This marks one of my first major foray's into House Marik outside of a single mech of the Marik Militia last year. Here we have the TO&E of the 12th Atrean Dragoons; aka the White Sabers; as they appeared during the Helm Campaign in there fighting against the Gray Death Legion. I choose to represent the Hammerstike Company since I already had the Colonels Warhammer painted and I wanted an even company of Atrean Dragoons; added to it is the 6th Close Support Group tank company and an Infantry platoon in support.
This little project was a long burn - it took me a while to get motivated to pain this one. I am not generally a fan of the FWL and know probably the least of its lore, but the 12th Atrean Dragoons are an interesting tale prior to the fighting on Helm. Joining on the wrong side of the FWL civil war in 3014 the regiment was decimated in fighting on several planets before its influential officer Gerhad Hansen convinced the survivors - and presumably other civil war veterans who had been on the wrong side - to go merc and formed Hansen's Roughriders. The few officers who remained loyal were formed into the core of a newly born 12th Atrean Dragoons, which would eventually land in opposition to Grayson Carlyle on Helm in 3028.
The fighting on Helm was mostly in the mountains of a cold barren world; so I did my best to capture that feel in the basing of these mechs.
For this project I used mostly Ironwind Models metal vehicle miniatures - a originally did this as a single mech and a vehicle lance but decided to expand it this year. Since I had started it with Ironwind Metal vehicles I wanted to be consistent. Additionally I did this formation for the simple reason it was a little quirky - I mean a Boomerang and a Maxim in an armor company? Weird... but also because the Hammersrike Company is a format no sane player would bring to the table unless forced to. It has over 7 20 ton mechs in the 3205 era. That's just a lot of ammo explosions waiting to happen. Which makes this kind of formation fun to play - another reason why I like creating from the cannon force lists; no min-maxing designs in the late succession wars - its a play what you got kind of game.
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