--- cibernyam <cibernyam_at_...> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "pariahpress" <pariahpress_at_...>
> To: <netepic_at_yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 8:45 AM
> Subject: [NetEpic ML] Unit Proposal: Imperial Guard
> Whiteshields
>
>
> > Whiteshields, or probitors, are young Imperial
> Guardsmen in
> > training. They have not earned in battle the
> right to put unit
> > insignia on their uniforms, and thusly wear blank
> white badges.
> > Usually they are integrated as squads into
> Imperial Guard platoons,
> > but occasonally entire platoons of whiteshields
> are deployed.
> >
> > Whiteshield stand
> > Move: 10cm
> > Saving Throw: None
> > CAF: -1
> > Weapons:
> > Lasguns: Range: 50cm, Attack Dice: 1, To Hit Roll:
> 6+, TSM: 0.
> >
> > Imperial Guard
> > Whiteshield Platoon
> > 10 Whiteshield stands
> > Break Point: 5, Morale: 4, Victory Points: 2,
> Cost: 150.
> > You may not have more than one Whiteshield Platoon
> per company.
> >
> >
> > What do y'all think?
>
> ----> Cheaper than cheaper, but I don't think it is
> very fluffy. IG does
> not have training squads as such mixed with a
> veteran army, but raises
> entire armies all at once IIRC.
They do, even in the newest fluff (I own the latest IG
codex and they have a doctrine called "conscript
squads" or somesuch. ;o) ). However, the Whiteshields
hail from Rogue Trader days and are IM(NS)HO _very_
fluffy. In the original fluff IG troops took their
families along and their offspring were drafted into
the regiment.
> I suppose training
> (if any) is performed all
> at once after conscription. In any case, IG already
> has really already cheap
> infantry with penal batallions, militia and
> generally speaking, all PDF
> units. I also don't think the spirit of the IG army
> comprises any such unit
> unless under very strange conditions, like a siege
> in a war of attrition.
>
> In any case I would add some extra restrictions:
> Morale should be 5, like
> other armies green troops, which always have at
> least 1 point less morale.
> One stand should be the sergeant with IG tactical
> profile(section HQ).
> Special card.
>
Special card is OK, but the morale is fine sa it is as
they desperately try to prove themselves worth the
status of a full guardsman. In fact, in Rogue Trader
they were immune to psychology.
Jyrki Saari
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Received on Tue Jun 29 2004 - 12:17:42 UTC