Basan Iron Flanquers

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The **Basan Iron Flankqueres** are the notable Astra Militarum armoured regiments that hails from the world of Basan, and they follow their name ("Flanqueres" means in their language 'flankers') in battle. Each Regiment has 350 vehicles, from which are 200 Tanks. Crews and soldiers for the Regiment are recruited from the workers in Basans factories, who see themself when fully trained as a kind of nobles among the workers.

## History

Originally were the Basan Iron Flanqueres a Light Infantry formation supported by light armour. Additionally, were the members recruited from the middle class and lower high class. Defining them then as unsuccessful would be wrong, although the modern Basan Iron Flanqueres battle records overshine their old records by far. When they changed to the modern Armoured Regiment is not easy to say but, the timeline of their different Regimental structures is mostly exactly recorded. Modern historians from Basan date the reformation to around mid-late M34 when the Leman Sector prospert economically like never again. To the same time came it on Basan their Homeworld to the Basan Counter-Revolution in which militias and PDF forces fought in the name of the Inquisition against the nobles who overthrew the ruling dynasty. Usage of Light Infantry formations with light armour can be dated until the 300s.M36 with the Battle of Basan.

## Notable Campaigns

* **Siege of Nymhaven (unknown.M32):** The Siege of Nymhaven by the Dark Eldars was the fist mentioned battle in which the Basan Iron Flanqueres - in their Light Infantry formation - fought. Both Regiments having together 70.000 soldiers took a support role in the defence against the maurading Xenos.
* **Battle of Basan (309-313s.M36):** The last time in which the Light Infantry Regiments fought, alongside the Armoured Regiments, was the defence of their Homeworld against a Night Lords Warband. A reason for the total loss of the Light Infantry Regiments was that they lacked armour to protect themself against the Astartes raiding their Planet.
* **Saint Devastus Campaign (484-501-M37):** A religiouse campaign lead by the later Saint Devastus. Veterans from the 45th and the 209th took part in his Crusade forming an superheavy Regiment for siege warfare and to counter larger enemy vehicles.
* **WAAAGH! Kinsmasha (677-685.M41):** WAAAGH! Kinsmasha was an Ork WAAAGH!/migration in the surrounding Sectors of the Leman Sector. A supernova destroyed a small Ork Empire who forsaw like the other factions the event and started migrating lead by Kinsmasha. Ork forces tried to conquere a new domain and kill off the local Ork tribes. Imperial forces forced the Orks back who scattered into several directions in tiny groups.

## Home World

Basan is an Industrial World in the Leman Sector known for its many small factories clustered together, from which the soldiers for their Regiments are recruited. Gently rising plains and shallow oceans with flat sea floor. Forests have trees with unusuall large distance between each other. In the fall season blows the wind the dead leaves around for hundred kilometres and the spring season brings enough rain to create large mud seas. People from Basan are known for their pies served with meat.

## Regimental Organization

### Ranks

* **General:** Resposible for the recruitment of new Regiments and commander of the PDF.
* **Colonel:** Regimental commander
* **Major:** Majors include the second in in command and Battalion leader
* **Captain:** Company commander
* **Lietenant:**
* **Sergeant:**
* **Corporal:**
* **Specialist:**
* **Trooper:**

### Regimental Structure

* **HQ Battalion**
	+ **Regimental Staff**
	+ **Logistical Detachment**
	+ **Air Defence Detachment**
	+ **Engineer Detachment**
	+ **Medical Detachment**
* **1st Armoured Battalion**
	+ **Command Company**
	+ **Tank Company**
	+ **Tank Company**
	+ **Tank Company**
* **2nd Armoured Battalion**
	+ **Command Company**
	+ **Tank Company**
	+ **Tank Company**
	+ **Tank Company**
* **3rd Armoured Battalion**
	+ **Command Company**
	+ **Tank Company**
	+ **Tank Company**
	+ **Tank Company**
* **Anti-Titan Battalion**
	+ **Command Company**
	+ **Heavy Tank Destroyer Company**
	+ **Heavy Tank Destroyer Company**
* **Armoured Rifle Battalion**
	+ **Command Company**
	+ **Rifle Company**
	+ **Rifle Company**

## Combat Doctrine

The Basan Iron Flanqueres operate regularly near the flanks to prevent enemy breakthroughs or flanking maneuvres, but when in offensive operations form their Battalions agile waves formed in waves to capitalize the enemy crumbling lines. Each Regiment has Heavy Tank Destroyer Regiments armed with heavy weapons who can endangere Titans. Armoured Rifle Companies serve as scout force and as support in urban combat.

## Notable Regiments

* **20th Basan Iron Flanqueres Regiment "Steel Amphibians":** One of the Regiments who took part in the Siege of Basan when they charged through the shallow oceans against the enemies. The Steel Amphibians had to be two times reorganized after it was destroyed during the charges, with only a small group of veterans from befor the siege surviving. Further more were the Steel Amphibians in three different campaigns destroyed and once so much reduced that the remaining soldiers had to be reorganized into other Regiments, but all times it was later reformed.

## Notable Personel

* **General Leonardo Heckwick:** The actual highest-ranking officer of the Basan Iron Flanqueres responsible for the recruitment of the of new Regiments and for the defence of Basan. Heckwick originally lead a Battlegroup made of by the 43rd and the 44th Regiments.
* **Corporal Lewis Dailer:** A tank driver from the 59th Basan Iron Flanqueres awarded the Star of Terra after the Battle of Hexagon II where he drove over and killed the Dark Eldar Achoron of the Kabal of the Singing Violence, who was nearly able to capture high-ranking imperial officials

## Tanks used

* **Macharius Omega Basan Pattern:** This Heavy Tank is the a variation of the Macharius Omega and is also armed with a Plasma Blastgun. Although very similiar to the base form has the Basan Pattern a more aerodynamic turret and travels on roads and on off-road 4 or 2 km/h faster than the base form. Basab Pattern are used in the Heavy Tank Destroyer Companies.
* **Scylar Basan Pattern:** The Scylar Light Tank, or to be more exact its Basan Pattern, makes up 15% of the Tanks used in an Basan Iron Flanqueres Regiment. Its pattern has a more powerfull engine necessary for the bigger cannon, the light Melta Gun and the heavier armour. Basan Patterns are used as scouts or for hunting down fleeing enemies while the bulk of the Regiment still destroyes the standing enemies.
* **Leman Russ Basan:** The Leman Russ Basan is a faster Leman Russ variant with changeable side-weapons and for Hunter-Killer Missiles.

## Regimental Apppearance

Soldiers from this Regiment wear a beige-orange coloured jumpsuit with a brown tanker cap. Officers have white markings and hence the Captain rank wear a white jacket when not in combat. Added infantrists wear over the jumbsuit a brownish combat armour. Tanks are coloured in a dark green-olive colour sample with three marine blue strippes on the cannon if it is a command vehicles and with a small cross if the Company commander uses the tank.