5 = Imperial Guard
59 = Spacers
10 = Standard conscription
92 = Lost Homeworld
45 = Jungle/Swamp
67 = Mechanized Infantry
6 = Close Combat
5 = Adherent
54 = Blessed Wargear
90 = Tribal Faiths
8 = Honoured
57 = Ecclesiarchy
58 = Specific Chaos-aligned group

Rolled 4 (1d10)

>>86641533
Guess I'll start us off!

>>86641789
We are true guardsmen trained (Hopefully) to fight the imperium enemies!

What's are target demo for recruitment?

Rolled 12 (1d100)

>>86641892
Next time say what dice should be rolled

>>86641789
No choice but to be gaurdsmen!
Fitting I guess

Ok, OP appears to have died a violent poop-based death, guess I'll take over.

>>86642822
>12
>Volunteers: Only the brave and desperate (of both of which there are plenty) join this Regiment

Next up, a d10 for Nature of Recruitment.

Rolled 3 (1d10)

>>86643203

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>>86643807
>3
>Elite tithe: The best of the best of the planet were recruited for this regiment.
Elite Volunteer Guards

Now gimmie a d100 for Home World

Rolled 58 (1d100)

>>86643862
Reporting for duty, sah!

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>>86643871
>58
>Agri-World: Sturdy, hard-working types, glad to be off the farm.
Elite farmboy guard? Intradasting.

d100 for Home World Predominant Terrain

Rolled 83 (1d100)

>>86643886
Rollan'

Rolled 61 (1d100)

>>86643886
Agripower

Rolled 98 (1d100)

>>86643886
Maybe our agriworld's produce involves wrangling and hunting very dangerous beasts, and hunters/wranglers of those beasts make for good warrior material. I wonder what specialty we get later.

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>>86643896
>83
>Mountains: Alpine hunting produces crack shots.
Ice Mountain Farmboy Elites. Interesting concept. Mountaineer Troops? What the hell do you grow in mountains?

Next up, d100 for Regiment Core Units

Rolled 38 (1d100)

>>86643915
Not a whole lot, but you can grow goats. And since it's 40k these must be very hardcore goats.

Rolled 66 (1d100)

>>86643915
Perhaps it's a world of steppe herdsmen

>>86643915
Mountainous agri-world regiment full of elite volunteers, huh. I'm getting Davy Crockett vibes.
You can probably grow stuff well enough if you terrace them out.

>>86643924
>38
>Light Infantry
Yep, fucking mountaineers

Those guys are practically the swiss

>>86643932
I'm getting gurkhas vibes here myself.

Rolled 6 (1d10)

Rollan for specialization

>>86643915
>What the hell do you grow in mountains?
Soldiers
Duh

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>>86643924
>38
>Light Infantry: Infantry specialising in scouting, skirmishing, and scouting. Specialises in softening up the enemy for the heavier troops.
Makes sense for mountain troopers.

Specialization now, slammie a d10

>>86643944
dice+1d10

>>86643944
Some anon got it >>86643942

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>86643944
Either that guy >>86643942
or I'm rollling

>>86643949
fuck
I go in shame

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>>86643953
>7
>Ranged Combat: Who needs bayonets when you can turn night into day through sheer volume of lasgun shots?
Please don't jump the gun with the rolls, reply to the prompt. It becomes a nightmare to track otherwise.
Alpine Crackshots, lovely.

d10 for our Loyalty Rating

Rolled 4 (1d10)

>>86643964
Mountain jaegers regiment, looking hot so far.

>>86643964
I preferred the Gurkha Crazy-Asses

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>>86643968
>4
>Adherent: Hold fast to the Creed and His will. About the standard for most regiments.
We're not fanatic or heretical, that's good.

Special Equipment with a d100

Rolled 43 (1d100)

>>86643974
This shapes up to be an interesting regiment

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>>86643976
>43
>Rare Heavy Weapon: The regiment has access to some rare weapon that the rest of the Guard lacks, like heavy plasma cannons or more esoteric devices such as grav-guns.
Grappling cannons, for hauling baneblades up the mountain, lmao. What kind of heavy weapon would be useful in a mountain? Sonic weaponry to cause avalanches?

d100 for Regiment Creed next

Rolled 1 (1d100)

>>86643993
>What kind of heavy weapon would be useful in a mountain?
Sonic weaponry, seismic hammers, burrowing rockets...

