1st Corps Colonial Troopers - Recon Units

So much for just using up stuff stored in boxes from projects that I never quite got around to finishing....

With my self imposed 3 month deadline about to expire for the Starship Trooper Project, I thought I woud take the opportunity of a few more packs from 1st Corps, from their Colonial Troopers range.

I figured that these recon troopers would be suitable to represent a Mobile Infantry Pathfinder section. Trained and equiped to be the elite of the Mobile Infantry, they are often tasked with ranging ahead of the landing zones to reconnoitre enemy dispositions.

Under the campaign rules there are 8 men in the section, each armed with the Morita assault rifle, Frag Grenades they lack a support weapon like their regular counterparts but are a Rep 5 rather than the regulars Rep 4.

Type	Rep	Move	Close Combat	Armour	Cost	No.	Equipment
Sergeant Trooper	5 5	8” 8"	2xD6 2xD6	None None	65 25	1 7	7 x Morita assault rifles, each trooper supplied with a M902F Frag Grenade.

• MI are issued with a helmet mounted comm link, which allows squad members to communicate the length of the table if in LOS or 24" if not.
• One Trooper can be upgraded to a medic at the cost of 15 pts.
• Each trooper can be upgraded to the M-1A4 Power Suit at a cost of 20 pts each (classing the troopers as protected.)
• Sergeant has the ability to call in off table air support ot artillery if purchased as a support asset.
• One man, One grenade and a whole bunch of bugs.
  Anytime a figure finds himself alone and no friends within 6" and in sight he can choose to use a grenade on himself and the attacking bugs, instead of testing on the being charged table use the Game Over Man Test.

With 5 Infantry sections now complete, It was high time I added an addtional Field Headquarters, to give the MI a little more flexability, it also allowed me to use up the last of the spares.

 

Field Headquarters is made up of a Lieutenant, his Radio Operator and a Sniper.

Type	Rep	Move	Close Combat	Armour	Cost	No.	Equipment
Lieutenant Sniper Radio Operator	5 5 5	8” 8" 8"	2xD6 2xD6 2xD6	None None None	75 55 30	1 1 1	Morita assault rifles, each equiped with a M902F Frag Grenade.

• MI are issued with a helmet mounted comm link, which allows squad members to communicate the length of the table if in LOS or 24" if not.
• Each trooper can be upgraded to the M-1A4 Power Suit at a cost of 20 pts each (classing the troopers as protected.)
• RO has the ability to call in off table air support ot artillery if purchased as a support asset under orders from the Lieutenant or high ranking officer.
• One man, One grenade and a whole bunch of bugs.
  Anytime a figure finds himself alone and no friends within 6" and in sight he can choose to use a grenade on himself and the attacking bugs, instead of testing on the being charged table use the Game Over Man Test.

Sunday night at the Wyvern Wargames club is the offical launch night with at least 6 players looking to kill bugs and become citizen's stay tuned if you would like to know more. 

 

I just hope the first outing lives up to expectations........