Grand Admiral, First Order Central Command
Name: Helldiver Airborne Assault Company
Intent: To update the Helldiver unit for the Omega event with Quality and the various vehicles and support gear I’ve since subbed.
Affiliation: Mercenaries, but have absolute loyalty to Shadowline and House Tregessar.
Availability: Rare when fully equipped. More infantry and less vehicle support makes it more like Uncommon.
Quality: B – Veteran. Every Helldiver recruited MUST be a veteran of battle to make the ranks.
Type: Combined Arms Airborne unit. Designed to be deployed via dropship with armor and air support.
Strength:
6 x Aries Strike Fighters (crew of 2 fully trained Helldivers, split into two ‘Sections’ of three craft)
8 x C-60 Hetairoi Tanks or MA-91 Enforcer Walkers (crew of 3 fully trained Helldivers, split into two ‘Elements’ of four tanks)
2 x Thunderbirds (each carrying 4x Hetairoi Tanks, plus 20 soldiers and 5 crew)
8 x Hellhawks (each carrying 8 soldiers and 2 crew)
Total: 166 personnel (104 infantry, 62 crew), 24 vehicles.
Description:
The Helldiver Airborne Assault Company is the current refinement of the Helldiver concept. A self-contained highly mobile and partially self-sustaining assault force, these units are designed to be deployed at the onset of planetary invasions, in strikes against key facilities, or in long-range missions to cut supply lines and seize critical objectives. Transportation, air support, and armor capability are all provided for.
Helldiver infantry are recruited from Axxilan military and other professional and semi-professional forces around the galaxy (but mostly in and around Axxila). They do not take new recruits, and several years at a minimum of combat experience is required to enlist in their ranks. Additionally, a willingness to follow orders, obey the chain of command, and potentially take absurd risks is also required. Lastly, of course, absolute loyalty is to be shown to House Tregessar.
Fighter pilots and vehicle crewmen are given a bit more laxity in standards because of the increased difficulty in finding trained personnel. However all Helldivers are experienced combatants, and a grounded tanker or dropship pilot is still a highly skilled and well equipped infantryman at the very worst. This duel-role training is emphasized in part because for long-range missions resupply and reinforcements will be limited if available at all. While a Helldiver company is not designed to take and hold objectives, sometimes they will have to endure while the front line advances.
Every Helldiver is equipped with a suit of ARA-09D Armor, which gives them very good protection (per weight ratio) for the early stages of a fight. Weaponry is mostly proprietary Shadowline gear, with the SA-15 Maser being standard issue, but there are often SA-4 and UTAS-21’ssprinkled about for sharpshooter, fire support, and assault roles. For dedicated assault or anti-armor work typically one soldier per squadron is issued a 'SMAC' Particle Beam Gun or a HAS-50 or anti-force or fire support work. Handheld missile launchers, anti-tank weaponry, and other equipment is issued as needed.
The support vehicles are all manufactured by Shadowline or House Tregessar subsidiaries, and are designed with a specific role in mind. TheHellhawks provide squad-level transport and good mobility on a battlefield, while the larger and slower Thunderbirds provides long range fire support and heavy lift capability. Aries fighters provide a mix of air cover and close air support, while the Hetairoi’s many variants allow for anti-armor, anti-infantry, or general purpose tank support (with the characteristic emphasis on mobility). MA-91 Enforcers are sometimes used in situations that don't merit a full on repulsor tank.
A vehicle heavy combined arms company like this is necessarily expensive to equip and maintain, and a fully geared one is somewhat rare to see on the battlefield. Nonetheless there are situations where Shadowline will go to great expense to put multiple companies in the field (usually in support of objectives that directly benefit House Tregessar, or when directed by the infamous Grand Admiral Cyrus Tregessar).
Links:
Equipment
Threads
Intent: To update the Helldiver unit for the Omega event with Quality and the various vehicles and support gear I’ve since subbed.
Affiliation: Mercenaries, but have absolute loyalty to Shadowline and House Tregessar.
Availability: Rare when fully equipped. More infantry and less vehicle support makes it more like Uncommon.
Quality: B – Veteran. Every Helldiver recruited MUST be a veteran of battle to make the ranks.
Type: Combined Arms Airborne unit. Designed to be deployed via dropship with armor and air support.
Strength:
6 x Aries Strike Fighters (crew of 2 fully trained Helldivers, split into two ‘Sections’ of three craft)
8 x C-60 Hetairoi Tanks or MA-91 Enforcer Walkers (crew of 3 fully trained Helldivers, split into two ‘Elements’ of four tanks)
2 x Thunderbirds (each carrying 4x Hetairoi Tanks, plus 20 soldiers and 5 crew)
8 x Hellhawks (each carrying 8 soldiers and 2 crew)
Total: 166 personnel (104 infantry, 62 crew), 24 vehicles.
Description:
The Helldiver Airborne Assault Company is the current refinement of the Helldiver concept. A self-contained highly mobile and partially self-sustaining assault force, these units are designed to be deployed at the onset of planetary invasions, in strikes against key facilities, or in long-range missions to cut supply lines and seize critical objectives. Transportation, air support, and armor capability are all provided for.
