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Subject: Information on Rzakata 8th Legion
Year: 011.M42.
From: Sage Elim Pretzmann
To: Inquisitor Lord Khalid De Falk
My dear Lord I’m glad to inform you I have gathered the knowledge on the Rzakata 8th Legion. I will send you the planetary data on Rzakata as soon as I have compiled the data.
Regiment Name: Rzakata 8th Legion
Call Names: Rzakata 8th, Legion, Rzakata Wolfs, Wolf Legion, Legion of Wolfs, Wolf of Rzakata, Wolfs & Mountain Wolfs
Regiment Type: Mountain Company
Regiment Size: Two hundred men at founding time, now consist of eighty-four men. (Hundred have been discarded during training and sixteen have died in six battles in the Calixis Subsector (Segmentum Obscura). (All of this is of course without the beasts of Rzakata.)
Home Planet: Rzakata
Infantry Melee Weapons: Lathe Pattern Eagle-Axe & Ladrian Pattern Blade (Combat Knife)
Infantry Ranged Weapons: Sollux Pattern-IX Lasguns, Mark IV Laspistols & Vanaheim Pattern Assault Shotgun
Infantry Special Weapons: Locke Pattern Boltguns, Mezoa Pattern Grenade Launcher, Mezoa Pattern Meltaguns & Lathe-X Pattern Sniper Rifles.
Infantry Heavy Weapons: Solar Pattern Heavy Bolters & Locke Pattern Missile Launcher
Vehicles: Adjusted military scout bikes & adjusted military scout buggies. These vehicles have a very low noise production, due to specific dampers in the motor. (They shorten the term to MSB.)
Regiment Composition: The Rzakata 8th is comprised of two company command squads (with 5 persons each), Sergeant Grylls (always walk alone), six infantry squad (with 10 persons each), one squad of mountain wolves (with 10 wolves), one squad of yetis (with 6 yetis and 1 commander), three MS buggies (with 2 persons each) and six MS bikes (with 1 person each).
Training Program: The mountain people of Rzakata fight each fifty year (overseen by the elders) to let it greatest warriors leave the planet and fight for the Emperor. The fights are rough and over a five thousand mountain warriors participate, but only the two hundred best can leave the planet.
When the two hundred fighters have been chosen, they are picked up by a Winterscale Dynasty ship. This is their first trip off planet (no doubt their last). When they arrive on the spaceship an intense training program and several testing begins. They make planet fall to the nearby warzone known as Zayth where the training will continue two years strong.
The training is said to be one of the hardest in the Segmentum Obscura, even tougher than some of the Astartes training. They will go through a large number of medical tests, a few lucky is granted the blessing of the Omnisiah.
The last part of Rzakata 8th Legion training has been supervised by the Ordo Xeno and they have been bestowed some of our knowledge on how to combat the enemies of the Emperor (this you have seen for yourself my Lord). The personal training from Watch Captain Starken and Throne Agent Bruul has benefitted the company greatly.
Tactics: The Rzakata 8th always makes good use of their surroundings, they infiltrate and scout forward often into enemy territory. There they lay low and wait to spring the trap, attacking the enemy from hidden positions and hitting their flanks, rear and core. The Rzakata 8th takes out key elements of the army which frequently cause confusion and havoc in the enemy’s ranks, creating all the advantages they can get. The MSB will often drive around cutting of small parts of the army and making surprise attacks.
When encountering one of the enemies fortified forts the Rzakatas climbing skill come in good use. They sneak up till the fortified position during night/darkness, climb over obstacles, take out the sentries and infiltrate the entire fortification where they kill the enemy from the inside, again creating confusion and havoc.
When they have to defend a position the Rzakata 8th spreads out and hides in the terrain/building. The snipers try to get higher ground while the melta groups stay low and wait to utilize surprise moments and running from cover to cover. The MSB is turned off until last second and then they drive out of cover and hit the enemy from weak sides.
Three kinds of “beasts” are brought with the Rzakta 8th Legion. The first is the huge mountain wolves of the Rzakata mountain region; they can tear a traitor astartes apart in a charge. The wolves are surgically enhanced by the Mechanicus to gain a much higher brain activity (same as what they do to some Ogryns). This lets the wolf plan attacks better and somewhat communicate with some of the trained Rzakata.
The Rzakatas often have eagles with them from the mountain ranges of Rzakata. These eagles are used in different tasks from catching preys on the move to scouting from a higher position. It is not uncommon for an officer to have a cybernetic link to his eagle so he can gain a better vision of the battlefield.
