Regimental Recon Co. - Halsten's Brigade

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I have always loved the combined arms approach to Battletech, especially when playing extended campaign style.  Add that to my love of the obscure lore and you will find no surprise in my interest in Halsten's Brigade, a mercenary heavy armor regiment.  Originally mentioned in TRO 3025 due to a Schreck gunner, and memorialized in the Battlecorp story "Sniper" this unit has a special place in my heart.  Add that to the fact that 3d printed miniatures look stunning when you apply Space Wolves Grey contrast to them and you will see me doing a significant number of Halsten's brigade in the future.

Here is the prologue - the independent Recon Co. Mentioned in the re-work of the Savannah Master lore there is mention of this recon company working under Halsten; despite the units love of the heavy tank.  I based this unit on this factoid; which admittedly says this company is under the hover craft battalion; and the fact that in 4th Succession Wars source books the force lay down for a 'standard' armor regiment included an independent recon company.

I could have done a dozen Savannah Masters - which is both fun and infuriating to fight - but I also wanted this to be a true Succession Wars era unit.  So I went all the way back to Mechwarrior for ideas and came out with a platoon of "Hover Scouts" which are proxied here by the Crow Industries Light Attack Hovercraft; and a platoon of Skimmers which are detailed in the Mechwarrior RPG book.  For the second one I kit bashed one from some parts and a Savannah Master sculpt.  You can find it here on my Cults3d page if your interested.

Very happy with how these turned out and the gray contrast stands out really well on these prints.








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