>>86643993
>Mountain guns are artillery pieces designed for use in mountain warfare and areas where usual wheeled transport is not possible. They are generally capable of being taken apart to make smaller loads for transport by horses, humans, mules, tractors, or trucks. As such, they are sometimes called "pack guns" or "pack howitzers".
Our big guns are some special pattern that come apart and go back together real fucken easy, so a competent squad can pick up and set back down in a completely different location only slightly slower than a normal squad of infantry could reposition

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>>86644005
>1
>For The Homeworld: This regiment's mission is to demonstrate the skill and steel of the homeworld to the rest of the Imperium.
"Fuck yeah, this mountain farm fucking rules."

Whatever heavy weaponry ourguys use has either gotta be man-portable or long-range support since we're light infantry.

Regiment Fame with a d10

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>86644028

>>86644032
Mess with the best, die like the rest.

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>>86644032
>9
>Illustrious: Famous in close portions of neighbouring Segmenta, known galactically
We famous

d100 for out Regiment Friends

Rolled 95 (1d100)

>>86644048

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>>86644068
>95
>Rogue Trader Dynasty
Damn, interesting.

d100 for Regiment Enemies

Rolled 21 (1d100)

>>86644074

Rolled 12 (1d100)

>>86644074
Maybe that dynasty is the one who supplies us with our rare guns.

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>Imperial guard.
>Volunteer regiment.
>Elites selection pool ONLY.
>Agri world. Mountainous.
>Light infantry. Specializing in scouting and skirmishing.
>Specializing in ranged combat.
>Creed adherent. They hold fast to his will, but aren't turbo fanatics over the divine scripture itself.
>Special equipment. Rare heavy weapons, such as heavy plasma cannons, grav-guns, grapple cannons, sonic weaponry, seismic hammers (the ranged cannon type), or burrowing rockets. The exact nature or type is unclear.
Gives me a weird mix of Ghurka and Finnish sniper vibes. Just sit on top of a mountain range in small groups and fire away at shit.
I propose some form of heavy grade sniper rifle, that's practical anti armour due to just how fuckoff big it is to hit over those distances.

>>86644085
Our marksmanship is so great we outshot and humiliated an eldar taskforce

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>>86644088
>12
>Orks
Mountain orks, huh?

>>86644088
Or maybe the first warrant holder was someone who came from our world, and now his descendants keep supporting the ancestral planet.

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>>86644099
Okay, all rolled. To summize:
>Imperial Guard
>Volunteers
>Elite tithe
>Agri-World
>Mountains
>Light Infantry
>Ranged Combat
>Adherent
>Rare Heavy Weapon
>For The Homeworld
>Illustrious
>Rogue Trader Dynasty
>Orks
So I've done some research on mountain farming, and it makes up nearly 1/5th of European agriculture. 10% of Europes milk is farmed from mountain farms. 86% of consumers think mountain milk is innately higher quality. Could /ourguys/ agriworld produce yaks milk or something?

In any case, light ranged mountain warfare with a unique heavy weapon, rogue trader allies, and we're fuckin' up orks. Are we having firefights with them from mountain peak to mountain peak?

Also, look at this legion from the 3rd or 4th IG codex. Thought it'd be interesting.

>>86644099
It's not necessarily mountain orks, it could be that we are just good at targeting oks. Instead of smashing into them with melee or holding the line we pick the nobss from afar, and orks hate us for fighting like pansies (coping).

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Could our special weapon be some kind of man-portable Thudd Gun? Like >>86644024 said?

>>86644115
Being alpine and ork-fighters means we'd probably be good friends if we ever ran into Valhallan Ice Warriors.

>>86644112
>>Orks
Eldar did come first though.

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>>86644129
Shit, sorry, didn't see. Eldar fighters then. Exodites after our space-yaks?

>>86644128
I like the idea of a very portable thudd gun. We're hardy mountain farm folks, we can haul things far away, and so being light infantry we can get into unexpected places and bring surprising amount of firepower.

>>86644135
their fucking space dinosaurs keep eating our livestock
gotta chase 'em off

>>86644135
The idea of some mountain hillbillies outsniping space elf rangers so they seethe to this day does sound funny.

