A quick peruse through the old Camo Specs guide as well as the other CBT books I have yielded no units with a color scheme that interested me. Thus there was only one solution, a new unique force. A small mercenary force was the obvious answer. I stripped a number of mechs out of the ELH queue and got them organized and whipped up a plausible start for the group and a brief background overview. And then last night, I took one of the mechs and completed a test color scheme model. I'm pretty happy with how it came out but am still contemplating a black wash on the white portion. Anyone have any suggestions on how to get that wash layer over white without turning it a gray color instead of white?
This small mercenary command was founded at the end of the First Succession War in 2799. The force started out as a company from the 4th Galedon Regulars. When news of the Kentares IV massacre reached the regiment, they were as appalled as everyone else. One company of the 3rd Battalion decided they could not honorably follow the Jinjiro Kurita's orders after such an act. They took their mechs and some other like minded mechwarriors and support personnel and fled in an Overlord-class Dropship.
Fleeing to the Outworlds Alliance, the force organized themselves into a mercenary unit to sustain themselves. Originally calling themselves The Ronin, they soon found themselves referred to as Crows by the locals on many Outworlds Alliance worlds due to their odd luck of arriving on a planet shortly before pirate raids. Embracing the name, the Flock of Crows were born, thriving as pirate hunters.
As the unit grew to a full mech battalion with a support battalion of armor and infantry, they began to worry about the DCMS discovering them and seeking retribution and began seeking contracts farther away from the Draconis Combine. By the end of the Second Succession War the Crows were in the Magistracy of Canopus under contract for pirate hunting and the occasional raid into the Free Worlds League. Losses have currently attritioned the unit down to a combined arms battalion.
Aerospace Assets
Crow's Nest, Overlord-class Dropship, Dai-i Tsing Ashigara
Raven Flight (4 Aerospace Fighters)
Command Lance
Chu-sa Aioki Yoshido, Cyclops
Cho-sa Raizo Itagake, Battlemaster
Seiji Nagumo, Katana
Ichiro Chang, Orion
First Company (Storm Crows)
Command Lance
Tai-i Taoka Nomuri, Assassin
Analiese Singh, Firestarter
Genji Yoshinaka, Ostroc
Li Tomanaga, Thorn
Alpha Lance
Chu-i Hideshi Matsudaira, Wolverine
Obai Nishiyama, Panther
Miko Aoyama, Javelin
Kasumi Fushida, Dervish
Beta Lance
Chu-i Tomo Daikichi, Shadowhawk
Narita Meiji, Wasp
Iruma Hachiojo, Wasp
Maeda Nguyen, Stinger
Charlie Lance
Chu-i Kono Matsuda, Cicada
Ororo Akasaki, Jenner
Sato Ugaki, Hermes
Chang Iriarte, Jenner
Second Company (Dark Crows)
Command Lance
Tai-i Narami Amagiro, Atlas
Hiroshi Mizoguchi, Black Knight
Tsiao Nichigama, Awesome
Osami Mikawa, Thunderbolt
Alpha Lance
Chu-i Ito Shiazawa, Dragon
Misu Tatsuo, Stalker
Tojo Inoue, Thug
Isoroku Misodeki, Dragon
Beta Lance
Chu-i Yonai Mitsumasa, Archer
Saito Takeji, Longbow
Raizo Koto, Crusader
Tokichi Arima, Catapult
Charlie Lance
Chu-i Keiko Nakatomi, Griffin
Rioko Iagachi, Hatchman
Taoka Fuchiawa, Grasshopper
Niama Oshika, Quickdraw
I still need to get some APCs, tanks, infantry, and aerospace fighters to finish off the unit as well as work on getting the mechs painted, but this seems like a nice fun unit to get organized and will get a number of mechs out of the paint queue and into the finished list. The fighters will be attached outside the unit as a support role and then the rest of the nonmechs will be organized as a combined arms company to round out the battalion. I'm thinking a mixed lance for the command lance, 2 infantry platoons (mechanized or jump I'm thinking), and then a tank lance.
Comments, questions, and suggestions as welcomed as always and I'll see you all next time.
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