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STEEL LEGION - PART TWO: ARTILLERY COMPANY
Every army in Epic
Armageddon has its strengths and its weaknesses. For the vast
war machine that is the Imperial Guard, undoubtedly one of its
greatest strengths is in its artillery companies. With the
exception of no other army, the Imperial Guard can lay down a
massive and sustainable barrage of artillery fire from the
relative safety of deep behind their own lines. One of the key
features of an Imperial Guard Artillery Company is its ability
to combine the firepower of all of the artillery pieces in the
force into a single devastating barrage, which is capable of
smashing apart enemy infantry formations and disrupting even the
largest of Ork Mobs. Naturally, with that amount of useful
firepower, I considered including at least one Artillery Company
in my newly formed Steel Legion force to be practically a core
choice.
In creating an Artillery
Company you can choose to select up to three batteries of either
Basilisk or Manticore. You could of course choose to take a
selection of either of them having a battery of each, but in my
case I simply chose three batteries of three Basilisk in each; a
total of nine self-propelled guns. The final unit to include was
a Command Salamander, which is the tenth and final vehicle
making up the company.
(Note: It was decided
for simplicity to drop the Command Vehicle from the formation in
the finished version, however as I had already included them in
my own force during early play testing I decided to keep them in
for a little character)
New vs Old.
Those of you that are
familiar with any previous editions of Epic will have noticed
that I have used the older Basilisk models in the Company, as
well as a Forge World Salamander Command vehicle. The simple
reason for this is the force was put together early in 2003 in
preparation for the games launch, at which point none of the new
Imperial Guard artillery were ready. Whichever models you choose
to use, the end result is pretty much the same anyway. If you
like the newer 'Hades' pattern Basilisk however, fear not as
they will be appearing soon as part of another Artillery Company
for an entirely different Guard Regiment.
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