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Dragon force through the fire and flames might suit.

Deafen the enemy with loud heavy metal

So going to have to do a airborn assult to loud ainciant Terran rock music or full on armoured aattack to simthibg like moterhead because.

Ok, I have a stupid question, anyone have any idea about how many companies might be in an air-cav regiment? I'm trying to figure out how many names I need to come up with

Also, would there be enough Valkyries for all the men/women in the regiment if they all needed to deploy at once?

 War Kitten wrote:
Ok, I have a stupid question, anyone have any idea about how many companies might be in an air-cav regiment? I'm trying to figure out how many names I need to come up with

Also, would there be enough Valkyries for all the men/women in the regiment if they all needed to deploy at once?

Most like plus a deadicated gunship close air support unit. Valks and such geared like a attack helo to lay down cover fire. Missiles plus heavy gun systems. All all in one assult brigade with air assult and close air support elaments to back a landing.

Large ernough, a full air asauly brigade could be of a fair size, veteran core with a new recruit section too like its established and rei forced.

 War Kitten wrote:
Ok, I have a stupid question, anyone have any idea about how many companies might be in an air-cav regiment? I'm trying to figure out how many names I need to come up with

Also, would there be enough Valkyries for all the men/women in the regiment if they all needed to deploy at once?

There could be any number of companies, but I'd say there's probably less than average. You certainly don't need to say how many men there are - there can be as many as the plot requires, and it would certainly help you in creating the regiment.

As for Valkyries, there would need to be reserve troopers, so probably not enough for all of them, but Valkyries can always go back and pick up more dudes if needed.

Maybe a first on or so elite companies. Veteran units that are the ones who land where the fire is hottest. ?

Veterans, hardened experienced units.
Also could be say the survivors of a earlier deployment and reinforced with new blood?

 Sgt_Smudge wrote:

 War Kitten wrote:
Ok, I have a stupid question, anyone have any idea about how many companies might be in an air-cav regiment? I'm trying to figure out how many names I need to come up with

Also, would there be enough Valkyries for all the men/women in the regiment if they all needed to deploy at once?

There could be any number of companies, but I'd say there's probably less than average. You certainly don't need to say how many men there are - there can be as many as the plot requires, and it would certainly help you in creating the regiment.

As for Valkyries, there would need to be reserve troopers, so probably not enough for all of them, but Valkyries can always go back and pick up more dudes if needed.

Ok, so would maybe something like 4-5 companies be considered alright? With maybe 1 reserve company?

jhe90 wrote:Dragon force through the fire and flames might suit.

Deafen the enemy with loud heavy metal

So going to have to do a airborn assult to loud ainciant Terran rock music or full on armoured aattack to simthibg like moterhead because.

You sir, you get kudos

 War Kitten wrote:

 Sgt_Smudge wrote:

 War Kitten wrote:
Ok, I have a stupid question, anyone have any idea about how many companies might be in an air-cav regiment? I'm trying to figure out how many names I need to come up with

Also, would there be enough Valkyries for all the men/women in the regiment if they all needed to deploy at once?

There could be any number of companies, but I'd say there's probably less than average. You certainly don't need to say how many men there are - there can be as many as the plot requires, and it would certainly help you in creating the regiment.

As for Valkyries, there would need to be reserve troopers, so probably not enough for all of them, but Valkyries can always go back and pick up more dudes if needed.

Ok, so would maybe something like 4-5 companies be considered alright? With maybe 1 reserve company?

That would work out, even a bit on the small side in fact. How big are the companies - about three full platoons large?

 Sgt_Smudge wrote:

 War Kitten wrote:

 Sgt_Smudge wrote:

 War Kitten wrote:
Ok, I have a stupid question, anyone have any idea about how many companies might be in an air-cav regiment? I'm trying to figure out how many names I need to come up with

Also, would there be enough Valkyries for all the men/women in the regiment if they all needed to deploy at once?

There could be any number of companies, but I'd say there's probably less than average. You certainly don't need to say how many men there are - there can be as many as the plot requires, and it would certainly help you in creating the regiment.

As for Valkyries, there would need to be reserve troopers, so probably not enough for all of them, but Valkyries can always go back and pick up more dudes if needed.

Ok, so would maybe something like 4-5 companies be considered alright? With maybe 1 reserve company?

That would work out, even a bit on the small side in fact. How big are the companies - about three full platoons large?

Well, normal companies are 6 platoons, but considering its a smaller regiment, I'd say three or four platoons.

 Sgt_Smudge wrote:

 War Kitten wrote:

 Sgt_Smudge wrote:

 War Kitten wrote:
Ok, I have a stupid question, anyone have any idea about how many companies might be in an air-cav regiment? I'm trying to figure out how many names I need to come up with

Also, would there be enough Valkyries for all the men/women in the regiment if they all needed to deploy at once?

There could be any number of companies, but I'd say there's probably less than average. You certainly don't need to say how many men there are - there can be as many as the plot requires, and it would certainly help you in creating the regiment.

As for Valkyries, there would need to be reserve troopers, so probably not enough for all of them, but Valkyries can always go back and pick up more dudes if needed.

Ok, so would maybe something like 4-5 companies be considered alright? With maybe 1 reserve company?

