Cadian 101st and Friends

Thuga Baine has been with Minka for some time. Starting of being assigned to her squad during her time when she first makes Sergeant and finally joining her command squad after her field promotion to Lieutenant.

A hard drinker, a gambler and a bare knuckle boxer: Baine is a typical dog soldier. Quick to get out of any day duty but first into the fray when the squad deploys or first in line when the mess line opens.

There are quite a few times in Traitor Rock were Baine is the trooper who’s on the auspex of the squad’s Chimera, passing info on to (then) Sergeant Lesk. This leant him something of the technical member of the group so I made him the Master-Vox trooper for this command squad and it seemed more in his wheel house than anyone else to be working the coms.

Like Kavik before him, this earned him the coms specialist pauldron.

Orugi was once the trooper who would lug the squad’s special weapons around. Of above average height and build, he would often be assigned to carry these heavy sets of gear as well as supplies of grenades or special mission equipment.
This might have made him a pick for the role of “Veteran” equipped with a special weapon in the squad but I wanted this role for Yedrin (see following this) and I need someone to be the Medi-pack trooper.
This is a required selection for Cadian Command Squads and is a great pick on the table as it gives the whole squad a 5+ Fell No Pain which is just great for command survivability so yes please. Rather I picked him for this as the “guy that carries the stuff”, like field triage equipment.

He gets the customised Cadian Gate pauldron as well for being in the command squad.

Urea Yedrin is another Whiteshield that comes up with Blanchez and ends up following Lesk on Malouri as forces are scratched together over the course of the war.
Originally, Yedrin acquires a flame thrower in his first deployment and puts it to effective use as the Whiteshield cadets hold a trench for several hours against waves of enemies until they are eventually relieved.

In the novel itself, it is a lighter variant with an under barrel canister rather than the back mounted variant that comes in the Command Squad kit.
This moment in his career lives on in spirit though as Yedrin is still wielding a flamer, with the added bonus of the command squad being able to put out a decent number of attacks on average and add a bit more threat to overwatch should an enemy break through the Shock Trooper lines and think about charging this HQ unit.

Like the others, he gets a Cadian Gate pauldron for being a trooper in the platoon’s command squad.