Necromunda Civil Enforcement

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Sup Boys?

This is the beginning of my current modelling project which will be to make a 2,000 point competitive / fluff based IG army. For those of you who know already, I also have a rather large Pre-Heresy Salamander army, but after staring at the remnants of my old IG force collecting dust I decided to rebuid, repaint and ressurect them.

An excerpt from my fluff:

Necromunda Civil Enforcement

Motto: Adapt and Overcome

“Genetically altered sycophants with access to military grade equipment and tactical combat training.” – Inquisitor Cerberus II, Beta-5 Cell.

The Necromunda Civil Enforcement is a Battalion sized formation specialized in Asymmetric Warfare and composed of a Mechanized and an Armoured Company with an additional logistics and command section. Founded in late M.41 to enforce order in densely populated areas, recruits are composed primarily of volunteers seeking better living conditions, authority over others or out of genuine sympathy and identification with the government’s aims. Upon induction recruits undergo extensive neurological surgery to suppress cognition by weakening the arousal of the nervous system. Ironically, Civil Enforcers are notorious for their brutality and are perceived as aggressive and bull headed, their arrogant, violent nature has caused serious military blunders in the past with allegations of extrajudicial killings, corruption and excessive collateral damage. Officers are recruited from Necromunda’s noble houses and often encourage their troops to intimidate the population into submission.

To operate efficiently in Necromunda’s polluted metropolitan environment, Civil Enforcers wear black tactical combat helmets with integrated personal radio systems, respiratory masks, ballistic goggles, and vocoder, in addition to a hard plate, black, reinforced ballistic vest with supplementary shoulder and shin pad protection over livid combat fatigues with urban disruptive pattern material camouflage. The regiment uses Autocannons and Multiple Grenade Launchers for close infantry support.


Sorry for the quality of the photos boys, I know and I'm working on it...

My first three Civil Troopers:

[3ff3ct]

Cool!

Are they going to get Arbites style Rhinos as counts-as Chimeras?

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I was going too, I bought three razorbacks but changed my mind and managed to exchange them for some Chimeras and a Hellhound.

More Pics inbound!

[Deleted]

Right, hopefully this one turned out better.

My first squad so far... got six more and a Chimera APC in the making

[3ff3ct]

I like the camo. And the huge cadian sergenat is also very intimidating

How are you going to base them?

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I've based the colour scheme on the original artwork of the Necromunda 1st (4th edition concept art):



I hate the whole GW "Lasgun and grenade" config so I'm going the extra mile to give them as many pouches (canteens, ammo belts), grenades (phosphorus, fragmentation, stun and smoke), scopes (ACOG, Reflex and 12X), PEQ lasersights and suppressors possible.

Next up will be my Leman Russ Battle Tank Squadron and some more mechanized infantry with some stormtroopers and a Commissar in bound.

I've also been drawing up the concept of a Cyclops Demolition Vehicle and it's Operator too, as fighting in the confined urban jungle of Necromunda, I can imagine a remote controlled Cyclops being used to clear out roadblocks and barricades...

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@ 3ff3ct: Urban fortunately. As much as I love desert and jungle camo, I've always had a fetish for urban combat (The 5th edition Cityfight Codex doesn't help too much either... ;-) )

[3ff3ct]

Yeah that book was great I love doing urban bases, it's a great excuse to rummage in the bits box and add some details

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Lool talking of Bitz Box my glue exploded over it and all my Bitz have melded together, talk about a cluster f*ck ;-)

[3ff3ct]

Maybe swampy urban....?

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Hmm from what I've gathered the Underhive is a pretty grim place... lol

TBH my main priority is to build everything up first, I've got ALOT of models and a short deadline but I have considered chemical pools, radioactive waste, piping, barbed wire, etc... to give them an urban , under hive feel

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Here are some more close ups:



The Necromunda Civil Defence Force was founded by the government to provide security and maintain hegemony over governmental assets such as factories, stockpiles, recycling and water purification plants. They are a mechanized Planetary Defence Force and have access to military grade equipment and tactical combat training. Operations vary from escorting weapon convoys to safeguarding Imperial assets and counter-insurgency.

