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Hello

I have been a regualar of dakka for a while and now i am deciding to put up this fluff surrounding my imperial guard regiment, The Bronze Legion.

To get to know an imperial regiment is to know their home world, their homeworld of Tivan a desert planet where nearly any metal will corrode, to combat this two large biosheres have been created to house the populace. In one biosphere, the larger of the two the Planetary Govenor and the higher and middle class citizens of the imperium live in a hiveworld type cramped situation with the ceiling of the biosphere being left for the high classes. The other biosphere is for the workers who have devolved into more savage customs and agressive nature, their enviorment is one of carving out thier living quarters from the rocks they are forced to dig from.

The waaagh Urgok sprung up in the nearby systems and a regiment was to be formed, the majority of the officers were made up of the higher classes and the normal guardsmen were made up of the middle classes, the workers are either forced conscripts or part of the scout platoon. The formation of the regiment was left to the local arms dealers as they had the majority of the power on the planet, they did not want to lose profits from not equipping enough people (As they were being paid a % of the final worth of the regiment), the commisioned a full 1 million people into the regiment, willingly or not to fight in the struggle against the ork waagh.

To fit such a vast amount of troops into one organisation was a feat.

Platoon
Platoon co. Squad
10 squads
10 units of conscripts ( 1 unit=20 guys)

Company
Company co. Squad
20 platoons
10 scouts ( The more seinoir lower level workers who can do more meanial tasks like the scouting )

Battle company
Lord of the company
Lord commisar
Priest
20 companys
100 mounted scouts ( all mounted on any mount they can get their hands on )

Regiment
Lord high of the legion
8 battle companys
400 squads of household guard

More to post soon

nice. Grab a look at my IG fluff that I am working on. Its from a hive world, but I can see similarities. Feel free to use any of the ideas from my fluff and modify it to yours.

I've also done some number crunching that you might find interesting, if not useful.

I have and it is really interesting how all of the planet contributes 5 different regiments

Also if you would enlighten me on your number crunching that would be interesting

Since a raising of this magnitude had never been undertaken before, they cut corners. The regiment was sent to battle with the orks on a nearby planet of Burucha where the imperial garrison needed ground aid. The regiment had to be shipped separately, they landed and by the time the majority of the force had committed itself a full 700,000 men fighting on the world.

But they were to betrayed from within, there were three primarus psykers who had come into contact with daemonic objects and rarther than destroy them they held on to them. The corrupted psykers were stopped by a group of inquisitorial acolytes who were attached to the regiment. They were acolytes of Inquisitor Gregor of the ordo hereticus and the psykers were swiftly dispatched. Since then every other psyker that came into comtact with the Bronze legion eventually got corrupted by chaos no matter how controlled or powerful they are.

Short update

It actually works out 20 Regiments - 1 from each hive - 5 Infantry, 5 Artillery, 5 Armoured and 5 Recon (that's how I am describing the Hellhound regiments). I stuck with the principle of keeping the different areas of the Guard separate.

The basis of my number crunching was this "With each hive housing between 10 to 100 billion people and 5 to 20 hives per planet" (Source: http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Hive_World). I decided to go for the maximum - 20 Hives of 100 Billion People each - in effect the whole planet had become a single huge hive. I have assumed 10% of the population under arms (even if not official pdf - I remember picking this % from a while back based on current day Earth - the stats from that show 10% of the population is armed forces (not technically true if you look at the statistics, as certain countries count their entire adult population as armed forces on the basis that they could be mobilised)). But ultimately it was a nice number to work with. Under the tithe of a hive world (which is usually set at the maximum level), 10% of the PDF (or the term I'm using 'men under arms') that equates to 1% of a hives population (20 billion across all the regiments and hives). When I worked out the numbers in my regiments, I realised that it didn't come close to that number (think I worked this out they would have to do 200 times this amount), that's where I came up with the logic that to fulfil their tithe, they paid the rest in equipment for other regiments. The reason I assume that they can pay their tithe in both manpower and equipment was that a single infantry squad is considered the same as a tank, despite there being fewer crew with the tank, therefor the equipment of the tank made up for the missing bodies.

Was that the number crunching you were referring too, or the size of a 'normal' regiment?

Oh, for my regiment, this is an annual raising, but slightly unusual in that all the hives are doing it at the same time - normally they would do it at different times, purely because of the logistics of transporting them all in one go


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Oh, the similarities I was actually referring to in my first post was about the difference between the lower ranks and officers

Wow, your hive world is a power house.

so i have calculated that in my regiment all together there are 983,225 men a couple thousand off a million

If I remember rightly, that would be considered 4 Large Normal Regiments, but all being Infantry (I throw rough riders into Infantry as they are not Armoured or artillery), I can see it being formed as a single regiment, Especially given the emergency nature of the raising, and also if there is a lack of senior officers for multiple regiments.

Maybe consider having the mounted units as a scout regiment and the household guard as a small regiment who see themselves as better than everyone else.

Just my thoughts though.

Good idea on the sort of split off regiments, i think there could be a caste system with the overall commander drawn from the household guard.

Each household guard is a lord in his own right and has the right to command as much as a platoon, most of these people are drawn from the sons of high lords on the planet. The scouts are seen as inferior to all and although they serve best when doing their job most find them incoherent savages who donot deserve to fight for the emperor.

Most scout leader representatives die within their first day or two and since the first two no more have stepped up.

There are three separate cults within the regiment, the first theat every leader is a part of, only the Lord High of the Legion knows the extent of its machinations, it is involved in the lesser cults as well controling and manipulating the guardsmen through their mouth peices, its name is the 'shrouded crown'

The second cult is one of the wider kind where the representatives are the priests, most of whom report to the shrouded crown. The cult is one of simple worship to the emperor.

The third cult is a cult shrouded by the scouts as they are lead by warleaders who wear the pendants, the pendants are made of crystal with a coiled band around the crystal, most who wear these are psykers. They in the ceremonies that they perform control their comrades as if they were an extention of them selves. They call themselves the 'shadowed crystal'.

Well that is what i have thought up about your sugestion.