1st Arkapeli Dragoons

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

X1 Leman Russ Exterminator X2 Salamander Scout Tanks X3 Scout Sentinels X3 Armored Fist Squads

 

The Recon Platoon is outside of any of the 6 regular battle companies that make up the regiment and its units are often split up to support different elements of the regiment.

 

The Platoon's 1st LT was killed at the beginning of their campaign against the Dark Eldar when shrapnel decapitated him in the back of his Salamander, the Platoon is currently under the command of 1st Sgt Jeridan Jardeen commander of the Leman Russ Exterminator known as The Emperor's Trident and is made up of 9 vehicles and 3 infantry squads.

 

Jardeen often leads reconnaissance enforce missions from his vehicle with an Armored Fist Squad following close behind, with either Salamanders or Sentinels covering their flank.

 

Jardeen often orders his forces to engage enemy dispositions they come across "In order to better gauge the strength of the enemy positions"

 

The battle companies consist of 6 armored fist squads, each. 3 utilizing Chimeras, and 3 utilizing Tauroxes.

Edited May 31, 2022 by Inquisitor_Lensoven

[Brother Lunkhead]

Nice overview thus far. I'm looking forward to more

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

The planet of Arkapel has been in a civil war for the last 10 decades, granting them a rare reprieve from providing their tithe, but that all changed when the Returned Son embarked on his indomitus crusade.

Arkapel was forced to provide 6 regiments, a mediator from the Administratum oversaw talks between the two sides, each would provide 3 regiments equipped and trained how they saw fit.

the Bostigian faction provided the 1st, 3rd, and 5th regiments.

the Cubridians provided the 2nd, 4th and 6th.

 

the 1st is a mechanized force with some unusual support platoons.

the 3rd is a standard infantry regiment

the 5th is an armored regiment with a support artillery company.

the two sets of regiments almost always deploy to the different planets to minimize the chances of the two sides being in the same theater together.

Edited August 6, 2022 by Inquisitor_Lensoven

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

The Bostigian Autocracy typically send their sons to cavalry boarding  schools at the age of 16.

there these autocratic young men learn to break their massive mounts, with the head and neck of an avian raptor and the body and legs of a very large felid.

upon graduation on their 20th year, these men join the defense forces and form a corps of elite if traditional heavy cavalry and dragoons.

Edited December 21, 2022 by Inquisitor_Lensoven

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

Due to the 1st’s experience in amphibious operations and gaining footholds and securing beachheads for follow on forces to stage from, the 1st require their own support company who under understand the specifics of such operations and have trained in close support of the rest of the regiments, including a recon platoon, an armored platoon, a cavalry platoon and an artillery platoon.

Each Arkepeli regiment has a cavalry platoon attached to it, so that the elites of their homeworld can gain glory. The autocrats often pull their sons from the regiments to bring them home after roughly two Terran years.

 

Edited December 21, 2022 by Inquisitor_Lensoven

[Bjorn Firewalker]

On 9/15/2022 at 11:08 AM, Inquisitor_Lensoven said:

The Bostigian Autocracy typically send their sons to cavalry boarding  schools at the age of 16.

there these autocratic young men learn to break their massive mounts, with the head and neck of an avian raptor and the body and legs of a very large felid.

upon graduation on their 20th year, these men join the defense forces and form a corps of elite of traditional heavy cavalry and dragoons.

Interesting. So you'll have Warhammer Fantasy and/or Age of Sigmar Hippogryph Knights "count as" Astra Militarum Rough Riders?

 

Will you modify the models, e.g., arm the knights with laspistols, bolt pistols, and chainswords?

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

1 hour ago, Bjorn Firewalker said:

Interesting. So you'll have Warhammer Fantasy and/or Age of Sigmar Hippogryph Knights "count as" Astra Militarum Rough Riders?

 

Will you modify the models, e.g., arm the knights with laspistols, bolt pistols, and chainswords?

yep i'm going to use demigryph knights. I do plan on 40kifying them, just not sure. i may end up purchasing the RR kit as well, and us bits from that kit, possibly even the riders themselves if they fit.

i love the poleaxes the knights carry, and definitely plan on using them in place of the standard lance.

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

Heavy retcons coming soon now that the codex officially acknowledges mixed regiments now.

 

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

The Emperor’s Piano

 

This is the regimental command vehicle, a stormlord super heavy transport vehicle with 2 pairs of heavy bolter sponsons, and their associated lascannons.

The vehicle was named such because of the music all of its rapid fire weapons make while purging the enemy. 

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

Retconn

The Arkapeli 1st Dragoons are a combined arms regiment, hastily put together from PDF regiments in order to answer Guilliman's call for troops to campaign during the Indomitus Crusade.

The 1st is made up of 6 companies, a gryph cavalry platoon and an artillery platoon.

The 1st Company is the regiment's Recon Company consisting of 1 Leman Russ Exterminator, 1 Salamander, 4 Scout Sentinels, 4 mechanized squads mounted in tauroxes.
The 2nd through 5th companies are mechanized companies, with squads mounted in chimeras, each company consists of 5 squads.
The 6th Company is an armored company, comprising 1 baneblade super heavy tank, 1 Rogal Dorn tank, 2 Leman Russ Battle Tanks, and 1 Leman Russ Demolisher
The gryph cavalry platoon is made up of 30 cavalrymen riding gryph mounts, large bird/horse hybrids.
The artillery platoon is centered around a Basalisk self propelled gun, a mortar vehicle indigenous to Arkapel consisting of one heavy breach loaded slam firing mortar and two light mortars, 2 field ordinance batteries, and 1 mortar squad.

The regiment also maintains a stormlord super heavy transport as a regimental command vehicle. 

The regiment typically numbers around 2000 combat troops, from infantry to vehicle crews, and about 3000 troops when accounting for support personnel like mechanics and cooks, and stable hands.

All support personnel are required to conduct 12 hours of combat and medical drilling every 30 days when the regiment is not in an active frontline status, the 30 counter counting from the last drill before active status, beginning again, the day the regiment gets a reprieve from active status, whether that is a hiatus in the rear, or down time between campaigns and warzones.

Edited April 5, 2023 by Inquisitor_Lensoven