The prologue to the prologue in a way, Colby's Commando's were the originator of the Carlyle Commando's; lead by Grayson Carlyle's father before his death at the hands of Duke Ricol's shenanigans and Trellwan. The Commando's were a small mercenary unit, just two lances of mixed weight mechs not uncommon in the late Succession Wars period. They were featured in the short stories attached to the first releases on the Catalyst Game Lab box sets and the final installment being featured in the RPG rule book. The story follows the Commando's on there last mission under the moniker of there commander Jonathan Colby as they fight off a proxy raid by the Kuritan's on Golandrinas.
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The mech selection mirrors those found in 'A Game of Armored Combat' box set which allows new players to be inspired by the story and play out the exploits of the Commandos as there own, a deliberate choice of mechs no doubt. The story itself is decent as far as short mech combat stories go. The Commandos deploy on a private contract to take care of some pirates, who are all sporting black and red Kurita mechs - firefights ensue, tactical deception employed and ultimately the evil Kuritan mercenaries (going by the moniker 'DeathGeld' which is humorously mocked in the story) are defeated, but at the expense of the units commander. At the end we see the unit renamed under its new commander, Durant Carlyle and christened Carlyle's Commandoes.
I will eventually capture these 'generic Kurita' units in a separate series of projects, but for now I'm focusing on the 'good guys'.
There are some disparities between the paint schemes displayed for the Commandos, a alpha strike card provided the emblem and a darker gray and green pattern on a Shadowhawk, while the Unit Color Compendium (unofficial) source says Carlyle's Commandos were a grey green and blue green camo pattern. So I split the difference to make the two units look like they came from a common progenitor, unlike my Carlyle Commando unit I did not use a camo striping scheme but rather did highlights but kept the grey-green and blue-green color pattern. I also used the same logo known for both units, which all things considered seemed fitting.
I choose to return to the red basing material for the Commando's to represent there time on this inhospitable world; I think it turned out decently if I do say so myself.
And as a final, just for kicks, addition I did the independent Union class dropship "Ragamuffin" which if featured in the stories in Battlespace/Aerotech scale. I am finding this little minitatures fun to paint and I like to have the transport required to move my collection - you know, just because.
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