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Post by Walk on Nov 25, 2020 18:45:02 GMT -5
So in the masses of downtime while I sit through tedious e-meetings and videos Ive started to find myself organizing my fluff about the Tracian army, mostly through doing unit rosters and complete regimental breakdowns. So far Ive done about 10 different regiments of various types and sizes and for some reason I find it very mellowing haha. At this point (with covid restrictions not going anywhere) Im probably going to end up outlining the entire Tracian Army and all attached imperial assets. Im really just that bored.
Just wondering what level you all go to when forming your own fluff and your own ideas of what would be in an army/regiment/company/ etc.
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Post by judcottrell on Nov 26, 2020 5:59:37 GMT -5
I used to like the platoon system of Guard from years ago.
Having a command srquad for every 2-6 infantry squads was a good way to have a nice balance.
Also you had the heavier stuff attached to platoons seemed quite realistic from a combined arms point of view.
Have you decided on what sort of regiment the Tracians are? There’s so many load outs to explore.
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Post by treadiculous on Nov 26, 2020 15:04:33 GMT -5
I used to have names on each of the bases of the guard in the platoon (about 30 or catachans), I would record who fought and survived battles.
I also named all my tanks which is on a thread somewhere on this forum. One day I will paint those names on to the vehicles in question!
And I believe at one point I wrote a narrative about their homeworld and a few other details... not sure where that went in the end..
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Post by BG. Foster on Nov 28, 2020 5:55:34 GMT -5
You should check out 360wargaming.com/ as a place to share the fluff you write. Can talk you through how to do it if you need me to.
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Post by nutty on Nov 30, 2020 9:26:16 GMT -5
I've been playing around with army composition as well. I tried fitting my guys into current/historic regmintal organizations, but it's fairly tricky to get the numbers to line up with the 40k FOCs.
Right now I'm thinking about doing platoons of 50 (4 infantry squads, 1 command squad, 1 SWS or HWS) with an officer to lead them. This works fairly well for my collection as I have a buttload of infantrymen, and relatively few Heavy Weapon Teams. I'm still not sure if I want to distribute my veterans across the platoons, or do a veteran platoon/company.
I also need to work out how many platoons to stick in a company, and how to fit the companies into a regiment. But I'm having fun messing with that stuff in between meetings.
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Post by Walk on Nov 30, 2020 18:46:17 GMT -5
Have you decided on what sort of regiment the Tracians are? There’s so many load outs to explore. Thats where the funs been. The 91st Tracian makes up the bulk of the infantry and is designated as medium line infantry but the whole of the Tracian army has so many different types. These are the ones Ive done so far based on models/units Ive done in the past (most of which are represented in my own thread but are now gone unfortunately): -1st Command Regiment -7th Armored -8th Self-Propelled Field Artillery -9th Light Armor -11th Line Infantry -14th Auxiliary (abhuman/mutant) -26th Light Infantry -29th Heavy Armor -31st Medical -36th Armored Support (attached to the 7th) -43rd Mechanized Infantry -57th Support (attached to the 8th) -62nd Line Infantry -75th Elite Infantry (spec ops/storm troopers) -82nd Drop Infantry (airborne...have you figured out the numbering yet?) -88th Recon -91st Line Infantry There are a few more different types I want to do, plus various other military type organizations to add such as the cadets from the planets Officer Academy (moridans) and Arbites. And yes there will/would be waaaay more of the more important types (infantry especially) just havnt gotten to them yet. Its supposed to be essentially be half retrofitted PDF, half newly organized army defending the capital world of the Tracian system from a chaos led civil war that has now raged for over a decade or so. This gives me an excuse to use tons of different models for different regiments (say the XXth Light Infantry being from the southern deserts or whatever for tallerns) as the logistics of keeping this army standard would be impossible, especially if half the systems/worlds resources/means of production have been seized or destroyed by the enemy. For ease sake, I went more Napoleonic in my overall organization rather than modern and took the battalion level out, making the regiment the standard unit broken down to company, platoon then squad. At some point if my covid boredom truly gets out of hand and I actually do enough regiments, I might divide them up at the brigade or corp/army level but thats atleast 20 zoom meetings away. The other big thing I stayed away from modern organization wise was to take the Imperial rule of "1 Regiment 1 Purpose" to heart, thus the specific naming of each one. Each regiment will have large portions of attached officers (master of artillery will be a lieutenant attached from the 8th for instance or the lead intel officer being from the 88th). These means some of the regiments are meant to be broken down and are organized at a smaller base level, making either the platoon or company level the base with any higher commands within the regiment being mostly administrative. Right now I'm thinking about doing platoons of 50 (4 infantry squads, 1 command squad, 1 SWS or HWS) with an officer to lead them. This works fairly well for my collection as I have a buttload of infantrymen, and relatively few Heavy Weapon Teams. I'm still not sure if I want to distribute my veterans across the platoons, or do a veteran platoon/company. I also need to work out how many platoons to stick in a company, and how to fit the companies into a regiment. But I'm having fun messing with that stuff in between meetings. I started down that path but ended up compromising with just giving each regiment a set amount of companies (and what they were). For platoons and squads, I gave myself a bit more room, usually just giving a window of 4-6 of xtype platoon with 4-6 of x type squad and 0-1 y type squad, etc. Made working out logistics a bit easier and makes sense since casualty rate vs recruitment rate would keep it pretty fluid. I do have a regiment template if anyone would like to critique. I definitely feel like Im missing something, I can show an example regiment too if anyone feels inclined to tell me how impractical it is.