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>>86644146
>their fucking space dinosaurs keep eating our livestock
Woolly carnivorous mountain triceratops?

>>86644151
Dav Crickett, a regimental hero, single-handedly held a peak against twenty eldar infiltrators for sixteen hours. Legend has it his pet cat helped him identify cloaked eldar by batting at the display of his autoscope where a nigh-imperceptible shimmer revealed their presence.

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>>86644112
>>86644115
>>86644128
I say again. Exotic extreme long range sniper rifle that's basically a very accurate arty piece or single shot autocannon. Like a budget Exitus rifle, but upscaled so much it's literally a heavy weapon on par with small AT guns that needs a crew to transport.
The Eldar hate us because we just outranged them, and the orks hate us because we're shooting at them from fuckoff far away and they need to trudge over to the next mountain before getting the chance to get stuck in.
The regiment is elites and volunteers only, because it's such a matter of cultural prestige to be the one to aim and fire such a weapon.

>>86644176
Nah

>>86644163
Metal, this must be our agriworld's staple produce.
Grox's angrier and meetier cousins but only survive in mountain climates. Trying to wrangle them up close is suicide, so we use special tranq rifles when beasts need to be subdued and not killed. But because of their wool and thick hides there is only a small spot on their bodies where a dart must hit so they would even feel the tranq.

>>86644176
Very tempting, but I don't think anything like that exists. Better to work with established material and call it, say, a heavily modified lascannon or something, with enhanced range and accuracy.

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>>86644151
>>86644171
Are we going straight Euro-mountain men, or do we want to infuse some Tibetan in there? I bring it up because space yaks.

>>86644176
>The Eldar hate us because we just outranged them
Assaulting up a mountain's got to be infuriating regardless of weapon range. I assume /ourguys/ live in fortified mountain farms higher up.

>>86644189
Cold environment pelts tend to be pretty heavy duty. Maybe we're the ones that provide the fur collars for commissars sent to ice worlds or something lmao.

>>86644197
>a heavily modified lascannon
>A Longlas Cannon
Is such a thing even possible? But I can't see why we can't have both that and a man-portable Thudd Gun.

>>86644203
Make it a fusion of every culture who lives primarily at the tops of really high mountains. Why the hell not. We're in the 40-whateverth millennium, I'm assuming we've learned every lesson Ancient Terra's mountainfolk had to teach.
>Longlas Cannon
A work of genius. A weapon to surpass Metal Gear.

>>86644197
>Better to work with established material and call it, say, a heavily modified lascannon or something, with enhanced range and accuracy.

Nothing about this regiment is established material. I think we shouldn't quite limit our creativity like that; as long as it could exist in the setting why not invent it?

>>86644203
I'd add some tibetan tones.

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>>86644203
>>86644243
9000 hours in MsPaint

>>86644288
it's beautiful anon

In mixing cultures together, maybe they have cargo grox? leading them around in harnesses? also, how is Thurm-pattern for a name?

>>86644334
Name for which, the hyperportable arty or the Longlascannon?
Side note, what's our planet called? We're damn well famous, we've succeeded fairly well in "demonstrating the skill and steel of the homeworld to the rest of the imperium", so what name do they know us by?

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>>86643886
>Many stretches of their homeworld are covered in mountainous terrain interspaced with the vast valleys that form between them. For most of the planet, the temperature is cool but humid, with thick fogs coming to rest between the countless hills and peaks like an ocean of clouds in the early morn of most days that lift by evening. Though the regiment is at home here, most who could visit it would describe the majority of the planet as damp and cool with a chilly nip at night that can sometimes build into a frost during the harvest season.

>The status and wealth of the locals can typically be denoted by what elevation their family resides. Better off families live closer to the peaks of the mountains and tops of hills, in order to avoid potential flooding from rain and being buried beneath the debris of any landslides. Those who have connections off-world and deal with the Administratum usually build spires atop the peaks of the mountains surrounded by what few cities pop up on the agri-world. Meanwhile, farmers, tradesmen, and the like live on the slopes or close to the deepest points of the valleys where they can more easily access the crops that grow between the summits that dot their world. Farming families which rise to a place of prominence or nobility, usually due to the distinguished service of a child or good fortune, sometimes terraform parts of the mountainsides into terraces.

I'm imagine a planet that's a sort of mix between Tibet and the Scottish Highlands.

