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Made in au
Hardened Veteran Guardsman




Australia

Ridgeways rascals not-wiki character guide thingy

Command section
Sergeant major Ridgeway: The hard as nails leader. Veteran of a dozen campaigns. Ridgeway grew up in an Armageddon hive millitia and survived the third war to discover his calling was storm units and anything that involved killing green skins.

Captain 'Doc' Mcintyre: The units senior medical expert. Though 'Doc' is the units most senior ranking man, he is a feild surgeon first and officer second. Being the medic suits him as he couldnt hit the boradside of the Etenity gate. Macintyre is also one of only a few of the units members who speaks in full sentences.

Master sergeant Rich: One of Ridgeways oldest companions, Rich is far less 'Regimental' and open minded than the groups leader. As a con artists, he's also a very good quartermaster

Sergeant Tabby: The 'wild' man of the unit. Tabby is a jungle world veteran and fills in the role as the senior jungle warfare expert, grenadier and an 'acting' leader when the other senior members are not available.

Colour Corporal Mud [real name Alex Hooks]: The units grumbler. He complains about everything and moans consistantly. Mud's full potential is realised after an altercation with the Dark Elder whych [see what i did there] eventually leads him to becoming a first class Colour sergeant and eventually officer.

Platoon 1
Staff sergeant Maurcice Jarre: The units resident 'emperor botherer' Jarre hails from Tallarn and is well versed in plasma weapons, desert warfare and discussing obscure scriptures at great lenghts. Mud and Jarre had a strong working reltionship until the staff sergeant is transferred

Sergeant Alison Beechmoore: The 'super mum' of the team. Alison is recruited to the unit as a replacment and is promoted to fill in Jarre's shoes as she can operate a plasma rifle just as well. Alison dwarfs most of the men in the unit at 6 feet. Prior to joining, she was a member of a PDF and was a loving mother and wife. After loosing her husband in a battle, she hooked up with Private 'Arty' and had a child with him

Specialist Bad News: The 'scarred' man. Bad News [real name CLASSIFIED] was a jungle campaign veteran but lost most of his face in an accindent and took to close combat as a form of recovery [ gosh, this reminds me of someone else] Although he has leardership skills his damaged vocal chords prove to be a sevre handicap in command and he's too agressive for a desk job. He's just as happy beside the others with a knife in one hand and a rifle in the other.

Private "Arty" Arturius: The 'quiet' man: Arty was transferred to the unit to save him from the firing line [he was to be executed for tripping over in combat of all things]. Arty was not suited to frontline combat but eventually learned to hold a hotshot rifle as well as a pencil. Arty is also the closest thing the unit has to a chrnoicler as a sketch artist] He hooks up with Alison after she looses her husband

Private 'Tiny' Ives: The moron of the unit. Tiny spent much of his life, breaking rocks with his empty head and became the units best supressive fire specialist as he can tote a heavy bolter as though it were tooth pick. Tiny's nickname is ironic as he's nearly 7 feet tall and has muscles like Space wolf

Private Hotchkiss: The units gunsmith and mechanic. Hotchkiss can fix anything Mars made with his eyes closed. He also fills in as one of the men of unit 1 and his Jesters best freind

Private Jester: The 'clown' of the unit: Jester knows a wide variety of bad puns, unfunny jokes and painful anecdotes about SOB. Much like the other troops of unit 1; his weapon is a hotshot rifle and terrible joke book

Private 'Rom' Romanov: The 'babe' of the unit. Rom is an agressive Vostroyan girl who makes up for her lack of presence in the 'first born' by pretty much killing anything that comes her way. She is in a commited relationship with 'Bad News'

Unit 2 [The heavy hitter]
Corporal Wotan: A DKOK veteran, Wotan acts as unit 2's NCO and the loader for the rocket launcher. He is best freinds with Private Pennant [a Preatroian] and the two often try to out brag over who had it 'worse' in the old regiments. Wotan never takes his mask off. He and Pennant are the only two men in the unit who are permitted to wear their 'regimentals' inplace of storm unit attire.

Private Pennant: Probably the second densist man in the unit. Pennant is the units anti-armour specialist and Wotans best freind. Often comments 'Luxury' when he hears Wotan complain about living on trench water for six months

Airman Hogan Crane. Crane became attached to the unit after his plane was shot down. He was the most senior man in the unit at one point [holding the rank of colonel] but was demoted after chrnoic insubordination. He weilds a stormbolter and conveniant excuses. He's also the most woman-mad man in the unit and is in a committed realtionship with Private Schroeder

Private Schroder: Schroeder is the units flame weapons expert. She became attached to the unit as she was chasing Crane and Ridgeway threw her in as a means of hoping she could do something useful. After a breif encounter with a Librarian, she discovers she is [very mildly] touched by the warp. Her powers appear whenever i find it conveniant]

Private "Louie" Louis: The units vox opperator and voice over specialist. Louie can immitate any voice he hears and can work just about any peice of comms gear. He carries a hotshot rifle in addition to the units vox set

Section 3 "The dregs"

Sergeant Dana: An emperor bothering reserve NCO[filling in Jarre's shoes as the units scripture enthusiest], Dana commands section three. She carries a bolt pistol, chain sword and primarily directs fire from the mortar.

Private 'Tug' Tugenova: Another former reserve trooper. Tug is Dana's freind, Macintyre's love interest and the mortar opperator. She's also the units second medical expert [having several first aid badges]

Airman Crowe: A grounded pilot who was thrown into the unit. He is Airman Toms best freind. He is an expert at in-air refueling when not on the ground

Airman Tom: Another shot down pilot who bcame part of the unit [like Crowe and Crane] Tom and Crowe both wield hotshot rifles and are also experts at mocking silly things they see [such as Pennant and Wotan trying to kill orks with a forklift]

Private Clayton: The 'angriest' man in the unit. Clayton is the groups sniper and a former Steel legion veteran. He and Ridgeway both get along as they both survied the third Armageddon war. Ridgeway is less harsh on Clayton than he is on the others which causes some rifts.

Thats all i have for now. If you can figure out who 'Bad news', Hogan Crane, Tom and Crowe are all loosely based on you have my thanks


   
Made in gb
Liberated Grot Land Raida






Northern Ireland

Clearly I'm Airman Crowe. Must be cause I'm pretty down to earth and an expert in flying food.

Seriously though, I had fun reading your introductions. Its always nice to meet a new bunch of characters about to embark on a grimdark odyssey.

Nice tone, light and informative with just a touch of self-reference and comedy. Looking forward to the story.

   
Made in au
Hardened Veteran Guardsman




Australia

Airman Crowe and Tom are Tom Servo and Crow T Robot from Mystery scinece theatre.

Bad News is basically my take on G.I.JOE's Snake eyes. But he's not as selfish, bloodthirsty or as uncopoperative as that damn ninja though.

Hogan Crane is Bob Crane /Colonel Hogan with the exception he doesnt get beaten to death by his best freind after a night of debauchery.

I've written about 13 Rascals books. There on the laptop in word document format. I'm not sure if i'll post them though as i think they still need a bit of work
   
 
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