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Post by Walk on Nov 30, 2020 19:02:18 GMT -5
I used to have names on each of the bases of the guard in the platoon (about 30 or catachans), I would record who fought and survived battles. I also named all my tanks which is on a thread somewhere on this forum. One day I will paint those names on to the vehicles in question! And I believe at one point I wrote a narrative about their homeworld and a few other details... not sure where that went in the end.. Painting the names and designations and all that on my tanks is definitely my favorite part haha. Makes the come to life so much more. If you have trouble with painting the script that small, you can always go to a craft store and pick up an ultrafine tipped marker. Sharpie makes them in just about any color and they go great over most paints. I used to do it that way before I realized that my handwritting with a brush is infantry better than writing haha. When I first started my guard originally (back when they still had those sweet sweet 20 man infantry boxes) I tried to name them all. 13 year old me was too ambitious for his own good and that got nixed pretty quickly. You should check out 360wargaming.com/ as a place to share the fluff you write. Can talk you through how to do it if you need me to. Im sitting here having fun with the randomly generated regiments now haha. You may have to give me the site tour on this one though.
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Post by BG. Foster on Dec 1, 2020 3:04:43 GMT -5
You should check out 360wargaming.com/ as a place to share the fluff you write. Can talk you through how to do it if you need me to. Im sitting here having fun with the randomly generated regiments now haha. You may have to give me the site tour on this one though. Happy to take the time to talk you through it. There's lots of useful (well I hope so at least) stuff on there and more being added.
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Post by nutty on Dec 1, 2020 16:13:22 GMT -5
I do have a regiment template if anyone would like to critique. I definitely feel like Im missing something, I can show an example regiment too if anyone feels inclined to tell me how impractical it is. Impracticality never stopped the Imperial Guard before
Either way I'd like to see the template/examples you've come up with, it's regular work tomorrow... but Thursday is all video calls for me.
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Post by Walk on Dec 1, 2020 17:55:05 GMT -5
So here is the template Ive been using, the only thing Ive really considered adding was a motorpool section but for ease sake (and not wanting to literally tally the total amounts) I opted to just bold vehicles. I put two examples at the bottom Regiment: Nickname: - Type Designation: - Active Commander: - -XO: -Senior NCO: -Head Chaplain: -Regimental Commissar: -Head Intelligence Officer: -Communication Liaison Officer: -Master Quartermaster: -Chief Medical Officer: -Master of Ordinance: -Liaison to Mechanicum: -Liaison to Navy: -Chief Astropath: -Training Officer: Stronghold/Command HQ: - Current Strength/Organization: - Attached Assets: - Uniform/Kit: -Uniform: - -Uniform Insignia: - -Standard Issue Weapons: - -Kit: - -Available heavy weapons: - -Available special weapons: - Tactics/Role: - Historical Notes: - And some examples from so many bored dead time: 26th Light Infantry www.scribd.com/document/486585581/26th-Tracian-Light-Infantry-Regiment31st Medical www.scribd.com/document/486586543/31st-Tracian-Medical-Regiment7th Armored www.scribd.com/document/486586614/7th-Tracian-Armored-Regimentif anyones interested, I can post more but those are a few Ive done. Edit:rereading my 7th armored one I realized it needs editing. One of the squadrons is supposed to be executioners not exterminators in heavy anti infantry support
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Post by nutty on Dec 8, 2020 3:13:47 GMT -5
Those look great, I might go as in depth as that one day, but that'll be a while.
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Post by Walk on Dec 9, 2020 21:50:26 GMT -5
When you have at least 5 hours a day where you just listen in on meetings and only have to occassionally speak up, you find other ways to kill time.
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Post by nutty on Dec 10, 2020 16:35:32 GMT -5
That's true, mine seems to be hoarding STLs for projects I may or may not ever undertake... at least they take up less space as piles of grey plastic
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Post by BG. Foster on Dec 11, 2020 2:20:08 GMT -5
That's true, mine seems to be hoarding STLs for projects I may or may not ever undertake... at least they take up less space as piles of grey plastic Mines creating a load of stuff I'll never have time to print.
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Post by nutty on Dec 11, 2020 9:00:12 GMT -5
That's true, mine seems to be hoarding STLs for projects I may or may not ever undertake... at least they take up less space as piles of grey plastic Mines creating a load of stuff I'll never have time to print. I've been trying my hand at remixing/kitbashing in blender with some success, not really at a point where I'm creating things from scratch though. The plan is to create another regiment, but there's so many options out there that can't decide. What have you been making?
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Post by BG. Foster on Dec 11, 2020 9:05:30 GMT -5
Mines creating a load of stuff I'll never have time to print. I've been trying my hand at remixing/kitbashing in blender with some success, not really at a point where I'm creating things from scratch though. The plan is to create another regiment, but there's so many options out there that can't decide. What have you been making? Yeah mines more of a 'finding things I like on Thingiverse and merging them together'. Stuff like the below
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Post by Walk on Dec 11, 2020 17:09:12 GMT -5
That looks awesome! What printer do you use and do you recommend it? Ive been shopping around recently
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Post by BG. Foster on Dec 12, 2020 2:22:07 GMT -5
That looks awesome! What printer do you use and do you recommend it? Ive been shopping around recently I have an Ender 3 Pro with various upgrades. I will say it's a hobby in itself as you will need/want to tweak your printer to get the quality you want. As for what to get it depends on what you want to use it for. If you are wanting to print mini's then you need a resin printer, something like the Elegoo Mars. If you want to print terrain I'd say get an Ender 3 and I'd go for the Pro over the standard.
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Post by nutty on Dec 12, 2020 14:06:40 GMT -5
I have an Elegoo Mars and it works great for miniatures. It's not ideal for terrain though, the printbed is pretty small. And large flat surfaces tend to warp when curing, so you have to straigthen them back out afterwards.
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Post by Walk on Dec 12, 2020 19:19:25 GMT -5
Elegoo mars it is
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