>>86644370
If the pattern is named after our planet then Thrum could be it. I imagine our regiment is the most (only) famous thing about our world, so the naming convention could adjust, and instead of the manufacturing Forge-world name use the name of the planet that produces the regiments.
With a Rogue Trader by our side he could even arrange it.

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>>86644370
>Side note, what's our planet called?
Kataki Seconda. Kataki is the Tibet word for mountain, I think. Seconda is Italian for Second, surprisingly.

>>86644432
I like it
Should probably follow standard latinesque phrasing and make it Kataki Secundus instead though, for consistency.
How's the Kataki 409th sound?

>>86644448
I like.

>>86644448
I like the sound of it.

Damn guys I love this, I was just thinking of picking up some guard to get my dad into the hobby for some father-son time, but most regiments seemed pretty stale. I play eldar so I'm tempted.

>>86644452
>>86644461
>>86644474
Nice. The Kataki 409th, from Kataki Secundus it is.
Kataki Primus is presumably an uninhabitable dirtball, probably insignificant. Kataki Secundus, however, is, as per >>86644429, a cool, lush, mountainous world, full of terraced peaks farming various delicious and nutritious plantlife that thrives in the thick moist air. Various fauna include space goatyaks, which are mostly domesticated and very well adapted to steep peaks, and the fearsome wooly tricarnitops, a viciously opportunistic omnivore with razor-sharp beaks and horns, which roam in groups of around a dozen and can be driven off by precise shots to the facemeats, where the fur and hide are thinner.
Armament is decidedly nonstandard, as every fourth or fifth guardsman has a longlas, but beyond that are the hyper-mobile Thurm-pattern Thudd gun and the Kataki Longlas-Cannon, both of which are extensively trained and drilled with so that they may be swiftly and efficiently repositioned to make use of a superior firing arc, fall back to a more fortified position, or avoid counter-battery fire. There's probably doctrine about heavy bolters, mortars, and all other heavy weapons to reposition them better too.

Not sure if the tricarnitops eats the space goatyak or IS the space goatyak, that one I'll leave to you lot. Also, to honor the spirit of Dav Crickett, cats are popular with the regiment. Please come up with more knockoff snipers and grand achievements they managed, bonus points if these achievements piss off or humiliate the eldar.
One idea might be Simon Hayes, who, in the service of the RT dynasty, got in a sniper duel with a Vindicare. The duel ended after a week and a half when Simms managed to sneak across an entire valley and knife the bastard from behind.

>>86644091
Didn't expect to see first Hellsing anime here

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The average Katakian is probably ripped by the standards of most other regiments. Whereas those regiments are likely drawing from the masses of malnourished Hivers who grew up inhaling a steady stream of industrial pollution, the cream of the crop that Kataki apparently draws from are going to be the best weeded out from farm boys who've grown up doing heavy labor and eating from a well-balanced diet of rich and nutritious food harvested from their world - rather than corpse starch. Rising early and intense labor wouldn't be that hard to adapt to either, going to from farm work to the Militarum.

It could perhaps be a point of pride for them, bordering on arrogance.

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Looking at this thread, I've thought how would the Katakian regiment look on model; their uniform.
Here's an idea. i guess.

>>86644946
I like the idea that they are snobbish in a strange way. They are a combination of the old man ranting about the "Good ol days" and a stereotypical snotty rich kid

>>86650310
got dam

>>86644593
Seeing the new Bombast field gun, we might want that instead of a thudd gun. It's basically a mini-basilisk, instead of several mortars glued together.

>>86647771
looks neat

>>86644946
>Volunteer regiment.
>Elites only (from an agri world).
They're not just healthy farmers either. These guys are the cream of the crop. It's probably competitive to even get into the selection pool for these guys, much less make it to "basic".

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Probably a bit late but have we considered a mesa world for a mountainous agri-world? Lots of flat topped mountains covered in fields separated by giant shadowy canyons and chasoms

>>86656419
excellent idea anon, mesas are far more easily fortifiable and come pre-terraced for farming

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>>86644593
While many tales exist, one rumor, which is often told in different ways, but as a testament to the Kataki Longlas-Cannon, holds of a single officer successfully managing to stave off an entire assault of Eldar overnight, when they attempted to scale one of the mountain ranges to a Port Hive City, the piercing beams of light too quick to evade, too bright to trace with only a single shot, and able to penetrate through some vehicles.
The exact numbers are unclear. Some claim it was ten warriors and a hovering tank vehicle. Others claim it was fifty banshee's that eventually reduced him to battering them away with the folding bipod of the weapon, while some claim that he or she slew nearly three hundred of their kin in total, firing down at them from range, and then repositioning, again and again, despite being horrifically maimed in the process by a splinter cannon round.

