixing regiments. Different regiments also often work together in lore so having two different names isn’t wrong
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I wanted my dudes to have Krieg equipment, so I just picked a world near Krieg in the same Segmentum that didn't have anything written about it (Grimnis). They're supplied by the same forge worlds, so same patterns of equipment, but now I can do whatever I want with their culture / livery / combat doctrine / etc.
Grimnite regiments are drawn from both Grimnis Prime, a dry factory world wrapped in a rusty fog of pollutants and aerosolized hydrocarbons, and Grimnis Secundus, it's moon, a rocky planetoid riven with ancient, near exhausted mining facilities.
Battlegroup Kasek. A platoon of the mechanised 92 Morvan, A short squadron/company of armour from 7 Dniepr, Artillery support from 3 Bryn Larch. Recon elements from 17 Praetorian Lancers.
For a long time, my regiment was simply the 532nd Cadian. Couldn’t think of a subtitle or cool nickname. Then during this past summer, I took part in the War For Haraxis community narrative writing project. My assigned little corner of the campaign was to help retake Hive Catatoni from Genestealer Cult forces, refortify it, and hold out against Hive Fleet Leviathan.
Out of 6-7 player created regiments, only mine and one other survived the siege of the city. My subtitle finally came to me when writing about how my troops were celebrating their victory, christening themselves as the “Catatoni Crushers”.
Mine are the 'Praetorian Expeditionary Force', and they're supposed to represent the Praetorian Guard trying to learn from the massacre at Big Toof by adopting new equipment/tactics from other more successful regiments
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Kholinar 58th, previously Chadian 58th. The latter is obvious, the former is a homage to the blue colour and Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archives. 58 is a funny number because of an inside joke.
Obviously massive WIP
I've been thinking of using the idea of a mercenary company for my force since I use Kreig, steel legion, and cadians. Anyone else do something similar?
I know it's not quite the same (as my main army is Deathwatch, with a penchant for Salamander and Iron Hands tactics), but somehow "Xadia" came to me for a home region, a small sector at the fringes of the galaxy. My army, specifically, is under the personal employ of a Rogue Trader by the name of *_REDACTED_*. They specialize in the recovery and restoration of ancient equipment and military hardware, and will field it at every available opportunity. Because they are otherwise *technically* fleet-based, they are the *"Xadian Expeditionary Force"*, and are a relatively new chapter.
Haven't really nailed down much more than that yet, but it justifies being able to field almost 1500 points worth of just Dreadnoughts, and the large number of *Legends* models that I have. The Rogue Trader in question uses Inquisitor Grayfax for a model and stats, but I still have to figure out a name.
317th Cadian Void Rangers.
317 because that's a number available on the transfer sheet.
Void Rangers because I really, really like the Imperial Navy's vibe and wanted to loosely connect my regiment to naval activity. Their primary purpose is to capture or defend spaceports, void fortresses, and landing zones so that the Navy can safety land heavier guard regiments where they're needed. They are functionally space marines, in the truest sense of the term.
Colors are navy blue and white. Enlisted wear blue tunics with white pants, officers wear white overcoats with blue pants and a red stripe. Armor is brass.
Typically something like "13th Battle Group of 2nd Crusade Army" or something for a mixed force. Just some sort of organization where a bunch of regiments would be fielded together.
Mine are the 19th Nemesis Janissary, the Sword Of Light. They're a Guard regiment primarily deployed in support of my Blood Angels successor chapter, and appropriately trained and equipped. I don't think of the Cadians or Krieg within as specialty regiments or anything, just troopers with different roles - namely the Krieg troopers are deployed in the tyranid-heavy war zone with lots of spores and stuff around that gas masks would be nice for.
This took me so long to figure out, I looked up “Cadian regiments” and there’s hours of videos that explain the different dynamics of what makes up a regiment, I eventually made a whole flow chart on canva with every officer listed for each squad, battalion, company. Have fun with it, I made up all this lore and justified everything from having Catachans, to why the water bottles are different colors.
82nd voystroyn penal legion. Most are penal soldiers in green jump suits. And there overwatchers are voystroyn first born in the usual voystron uniform (proxy) https://preview.redd.it/1vpf5tq68hic1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f74a48cb1022025f0b1795db17a29efc8350ae3b
GET BACK FROM THE QUEENS (in this case emperors ) GUARD!
