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I've just started up my own IG regiment and I've been trying to come up with some Fluff. Please review/ give opinions.

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Before Tyranid Hive Leviathan came through Gryphonne, Gryphonne II and III produced Imperial Regiments, those regiments were then equipped with vehicles and gear from Gryphonne IV, the ForgeWorld, and sent off to wherever they were required in the Galaxy.

Then leviathan came through and began consuming Gryphonne's worlds. Gryphonne IV soon realised it was fighting a losing battle and so dedicated its remaining production capability to building an Overlord Class Battlecruiser, complete with Vitae-Womb technology and containing the genomes of a large percentage of the Gryphonne Population, and its support fleet. This Battlecruiser represented the future of Gryphonne and managed to escape from the system but most of its support fleet, and the remaining Imperial Navy Fleet ships in the system, was sacrificed to achieve that small victory.

The remaining Gryphonne regiments refused to be integrated into other regiments when they took losses that obviously couldn't be replaced from their home-worlds. They instead chose to reorganize into a single regiment called the 'Lone Gryphonnes'; the remnants of all the Gryphonne Regiments balled up into one. They changed their colours to represent Gryphonne IV, the planet common to all the regiments but belonging to none, and have since specialized in fighting on ForgeWorlds and in other polluted environments. Against Imperial Doctrine, they became fleet-based, using the Gryphonne IV Overlord Class Battlecruiser as a flagship and its support fleet as ferries to transport them to their required destinations. At the time, it was allowed to pass in the extreme circumstances - the destructions of their homeworlds - even though this was against the rules imposed after the Horus Heresy, to prevent IG regiments from having autonomy in the event of corruption by chaos. The Inquisition took an interest in the Lone Gryphonnes and have maintained a close watch ever since - because of this, the Regiment has an unusually high number of Commissars.

The Regiment knows that it is always under scrutiny by the Inquisition, and this knowledge plus their own passion for ensuring that no one else has to go through what they did - the destruction of their homeworlds - has given them a drive and determination to purge Xenos and to defend people's homes, wherever they are deployed. The Regiment replaces its losses using the Vitae-Womb technology and Genomes within the Overlord Class Battlecruiser, but refuses to accept replacement vehicles - because they cannot produce their own and the only vehicles they have are from Gryphonne IV; making them relics of Gryphonne and one of the few ties the Regiment feels it still has with their Home-worlds. This has led to the Regiment fielding less vehicles (none, if the situation doesn't require any), and endeavouring to utilise manpower alone to accomplish most tasks.

All new recruits, fresh from growing to a fighting age, start off as White-Shields in the Second Platoon, if they survive a battle they'll be promoted to actual Guardsmen, also in the Second Platoon. These Guardsmen must then prove themselves to be worthy of the Lone Gryphonnes and in doing so, get promoted to the First Platoon. When they arrive in the first platoon, they are given trench-coats and gas masks/ breathing equipment to assist in surviving polluted/extreme environments. The lack of gas masks and breathing equipment is an added incentive to new recruits to push harder, and to do better than their fellows, for if they don't - they may soon die to the polluted environments they fight in.

They were deployed to Armageddon and one of their noticeable achievements in that area of conflict, was when they supported the Salamanders in their efforts to cleanse the Ork Roks. Whilst the Salamanders entered and purged the Roks from within, the Lone Gryphonnes surrounded the Roks and killed any orks attempting to escape. This was risky, and cost many lives as the Lone Gryphonnes not only had to withstand desperate Ork attempts to break out, but also had to hold off external Ork bands and groups looking for fights. A few veterans of the Lone Gryphonnes earned the respect of some Salamanders and were blessed with tokens of gratitude (a piece of armour here, a weapon there), and a lot of the Veterans have taken to painting a White Salamander head onto their left shoulder pad as a tribute to the times they fought alongside the Salamanders.

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Basically, I'll be running a mostly infantry based IG army. With the First Platoon utilising the Steel Legion metal models from GW. Other than that, I have a few conversions planned already, to work with the above fluff.

My questions to the community are these -
What do you think?
Are any areas sketchy - fluff wise? As in, the Vitae-Womb technology etc. From what I've read it seemed like some kind of cloning, so that's what I have based it around. -- basically problems like that.
Anyone have any ideas for conversions for an IG army with this fluff? - I have a lot of ideas already, but looking for any other good ones people are willing to part with.