>>86655852
>the cream of the crop that Kataki apparently draws from
Well, yes, anon, I believe that's what he's saying. But I get what you're saying too. However, I find it hard to wrap my hand around whatever selection process a agri-world would drum up. Whatever some upper spire or fortress world twats dream up would probably make it look like a walk in the park, or just a regular Earth bootcamp.

>>86663716
They drop you into a valley with a single exit, then throw a hive of space cazadors into that exit. Your only weapon is a long-las. If you can snipe them all before they swarm and murder you, congrats, you're in. If not, they'll nest inside your corpse and make more space cazadors for future recruitment tests.
Anyone who's not well-practiced in space-cazador sniping from an early age has no business applying for the Kataki 409th.

>>86663716
Agriworlds can be pretty brutal in general. I like the depiction in Lords of Silence; a planet-wide monoculture held in check by extreme pesticide usage and environmental controls, 20 hour shifts of backbreaking work in hazmat suits to stop the rampant chemical usage from eating you alive, low population, thin and unvaried rations since menial workers in the Imperium are only one step up from servitors, minimal chance of getting off world once you've been shanghaied into the lie of an agrarian idyll.

This world is probably much nicer than that, environmentally at least, but it's unlikely to be an easy life by any means. Selection tests could be something like trekking over a mountain during the storm season or with some natural predator on the prowl.

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>>86663948
This.
Also if it's an agri world with animal export, then that could be like farming pigs, but it could also be like farming Elk.
So it could be a chemically-enforced monoculture sphere that's very atmosphere isn't breathable to humans. Or it could be a Caliban-esque world of high peaks and deep valleys, filled with forests and monsters, where the issue is less in maintaining it, and more in taming it.

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>>86665139
>farming pigs
>farming elk

>>86665650
We still have yet to decide if we primarily farm yakbeasts or tricarnitops

>>86665705
Farm Yaks for milk meat and fur and hunt the Tricarnitops, who eat the Yaks, for their meat fur and horns.

>>86665705

As >>86665727 said, we can have both. An agri-world should grow lots of stuff. Speaking of which, do you know what else grows well in mountains? Vines.

>>86667357
Oh no. Vines means grapes means amasec, and yaks means milk means cheese, both aged finely in the mountainous climate. We really are space italians.

>>86665727
>>86667357
>>86663948
>>86665139
Proposition.
Mountaintops that exist above the planetary "Treeline" so to speak, are relatively safe to build on, and many house, if not hives, then great beautiful cities, with some built into the very mountains or cliff faces they dwell upon.
The Mesa's are Prime territory, and home to the most developed territories, cities, farms, but most significantly, space ports, as ships struggle to land over much of the uneven ranges.
These high slopes and terraces are also where herds of Yakbeast are cultivated and farmed for meat, milk, fur, ivory, everything, alongside sheets of vineyard, exporting fruits and wines. Their only real predator at such heights is the Tricarnitops, however those are rare at such altitudes.
The lower lands however, are dense forest, wild, untamed, and as rife with hunting targets as mortal perils. The issue is not one of sustainability, but of safety.
Perhaps there's a reason why the Regiment favours long ranged fire? Some predators can't be approached at all?

>>86668076
Sort of like Kashyyk but with mountains. I dig it.

>>86661224
Based descendant of the White Death, still killing xenos 38 millenia later to carry on the family legacy

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>>86644091
>I propose some form of heavy grade sniper rifle, that's practical anti armour due to just how fuckoff big it is to hit over those distances.
NTW-20, basically the Halo sniper is real, from South Africa and comes in 14.5mm and 20mm variants. It's designed to be taken apart into two 15kg halves to be lugged around by two guys. The idea is that a small team can trek unseen through the bush into enemy territory and plink their landed aircraft and other high priority machinery and targets to pieces from about 2km away.

