Clovistonn War-Dogs

The Clovistonn War-Dogs are the members of the Militarum Regimentum of the Astra Militarum that have been recruited from the six Worlds of Clovistonn. They have the well-deserved reputation of being some of the deadliest practitioners of explosives and asymmetric warfare in their corner of the galaxy. They are primarily deployed in the Segmentum Obscurus and some eastern parts of the Ultima Segmentum, and are highly efficent soldiers in explosive ordinances and artillery combat in especially hazardous terrain and in carrying out urban siege and assassinations warfare. Their homeworlds of Clovistonn include bpth Hive and Feudal Worlds, where this blend of both aggressive industrialism and aristocracy ensures the survival of a unique Imperial Guard culture tied strongly to the Beasts Undaunted Chapter of Space Marines. Extremely resourceful, but dogmatic warriors, the natives of the Clovistonn Worlds are recruited into the Imperial Guard as deadly operatives with their specialised compact denotators or working from ambush with their siege engines and allied Titan Legion. In tight terrain they are more skilled by nearly any other mortal soldiers in the Imperium, with each Clovistonn War-Dog being worth five soldiers from any other regiment working with their tactics.

The skills learned in the caverns of Clovistonn Secundus and the vaulted tunnels built into the various training outposts and space stations surrounding the Clovistonn Primus Gas Giant. Many of their siege tactics are easily adapted to other less urban war zones. Indeed, Clovistonn War-Dogs believe that even the most suicidal of missions are nothing in comparison to the dread they feel disappointing the Emperor of Mankind, who they call the Allfather, for even a single act of failure or disobedience. This zealotry is often mistaken as being the same suicidality of the guardsmen from the Death Korps of Krieg. The fact remains, however, that Clovistonn War-Dogs are the most uncomplaining in their type of combat, determined with a dry sense of humour befitting soldiers of the Astra Militarum. Whether they are assigned to basic maintenance duties or a mind-breakingly long assault on an ancient impregnable fortress their forces are adamantly loyal, taking the sentiment that much like other regiments Ogryns that the God-Emperor's intervention exists in every Commisar's orders. Though their planets' have harsh working conditions and high fatality rates they maintain a population, likely to maintain tactics which results in high value victories with high casualty rates dozens of new Astra Militarum regiments every year. Though the Feudal Worlds of the Clovistonn World Cluster garner very little production in the rough survivalists' few permanent fortified settlements, all of the worlds of Clovistonn are rich in resources it trades for essential goods. Thes include metals, exotic high nutrient value grains, artificially engineered medicinal plants created by their on-world Genetors and, above all the hardy native Clovistonn themselves, for they are perhaps te most latchkey part of their worlds' tithe to the Imperium.

### Recruitment

Because the Clovistonn World Cluster contains both astrographically close Feudal and Hive Worlds the tithe and recruitment is taken cloolectively from all worlds named Clovistonn and they were all trained in the stations and vault systems in the space stations around Clovistonn Primus. There is some obvious tension between Hive City-born War-Dogs and those raised in villages on Feudal Worlds. Though in spite of this these prior lives are beaten out of recruits in order to make way solely for the new identity in the form of their lives as guardsmen.

#### Officer Ranks

* Lord Commander
* Commander
* General
* Lieutenant General
* Colonel
* Lieutenant Colonel
* Major
* Captain
* Lieutenant
* Junior Lieutenant

#### Non-Commissioned Officers

* Watchmaster
* Senior Sergeant
* Sergeant
* Junior Sergeant
* Corporal

### Standard Regimental Kit

The standard regimental kit for a Clovistonn War-Dog is as follows:

* 1 Clovistonn-pattern Hellgun and powerpack
* small Kukhri-style Mono Knife
* Modified pattern of armor made from parts of a standard Flak armor breastplate and composite ballistics cloth gambeson
* 2 frag grenades
* 2 Photon Flash Grenades
* 2 Smoke Grenades
* Uniform
* Poor Weather Cloak
* Rucksack
* Entrenchment toolkit
* Mess kit and water canteen
* Blanket and sleeping bag
* Refillable flare-charge pack
* Straight razor, sheers-based grooming kit
* Dog tags
* *Imperial Infantryman’s Uplifting Primer*
* 3 Terran weeks’ rations
* Night-Vision/Respirator Mask