Spring Cleaning Challenge: Imperial Guard (PROJECT COMPLETE!)

While the Artillery Man the Big Guns of the Guard it’s the Grenadiers who Carry the Man Portable Weapons to Battle.

At the Squad Level The Grenadiers Carry a Portable Missile Launcher and are Aided by a Grenadier Assistant.

At the Platoon Level the grenadiers Form into Six man Specialist Teams that Contain Three Special Weapons and Three Assistants. These men carry the Sniper Rifles, Grenade launchers, Flamers and the rest.

Upon Promotion to NCO Rank the Grenadiers have three options.

First they can Refuse the promotion and Take a “Veteran” Status that gives them NCO privileges but no increase in rank.

Secondly they can take the Promotion and move to be the assistant to a Grenadier Platoon Commander. Grenadiers are always dispatched in piece meal to different Battalions and a Grenadier NCO will always join the Regular Infantry’s Battalion Command Squad to give advice on their deployment. From there they can work there way up to RSM of Grenadiers where they give advice to the Planet’s Marshall.

Finally they can chose to take an available position as a Drill Sergeant at a Grenadier Training Academy. The pay is less, the prestige is not as good and he can be recalled at any time but at least the risk of death is greatly decreased.

The Grenadiers are not organised on a Tribal Basis, they all wear the Black Caps of the Grenadiers, inverted Colours of the Infantry (Blue Jacket and Green Pants) and wear the Trim of their Branch (Pink for Infantry, Yellow for Cavalry, Red for Armoured, White for Recon and Black for Everyone Else).

The only Squad level Weapons the Grenadiers Currently have access to are Portable Missile launchers but that is slowly being rectified as the Artillery slowly slacken their grip on Mortars and Heavy Bolters.

Those Grenadiers who have Achieved Veteran Status can choose to join the Assault Squads. The Danger is greater but the honour and medals that come from joining an Assault Squad can set a man up for life if he’s ever lucky enough to retire.

The Assault Squads are formed from Veterans and have greater access to Weapon Modifications. They can elect to carry Shotguns and can have the Platoon Specialists attached to them with Flamers or Plasma Guns to help them clear the enemy from their trenches or Bunkers.

The Shotguns are just cut down rifles. The Las Ammunition is swapped for a more dispersed Scatter Gun style ammunition. When fired from a full length Rifle the effect is essentially the same as firing a standard Las Round but when the Las Musket is cut down to the Second Barrel Band the shot spreads and becomes an effective shotgun, it also retains the firing mods of the full rifles.

Some Veterans take it even further and cut their guns shorter to get a wider spread.