>>86668076
>Entire form of civil warfare is basically Olympia, but instead of siege weapons it's sniper wars with Lasguns, Thudd guns, Longlascannons, and up-powered chemically propelled sniper rifles.
Nice.

>>86668076
Predators are constantly trying to sneak up the slopes to get to the herds. Learning to snipe from a distance is crucial to keeping the livestock safe

>>86673066
Not only sniping from a distance, but being able to sink one shot after another into the weakpoints of a dozen living tanks as they rumble towards you down the slopes, before they can close distance and eviscerate half your livestock.
Trains you for precision, speed, target prioritization, and operating in stressful conditions.

>>86673999
It's not good enough to just hit it in the skull. You've got to go for the eyes, the nostrils, the soft palette in the mouth, the gaps between armour plates to allow for articulation.
And you've got to do it with a damn powerful gun to start with.

>>86663754
Okay but this got me thinkin, do we have space cazadores? What sort of fauna do we have aside from tricarnitops and yakbeasts?

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>>86644112

Ok, i'll try to string this together :

>Kataki Secundus is an unnoticeable agri-world
>locals are mostly divided between lowlanders who farm mold in the damp valleys, and mountain clans (semi-nomadic, quarrelsome, love yaks and wine)
>The two get along mostly well : lowlanders provide foreing goods from their large trade with the imperium, highlanders sell high quality luxury food that make the farm life bearable
>All of a sudden, without a warning, eldars strike. They exterminate and enslave most lowlanders.
>The mountain herders fare much better
>A few weeks later, a rogue trader comes to the rescue.
>The dispersed clans have fused into a formidable fighting force and the xeno still haven't broken through
>The eldars fuck off

>The lowlands are scarred beyond repair, and teeming with foul beasts they brought from their hellish dimension
>They grow in numbers each year. Either they adapted and managed to reproduce, or there are still rifts open down there. The kataki have to hunt them down.
>there's obvious potential for a guard regiment, but those are a proud, unruly, freedom-loving people. They can't just be force-conscripted. That's a job for the munitorum
>Over the next decade, missionaries craft the following narrative : "The world is evil, filled with evil xeno and innocent, weak imperial citizens. Katakis are obviously a superior breed, favored by the emperor : stronger, and blessed with beautiful mountains and their cherished lifestyle. But they didn't pay back the Emperor for his blessings : they failed to protect the inferior brethren. Now is the time to make up for this : there are many imperial worlds out there, and many more evil xenos to be slain. Kataki Secundus' sacred duty is to send soldiers beyond and atone for their past mistakes."

>>86677338
I liked the first bit, didn't much like the class divide theme though. There's better things than mold to grow in damp valleys, and some molds can be pretty expensive if you sell them right. Besides, they're not swamp-damp, they're like northern california near the coast damp. The fog is what the wetness comes from. Of course this implies that there's enough water around to create said fog, so we have an ocean - probably a large mass of brackish water which leads into a series of richly forested mesas, and those mesas lead into the mountains.

I'm assuming it'd be the dark eldar who do enslaving, but I don't much like that concept. I'd probably go more along the lines of corsairs making the planet a frequent target for raids, and it was in a particularly massive raid that the Rogue Trader assisted the planet. I wanna say that the 409th did some service to the Rogue Trader initially, so he wasn't there for no reason, and the raid hit just before some grand celebration the Trader had planned to thank them.

It's possible that the Trader paid the Kataki in a massive shipment of longlases, as they already had an initial culture that celebrated precision and accuracy, but they were very low on such weapons due to having been out of contact with the wider Imperium for an incredibly long time. These longlases were put to use to extreme effect against the corsairs, who couldn't use their ships without being shot down by the Rogue Trader's small fleet and could barely use their vehicles in the thickly wooded valleys and mesas. This relegated them to infantry, and a planet-wide sniper war erupted.

This sniper war was standard operating procedure whenever the corsairs came to Kataki, and the Eldar thought things would be the same as always - they'd hunt down anyone capable of resistance and either kill them or occupy them for long enough to loot everything not nailed down (and probably make off with a good number of slaves too). I'm running low on letters so (1/?)