I like it, similar to the death korps but due to their reason to fight they seem more human than the death korps.

First of all The Adeptus Mechnaicus dose not raise regiments for the Imperial guard, nor do they normaly loan out troops to said Imperial organization. Their troops are the Skiitari and the other types of troops raised by the Ad Mech to defend, serach and destiyer their enemies when needed,
And then there is the Vitae Womb witch is more or less banned in the Imoerium. The sole other exception I can think of is the Death korps Of Krieg. And then we come to the last part that makes me feel this is less than optiomal for fluff for a single regiment to even come close to have. This being the Armagedon releated part.
And you do know that a Platoon is seldom more than sevral ten man squads. Witch would make your whole regiment severly under manned. And thus not abel to do its job on the field. And cut back on the marry sue stuff. It makes your fluff come of very, very poorly

The Vitae womb is banned by the Adeptus Biologis who could lift the ban if they wanted.
Though only having what seems like three platoons mean they have very few men...
They also don't really seem like AdMech troops either...

Yeah, the regiments of troops aren't coming from Gryphonne IV the ForgeWorld, they're coming from Gryphonne II and III.

They're not Adeptus Mechanicus Troops, they originated from the non-Forge Worlds in the Gryphonne System, only their vehicles originate from the ForgeWorld as part of normal re-supply before the loss of the system.

I may have to add more Platoons, just for more peeps.

So Vitae Womb is banned, how are the Death Korps of Krieg allowed to continue in the use? Could I say that the Adeptus Biologis on Gryphonne IV created that Battlecruiser as an exception to the rule?

More platoons?
If it's a regiment you're going to want to add a lot more than just a few platoons. A regiment is usually 3,000 to 5,000 men. A platoon may be about 30-50 more or less.
The Death Korps have the permission of the Biologis to use the vitae womb.
Imperial Guard regiments aren't allowed to have a starship to themselves... You can't just say 'Because Mechanicus' since they are Munitorum troops not Mechanicus troops...

It doesn't fit with the behavior of the Adeptus Mechanicus regarding Gryphonne 4. They didn't want to evacuate, everybody told them to evacuate and they ignored them. They decided to stay and fight. A very brave, but foolish and arrogant decision.

Hmm, that I didn't know. I was looking for information on Gryphonne IV and there didn't seem to be much.

They had a population of around 9 billion before the tyranids came, surely some of the Adeptus Mechanicus wouldn't agree with staying to fight?

Otto Weston wrote:
Hmm, that I didn't know. I was looking for information on Gryphonne IV and there didn't seem to be much.

They had a population of around 9 billion before the tyranids came, surely some of the Adeptus Mechanicus wouldn't agree with staying to fight?

The information comes from the Tyranid Codex.
Also the population seems small, only 9 billions? I believe a Hive city has more than that.
As for the Adeptus Mechanicus, I'm not sure how rigid is their hierarchy, obviously the decision to stay come from the leaders of the Forge World, so this being WH40k, I doubt that a member of the Adeptus Mechanicus could disobey an order without being branded heretic and executed on the spot. So a few member of the Adeptus Mechanicus deciding "feth it" and then managing to get themselves a ship is highly improbable, managing to get themselves a Battlecruiser with the Vitae-Womb technology, plus the genome of the entire population is highly impossible.

It's probably 9 billion tech priests...
I doubt skitarri and servitors are really counted as people...

Ahh okay. Mmmm, how about putting an Aristocracy spin on it?

I've heard a lot about corrupt governors etc, could a governor have enough pull to requisition an emergency Battlecruiser with that tech + getting say.... the genomes of the aristocracy of Gryphonne?

Depends...
If he is governor of the sector then yeah probably but he's likely not gonna start running for any reason barring the fall of the entire sector...

 purplefood wrote:
Depends...
If he is governor of the sector then yeah probably but he's likely not gonna start running for any reason barring the fall of the entire sector...

Hive Fleet Leviathan is a very good reason.

 Tyran wrote:

 purplefood wrote:
Depends...
If he is governor of the sector then yeah probably but he's likely not gonna start running for any reason barring the fall of the entire sector...

Hive Fleet Leviathan is a very good reason.

True...
Yeah I can see him/her hijacking a battlecruiser for an escape in that context.

Mmm, I may have to add/modify this into my fluff.