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Made in us
Mimetic Bagh-Mari






City fight Penal Troops

 

Last chancers (core HQ and 2 Troops)  
This unit is the hardened Criminals hand picked by an Arbiter Senioris

Mix of weapons, mainly geared for CC, of course demo charges

 

Inquisitor (HQ DH),

Arbites General, this is the highest rank a Judge can reach. Of course his Field staff.

 

Priest (0-5) see WH FAQ

Chasteners, the interrogators of the legion


Arco flagellants  (elite WH),
need I say more??

 

Demon host (elite DH),
Conscript Psychic criminals, headed for earth to feed the emperors throne.

 

Dominion Squad (fast attack WH)

Arbites Shock Squad
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0-4 Units of Storm Troopers

Basic Arbites

 

Every once in a while I’ll add a dog of 5.

If anyone has an Idea of how I could do this better please let me know…

  Sorry specifics on equipment. Just want to get feed back on this list

A little background info for those who don’t know

 

Other branches of the Adeptus Arbites include:

• Verispex Squads, equivalent to Modern Day forensic Teams.

• Arbitrator Detectives.

• Chasteners, whose task it is to interrogate prisoners by any means they might see as necessary, including mental and physical torture. Treatment at the hands of these men and women usually ends in death, although a death, in which you are absolved of your sins against the God-Emperor, provided you confess.

• Chaplains, the spiritual overseers of the Adeptus Arbites. A number of Chaplains are always to be found in Arbites Installations.

• Judges, these work closely with Arbites Chasteners and pronounce sentences over prisoners (Any Arbitrator has the authority to place and execute sentences in the field).

• Cyber Mastiffs, the sniffer dogs of the Adeptus. It is known that these form their own squads, consisting of a paired Cyber Mastiff and its Handler, but there are no specifics as to how many pairs form a squad. Cyber Mastiffs are often employed to sniff out any hostiles that might have hid themselves in the wake of an Arbites Advance, but are still fully capable of defending themselves and their handlers. They are controlled by verbal commands from whoever is paired up with them, and are probably keyed to a certain voice/smell to prevent Enemies from giving them counter-acting commands.

• Handlers, see Cyber Mastiffs.

Arbites Installations are known as Precincts, each of which is located in an armored courthouse that serves as an armory, training ground, barracks, and prison and judgment hall. Arbitrators and Judges operate in parallel organizations within the Adeptus Arbites. These two hierarchies combine at the rank of Arbiter Senioris to become the Arbites General, which has the authority of both, and is one of the highest Ranks an Arbiter can achieve.

Traditionally larger Squads, fifteen to twenty, are only used in extended combat actions where greater numbers are needed for tougher jobs, such as storming a gatehouse or defending a vital area. In serious attacks Shock Squads will lead the way, Arbiters trained to break enemy position, and organised into units of ten. Although these grim-faced men and women are equipped in exactly the same way as Combat Squads (albeit with larger Grenade and Ammunition Rations, since they cannot be expected to fall back and restock as frequently as their more mundane counterparts) they probably recieve extra training, as they are considered the elite of an Arbites Force.

Often operating in dense urban environments, Arbites are equipped with shotguns and bolters with Executioner rounds, special ammunition with homing capabilities. They are also generally armed with power mauls for melee combat, electro-net launchers and pulse-charged bolas for capturing perpetrators alive, grapplehooks and stingers, and escorted by cybernetically enhanced mastiffs for hunting hidden criminals.

 

For protection, Arbites wear black carapace armour with signature jaw-exposed helmets. Arbites make use of combat motorcycles for patrols and Repressors, a variant of the Rhino, for riot response and heavy patrols, as well as heavier tanks such as the Leman Russ.

   
Made in us
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not even a suggestion. shoot!
   
Made in gb
Highlord with a Blackstone Fortress






Adrift within the vortex of my imagination.

I made up a Penal legion list way back, but never got around to buuilding it. Based on Soviet penal troops/conscripts.

Commmand Squad - Tooled up and made to look like Penal Infantry Guards. Complete with mandatory red bands on their caps. Not intended as assault troops, keep them cheap.
Modelled as a hang around at the back unit - dying is for the convicts.

Platoons
Each platoon has a Command squad with heavy bolter. As Penal Infantry Guards, some with loudhailers.
The platoon Command squad would be modelled as providing 'encouragement' for the convicts. At least one with a loudhailer, some pointing forwards, the heavy bolter is for shooting 'cowards and traitors'.

Five squads with ten men and no sergeant. One flamer or melta gun. Split into two subgroups of five linked with jewellery chain to ankle shackles. Half the remaining men have lasguns, the other half have ammo clips.

After the Penals you need some elite troops. IG tanks to taste and Stormtroopers/Grenadiers. In the background this works better than ordinary line troops, the penal infantry are summoned specially to sften the enemy prior to assault by elite troops that are not considered (relatively speaking) to be expendible. Ordinary Guard do not qualify here, but Stormtroopers might.
This provides the true strength of the list.
In my hypothetical list the elite troops paisd for every life saving gear I could buy. Extra armour, smoke launchers etc to emphasise thedifference between the totyally expendible penal troops and the rest.

This is not a 'finess' penal list like Last Chancers. Just an opportunity to use a human wave of 200 guardsmen. Fun concept, but too expensive for me to consider as a build.


n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.

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