AT-43 Field Engineer repaint

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**Cpl_Saint**

This Star Trooper field engineer is equipped with a standard assault rifle, combat knife and An-1 style webbing. In addition, he carries a standard trenching tool. Reports of troops using these as impromptu combat weaponry against the Therian menace are almost certainly untrue...

Most strikingly different from standard is this trooper's ceramic-reinforced body armour, numerous plates of which are larger than standard. These plates are easily fitted to standard 'Saxon' personal armour to provide increased protection versus fragmentation and high-explosive/concussive force – very necessary for Field Engineers, who may well be tasked with anything from bridge-building to mine clearance while under enemy fire. This trooper has added numerous pieces of grafitti to his armour, a practice that, while officially frowned-upon, has benefits to morale in expressing pride, offering comfort by recalling home or peacetime life, and as a kind of fetish against enemy action; and hence is tolerated with good nature by the 'top brass'.

This view shows the trooper's non-standard disruption-pattern combat smock. This older pattern of equipment is becoming increasingly common among rear-echelon support units as attrition amongst the front-line troops drains resources. These older-style uniforms do not contain impact-resistant gel fibres, reducing their effectiveness against small arms by approximately 3 per cent.

Another example of armour grafitti is the legend 'Meat is Murder' on the trooper's helmet casing; a popular phrase on Damocles since the enemy is non-organic.

Note the chequered regimental markings on the rear left shoulder, and also the company markings on the trooper's right shoulder (in this case 'E-4'; denoting a member of squad 4 of Echo company. Since iris-bank scans reveal these image to be of Titus 'Morbid' Morris, it is possible that this is not part of his original set of armour, because while Lance-corporal Morris does hail from the infamous Echo company, support staff such as Field Engineers are typically denoted with a letter rather than a numeral.

**whitedragon**