That would work out, even a bit on the small side in fact. How big are the companies - about three full platoons large?

Roughly. Are we going by the platoon organization in the Guard codex? That's all I have for source material. The rest of my books are about armored regiments.


So a platoon would be about:

1 PCS
6 Infantry Squads
2-3 Heavy Weapons Squads

Each company would have 3 of these, with maybe a special weapons squad added in here or there, with each company having a bunch of dedicated Valkyries/Vendettas on standby for transport.

About 5 companies in all, so 15ish platoons. Add in the Vulture/Vendetta squadrons and that's my army

 War Kitten wrote:

 Sgt_Smudge wrote:

 War Kitten wrote:

 Sgt_Smudge wrote:

 War Kitten wrote:
Ok, I have a stupid question, anyone have any idea about how many companies might be in an air-cav regiment? I'm trying to figure out how many names I need to come up with

Also, would there be enough Valkyries for all the men/women in the regiment if they all needed to deploy at once?

There could be any number of companies, but I'd say there's probably less than average. You certainly don't need to say how many men there are - there can be as many as the plot requires, and it would certainly help you in creating the regiment.

As for Valkyries, there would need to be reserve troopers, so probably not enough for all of them, but Valkyries can always go back and pick up more dudes if needed.

Ok, so would maybe something like 4-5 companies be considered alright? With maybe 1 reserve company?

That would work out, even a bit on the small side in fact. How big are the companies - about three full platoons large?

Roughly. Are we going by the platoon organization in the Guard codex? That's all I have for source material. The rest of my books are about armored regiments.


So a platoon would be about:

1 PCS
6 Infantry Squads
2-3 Heavy Weapons Squads

Each company would have 3 of these, with maybe a special weapons squad added in here or there, with each company having a bunch of dedicated Valkyries/Vendettas on standby for transport.

About 5 companies in all, so 15ish platoons. Add in the Vulture/Vendetta squadrons and that's my army

Right, in which case, a platoon (including all personnel staffing and replacement men to reinforce) comes to about 100 men-ish.
That gives you about 1500 men in your whole regiment.
The Tanith 1st were a light infantry regiment that came to about 1500 at a low ebb on Monthax. I don't think your guys should be that low on 100% strength at all - doubling that size works a lot better, I think.

Maybe I can double the number of platoons per company? Bring it to about 6 platoons per company?

 War Kitten wrote:
Maybe I can double the number of platoons per company? Bring it to about 6 platoons per company?

I think you should boost it to 4 per Company and add more Companies

 War Kitten wrote:
Maybe I can double the number of platoons per company? Bring it to about 6 platoons per company?

will your guardsmen have landed by the time of the Crusade Command Meeting? If so will they be attending?

 Irishpeacockz wrote:

 War Kitten wrote:
Maybe I can double the number of platoons per company? Bring it to about 6 platoons per company?

will your guardsmen have landed by the time of the Crusade Command Meeting? If so will they be attending?

Yes, and yes

Oh wait, gak, I forgot to mention that my Guard will also be attending.

I'll PM you the details Irish, and I'll PM TS my roll.

 War Kitten wrote:
Maybe I can double the number of platoons per company? Bring it to about 6 platoons per company?

nevermind

Almost have a blurb on the state of my Librarians. Would it be unusual if they had their own psychic discipline? Its not like psychic powers have a standard in the Imperium so could the Arbiters have their own discipline?

Considering the wide range of powers in all the books, many of which have no rules correlation...no, I wouldn't think it'd be that odd at all

 TheEyeOfNight wrote:
Considering the wide range of powers in all the books, many of which have no rules correlation...no, I wouldn't think it'd be that odd at all

I'm even coming up with some in-game powers for them... and boy are they brutal... to the user. I feel like a bit of a masochist writing them down.

I've started on my Guard intro. The Elysian 14th "Helldivers" is on their way!

 War Kitten wrote:
I've started on my Guard intro. The Elysian 14th "Helldivers" is on their way!

"Jumping feet first into hell isn't our job, making sure it's populated when we get there is."

"You will regret this"

Blurb up.

Kharne the Befriender wrote:

 War Kitten wrote:
I've started on my Guard intro. The Elysian 14th "Helldivers" is on their way!

"Jumping feet first into hell isn't our job, making sure it's populated when we get there is."

Such is my lot in life.

Tactical_Spam wrote:"You will regret this"

Blurb up.

Oh boy, more closet heretics!

It took me two weeks to come up with that Bwatakwa discipline, give me a break with the rest of it.

I'll consider it

 War Kitten wrote:
I'll consider it

Speaking of Bwatakwa, I am making a homebrew Discipline for it. Lots of synergy.

Looking at the map I see 2BJ1's Orks aren't that far from my deployment zone. Methinks I'll be fighting some Orks soon.

 War Kitten wrote:
Looking at the map I see 2BJ1's Orks aren't that far from my deployment zone. Methinks I'll be fighting some Orks soon.

He's Waaagh'ing perty hard. It'd wait another turn before charging.

I have no intentions of fighting him just yet. I just have a feeling that he'll be the one I get into a tussle with.

Hopefully he's a fool and doesn't think to bring Mek Gunz