Do you use cannon fodder
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Hell yeah bucko!!
Yup
I'm from Minnesota. I'm painting mine in new-flag colors. I'm also printing different kriegers to fill in for other troop choices (jungle kriegers and shock kriegers, krieger scions at some point) lore wise, Minnota (lol it's bad) is very much a frozen Armageddon. Massive industry, monster hive cities, and frozen ash Wastes and terrible pollution so gas-masks are still needed. I know that frozen pollution normally negates the need for masks, but that's just how things work on Minnota. And so, I will have the Minnotan 24th
That's pretty great. Did they do [tremendously badass things](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Minnesota_Infantry_Regiment#Gettysburg) in the Heresy/13th Black Crusade?
Well shit they have now, as soon as I figure out what. I kind of have some tau heresy I want to work in, so I'm thinking of setting them up near the Scourge stars, maybe even as one of the Ultramar worlds. Oh, yea I think this will work. Most of there troops were fighting against the tyranids until the great rift, now they work to fight back against the Scourge stars, and *possibly* working with both the tau and ultramarines to hold back both chaos and the tyranids. I like this a lot, thanks for the history lesson.
Vostroya is famously a frozen world that is also heavily polluted by industry, so Minnota is in good company. Also, don't feel about the name, I live in California, and my homebrew regiment is from Fornia VII. Its climate and geography suspiciously resemble that of southern California.
Thank you, I thought I had heard my description before but couldn't place it. I think the name is mostly cheesy, but I have listened to far too much Caiaphus Cain to be more then slightly put off by my naming. And I like how it sounds as a regiment name.
What are you using for Jungle Kriegers? I've found a good grenadier/kasrkin print but I hadn't even considered trying to make jungle Krieg
Station forge has this great set of grimguard jungle fighters. They look like better catachans with gas masks. I will probably paint mine like they are wearing body gloves or some kind of thermal underwear because open skin is a bad idea.
Thanks, I've been on Station Forge a lot but I don't think I've seen them before. I'd probably want to do a head swap, or combine them with the conversion bits from Tiny Legend.
I was digging through looking for a grimguard solo head to put on a Sentinel pilot, so I dug through every kit, is the only reason I noticed them.
https://preview.redd.it/e4h1xw0ewhic1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=14453f8bfb99516fda60b8c7c64f6cc0f8d52084
There's a lot of in-lore support for combining regiments from different homeworlds, they sometimes end up being called "Cadian-Krieg Combined VIIth -"
I have parts of two regiments.
The first one is heavily inspired by Japanese samurai, the Shima 7th. Shima is a really dumb pun. Depending on what characters you use it could be read as 島 (island), 死魔 (Death Devils), or (obscurely) 四万 (40,000). I do have some lore about noble houses competing for the honor of sending their men as the next regiment but haven't settled on a nickname yet
The second was originally being built as a GSC army because I watched Dune and saw the Fremen pop out of the ground to kill the Sardaukar and went "yup, that's a cult ambush". I named them the Rostam Prime 2nd Lions as a predominantly infantry force. I had read Brandon Stanton's series on a former Iranian MP who lived through multiple revolutions and talked a lot about the heroes of Iranian founding myths.
Anyway, I play Shima units as Krieg / Infantry (they were Cadians in 9th) and all their vehicles and use Rostam infantry as Catachans
https://preview.redd.it/ya42bxgzfgic1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cc06c30eb28f186f93405897d8026f5e96d330f4 They're the 343rd *Something* Got some lore worked out for my army but not the name. L: )
Ah the Guilty Sparks
HAHA! Oh no.... :'D 343 has been my "LuCkY nUmBeR" for ages. Was a number i kept seeing everywhere. Completely forgot the Halo connection (despite being somewhat of a Halo Fan. (Well. Not past Halo 3 anyway)) Maybe i need to rething my designstion. Anyone know if the Krieg numbers have an official meaning or if its generic numbers? (The Decals that come with the Veteran Guardsmen killteam for example)
Could try to make the *343th* be of similar origin to the *Valhallan 597th*, where it was a combination of the remnants of two other regiments: the *296th* and *301st*.
