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Made in gb
The Last Chancer Who Survived




United Kingdom

I'm slowly putting together in my mind a background for some 6mm-scale 40k armies that I'm going to make, and the central theme is that the forces I will be constructing have all been drawn into a strategically irrelevant combative sinkhole, used by the Imperium to drag incoming threats into a centuries-long waiting list of impending catastrophies, and then pit them all against eachother on some otherwise utterly expendable worlds. This is entirely at the expense of the local population - a subsector comprising some 300bn people, (horrifyingly, that's a drop in the ocean when compared to even the Imperial Guard, never mind the IOM as a whole...), who have to live through and maintain this state of affairs.

The fluff below is one Administratum adept's attempt at documenting the creation of a new vehicle, the LR-35, and its deployment in this endless conflict.

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The Thanatos Pattern LR-35 MBT


Pictured: An LR-35 squadron supporting an infantry advance

The Thanatos-Pattern LR-35 tanks were adapted from a number of partial STC models to spare Leman Russ parts during the M.38 Thanatos Crisis, where a multiple-century subsector engagement saw Imperial forces bogged down against multiple xenos threats, and often isolated from Imperial supply lines. Throughout this crisis there were perennial shortages of vital assets, often resulting in Imperial Guard regiments being forced to fight without adequate (or any) armoured, artillery, or aerial support. Local Mechanicus missions were forced to pull together a workable vehicle pool to continue the war effort, the gargantuan struggle of which was the consternation of more than four decade’s worth of effort.

When the subsector began routinely finding itself cut off from Imperial supply lines, vital operational equipment very quickly ran out. At first simple salvage and recycle programs were enacted to preserve existing stocks, but this was soon proven insufficient as the incoming threats escalated. When this problem was recognised some of the less devout local Mechanicus missions set about devising a way to produce more tanks within the subsector to account for expenditure. This task was made difficult due to the Thanatos subsector having never contributed to battle tank production, being known primarily as a recruiting ground before the Thanatos Crisis, resulting in constant shortages of components common to the production of most Leman Russ designs. These shortages ranged from the simple and common, to the complex and rare; from ball bearings used in turret rotation – as opposed to mechanical rotation, to fuel-conversion mechanisms that allow for the transformation of almost any fuel source into energy for a Russ’ engine; from Omnissiah-mandated inscription devices that were essential components of certain firing mechanisms, to cogitator components used in calculative and autosensory systems.

The LR-35 project led to the establishment of new manufactora built to produce the freshly cobbled-together and simplified LR-35 design. This “
near-heretical abomination of technology” was at best admonished by various Mechanicus missions, but proved the only sustainable source of unavoidably necessary tank companies. Sporting simplified designs and various materiel-saving caveats, the LR-35 was unquestionably inferior to the Leman Russ when pushed to its limit or engaged in urban warfare, but for all intents and purposes proved to be an easier-to-maintain-and-supply Russ tank.

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Made in gb
Stealthy Grot Snipa






UK

Neat! Subbed- interested to see where this goes..

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