The last creature is not really a beast but a homo variant from the snow topped mountains of Rzakata, the famous Rzakata yetis. These creatures have a low form of intelligence, but are very keen predators. Their huge strength and natural toughness makes them dangerous beings in combat, especially in surprise attacks made by the Rzakata 8th Legion. They can speak and understand a simple form of low gothic, with a tribal dialect from their natural region.
The company consists of two captains, eight sergeants and seventy-four hardened fighters of the Rzakata Mountains. The Legion is occasionally led by Rogue Trader Captain Gizhaum Winterscale and his retinue, when he is deployed with them he is the commanding officer. When not the two captains and brothers, discuss which tactics best are deployed and used to take out the enemy. This is most uncommon in companies to have two captains, but it works with great effect in the Rzakata 8th Legion.
Rzakata Legions never use tanks, they think of them as too slow and noisy, unable to get through rough terrain, blowing every chance of getting a surprise attack and not to mention; what they think about hiding in moving deathtraps. Neither they use plasma weapons, the constant light they emit would give away their position and make hiding difficult (and besides who want to climb a mountain with a plasma gun strapped to your back).
Founding: The Rzakata Legions was first founded in 631.M41 two years after the planet first was discovered by the famous Rogue Trader Sebastian Winterscale. The first three legions, was owned and used by Sebastian Winterscale himself. The contract that they made with the Winterscale dynasty benefits them greatly and it is a huge honour to be chosen to leave the planet and fight in the name of the Emperor. In exchange of warriors the Winterscale dynasty grants the mountain people modern weapons to fight of their enemies and resist the touch of chaos.
Notable actions and persons: One of the best men in the Rzakata 8th Legion is named Sergeant Grylls also known as the Bear or just Bear, he is a living legend amongst his brethren’s and it’s recorded that he took out a Traitor Marine Lord in a forsaken Terminator in melee.
The two captains are named Eystein and Toki, while very different shaped they are both masterminds in war and totally reckless. Eystein is more of the genius while Tokie is the sharpest.
The Rzakata 8th together with the Ordo Xeno eliminated a large Genestealer cult on the Hive World, Piety (Calixis Subsector, Segmentum Obscura).
The last battle they fought was in the Gelmiro System (Calixis Subsector, Segmentum Obscura) were they killed an entire traitor legion known as the Death Hands and suffered only ten dead and around sixty wounded. The Death Hands no longer exist.
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Subject: Information on Rzakata 8th Legion
Year: 011.M42.
From: Sage Elim Pretzmann
To: Inquisitor Lord Khalid De Falk
My dear Lord I’m glad to inform you I have gathered the knowledge on the Rzakata 8th Legion. I will send you the planetary data on Rzakata as soon as I have compiled the data.
Regiment Name: Rzakata 8th Legion
Call Names: Rzakata 8th, Legion, Rzakata Wolfs, Wolf Legion, Legion of Wolfs, Wolf of Rzakata, Wolfs & Mountain Wolfs
Regiment Type: Mountain Company
Regiment Size: Two hundred men at founding time, now consist of eighty-four men. (Hundred have been discarded during training and sixteen have died in six battles in the Calixis Subsector (Segmentum Obscura). (All of this is of course without the beasts of Rzakata.)
Home Planet: Rzakata
Infantry Melee Weapons: Lathe Pattern Eagle-Axe & Ladrian Pattern Blade (Combat Knife)
Infantry Ranged Weapons: Sollux Pattern-IX Lasguns, Mark IV Laspistols & Vanaheim Pattern Assault Shotgun
Infantry Special Weapons: Locke Pattern Boltguns, Mezoa Pattern Grenade Launcher, Mezoa Pattern Meltaguns & Lathe-X Pattern Sniper Rifles.
Infantry Heavy Weapons: Solar Pattern Heavy Bolters & Locke Pattern Missile Launcher
Vehicles: Adjusted military scout bikes & adjusted military scout buggies. These vehicles have a very low noise production, due to specific dampers in the motor. (They shorten the term to MSB.)
Regiment Composition: The Rzakata 8th is comprised of two company command squads (with 5 persons each), Sergeant Grylls (always walk alone), six infantry squad (with 10 persons each), one squad of mountain wolves (with 10 wolves), one squad of yetis (with 6 yetis and 1 commander), three MS buggies (with 2 persons each) and six MS bikes (with 1 person each).
Training Program: The mountain people of Rzakata fight each fifty year (overseen by the elders) to let it greatest warriors leave the planet and fight for the Emperor. The fights are rough and over a five thousand mountain warriors participate, but only the two hundred best can leave the planet.
