RE: [NetEpic ML] Tanith First and Only

From: Tom Webb <mail_at_...>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 21:40:42 +0100

Sounds good to me.
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Albert Farr� Benet [mailto:cibernyam_at_...]
  Sent: 13 July 2001 18:29
  To: netepic_at_yahoogroups.com
  Subject: Re: [NetEpic ML] Tanith First and Only


  Hi,

  The idea is great for a novel, but I think this army is too limited to be
fielded as a whole, even as a company. I would start by making them a
special card of an HQ unit and 10 tactical stands or HQ plus 5 CC stands.

  The reasoning is as follows:

  IG armies have a very high level of casualties (I think we all agree on
this :-) ) and IG regiments are never reinforced but a new regiment is
raised to replace the remains of the previous one. I supose, though I'm not
sure, that the old decimated regiment is given three choices: either they
leave the army and receive some fields in a distant colony planet (much like
classical Rome, where veterans were given lands to colonize and spread Latin
culture), they rejoin Imperial forces as special units, like forward
observers, high rank guards, etc thus acting as veterans, or they are mixed
with remains of other regiments to form a whole new regiment, thus leaving
behind any special features individual soldiers could have.

  Following this ideas, a regiment of troops which have very "special"
caracteristics but cannot be substituted would not be used in large numbers,
so they can be fielded during a long time. Even more, allocating half of the
regimental forces to battle in first line (as this seems their role in
battle) would mean that the regiment would last only a few battles.

  Note that Catachan and other special Imperial regiments actually DO have
the possibility to be substituted by new risen regiments (though not too
often, as the planets have limited population).

  I think they could only be used in very few numbers and in counted
battles, as they losses cannot be replaced. Let's use them as Unique Special
Cards (that means, Special Card plus the limitation to ONE CARD FOR THE
ENTIRE BATTLE FORCE) and obviously, if played in campaigns, once broken they
cannot be used again.

  What do you think?

  Albert
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: eivind.borgeteien_at_...
    To: netepic_at_yahoogroups.com
    Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 4:58 PM
    Subject: [NetEpic ML] Tanith First and Only


    Hi!
    Its awfully quiet on the list theese days, but I hope someone is
    still
    around...

    Summertime is readingtime and I have spent my vacation at the beach
    reading the
    40K novel "First and Only" Its about an IG regiment and their
    commander. I had
    to make a netepic unit out of it.

    Any feedback is greatly apreciated!

    Tanith First and Only � Gaunts Ghosts

    This is a special regiment of IG coming from the world of Tanith. The
    day of the
    regiments founding, an overwhelming force of chaos invaded Tanith.
    Instead of
    fighting a hopeless battle, the commander, Commissar Colonel Ibram
    Gaunt,
    decided to salvage what he could of the regiment and leave the
    planet. As Tanith
    now most likely is a dead world, the Tanith 1st is the only regiment
    recruited
    from this world.

    The vast majority of the regiment feels that they should have fought
    and died
    for their homeplanet rather than leave it behind. Therefore the men
    quikly
    called themselves The Ghosts, or Gaunts Ghosts, after the man who
    denied them to
    die for their homes.

    Tanith was a forest planet situated in a system very near The Eye of
    Terror. The
    influence of Chaos had a peculiar effect on the forest, making it
    change from
    day to day, hour to hour. Trails that where there one hour could be
    gone the
    next as the trees moved across the planet.

    Because of this, the people of Tanith developed an exceptional sense
    of
    direction and stealth, allowing them one initial move before the
    battle begins.
    (Infiltration)

    Coming from a forest world, the regiments uniform is heavily
    camouflaged. All
    fighting men of Tanith is wearing a special camouflaged cape that
    makes them
    very hard to see in wooded terrain. Because of this, when situated in
    forest or
    forest edge, the regiment cant be targeted unless the
    firing/targeting unit is
    25 cm or nearer the Tanith forces.

    With the forces of chaos already on top of them the Tanith 1st had to
    leave in a
    hurry and lost very much of their equipment. Because of this, the
    regiment has
    no vehicles. However, the two company HQ stands does not have to be
    in
    coherency. Further, you may only attach IG Tactical or IG Support as
    supportcards to a Tanith company. These supportcards posses all
    Tanith abilities
    and can only be attached to a Tanith Company

    When choosing Gaunts Ghost you must bye Commisar Colonel Ibram Gaunt
    as a
    special card. The Commissar has learned fast and now posses all the
    abilites of
    the Tanith tacticals in addition to the normal abilities for an
    Imperial Guard
    Colonel. His personal guard also has all the Tanith special
    abilities.

    As the commander is a commissar, the Imperium has full trust in this
    regiment
    and has not assigned any other commisars to it. Because of this, even
    if you bye
    additional Tanith companies, you do not get more commisars for this
    regiment.

    Stats and cost is just like the corresponding ordinary IG units.
    However, the company HQ and the colonel does not have any vehicles.
    (Ibram Gaunt
    being an IG colonel)

    Eivind



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