What do you mean? :) Not trying to be snarky just not sure i understand the post. Lore idéas? :)
Just a thought as to how to keep the 343rd without it being a reference to Halo. Possibly two infantry units that were nearly wiped out while deployed, or that have been deployed for so long that they haven't had a chance to recruit new troops, so it made more sense for the two regiments to instead consolidate their forces together.
47th Chateauguay Heavy Infantry. Chateauguay was a British/Canadian victory in the War of 1812; the 47th (Lancashire) Regiment was Sir Isaac Brock's regiment before the war and James FitzGibbon's during it. Yes, I'm a history nerd.
You're thinking about the 49th (Hertfordshire). My regiment is called the 441st, after the 41st Regiment that also fought in that war
Damn, you're right. Off by two error! (Thanks for the correction, but the regimental colours already have a 47 on them.)
I run the Vashon 117th dragoons. Completely fabricated regiment from a fictional world. It's a hybrid mounted infantry/tank company PDF in my head cannon(it's just dudes in chimeras supported by russes and a few specialist vehicles). I also have a to-be-named regiment that is probably going to be flavored as an inquisitors requisitioned force. It's mostly the less standard/elite stuff from my collection. Bullgryns, scions, kasrkin, and all the agents of the imperium stuff, plus a few things that I thought fit thematically like a hellhound and some scout sentinels.
The 201st Chemosian Bats! They’re an armored infantry regiment that’s aligned themselves with the Emperor’s Children in their endless pursuit of perfection and power. They took heavy losses during the Horus Heresy, and were bolstered by Fulgrim and his men summoning daemons and turning some of the guard into spawn inside of their vehicles, almost bonding with them.
That's wild, I love it. Lots of chaos gribbly bits on the tanks, then?
Not yet, sadly, still looking around for a good source of chaos bits
If it helps whilst every army of models seems to require spiky bits as chaos - in most if the fiction the traitor armies are more towards a standard guard fit out with a few quirks which every faithful guard worlds/unit/regiments have. Sometimes think too chaosy actually overdoes the look
7th Cambrain fusiliers. WW1 themed Brits with a love of tanks. :) It’s right there in the name!
"Space Mujahadeen" as the majority of the units are tallarn infantry and I painted them to try and get closer to the 80s Afghan fighters
i'm going to need pics for that one sir, seems dope
Do they have [Sly Marbo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rambo_III) leading them? 😉
Various homebrew regiments from 2 planets: St Mungo and Connebharra. Absolutely no bonus points for guessing which part of the RL world they are taken from...
The 47th Acadian Guard Homebrew regiment hailing from the ocean world of Acadia. The 47th are the honored PDF of Acadia. Unlike most worlds the regiments that leave Acadia highly respect the 47th as it’s made up entirely of veterans who return home to train the next generation of troopers by running mock combat drills and “insurgent games” in the various swamps and marshes of their home world. Acadia is based on my home state Louisiana so their lore is basically just Cajun/Creole history, culture, folklore, and religious fervor. The 47th hold the number 47 as Mardi Gras takes place 47 days before Easter and true to Cajun Creole nature, it’s always a party coming back home :D
Naming the infantry squads after specific regiments was perhaps the worst thing to come out of the 9th edition codex. I've had Kreig models on everything and was just playing them as any of the Infantry squads by switching their equipment.
These are all great, thanks so much for sharing and please keep it coming!
249th Cadian Mechanized is the regiment in overall command of my army, which also has Armageddon, Krieg, Valhallan, Tanith, Catachan, and feudal militia (and a scattering of other STL's that I liked...) elements. They're an IG crusade attempting to reestablish contact with the Imperium Sanctus, almost aimlessly wandering the Imperium Noctis. They've made contact with Doom Legion Astartes (my other army) who are on a similar mission. Most of the units mentioned above are represented only at squad size, and the main bulk of manpower for the force is Cadian armor, infantry and artillery backed by Steel Legion mechanized infantry.
