"We dropped in standard jungle green DP. Bloody brass, the usual brain trust thinking. The bugs we were hunting could smell us from miles away, didn't matter what colour we were. The lads got twitchy after the first couple of Lictors hit, so it made sense to change to white. Cut friendly fire incidents in half and you could find the damn Tauroxes in the undergrowth when you needed to cut and run."
Haga! Jewel of the Göthen system, a massive world covered in lush and beautiful rainforest. Famed across the neighbouring worlds for its dazzling array of medicinal plants, exotic fruits (and liqueurs brewed from such) and fabulous textiles.
It is also the proud home to the Hagan Lampreys, a Tempestus Scion regiment of more than usual wealth and size.
Raised on the meats of Meltapirs and Flamacondas, trained in a secret complex high in the plateaus of the Crown Mountains and spared no luxury in terms of hi-tech military weaponry, the Lampreys are daredevils to a soldier. No threat is too extreme, no enemy to vicious - they know, with an unshakable belief stronger than rock, that their training and their faith will overcome it.
Deployed by Valkyrie fleets to the front line, the Lampreys are a fast response unit without rival. Despite this, their gung-ho attitude often leads to high casualty rates at the front line. Haga is a large planet with a high population, and there are always more volunteers hungry for glory, after all.
The 9th Regiment has a particularly glorious history, after successfully destroying a Tyranid incursion in the jungles of Zamaroon. The much-decorated Colonel Badger is now the face on recruitment posters throughout the Göthen worlds, his seemingly indestructible good humour under fire never dented despite the loss of both his legs, half his jaw and his best hip flask in various battles.
9th Hagan Lampreys
HQ
- Tempestus Prime
- Lord Commissar
Elites
- Prefectus Commissar
- 4 x Tempestus Command Squad
- 3 x Ogryn Bodyguards/Bullgryns
- Techpriest Enginseer
- Ministorum Priest
Troops
- 10 x Tempestus Scions Squad
- 10 x Tempestus Scions Squad
- 10 x Tempestus Scions Squad
- 10 x Tempestus Scions Squad
Flyer
Dedicated Transport
- Taurox Prime
- Taurox Prime
- Taurox Prime S-Pattern
Colonel Bunny 'Badger' Crossley-Blythe
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| "He won't ask you to do anything he wouldn't do himself. He'll order you to." |
Commissar Bleeth
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| "I saw Bleeth headbut a fully-armoured scion unconscious once, just for pointing out that the mission plan included an escape route. Didn't even crease his hat." |
Commissar Colderine
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| "When you hear the order to retreat, regroup on him immediately. Or keep fighting, it's probably safer." |
Command Squad Piggott
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| "They take only the top graduates of the Prefectus, and throw them into the front line with experimental weapons. Seems a waste to me, but apparently they enjoy it." |
Old Faithful
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| "'Fast Unto Death' is the Hagan Lampreys motto. Supposed to be about how the Lamprey never lets go, tenacity, that sort of thing. We stopped putting it on the Tauroxes after someone pointed out it looks like it means something else if you write it on a frontline transport." |
Ogryn Bodyguards
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| "Dangerfield told the abhumans about the changes to our camoflage uniform. For some reason, he doesn't want to administer the required lashes for non-compliance." |
Squad Rogers
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| "Rogers is pushing forty in Terran years, but he looks about ninety. Deployed against the Ork in '603, never talks about it." |
Squad Tyneberry
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| "Tyneberry's people are in shipping. Decent sort for all that. Just don't get him started on logistics." |
Squad Fortesque
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| "Fortesque is damn fine people. Crisp epaulettes, starched fatigues and a cap peak so sharp you can cut yourself on it. He'd sooner die than turn out to battle looking scruffy, and he nearly has on several occasions." |
Zamaroon Intergalactic Security Solutions
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| "Why don't I trust them? One, I don't like mercs. Two, they're the only security team to make it out of the labs alive. Three, the weird masks. But fourth, and most of all, they've been living out here in Tyranid-infested jungles for months, or so they say. And their uniforms are still clean." |
Brunhilde
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| "She'll finish off a platoon of men faster than you can say 'pocket battleship'. My kind of girl!" |
Sigurny
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| "A proper spitfire, and she'll take you anywhere, anytime. My kind of girl!" |
Matthilda
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| "Four magnificent legs? My kind of girl!" |
Ingrid
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| "Big, boxy and always ready for liftoff. My kind of girl!" |
Greta
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| "She'll reach out and touch you, and by gad, you'll stay touched! My kind of girl!" |
Vigdis |
| "Look at the gun racks on that one! My kind of girl!" |
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