Painting Lore: Miniatures Inspired by the Story

  I do love the infantry.  When playing the more advanced rules they can actually be pretty effective in some roles, and as I was looking at how to expand my collection I realized several things:  First - infantry are basically static across eras so infantry mini's age really well across different periods of table top play.  Secondly there are some really cool proxy-able APC units out there that make creating interesting infantry bases easy and kinda fun to create.  And finally its economical to do this silly huge projects now that I can 3D print infantry - and since Wakes Emporium was kind enough to design some great proxies for Kurita infantry I dove straight in. Essentially I had already decided to do the 88th Vegan Mechanized because they are associated to the Legion of Vega and I thought it was kind of a cool unit name and as I got to looking at it I decided I wanted a full company of each infantry type to have on hand to play - so a battalion was born. The...

This is the first complete battalion formation for the Sword of Light Brigade.  Its a compilation of 4 projects I did in the past two years:  Sorenson's Sabers, Crimson Blade Co, and the Blades of Death Co. with a Kurita Combat Manual 'Standard Command Lance'.  This is a 100% lore compliant TO&E for a 5th Sword of Light Battalion, the first in what will be a complete regiment.  Love Live the Dragon!

The final installment of a completed Battalion of the 5th Sword of Light.  There are a number of sources I could have drawn from for this lance, but in the end I choose to go with a Kurita Combat Manual standard lance type - command lance of course - to complete this battalion.  I placed them on the contested world of Northwind in 3028 and aligned this with the late succession wars period standard lance. No extra special lore - just representing a 'standard' lance type of the late succession wars.  The Kurita Combat Manual says this lance most commonly consisted of a Cyclops, Dragon, Panther and a Catapult.  In this case I went with the Kurita K2 variant.

During the 4th Succession War Takashi Kurita wanted to strike into the Federated Suns and seize a key star system in support of there Kapteyn Accord allies.  One of the key objectives for this effort was Northwind defended by the 5th Deneb Light Cavalry, as well as the mercenary Team Banzai and the Kell Hound associated battalion Bradley's Bravos.  Takashi dispatched General Conti of the 5th Sword of Light; the 36th Dieron Regulars and the newly formed Genyosha. The battle quickly degenerated into a slugfest, one that the DCMS was going to lose good men and material and a lot of time to win.  Rather than fight the Fedrats on an open field General Conti used a raid on a water reservoir to poison many of the Deneb Cavalry units and nearly turn the entire thing into a route.  Just as the Kuritans were about to achieve victory the arrival of all four regiments of the Northwind Highlanders ended that ambition.  Lured by the offer of there home world of Northwind unde...