17 Korps protects itself by deploying elements from its
constituent formation’s recce units in a screen; pickets when stationary and
outriders when moving. Not all of each
recce unit is used like this; SOPs are to detach sub units on a rotating
basis. This rotation is to both rest sub
units who have been some time ‘at the sharp end’ as well as ensuring that
skills are practiced and experience – exposure to the Devos IV Operational
environment, reaches those important ‘first contact’ sub units.
Recce of objectives in 17 Korps is normally done by a ‘Wide
Patrol’; ususally a platoon sized detachment, often with elements from more
than one parent unit. These Wide Patrols
have to be self-sufficient, sometimes for more than a month, ranging ahead with
a degree of independence of action not usual for the Imperial Guard.
Wide Patrols can be resupplied and replenished by the
Imperial Navy. Additionally, should one
of these recce elements end up in a fight it can’t win, they can be covered by
air and their withdrawl safeguarded. This
level of cooperation requires and is facilitated by a Forward Area Controlled
(FAC) provided by the Imperial Navy’s close orbit command. These individuals, with the equipments they
carry, can contact standing Combat Air Patrols, Imperial Guard Drop Regiments
and the Navy’s Close Orbit Command.
But in the final analysis, the highest value STAR
information is provided by skilled infantrymen conducting close target reconnaissance,
on foot, on their belt buckles, in the dark, penetrating the target’s defences
and withdrawing with the vital information which will make future operations a
success.
902 Div
5th Saranian Light Infantry
337 Death
Rider Squadron (Det from 11th DKK Uhlan Regt)
Recce Tp (Det from 19th DKK Armd Regt)
903 Div
Cadian 144th Long Range Recce Regt; Wolverine
& Tauros
905 Div
22 Rough Rider Coy (Det from Mordian 7th Iron
Guard)
Humm, you can see the Mordian 7th Iron Guard at the right of the picture, but it doesn't look like the rough riders are in the picture. I'll have to get one done.
What this post is intended to do is primarily to inform and entertain you but also to spur me to dig out the DKK Salamanders and actually finish them.
Finish them - they'll fit in just fine with the rest of this hodgepodged mass of misery and misfits.
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