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Brother Coa wrote:

hotsauceman1 wrote:

That is like using Cadian Regiment to purge world of Daemonic incursions, simply not fitted for that role.

You mean the regiment that deals with more daemonic incursions then any other regiment in the entire Imperium? Actually that sounds like the perfect choice

Brother Coa wrote:

hotsauceman1 wrote:

That is like using Cadian Regiment to purge world of Daemonic incursions, simply not fitted for that role.

You mean the regiment that deals with more daemonic incursions then any other regiment in the entire Imperium? Actually that sounds like the perfect choice

+1

Brother Coa wrote:

hotsauceman1 wrote:
He is right, In "The LAst Ditch" Cain says while that administratum tries to make it so certain armies are used in certain places, its usually comes down to who is closes to the planet.

The problem is that in Necron codex they were using Catachans to defend a Hive World.
You don't send a jungle fighters into a city fight, for that you need siege army like Krieg. And as I understand Imperium had time to prepare defense, they could call anyone else and they called a Catachans...
That is like using Cadian Regiment to purge world of Daemonic incursions, simply not fitted for that role.

No, you use whatever you have to hand. You don't wait 18 months for a Kried regiment to get there when there is a Catachan regiment only a weeks travel away.

Galdos wrote:

Brother Coa wrote:

hotsauceman1 wrote:

That is like using Cadian Regiment to purge world of Daemonic incursions, simply not fitted for that role.

You mean the regiment that deals with more daemonic incursions then any other regiment in the entire Imperium? Actually that sounds like the perfect choice

There isn't just one Cadian regiment. There are hundreds if not thousands of them.

TheRobotLol wrote:

I think the OP means, if they aint in the jungle, why do they still wear little to no armour?

Am I correct?

I always assumed that it was because Catacha couldn't afford to make armor for every soldier. Remember early in the Gulf War when the US Army didn't have enough armor to go around, and families were putting fund drives together to buy it for their kids? Apparently, only every other Russian soldier in WWI got a gun. Not every world has good manufacturing.

Badassery.

Pure badassery.

Because armour is for girls.

Even women from Catachan are more manly than men from anywhere else.

Because Marbo.

is stronger than

This.

lol.

Also, to be fair, catachan ARE wearing armor. I mean, they clearly come with flak vests. Plus, some guard units (like mordians) have a type of special super-weave clothing that actually provides protection (like a stab vest), which means that they're wearing armor, even if it doesn't look like they're wearing armor.

It's just that cadians use something so obvious and bulky that it makes everyone else look down-armored by comparison.

Due to the unstoppable outbreak of schweddy balls in a hot humid environment they have to go sans armor, otherwise they would spend all their time dressing and undressing do to the aforementioned schewddy balls and its associated itching.

All 40k units spend their entire lives exactly how they are portrayed in model form. Poor Cato Sicarius can only ever fight with one hand due to carrying his helmet with the other.

Or you can put it on him.and give him his (sheathed) blade. Or make a scratch build or bitz blend.

Because Otherwise, you don't get the cool arms for conversions. Also, I think Catachans would be fairly good in a city environment. With the "leave no stone unturned, lest it eat you" mentality, I actually think the jungle experience carries over to a city environment. Of course, running around topless in the city, I think the Catachans would die of tetanus before the bullets even started flying

Deadshot wrote:Or you can put it on him.and give him his (sheathed) blade. Or make a scratch build or bitz blend.

Sorry, I was being facetious and pointing out that the model is only a snapshot of the unit and doesn't really lend to flexibility. I don't see any reason why a Catachan couldn't throw on flak armor given different circumstances simply because he wasn't portrayed with one.

Brother Coa wrote:Because armor is useless in Jungle warfare? They are usually fighting in jungle so there have little use of armor there.

Only Matt Ward is putting Catachans into scenarios other then jungle.

Other than the multiple times the Catachan regiments appear in scenarios other than jungles, and in fluff not written by Mat Ward.
Actually, fast-moving and lightly armoured troops who can make use of any and all cover are useful in most scenarios.

Oakenshield wrote:
Sorry, I was being facetious and pointing out that the model is only a snapshot of the unit and doesn't really lend to flexibility. I don't see any reason why a Catachan couldn't throw on flak armor given different circumstances simply because he wasn't portrayed with one.

The only reason I don't agree with you is because every Catachan model, save one specific torso in the command squad box, is either shirtless, open-vested, or in a tank top. Your Sicarius argument would work in most other cases though.