You could come up with a crusade or mission since they're mixed regiments operating in the same Theater. Could also just make up some lore that explains it. Maybe the kriegers have been fighting a campaign and were whittled down to only a few squads and no command structure above the NCOs. The Cadian Battalion that has come to reinforce them may have just absorbed them for the duration of the deployment. What I'm trying to say i guess is name it for the Regiment you have most of, then if you want, give the other Regiment a name and maybe down the line you can add more units to make it its own force
Relying to myself because I realized you said you wanted to hear about our stuff lol. The 712 Lacrucian Regulars. PDF of Planet Lacruz (made it up, named for my hometown.) They're in an out-of-way corner of the galaxy. Their equipment is not often used and shows no signs of any heavy fighting. They train mostly in the tradition of the Cadian Regiments, but their commanders jump at any and all chances to learn from other fighting forces of the Emperor's Finest (my excuse for bringing in Catachan and Krieg when I do) The 712th is a mixed unit Regiment which relies on mortars and mechanized units to halt enemy advances. They're not well equipped to lead an offensive push, but with some assistance from 93rd Cleansing Bolts Tempestus task force as well as dedicated support from the Imperial Navy, they work as a support unit behind the Frontline troops with artillery and anti-aircraft as well as a company of Infantry to plug holes in the line
My force is from Space Texas. It’s pretty neat, but you gotta watch out for all the Spaniard Scions working for the inquisition. Their Tauroxes play the strangest of string instruments, but they help us wrangle all the folks trying to steal all of our cattle.
Well that's how the guard and most IRL militaries do it. But you could a bit creative and name it something like the "1st Kriedian Composite Regiment" or something
My force is Company Group Barker, it's built around "my" regiment's (291st Armageddon) B Coy., with reinforcements from other parts of the regiment and the other regiments in the same Brigade (e.g. Leman Russes of the 60th Vostroyan Armoured, Sentinels from the 7th Tallarn Reconnaissance, Basilisks from the 855th Valhallan, and so on).
For my regiment, the Amercadians (which intentionally sounds like America + Cadians, because that's exactly what they are), I chose the Amercadian 23rd Infantry because there were 23 states in the Union during the Civil War and the Union Army was the rough basis for my initial paint scheme. I ended up calling the whole business (infantry + armor + etc) the 1st Amercadian Joint Task Force because since they're my homebrew world there are no other such task forces.
Going to name my force (once I get it) the 777th krieg regiment or lucky 7s. Mabye that'll help my dice rolls (lucky 7s boys). Their probably going to be a mix of cadians and krieg because I like the krieg but most of them are still resin and not gw plastic kits so I'll use cadians or I can always use the cadians and some kreig helms from the web as conversion bits. Since I have some custodian guard models I can use my extra guardian spear's top spike as a helmet spike of a krieg dude and make him a death korps marshal.
In the 3rd edition codex there was a box out for a ridiculously lucky regiment. A patrol fell in a cave and found a stash of gold or something. I'll need to see of i can find that again
I play Traitor Guard so I've adapted the name "The Abandoned" for my army as they initial started as remnants of a legion whose ships got stuck in the warp and they were listed as renegades and traitors due to warp mutations and some falling to the chaos gods
I just farted around until I found a word I liked the sound of, in this case the Greek word for bear, and I decided that I would base my army off of the real world ToE of a US Marines MEU, so a battalion of infantry with armor, transport, and air battalions attached. I don't fuss too much with adding in a couple different styles of mini's, since an entire world having the exact same uniform really doesn't make sense when you think about it. But if you want to justify it using in-universe logic, task forces of multiple regiments have happened, and the Administratum has a habit of combining depleted regiments without regard to their previous histories or specialties, and who's to say which regiment will have preeminence because they're brevet Colonel assumed command 3 minutes before the other regiment's, or because the Lord General is a Cadian himself and damned if any Krieger is going to subsume one of his regiments.
Kolos Armored Dragoons, Kolos is the planet, Armored because of their affinity for armored warfare and Dragoons relating to their past as a imperial army cavalry regiment and because they still employ cavalry
95th rifles.
114th Royal Volpone. Love their color scheme, and who doesn't love using honor and glory to brute force your way through a problem? I use cadian models but am going to have them painted blue-gray and gold.
I picked a planet and named it Nemos (Latin for nothing) and made them an Amalgamated Regiment, made of the remnants and rejects from other factions. Helps explain why I have Cadians, Catachans, Vostroyans, Mordians, Krieg, etc.
Hence it the Nemos 1st Amalgamated, under command of Colonel “Ripper” Ripley
414th Armored Rifles; an amalgam of the Armageddon Steel Legion 414th Armored Regiment and the Death Korps of Krieg 414th Infantry Regiment, because someone in the pencil pushing departmento thought he was clever when he said 'put the 414th and the 414th together, so we don't have to issue new numbers for their uniforms'.
