O'Cierns Crashers- Mercenary Jump Infantry

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I do enjoy the infantry - I know they are not especially useful in the tabletop in most scenarios but in the lore they do make up the bulk of fighting forces, its just that they don't get the glory of there mechwarrior brethren.  So I decided to do a little homage to the Jump Infantry - and practice my jump jet effects in the process, which I think is an improvement over several other attempts at jump jets on mechs and infantry.

This is a little pallet cleansing jump infantry platoon 'Ociern's Crashers' taken from the Kell Hound novellas detailing the start up of that famous mercenary outfit.  Major Ociern signed on in the early days to provide the infantry forces to Morgan Kell's mech outfit, suppling them with a veteran jump infantry company.  Its detailed in the lore that the Crashers were more than line jump infantry, more akin to a ranger company - men skilled in the finer points of direct action like hostage rescue, sniping, and the like.  In addition I wanted to eventually field 2 full battalions of Kell Hounds with accompanying support as detailed in the original Kell Hound sourcebook - and figured I can incorporate this platoon into a jump infantry company later and cut down on some of the work.

The figures are actually Wakes Emporium Elysian Drop Troops - these are fine proxies for Batteltech jump infantry in my opinion.  I have taken to using WE STL infantry files to print the infantry units for several factions and I think there squat over sized proportions translate well into this scale.  Having a 3d printer makes my large scale infantry projects a reasonable endeavor - otherwise such units would be cost prohibitive.  But infantry take a mere 90 minutes to print and I get over 2 platoons of foot infantry per plate bed.  So ya - 2024 is the year of the infantryman.

This is also my easing into the Kell Hounds project - the prologue if you will.  I will eventually dive into the Kell Hounds sourcebook material for force generation but for now we are just dipping our toe into the Kell Hounds story.





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