Helldiver infantry are recruited from Axxilan military and other professional and semi-professional forces around the galaxy (but mostly in and around Axxila). They do not take new recruits, and several years at a minimum of combat experience is required to enlist in their ranks. Additionally, a willingness to follow orders, obey the chain of command, and potentially take absurd risks is also required. Lastly, of course, absolute loyalty is to be shown to House Tregessar.
Fighter pilots and vehicle crewmen are given a bit more laxity in standards because of the increased difficulty in finding trained personnel. However all Helldivers are experienced combatants, and a grounded tanker or dropship pilot is still a highly skilled and well equipped infantryman at the very worst. This duel-role training is emphasized in part because for long-range missions resupply and reinforcements will be limited if available at all. While a Helldiver company is not designed to take and hold objectives, sometimes they will have to endure while the front line advances.
Every Helldiver is equipped with a suit of ARA-09D Armor, which gives them very good protection (per weight ratio) for the early stages of a fight. Weaponry is mostly proprietary Shadowline gear, with the SA-15 Maser being standard issue, but there are often SA-4 and UTAS-21’ssprinkled about for sharpshooter, fire support, and assault roles. For dedicated assault or anti-armor work typically one soldier per squadron is issued a 'SMAC' Particle Beam Gun or a HAS-50 or anti-force or fire support work. Handheld missile launchers, anti-tank weaponry, and other equipment is issued as needed.
The support vehicles are all manufactured by Shadowline or House Tregessar subsidiaries, and are designed with a specific role in mind. TheHellhawks provide squad-level transport and good mobility on a battlefield, while the larger and slower Thunderbirds provides long range fire support and heavy lift capability. Aries fighters provide a mix of air cover and close air support, while the Hetairoi’s many variants allow for anti-armor, anti-infantry, or general purpose tank support (with the characteristic emphasis on mobility). MA-91 Enforcers are sometimes used in situations that don't merit a full on repulsor tank.
A vehicle heavy combined arms company like this is necessarily expensive to equip and maintain, and a fully geared one is somewhat rare to see on the battlefield. Nonetheless there are situations where Shadowline will go to great expense to put multiple companies in the field (usually in support of objectives that directly benefit House Tregessar, or when directed by the infamous Grand Admiral Cyrus Tregessar).
Links:
Equipment
SF/A-40 ‘Aries’ Strike Fighter
C-60 ‘Hetairoi’ Cruiser Tank
UA-50 ‘Thunderbird’ Dropship
UA-101 ‘Hellhawk’ Airspeeder
MA-91 Enforcer Combat Walker
ARA-09D Light Infantry Armor
SA-15 Maser Assault Rifle
SA-4 Blaster Assault Rifle
UTAS-21 ‘Cleaver’ Assault Carbine
ST-19 Repeating Blaster Pistol
HAS-50 'Super 15' Heavy Assault Shattergun
SGP-118 'SMAC' Particle Beam Gun
C-60 ‘Hetairoi’ Cruiser Tank
UA-50 ‘Thunderbird’ Dropship
UA-101 ‘Hellhawk’ Airspeeder
MA-91 Enforcer Combat Walker
ARA-09D Light Infantry Armor
SA-15 Maser Assault Rifle
SA-4 Blaster Assault Rifle
UTAS-21 ‘Cleaver’ Assault Carbine
ST-19 Repeating Blaster Pistol
HAS-50 'Super 15' Heavy Assault Shattergun
SGP-118 'SMAC' Particle Beam Gun
Threads
The old Air Cavalry Company
Shadowline (Shell company that nominally controls the Helldivers)
Helldivers have appeared in almost every non-fleeting thread Cyrus has participated in (and a few of those as well). What follows is at least part of those in which they are present in force.
- The Hard Lessons (details an op gone bad)
- Setting the Stage (an operation is mentioned)
- Dominion of Roxuli (Helldivers breach a spaceport from the void)
- Dominion of Belgaroth (not quite Black Hawk Down)
- Dorin Excorciate (Helldivers assist in seizing the Dorin Praxeum)
- Invasion of Empress Teta (Helldivers get wrecked by beskar-plated tanks. Inspiration for the Hetairoi, as it were)
- Inavsion of O'reen (Helldivers, then still Imperial Force Recon, defend O'reen)
- Valen (debut of Imperial Force Recon, taking cities in Valen)
Shadowline (Shell company that nominally controls the Helldivers)
Helldivers have appeared in almost every non-fleeting thread Cyrus has participated in (and a few of those as well). What follows is at least part of those in which they are present in force.
- The Hard Lessons (details an op gone bad)
- Setting the Stage (an operation is mentioned)
- Dominion of Roxuli (Helldivers breach a spaceport from the void)
- Dominion of Belgaroth (not quite Black Hawk Down)
- Dorin Excorciate (Helldivers assist in seizing the Dorin Praxeum)
- Invasion of Empress Teta (Helldivers get wrecked by beskar-plated tanks. Inspiration for the Hetairoi, as it were)
- Inavsion of O'reen (Helldivers, then still Imperial Force Recon, defend O'reen)
- Valen (debut of Imperial Force Recon, taking cities in Valen)