>>86677485
With the Trader's introduction of an actual fuckload of longlases, the Eldar were entirely overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of return fire they were getting. Every bush had a sniper behind it, every tree had a sniper sitting in it, every rock had a rifle peeking out behind it. The eldar were eviscerated. They killed as many as they could, but not only were there always more, they only served to cull the worst gunmen from the planet's population. Every sniper they couldn't catch would go on to refine their art and pass it on to their progeny.

The Eldar were fucking humiliated. Despite gathering the greatest raiding party that had ever been focused on Kataki, they came away with less loot and slaves than even the most ill-fated raid they had sent previously. Their casualties numbered in the tens of thousands. It is estimated that greater than 60% of the raiding force met death at the end of a longlas. Ruined vehicles can be found decaying across the entire planet. Wraithbone armor around alien bones can be found in every forest. Near every landing zone, fragments of shattered landing craft can be found, shot down by concentrated fire, and one or two are entirely untouched, as no eldar survived to reach them.

Oh, there's some fucked up wildlife alright. There's downright vicious beasts in the thick woods, where we dare not settle. Some of them, I'll grant, have been changed in some manner by proximity to xenotech - there's something just ever so slightly wrong about them - but most of it is good, strong Kataki stock. The titanic Yakbeast, the vicious and lumbering Tricarnitops, the raptids which leap with uncanny agility through the forests and ambush any fool who doesn't look up, the monospiders which weave webs so thin you can dice yourself to pieces on them, the serpents which float on gossamer wings through the mist, neurotoxic venom dripping from their fangs, any number of things eager to kill you stone dead and feast on your bones. (2?)

>>86677559
But every one of those beasts, even those altered by the psychic emanations of eldar long dead, are Kataki beasts, born and bred, raised with her mountains, her forests, and her mists in their blood. And every Kataki worth their salt knows without a shadow of a doubt that the deadliest creature their planet produces is a 409th guardsman with a longlas in their hands and a target in their sights.

The eldar fuck off after that raid, as you said, anon. But they'll be back. We pissed them off too damn much, humiliated them too thoroughly, to expect anything less. We fortify our peaks, and we watch the forests and the sky. Our defenses ensure that never again will the eldar land on our world in force. Our longlas cannons can destabilize a transport's engines from five klicks out, and anything larger can make no landing in our terrain.

They send their teams quietly, now. They've learned to respect us that much, at least. Every Kataki must be alert, and stand ready to sound the alarm before they're cut down in a spray of shurikens and blood. Across the planet, it's expected that there are no less than three infiltration teams at any given time, and there are sniper duels lasting weeks between our sentinels and the enemy.

I don't much like the ministorum's narrative you cooked up, anon, but I respect the attempt, and will say that instead, the local missionaries have inspired a deep pride in the Kataki for their way of life. They live well, by Imperial standards, and their farming is fulfilling. The purest faith a Kataki man can have is found in the pull of a trigger and the emission chamber of a lasrifle. The mountains and their way of life are indeed a reward, and the price of that reward is excellence. For every target struck, every xeno slain, a Kataki man becomes that much closer to the Emperor himself, and secures their homeland and way of life for that much longer. (3/4)

>>86677670
The best of them are sent to other worlds, to demonstrate their excellence and ensure that the name of Kataki Secundus rings throughout the galaxy, to show that the Emperor's gifts are not misplaced with them. A detachment is permanently affixed with the Trader who allied with our people, whose weapons ensured our enduring victory.

For every engagement these guardsmen participate in, the legend grows. The Segmentum is flowing with tales of guardsmen facing fearful odds, and calmly, thoroughly decimating their foes when any other men would be overrun by ravenous Tyranids, brutish Orks, twisted mutants, and other, darker things, superbly accurate fire lancing out and carving them to pieces. When fighting more organized xenos or traitor forces, enemy sergeants and commanders are picked off, leaving their ranks in disarray. Fortifications crumble after a single longlascannon strikes a key point. Tank columns are annihilated by direct strikes, mortars land in the center of enemy groupings, artillery duels are handily won while return fire is evaded by skillful repositioning.

Somewhere in the galaxy, on a barely significant dustball of a planet, a Raven Guard marine compliments a member of the Kataki 409th on their marksmanship. It is at this point that the regiment knows: They have succeeded in their goal, beyond their wildest dreams. And they will carry on in their enduring legend until the Kataki sun burns out in their sky and every last man has died.

(4/4)