When the two hundred fighters have been chosen, they are picked up by a Winterscale Dynasty ship. This is their first trip off planet (no doubt their last). When they arrive on the spaceship an intense training program and several testing begins. They make planet fall to the nearby warzone known as Zayth where the training will continue two years strong.
The training is said to be one of the hardest in the Segmentum Obscura, even tougher than some of the Astartes training. They will go through a large number of medical tests, a few lucky is granted the blessing of the Omnisiah.
The last part of Rzakata 8th Legion training has been supervised by the Ordo Xeno and they have been bestowed some of our knowledge on how to combat the enemies of the Emperor (this you have seen for yourself my Lord). The personal training from Watch Captain Starken and Throne Agent Bruul has benefitted the company greatly.
Tactics: The Rzakata 8th always makes good use of their surroundings, they infiltrate and scout forward often into enemy territory. There they lay low and wait to spring the trap, attacking the enemy from hidden positions and hitting their flanks, rear and core. The Rzakata 8th takes out key elements of the army which frequently cause confusion and havoc in the enemy’s ranks, creating all the advantages they can get. The MSB will often drive around cutting of small parts of the army and making surprise attacks.
When encountering one of the enemies fortified forts the Rzakatas climbing skill come in good use. They sneak up till the fortified position during night/darkness, climb over obstacles, take out the sentries and infiltrate the entire fortification where they kill the enemy from the inside, again creating confusion and havoc.
When they have to defend a position the Rzakata 8th spreads out and hides in the terrain/building. The snipers try to get higher ground while the melta groups stay low and wait to utilize surprise moments and running from cover to cover. The MSB is turned off until last second and then they drive out of cover and hit the enemy from weak sides.
Three kinds of “beasts” are brought with the Rzakta 8th Legion. The first is the huge mountain wolves of the Rzakata mountain region; they can tear a traitor astartes apart in a charge. The wolves are surgically enhanced by the Mechanicus to gain a much higher brain activity (same as what they do to some Ogryns). This lets the wolf plan attacks better and somewhat communicate with some of the trained Rzakata.
The Rzakatas often have eagles with them from the mountain ranges of Rzakata. These eagles are used in different tasks from catching preys on the move to scouting from a higher position. It is not uncommon for an officer to have a cybernetic link to his eagle so he can gain a better vision of the battlefield.
The last creature is not really a beast but a homo variant from the snow topped mountains of Rzakata, the famous Rzakata yetis. These creatures have a low form of intelligence, but are very keen predators. Their huge strength and natural toughness makes them dangerous beings in combat, especially in surprise attacks made by the Rzakata 8th Legion. They can speak and understand a simple form of low gothic, with a tribal dialect from their natural region.
The company consists of two captains, eight sergeants and seventy-four hardened fighters of the Rzakata Mountains. The Legion is occasionally led by Rogue Trader Captain Gizhaum Winterscale and his retinue, when he is deployed with them he is the commanding officer. When not the two captains and brothers, discuss which tactics best are deployed and used to take out the enemy. This is most uncommon in companies to have two captains, but it works with great effect in the Rzakata 8th Legion.
Rzakata Legions never use tanks, they think of them as too slow and noisy, unable to get through rough terrain, blowing every chance of getting a surprise attack and not to mention; what they think about hiding in moving deathtraps. Neither they use plasma weapons, the constant light they emit would give away their position and make hiding difficult (and besides who want to climb a mountain with a plasma gun strapped to your back).
Founding: The Rzakata Legions was first founded in 631.M41 two years after the planet first was discovered by the famous Rogue Trader Sebastian Winterscale. The first three legions, was owned and used by Sebastian Winterscale himself. The contract that they made with the Winterscale dynasty benefits them greatly and it is a huge honour to be chosen to leave the planet and fight in the name of the Emperor. In exchange of warriors the Winterscale dynasty grants the mountain people modern weapons to fight of their enemies and resist the touch of chaos.
Notable actions and persons: One of the best men in the Rzakata 8th Legion is named Sergeant Grylls also known as the Bear or just Bear, he is a living legend amongst his brethren’s and it’s recorded that he took out a Traitor Marine Lord in a forsaken Terminator in melee.
The two captains are named Eystein and Toki, while very different shaped they are both masterminds in war and totally reckless. Eystein is more of the genius while Tokie is the sharpest.
The Rzakata 8th together with the Ordo Xeno eliminated a large Genestealer cult on the Hive World, Piety (Calixis Subsector, Segmentum Obscura).
The last battle they fought was in the Gelmiro System (Calixis Subsector, Segmentum Obscura) were they killed an entire traitor legion known as the Death Hands and suffered only ten dead and around sixty wounded. The Death Hands no longer exist.
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