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Orkeosaurus wrote:Welcome to Dakka, SilverMK2. A private mercenary company sounds interesting.

Cheers. They will actually be members of the IG, but because of their background and the fact that the company they were recruited from is very large and has many warp capable ships and works in a large area, they will be more in contact with their original bosses than most guard units, hence they wtill make use of their company contacts to maintain supply levels, and also to do the work for the company's benefit in whatever warzone they are currently in.

They were originally tithed as soldiers into the IG to secure better mining contracts for the company they come from and the company views them as a resource to be used as well as an investment.

Although the inquisition is covertly monitoring the company's involvement with the Tau, I am sure

Welcome to Dakka. Private army that is tailoring to your likes. Cool.

oh, kind of like ELysian drop troops except there is a company involved.

Mabye, to be more in tune with 40k style, the company could be run or perhaps even is a powerful family, like a hive ruler or sumfink. Don't worry thought they are fine as they are.

My friend has a mercenary army too, cept when they're not fighting with the Emprah for pay they are pirates and raiding whatever stuff they can. Death Hunters is the name.

Emperors Faithful wrote:oh, kind of like ELysian drop troops except there is a company involved.

Mabye, to be more in tune with 40k style, the company could be run or perhaps even is a powerful family, like a hive ruler or sumfink. Don't worry thought they are fine as they are.

My friend has a mercenary army too, cept when they're not fighting with the Emprah for pay they are pirates and raiding whatever stuff they can. Death Hunters is the name.

There is some fluff in my website's wiki. I would post a direct link to it, but I can't get on my site at work, so you will just have to find it

The company is massive, over 500m people directly working for it with some working short term contracts, others with multigenerational contracts, and others who are in perpetuality.

The owners I have not yet decided upon, but I would imagine that it is probably some kind of cartel made up of businessmen. I imagine them being into all sorts of black market stuff, with the original founders using discovered/looted/stolen dark age technology and artifacts to basically take over the sectors mining interests and build themselves into a huge galaxy going concern.

I imagine that some of their most impressive space going ore processors and mining machines are actually relics from the dark age of technology, with the rest being ships from various periods of time from then on, of all shapes and sizes, and including some alien technology (carefully hiden from the Inquisition, or at least they think it is).

Edit: And although they are "drop infantry", I eventually want to go with more of an airbourne infantry regiment with drop capability.

There will be many drop pods being made when I get round to painting up my IG.

I doubt ANY company could span the galaxy (only the Munitoriam does that), yet this is entirely possible, with hundreds of succesful "rouge traders" pooling thier resources and stolen technology into one big effort to earn a seat on the board. i doubt the working conditions for those down the ranks would be great though.

This would certainly earn you friends in the Guard, but the Inquisition might want to have a word (or a couple of purges) with you.

Emperors Faithful wrote:I doubt ANY company could span the galaxy (only the Munitoriam does that), yet this is entirely possible, with hundreds of succesful "rouge traders" pooling thier resources and stolen technology into one big effort to earn a seat on the board. i doubt the working conditions for those down the ranks would be great though.

This would certainly earn you friends in the Guard, but the Inquisition might want to have a word (or a couple of purges) with you.

Well, perhaps not galaxy spanning, but they certainly operate heavily in the eastern fringe

And I think something simmilar (with rogue traders etc) building up the company over centuries (esp if the first one found some lost technology that attracted others to his cause).

Definitely sounds Uber cool. You could even modify your storm troopers to carry guass weapons or something more beffiting of that nasty AP3 than a las weapon.

Or mabye a dude holding a modified broadside weapon as a lascannon?

I might buy a bag of tau bits or something for when I get round to my IG.

I am not sure if I am going to do them next, or my Orks.

I will probably do the IG, as I want to get into casting, and if I can cast some scratch built drop pods etc, I think that will be great.

IG, becuase your'e enemy can't hear you for two reasons.

1) How loud thier shooting is
2) The thunderous sound of how awesome they are!

Emperors Faithful wrote:IG, becuase your'e enemy can't hear you for two reasons.

1) How loud thier shooting is
2) The thunderous sound of how awesome they are!

Sounds like a couple of good reasons

Plus I want to buy one of those new flying shooty troop carring doodads.

Valkryie?
Cool! There seems to be a lot of nerd rage over the disembarking problems and such (2 inches doesn't reah the ground) but I would KILL just to be able to LAND something in the middle of a battle.

Also, when (if) they come in from reserve you could play the music "Flight of the Valkryies" from Armageddon now (I think).

DUN!DUN!DUN!DUN! DUN!
DUN!DUN!DUN!DUN! DUN!

Emperors Faithful wrote:Valkryie?
Cool! There seems to be a lot of nerd rage over the disembarking problems and such (2 inches doesn't reah the ground) but I would KILL just to be able to LAND something in the middle of a battle.

I have not really played all that much (ie: at all) so I have not encountered such problems, but I am sure the fact that they are cool mitigates any nerd rage

Also, when (if) they come in from reserve you could play the music "Flight of the Valkryies" from Armageddon now (I think).

DUN!DUN!DUN!DUN! DUN!
DUN!DUN!DUN!DUN! DUN!

You mean Apocalypse Now? Although the music is actually by Wagner.

Don't think he wrote it for helicopters blowing things up, but it certainly fits

That it does indeed.
I heard about the scandal since almost no operas use the music of wagner becuase everyone starts thinking of helicopters than what the play is actually about.

Emperors Faithful wrote:That it does indeed.
I heard about the scandal since almost no operas use the music of wagner becuase everyone starts thinking of helicopters than what the play is actually about.

Haha!

Welcome to 'Nam...

'Nam=CataCHAN!

Don't go there, men's arms were not MEANT to look like they belonged to skinless apes.

Emperors Faithful wrote:'Nam=CataCHAN!

Don't go there, men's arms were not MEANT to look like they belonged to skinless apes.

I hate those models, they look so rubbish.

Same.
There shall come a day where the hordes of catachan haters shall unite, and their thoughts shall be so united and maximised that the models shall be banished back to the warp from whence they came.

-Propechy of Greg.

Woo!