53rd Vegan Lancers - DCMS Medium Tank Company

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 This is an update project - I had originally created a lance of Tokugawa and Bulldogs to go with a mixed company for the 4th Succession War but as I had been expanding the DCMS forces I decided to make a company of this project rather than a single lance.  Here you have a company of the 53rd Vegan Lancers in the defense of Vega circa 3028 in the fourth succession war - all done in my SOP DCMS Armor regiment khaki.  

The Tokugawa is a classic DCMS design, though it did not get cover art or details until the clan invasion - fortunately the powers that govern Battletech retconned some succession war era stats to go along with a single line mention in the House Kurita sourcebook.  It was these two variants I used for this project - the TKG-150 and TKG-151.  The 150 is a simple downgrade with an AC/10 in place of the upgrades LB-10X.  The TKG-151 takes the opposite approach to stopping power in the hopes range will suffice with 2x AC/2's.  This is a questionable design to say the least, but given there is a similar Bulldog variant, and I want to represent all the options on the field, I decided to add them to the TO&E.

The bulldogs are proxies from Death Ray Designs solar shift line using the 'Churchill' models.  They are excellent quality, if perhaps scaled a bit big for the Battletech Bulldog when compared to the new CGL models.  But they are very similar and look great on a board.  I went with 2 AC/2 variants to compliment my Tokugawas. This gives me a platoon of Tokugawa TKG-150's and standard large laser Bulldogs each for the main fighting force supported by a mixed platoon of AC/2 armed variants for fire support.

I had recently purchased the highway pre-painted roadways from the hextech line and Gale Force 9 so I figured I would set up this with the company in a herring bone during a convoy security halt as a logistics unit passes by them on there way for a redeployment.










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