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Tech grenade sounds very unlikely for the Imperium to employ. Adeptus Mechanicus or Inquisition maybe, but Imperial Guard? Highly unfeasible in my opinion.

And somehow I doubt that a newly colonized world has ready access to large numbers of troops for the tithes, or the ability to produce vast quantities of their own weapons away from the Imperium without getting a thorough purge and check by the Inquisition.

Well, technology is heavily regulated in the Imperium and the Ad. Mech. has the monopoly over all of it. If a non-Imperial world designs their own stuff without consent of the Omnissiah or links to STC templates, the technology is deemed heretical and worthy of destruction.

Plus if those grenades were real STC designs, the entire Imperium would have those by now, as the Ad. Mech. has the primary objective of gathering all STC data and sending that to Mars for evaluation and if approved, for distribution to all major Forge Worlds in the Imperium. Same goes for the armour really, too advanced for the technological backwards Imperium. The nanites/nano-bots in the grenades and on the armour are quite the heresy in itself.

Guard is not really known for unique technology other than the odd camo cloak or carapace armour, with some bionics and refractor fields sprinkled in between. They are just basic soldiers with a laser gun thrust into the future. The high tech stuff is more for the Inquisition, Ad. Mech. and in some cases, Space Marines. Though as a Guard player I despise to say so, cannon fodder has no right to use expensive equipment when the users their selves are highly expandable.

To me, the idea behind a world back into the fold of the Imperium is a sound one, just work on the "high tech" stuff as it is something in break with established fluff and background. Yes it is an unique idea, but it goes against the established flow quite a bit, right up there with Christian Guardsmen (world discovers old Bible and mass-converts to an ancient false religion) and the Emperor being an alien loving peace-mongering god, which he's not.

While I'm at it, "Tank Fist" has been done to death, sorreh sweatdrop Might as well take the original name of Panzerfaust or Panzerschreck. Might as well go along the lines of a more crude thinking as was shown with Gaunt's Ghosts, who named their rocket launchers "Tread Fethers" (Tread F*ckers)

Don't mind me too much though, I am a certified GW fluff nazi for over a decade now.

Cadians wear sturdy flak armour, which can easily represent carapace armour. If desperate for cameleoline cloaks, either give the troops camo clothing with matching camo armour and maybe face paint, or tell your opponent that your troops have those doctrines and that the models are not quite WYSIWYG.

If you really care for your army you'll go the extra mile and represent all upgrades on the models, period mister William "D-Fens" Foster.

>Lt.Brookman

What if I changed the story around a little, their colony wasn't founded before the Horus Heresy but a couple hundred years later. Now to make their advanced tech more viable with fluff their colony was founded by the Ad. Mech. (I like that) then lost over the ages. Thus when they colony was found again, their pledge of loyalties still existed with Mars and they are granted access to some advanced tech and the tech they used before. I think I can still remove the tech grenade but for some of the other things I believe that should make them a little more fluffy.

I see. It is hard to wrestle with fluff, and I must admit I am doing with this army what I hate to see people do with other armies. Trying to make them something their not. If you are still interested in doing some type of RP I might just think about changing the guard army to a standarized one.

You had your own guild? Wow, what happened to it? Did that pointy-eared d**k do something?

Sorry I have to say it,
"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"