Showing posts with label 24th Regiment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 24th Regiment. Show all posts

Saturday, March 17, 2012

So you want to be a Chimera driver?


I transport all types of infantry into battle in my Chimera - conscripts, guardsmen, veterans and officers - to fight and defend in the name of the Emperor.  I've once even drove some Ogryns around, though it took weeks to get the smell out ...

Today I had to give some supporting fire in a streetfight using my multi-laser and heavy stubber.  My mate Smith was on the heavy stuber and got shot in the head - within a split second a lascannon fired on the building to our right, as a great piece of rubble fell on us, blocking the back hatch and gunners hatch. We were trapped.

I had to grab the power axe and cut my way out of the Chimera.  The sound of lasgun fire whizzed past the armour of the vehicle.  It took almost 11 minutes to cut through the thick armour.  The smell of the dead and rotting corpses filled the air.

I had no gun, and was behind enemy lines - I had to get back to base ... but how?

The 24th Regiment of Foot

The 24th Regiment of Foot have been pushed away from Holy Terra and it's defences and fleets.  Many of the Imperial Guardsmen that muster it's rank are born and raised on the planet Rorke's Falls.

Creed, an officer who joined the 24th Regiment a few years back, is most famous for his tactics that he's used to outwit all armies.  Mostly being on the frontline, using his hotshot laspistol and barking out orders, Creed is possibly the only officer deserving of good bodyguards and good armour.  Many have commented that he seems in many respect the lost twin of another famous Cadian officer ...

The 24th Regiment of Foot wear different colours to Cadians.  They are inspired by the British army of Victoria, wearing white for their helmets, red for their tunics, tan for their leggings, with black detailing.

Bringing the pain - a squadron of armoured Sentinels lay down some lascannon heavy fire, as some guardsmen protect them.

Creed surveys the battlefield.  A medic and bodyguard stand ready to protect ...

The 24th Regiments famous Household Cavalry, charge the line.

Forward into battle they go ...

The Chimera nick-named Get Some gives more than it gets ...