Painting Lore: Miniatures Inspired by the Story

I recently completed another specialist company for a special troops battalion I am creating to support my DCMS units - this unit of infantry is a kind of catch all for the random units you can discover in BattleTech that have lo w tactical value in a game - and therefore are rarely seen - but do have campaign value.  Like sniper platoons, or fast recon platoons they may not add much in the tabletop one off game, but in a large campaign format they can be force multipliers. In campaign play finding the enemy - ISR in a modern context - is a real thing to consider in double blind games.  And if you are not running a campaign double blind then you are not really running an 'extended' or 'complex' campaign.  Here is where this next addition comes in handy - Surveillance Specialists aka Sensor Engineers.   Although the writeup of them is for the comguards what we are a really talking about here are recon troops who do SIGINT.  In modern US military terms they ...

This is the 2nd Battalion of the Third Luthien Guards Regiment.  I am well on my way to a complete armor regiment in service to the Dragon.  This was designed as a medium armor force compatible with Succession Wars or Early Clan Invasion era... which if we are being honest most of the good vehicles fall into anyway.  I tried to keep it as lore specific as possible while still incorporating a lot of the classic designs.  This definitely has the feel of a medium weight armor unit you would see on the field during a succession wars invasion, and one that is nice and crunchy for the mechwarriors - with just enough bite to be a little scary. The Tokugawa's can be fielded as the succession wars variant or the more interesting clan invasion one depending on timeline. Unit TO&E 1st Company                1st Platoon Tokugawa Hvy Tank Tokugawa Hvy Tank Bulldog Md Tank Bulldog Md Tank 2nd Platoon Tokugawa Hvy Tank Tokugawa Hvy T...