You remember how the
cigar chompin’ colonel figure in the A-Team (George Peppard) used to say ‘I
love it when a plan comes together’ ?
Well, this post links this post about the Division Liaison Team sent to
the Cadian 127th, which talks about the Saranian Engineers; and this this post here, which talks about
combat tracking. You see ? There was a plan ! And this one has taken
about eighteen months to hit the blog, although it hit the table at the
beginning of June.
PVP Studio Shot A |
The Saranian Light Infantry are, historically, an offshoot
of the Saranian Engineers. Saran is a
relatively modest blue planet in a system with three large mineral rich
asteroid belts and three gas giants.
Additionally, there are sixteen other planets of various sizes in the
Saran system. The Saranians are
primarily void hardened miners; a dangerous and unpleasant but vital economic
activity. Mining activity either takes
place or has taken place on every one of the celestial bodies.
PVP Studio Shot B |
The skills of generations of miners have led to the Saranian
Combat Engineers being a sought after asset within Imperial Guard
formations. The Saranian Engineers
themselves were often used for battlefield reconnaissance, as described in the
Engineer Liaison Team post. Their
various talents in this field have also led to the formation of several light
infantry units, primarily used for battlefield recce, surveillance and target
acquisition (STA). This tasking was
built on the back of their Engineering based reconnaissance capability.
On Parade with 17 Korps Photo 1 |
As time passed the Saranian Light Infantry have evolved to
embrace their new battlefield role; still priding themselves on the STA
capability, but fully engaged with their flanking and screening tasks. Recently, the 5th have had
personnel on the 72AG canid handler cadre and each company now includes five
geneered pursuit hounds; extending the units search and destroy capability
considerably.
On parade with 17 Korps Photo 2 |
In line with their light role, they are often equipped with
vision enhancing equipment, to enable them to better carry out their recce
tasks, and underslung grenade launchers, as they often operate without any
other heavy weapon support.
PVP Studio shot of Command Group. |
At the moment, they are the light element of 902 Div, which
makes them a part of 17 Korps and are generally employed on interdiction
missions, controlling terrorism in occupied Randstadt.
The dogs (actually
LotR Wargs) will use the EoT chaos hound statline. As previously discussed, the sights and
underslung GLs are from Anvil Industries and the heads are the good ones from
the Wargames Factory’s greatcoat stormtrooper set. Some of the torsos are Maxmini’s combat
armour torso. Conversions and paint byPVP.
When the first of
these figures were assembled, they were initially going to be household troops
for one of the dignitaries of Devos IV; however they quickly became the LI to
go with the Wargs (tracker dogs !) and so were all put together CESFAW
(Carrying Enough Stuff For A War). This
still wasn’t enough so I used up my surplus sights from the HWS and then bought
in the ancillaries from Anvil Industries.
I am pleased with the way they turned out.
That army has turned out fantastic! The whole group just looks menacing - love the use of those helmets. Spectacular work, man!
ReplyDeleteThey look OK don't they ? They'll be in action here on 09 Aug (just checked).
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