[macknight]

Looking good, a definite improvement over your previous guard force, I especially like your conversion of the lasgun.

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Cheers knight

[3ff3ct]

Sept 12, 2013 9:30:17 GMT -5 @mael said:

I have considered chemical pools, radioactive waste, piping, barbed wire, etc... to give them an urban , under hive feel

Not meaning to peddle my wares, have you had a look at the lava/toxic bases I do? Link in sig

I could even knock up some rubble/sludge custom bases if you wanted a few of them doing.

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Those scrapyard bases are great.

I'd happily buy them

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Mate put a set to one side for me would ya? Have you got paypal? I'll wire the funds through to you

[Adkenpachi]

Ebay take a huge cut if you buy through them anyways

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I know, rule #1 always cut out the middleman

[3ff3ct]

Sept 14, 2013 9:47:43 GMT -5 Adkenpachi said:

Ebay take a huge cut if you buy through them anyways

Hence the lovely Mr.Foster making me a spanky website

PM inbound Ivory

[Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four]

Forgive me, I don't want to rain on your parade, but historically wasn't the Necromundan PDF just drawn from rounding up various Underhive gangs wholesale and press-ganging them into service whenever the PDF needed to recruit? I seem to recall that an actual regiment was pretty much just made up of the members of a particular gang, and that they were equipped with pretty much whatever gear and weapons that the gang had at the time they were snaffled into service, and the regimental name usually was just the gang's name along with a number, and the same held true for those who made the transition from PDF to Guard? I seem to recall the Necromundan 9th being called the Spiders?

Still this is a pretty cool project!

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In response to your question, I found this on Lexicanum:

Hive Primus, and the planet as a whole, is ruled over by Lord Gerontius Helmawr of House Helmawr. The Hive's Houses are in a constant struggle to gain power and control of the Hive.

The society of Necromunda is reasonably typical of larger Hive Worlds. No attempt is made to enforce central administration upon the entire population; indeed such a thing would prove impossible on a world where most people remain unrecorded by any authority. Instead, a kind of feudal system has evolved by which individual people owe loyalty to others, who in their turn owe their loyalty to other increasingly more powerful members of the hierarchy. Among the more stable elements of the population these loyalties are owed on a family basis, and closely related families all support each other under the hegemony of the most powerful member of their family group.
This form of urban feudalism tends to be self-regulating. Weaker clans naturally seek the protection of more powerful neighbors whose powerbase then expands until it reaches the limit whereby its numbers and resources are simply too few to allow it to expand further. Where rival clans meet it is inevitable that their power will be tested in combat; the ability of a clan to exert its power being the only true measure of its influence. The endless feuds between the warrior gangs of these clans are a fundamental part of the workings of Necromunda.

With this in mind, House Helmawr (Necromunda's ruling House) have different agreements and settlements with the largest, most influential gangs (House Delaque handles espionage operations, etc...) and yes the Necromunda 8th Regiment are drafted from the Spiders and receive weapons from the government to control rebellious gangs and serve as a paramilitant PDF but take into consideration that:

Necromunda's population has increased well beyond the planet's capacity to support it. There are probably more people on Necromunda than have ever lived in the entire history of Terra up until the end of M2. An attempted census of Trazior Hive four thousand years ago revealed an estimated population of a billion in the upper habitation levels alone - no further attempt has been made to count Necromunda's population in Trazior or any other of the several thousand hives on the planet.

The planet's capital is Hive Primus (also known as the Palatine), one of Necromunda's many hive cities. The hive, the largest on Necromunda, is enormous in size, reaching from the surface to some 10 miles into the air, and from surface level to roughly 2.8 miles into the ground (although only the first 1.3 miles are habitable by humans), and possesses a population greater than some worlds.

Imperial branches like the Adeptus Arbites also operate on Necromunda.

I've modified the fluff section of my introduction, feel free to take a look

[Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four]

It's looking good!