The Vectran 110th 'Screaming Eagles' Air Assault Regiment

Commanding Officer: Colonel Jona Cottius

Maverick

Characters begin play with the Resistance (Fear) Talent

Home World: Vectra; Designate - Fortress World

+3 to any two of the following; Ballistic Skill, Toughness, Willpower.

Starting Skills: Common Lore (Imperial Guard), Common Lore (Imperium), Linguistics (Low Gothic).

Starting Traits:

Hated Enemy - A fortress world often stands opposed to a single threat, and they are taught

to hate that particular foe and eliminate it on sight. All fortress world characters gain a single

Hatred Talent, where the group chosen is the enemy the fortress world has been established

to defend against. However, this hatred is often so strong as to overwhelm reason and

sound judgement, and all fortress world characters may be required, at the GM’s discretion,

to attempt an Ordinary (+10) Willpower Testin order to restrain themselves from attacking

without mercy when that enemy is sighted. Characters gain the Hatred (Orks) Talent

Combat Doctrine - All Characters begin play with either Nerves of Steel or Sprint Talents.

Bred for War - Fortress worlders are loyal almost to a fault, and reluctant to disobey orders

even with good reason, lacking personal initiative, and becoming inflexible as a result. A

fortress worlder must attempt a Challenging (+0) Willpower Test in order to go against the

rules and regulations of the Imperial Guard.

Regimental Drawback - The Few

Limited Numbers: When a Squad from this regiment requests reinforcements (to replace fallen

Comrades), it must make a Hard (–20) Logistics Testif most of the regiment is actively deployed or an

Ordinary (+10) Logistics Test if a significant portion of the regiment is not currently in the field (these

Tests already include situational modifiers except those added at the GM’s discretion). If it fails, the

regiment simply has no reinforcements it can spare for the Squad, and its members must soldier on

until its members can put in another request for troop support.

Regiment Type - Drop Troops

Characteristics: +3 Agility, -3 Fellowship.

Skills: Operate (Aeronautica).

Talents: Catfall

Special Equipment Doctrine - Well Provisioned.

Standard Regimental Kit: The regiment increases the number of clips for their main ranged weapon

and the number of weeks’ rations they carry as standard by +2, and gain an additional grenade of

each type in their standard kit (if applicable). If the regiment contains vehicles, this also grants a +10

bonus on all Logistics tests to obtain fuel and parts for repairing and maintaining those vehicles.

Standard Regimental Kit:

1 Best Craftsmanship lascarbine and 6 charge packs per Player Character.

1 Best Craftsmanship laspistol per Player Character.

1 suit of Best Craftsmanship Imperial Guard Flak armour per Player Character.

1 microbead per Player Character.

1 vid relay per Player Character.

Favoured Weapons: Boltgun and M34 Autocannon

Regimental Details

The 'Screaming Eagles' originate from the Fortress World of Vectra. Long has Vectra stood at the the

gateway to the Koronus Expanse as the first line of defence against the rampaging Xenos known as

Orks.

For generations the warriors of Vectra fought from the backs of the gargantuan Screaming Eagles

native to Vectra, leaping from their backs with primitive canvas grav-chute like apparatus to slow

their descent.

The Screaming Eagle is an apt name for this terror from above, it is said once you have heard the cry

of the magnificent beast you had better be riding it or have said your Final Thanks to the Emperor,

for nothing can escape them.

When the Calyx Expanse was rediscovered by the expansionist Crusades, they found the perfect

world and people to defend their flank from the Ork menace. Gone went the beasts and the

primitive Tech; in their place came gleaming Valkyries, las carbines and grav-chutes. Now the

Vectran Screaming Eagle is merely a badge of honour worn by the men and women of this small,

determined world as they fearlessly throw themselves from their mighty steeds, descending upon

the enemies of the Imperium.

The Screaming Eagles seconded to the Spinward Front are a small force, little more than battalion

strength, deployed as special warfare squads; they are used to seize, secure and disrupt enemy held

vital locations far from the front lines. Their lightning fast raids leaving the enemy reeling and no

time to recover for a counter-attack.

Brought in for the Assault on Baston for their well-deserved reputation, this small auxiliary force is

expected to outmanoeuvre the enemy forces, drastically shortening the war on Baston to mere

weeks.