Spyderson Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Hey guys. Just getting back into the hobby after 10 years. When I was a wee child I collected catachans because they were the IG my local store had. I bought a steel legion squad thinking I would collect them, and then I remembered I am in fact poor. I'm now leaning towards cadians, and using my catachans as a hive militia unit of conscripts. My question is how to integrate the steel legion squad into a force of cadians fluff wise? I have an inquisitor if that helps. I was thinking maybe the ordo xenos inquisitor dragged a PDF of cadians to Armageddon to fight the orcs. Then convert the Steel Legion squad to a CCS and work it like that? Does a Lord commisar attach to a squad, could I attach him to the SL squad to make them HQ? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/312893-fluff-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
scatmandoo Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 They could be a unit of vets seconded to your regiment/survivors of a unit that you have come to relieve/a 'dont ask questions' specialists unit with inquisitor or even like you say a personal unit attached to a commissar. The joy is with enough thought you can make anything work. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/312893-fluff-help/#findComment-4156500 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorFish Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 Welcome to the B&C Spyder and back to the hobby :D You can mix model type quite easily if you want as different squads as there are mixed/combined regiments. So a Steel Legion mechanised Vet squad helping out would be fine. You could also link them to the Inquisitor if you wanted to connect all the elements of your army :) The Lord Commissar is an Independant Character so can be attached to other squads, but only he is a HQ choice the other unit remains the same FOC selection. Do you have any pictures of your army and colour scheme to share? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/312893-fluff-help/#findComment-4156792 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Baranov Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 I personally like the idea of using the steel legion guard as a vet squad seconded to the inquisitor. I have wanted to do something similar with a death corp squad as part of my 185th project. Also: Welcome the Barracks, recruit! Remember, the Lord Commissar is watching diligently for any sort of screw-up, no matter how minor. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/312893-fluff-help/#findComment-4157577 Share on other sites More sharing options...
librisrouge Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 IG regiments work together all of the time, even getting merge together for no reason other than keeping numbers high enough to be useful. This could be the case here. Perhaps the officers are the survivors of their thoroughly decimated (yes, I know decimation is specific but work with me here) and now you have a bunch of otherwise good leaders with nobody to lead. The Cadians had a bad instance of Kommando + Officer = Ack!Ack! My Face! and now there is a regiment fighting to save Armageddon without anybody to order them around (and we can't have that.) Finally, the Catachan make excellent hive militia, which the Steel Legion occasionally makes use of to bolster numbers (4th Ed. IG codex gave this as the excuse for them having the Conscripts Doctrine.) Finally, you have the inquisitor assigned to them for extra cohesion and maybe even some special missions (tracking down those Kommandos sounds about right.) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/312893-fluff-help/#findComment-4157605 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spyderson Posted August 28, 2015 Author Share Posted August 28, 2015 What I've got so far. The Steel Legion all painted up. I'm not feeling brave enough to do highlights yet cause I don't wanna muck them up. Luckily the young me had no idea what he was going and just got what seemed like cool models, so I ended up with a couple of karskins (not enough for a squad) that make great acolytes for the inquisitor. and the daunting task of repainting 30+ catachans (that were horridly painted to begin with). If I'm thinking about it I'll post some of the original painted ones when I open the box next. Still got a LRBT and a sentinel to dunk in dettol, and a bunch of heavy/special weapons that are all catachan. I was thinking I could make the catachans one of the Inquisitors Units. The conscripts might be mind-wiped veterans that saw a little to much. Then use the special weapons I have to make a unit of vets. And what would be more grimdark then having a vet unit fighting beside a unit of mind-wiped former vets that they fought with in the past, knowing one day they might end up the same? Seems pretty much on par for Imperium fluff to me. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/312893-fluff-help/#findComment-4157688 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorFish Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Nice colours on the Steel Legion, I like the blue helmets :tu: Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/312893-fluff-help/#findComment-4157711 Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmo Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Fluff wise there is nothing that can not be explained ;) It could be a hodge podge of survivors melded together into a single unit. This is where my 711th CCAB is going at the moment. The fluff is linked in my Sig. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/312893-fluff-help/#findComment-4157826 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian_F_H Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 I personally like the idea of using the steel legion guard as a vet squad seconded to the inquisitor. I have wanted to do something similar with a death corp squad as part of my 185th project. Also: Welcome the Barracks, recruit! Remember, the Lord Commissar is watching diligently for any sort of screw-up, no matter how minor. It makes a lot of sense to since most people run veterans in chimeras and the steel legion is very nearly 100% mechanized in chimeras. And if you read the fluff on the formation and use of regiments, the ig typically doesn't get very imaginative with individual regiments. Ie a typical regiment is either an infantry regiment, a mechanized regiment, an armored regiment, an artillery regiment, or airborne etc... The commander then pulls companies from available regiments as needed in a given zone and tells the sub commanders to pull platoons and squadrons from their available companies to attack or hold etc... So your commander gave you a cadian infantry regiment, and seconded a hive gang platoon and a mechanized veteran unit to your command. Simple as that. Otherwise, most mixed type regiments occur when during a campaign multiple regiments take such heavy losses as to no longer function and are combined to create a satisfactory strength regiment. So you could easily say that these units you have are from a regiment forged out of remnants from several other regiments. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/312893-fluff-help/#findComment-4157939 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boomkapow Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Not sure how often you take them, but they could be vets with camo. Also, if your local shop has a lot of forests, you could say that steel legion are reinforcements but defer to the catachan's judgement based on terrain knowledge. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/312893-fluff-help/#findComment-4157958 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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