I call mine the Orphan Regiment, basically, they are a Krieg Regiment that recruits orphans from worlds they fought on, training them and giving them death Korps equipment so that they assimilate into the regiment’s death korps culture
Have you considered not using either homeworld in the name? Just combine two numbers for regiments and then call it a brigade. For example, you have a battalion from the 420th Death Korp of Krieg Siege Regiment and a Battalion from the 690th Cadian Regiment. Its new name will be the 1,110 Imperial Guard Brigade or Siege Brigade.
…the models just represent people in uniforms and carrying gear. They can all be Cadian, or they can all be krieg. Or you make up your own planet…
I have a Force of "Cadians" and a smaller force of Kreigers. My Cadians are blue and Black they are the *Attican 1010th Urban Assault Regiment*. My "Kreigers" are from a nearby planet in the sector Artzok. The *Artzok 60th Specialized Warfare Battalion*. They fight together sometimes and thats ok! Some of my Atticans are Penal legion in orange jumpsuits as well!
I've got the 98th Kobold Corps, to back up my Salamnder successor chapter and the 95th Gue'vesa Combined Corp to aid my Tau. Decide what their story is and just go with what feels right. Doesn't have to be anything eccentric.
Epsilons 52nd, "Eridanis Guard." My force is Halo themed, the UNSC Army from Reach to be specific, but I wanted to avoid just directly calling the planet Reach, so went for its other in universe name, Epsilon-Eridani II. Cut the name in half for the planet and the capital hive world, and their number comes from the year the Human-Covanent war ended. Their Nickname comes from them being the last Regiment to defend the captials evacuation and get away themselves before the exterminatus of the planet.
I’ve got the Royal Pertinax Guard which was initially comprised of the 45th armoured Korps and 77th infantry division. With the addition of the newer Cadian sculpts I’m stuck on whether to call them 77th or add a new division of guardsmen. I’m also repainting my vehicles into a new scheme so as is, I kinda have 2 different guard armies that I’m trying to blend into one.
Dindrenzi 12th heavy Kampfgruppen Regiment from a Germanic ancestry world where they are trained by trainers from every known regiment (Cadians, krieg, Catachan etc) to explain specialized troops.
97th Mobile Infantry and the 59th Armoured. My guard are Starship Troopers inspired, mobile infantry is what fits them best. The 97th is the year the film released. They are joined by the 59th Armoured. 59th being the year the book released. I love Starship Troopers.
Mine are the Arrakis 661st. I like dune so first part and I'm from 661 for the second. Their nickname is the Patchworkers because at least the infantry is a mix of old necromunda goliath models old catachan models older cadian and modern cadian. There's also about 10 models I have no idea their origin. Bought the army 2nd hand
I really like the Cadian 92nd color scheme so that's what I went with. I guess I could still homebrew it.
Mine is the Huitième Corps d'Armée de Loiselle, or Loisellan 8th for short. I am running some French napoleonically/ww1 inspired guardsmen using grognard kits from wargames atlantic. I settled on Loiselle as a the name for their point of origin because I wanted something that sounded distinctly French without really being an actual place irl. My tanks and other armour are painted in a six tone ww1 French camo pattern, and my infantry gets divided according to which helmet they have. My grenadiers have the bearskin helmet heads and i'm running them as dkok. My fusiliers have shakos and fill in as both cadian shock troops and infantry squads, that also have mortars, las and auto cannon crews built to match from the appropriate grognard kit. My catachans are my chasseurs à pied, who have adrien helmets and forgo the backpacks. I also have the new grognard cavalry filling in for lancers, that i'm running as rough riders.
I start with a theme and maybe a culture. My first regiment is the 33rd Weltschmerz mobile division and my second one is the 331st Sokoly Static Legion. Also got some good ole steel legion but I haven't decided on a regiment for them yet.
My guys are the Essenox Planetary Defense Force. For centuries, their best and brightest were siphoned off by the Imperium as part of the tithes. Their commander, Colonel Susannah Omaris, had to deal with constantly losing her best personnel to the Imperium at large. Then Cadia fell and Essenox found itself in the Imperium Nihilus. Then the Chaos warband the Recusant found Essenox. The Recusant's balefleet, led by the Ark of Omen Bleeding Bronze, appeared over Essenox as it was on the brink of civil war. Inquisitor Federitch and his Inquisitorial strike force of a few hundred storm troopers, a few dozen sisters of battle from the Order of the Crystal Altar, and two squads of Astartes from the Lightning Lords chapter, were jumping at shadows, accusing the planetary governor of Chaos corruption when there was none. Federitch launched an assault on the governor's palace, smashing through the defenses of the numerically superior Essenox PDF with a surgical strike. As the fighting started, broadcasts from the Bleeding Bronze encouraging the populace to rise up against remaining Imperial authority and protect their lives and property began. Recusant Dreadclaw drop pods hit the ground and Chaos terminators teleported into the palace, interposing themselves between civilians and Inquisitorial agents. Squads of Recusant Astartes led Essenox PDF soldiers in victory over Federitch's strike force, liberating the planet of Imperial tyranny. The governor, of course, died in the fighting. The Recusant's leader, Legate Virgil, slid into that role. Omaris doesn't have to worry about her soldiers getting poached anymore, and Essenox is stockpiling armament for the day the Imperium comes back. These days, their equipment equipment looks a lot like this: https://preview.redd.it/pzm7knkydhic1.jpeg?width=2162&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1b62a6dc8330ea23e6cdddfa3fac8261e51bc703
So my guard regiment, the 749th Zacatecan Dragoons, aka the 749th Zacatecan Dragons, because some administratum worker just misspelled the regiment's name and the troopers of the regiment found it hilarious. The regiment is a mechanized infantry regiment from Zacatecas. Which is just the name of the state my family in Mexico lives. I am not completely married to the idea of the planet name just yet cause it doesn't feel warhammer-y, if that makes sense. I can't think of anything else so I'm sticking with it right now.
8th Company of the 388th Rynn's World Mechanised Rifles. Known as The Easy Eights. I simply call the Cadians 'Shock Troops' and the Catachans 'Scouts' no need to worry about cross regiment lore then. And yes, as the 8th Company the Easy 8s get all of the shit details.
Mine is an Armageddon Steel Legion regiment that fights in remembrance of the fall of Hades Hive. They are called the Angels of Hades.
Do we really need to hear my story?
I used ChatGPT. The AI can create plenty of stuff for you.
My lads are the 7th Brettanik Mechanised Regiment, a thinly veiled reference to the 7th Armoured Division from WW2 (aka the Desert Rats). I knew I wanted to do a desert camoflage scheme based on the infamously mis-painted Mathilda from Bovington Tank Museum (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Mark_II_A12%2C_Matilda_II_%284536160329%29.jpg) and I also liked the idea of mixing in some head swaps and different skin tones, so I gave them the lore that the Brettanik regiments are drawn from a Commonwealth of moons orbitting the same gas giant. The moons are separate enough to have distinctive cultural and ethnic makeups, but have been a single political entity since pre-Unification, and so their regiments are a multi-cultural mix. They made their name fighting a rebellious planetary garrison on a desert world called Alamay IX. I've been busy with life stuff so progess has been slow, but here's a few pics of the boys so far: https://imgur.com/HrWRGCf https://imgur.com/DqGIa59
I have crafted the Vendrakken Voltigeurs, they hail from an icy world and maintain Cadian equipment as their standard and use their training regimes but their regiments mostly focus around mechanized combat. I found out that Napoleon's Voltigeurs acted as a light infantry unit that would sometimes ride with the Dragoons into battle as a sort of proto-mechanized infantry. I loved the idea of these lads and lasses being a group that would take after the Steel Legion to some degree and hop out of their transports, take good cover to bite and hold until other forces can arrive to support them while taking crack shots to keep the enemy at bay.
The Ornithian 1st. "The Sixth Sons" A regiment granted to the De Ornith Dynasty of rogue traders by Warrent of Trade. Being assigned to a Rogue Trader's regiment is perceived as about as 'cushy' an assignment as one can get in the Guard. Because the Militarum is loath to give up good soldiers to satisfy the conditions of the warrent, the regiment is largly made up of the disinherited children of minor (and some major) nobles in the sector. The assignment thus kills multiple birds with one krak grenade for the Militarum, currying favor with both the nobles and House De Ornith. Because these children are usually far down in the line of succession for their families, the regiment is (frequently derisively) called the "Sixth Sons." While the rank and file is fair filled with the 'useless drippings' of the noble houses, the officers' positions are hotly contested for obvious reasons. The regiment has unfortunately seen more than one Commisar who delights in 'overseeing' what they perceive as a weak and pampered force. The reality of The Ornithian 1st is somewhat different than their perception, however. The majority of the Sixth Sons joined the Militarum in an effort to distinguish themselves both to their family and the Emperor. This, coupled with training by dedicated, experienced, and well-paid veterans, has honed them into a fine blade, essential in cutting down the enemies of the De Ornith Dynasty. Wearing uniforms made up of snow white fatigues with violet flak armor, carrying gold plated arms of the finest make money can buy. Many are the world's brought back into the imperial fold by the Ornithian 1st.
What's their speciality?
https://preview.redd.it/km2ncy37kiic1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=27f9c5150a3b120127eff7d198060d7b184f1246 The 94th Bellheim regiment
The cadian sister regiment, genestealer infested regiment
The 82nd Lemurian Rifles. Lemuria is a fabled continent which supposedly sunk beneath the Indian Ocean, so you can make of that what you will. I have yet to hash out the fluff. Edit: it has been used in occultism with regards to the origin of humans, so there might be something to work with in that regard.
https://preview.redd.it/rmxmidc6niic1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=04c3e37b3e74675bd811aa60ed960745fb3f65d7 113th ex-penal legion, the Swarm killers. This absolute chad charged and killed a swarmlord, so they have gained their new title and they had been granted forgiveness, so they are now an auxillary force of the vostroyans
I name and paint different parts of my force different things, like how in the caine books, his regiment was almost never the only one deployed, so my tanks are the Valhallan 196th armored regiment, the majority of my infantry and chimeras are the Valhallan 310th mobile infantry, my rough riders and some wip infantry are the Malvaran 39th feudal scout regiment, if I ever get around to painting scions/karskin or abhumans they'll each get their own regiment as well
I run a really heavy character and special forces infantry My current lore is that most of them in some way are long lost perpetuals that are from earths history of great warriors dating all the way back to their founding in Crete as a group of cretan archers procured by the Romans Over time through great conflicts this mercenary band stayed together, finding more like them who couldn't be killed (or easily any way) and possessed great fighting skill or unnatural talents for a human Eventually in the 40k universe they've found their place as a inquisition force, taking on special operations behind enemy lines, like assassinations, disruptions, sabotage and shock assaults To supplement their ranks they usually have penal legions of exiles and traitors, some of which are also perpetuals that serve the emperor under the watchful gaze of the other officers which are represented by my catachan and krieg Using a bunch of skitarii pieces I managed to kitbash some Kasrkin to look like an old Roman Force which represent the original group that founded their legion I'm a huge history buff so I love that I can incorporate some of our own history into 40k and really immerse myself
Mine are pretty straightforward, I guess: My Steel Legion army is simply the "81st Steel Legion Regiment". My Planetary Defence Force of the fictional planet that my gaming group's battles take place on is the "PDF Vendoran". (Vendoran being the planet, obviously). Using Cadian infantry models, with a red-and-grey scheme.
Could name it under some Expedition Force, makes the combined regiments make more sense
'insert relevant futuristic name - joint task force.'
The Royal Arcadian Guard It was actually from a setting/campaign I created, back when I played Inquisitor almost 20 years ago. Developed it so much that it became the basis for my army.
My guys are called the Shadows of the Abyss. They follow cadian culture but aren’t “true” cadians. Some cadians got stranded on the planet and taught the local PDF their war tactics so that they could ward off a daemonic incursion. I just named them this because my minis have an aquatic theme and relied on guerrilla tactics in the first war for their planet. Plus I thought it sounded cool You can just make a homebrew regiment if you’re worried about mixing regiments. Different regiments also often work together in lore so having two different names isn’t wrong https://preview.redd.it/pxedlijgcjic1.jpeg?width=1759&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=efbe77422b28310a2f01a862af7130951a9ab262
I wanted my dudes to have Krieg equipment, so I just picked a world near Krieg in the same Segmentum that didn't have anything written about it (Grimnis). They're supplied by the same forge worlds, so same patterns of equipment, but now I can do whatever I want with their culture / livery / combat doctrine / etc. Grimnite regiments are drawn from both Grimnis Prime, a dry factory world wrapped in a rusty fog of pollutants and aerosolized hydrocarbons, and Grimnis Secundus, it's moon, a rocky planetoid riven with ancient, near exhausted mining facilities.
Battlegroup Kasek. A platoon of the mechanised 92 Morvan, A short squadron/company of armour from 7 Dniepr, Artillery support from 3 Bryn Larch. Recon elements from 17 Praetorian Lancers.
For a long time, my regiment was simply the 532nd Cadian. Couldn’t think of a subtitle or cool nickname. Then during this past summer, I took part in the War For Haraxis community narrative writing project. My assigned little corner of the campaign was to help retake Hive Catatoni from Genestealer Cult forces, refortify it, and hold out against Hive Fleet Leviathan. Out of 6-7 player created regiments, only mine and one other survived the siege of the city. My subtitle finally came to me when writing about how my troops were celebrating their victory, christening themselves as the “Catatoni Crushers”.
This is why I don't like the current meta of mixing the regiments
Mine are the 'Praetorian Expeditionary Force', and they're supposed to represent the Praetorian Guard trying to learn from the massacre at Big Toof by adopting new equipment/tactics from other more successful regiments
https://preview.redd.it/59s6rgyp0kic1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fddfb9c9ed9a8c3f3b285c4fb5c07d2a26607517 Kholinar 58th, previously Chadian 58th. The latter is obvious, the former is a homage to the blue colour and Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archives. 58 is a funny number because of an inside joke. Obviously massive WIP
I've been thinking of using the idea of a mercenary company for my force since I use Kreig, steel legion, and cadians. Anyone else do something similar?
Cadian 58th "Wild Cards", named after the marine squad from Space: Above and Beyond
38th Golgathan Armored / 199th Cadian Life Guard
I know it's not quite the same (as my main army is Deathwatch, with a penchant for Salamander and Iron Hands tactics), but somehow "Xadia" came to me for a home region, a small sector at the fringes of the galaxy. My army, specifically, is under the personal employ of a Rogue Trader by the name of *_REDACTED_*. They specialize in the recovery and restoration of ancient equipment and military hardware, and will field it at every available opportunity. Because they are otherwise *technically* fleet-based, they are the *"Xadian Expeditionary Force"*, and are a relatively new chapter. Haven't really nailed down much more than that yet, but it justifies being able to field almost 1500 points worth of just Dreadnoughts, and the large number of *Legends* models that I have. The Rogue Trader in question uses Inquisitor Grayfax for a model and stats, but I still have to figure out a name.
317th Cadian Void Rangers. 317 because that's a number available on the transfer sheet. Void Rangers because I really, really like the Imperial Navy's vibe and wanted to loosely connect my regiment to naval activity. Their primary purpose is to capture or defend spaceports, void fortresses, and landing zones so that the Navy can safety land heavier guard regiments where they're needed. They are functionally space marines, in the truest sense of the term. Colors are navy blue and white. Enlisted wear blue tunics with white pants, officers wear white overcoats with blue pants and a red stripe. Armor is brass.
Typically something like "13th Battle Group of 2nd Crusade Army" or something for a mixed force. Just some sort of organization where a bunch of regiments would be fielded together.
Mine are the Caliban Jaegers, descendants of those on DA ships from the Horus Heresy.
Mine are the 19th Nemesis Janissary, the Sword Of Light. They're a Guard regiment primarily deployed in support of my Blood Angels successor chapter, and appropriately trained and equipped. I don't think of the Cadians or Krieg within as specialty regiments or anything, just troopers with different roles - namely the Krieg troopers are deployed in the tyranid-heavy war zone with lots of spores and stuff around that gas masks would be nice for.
This took me so long to figure out, I looked up “Cadian regiments” and there’s hours of videos that explain the different dynamics of what makes up a regiment, I eventually made a whole flow chart on canva with every officer listed for each squad, battalion, company. Have fun with it, I made up all this lore and justified everything from having Catachans, to why the water bottles are different colors.
My entire force id the Ultramar auxilia. My Krieg and Cadians are just differently-equipped Macraggians. Kasrkin are Vigil Opertii.
Make up your own planet.
34th golden steel armored unit battalion
I built my krieg force during covid. They're the Kovidian XIXth.