Urban(ie) Defense Force

 So the past several weeks have been a bit of a whirlwind with a new job that has led to a lot of hours worked on the front side as I deal with staffing and a long laundry list of items that the previous person left unhandled.  I have managed to in small bits here and there make some progress on what I think will be Cheef's favorite Battletech unit of mine, the Urban(ie) Defense Force.  The test model that made a previous post has been tweaked a little.  I had gone for a simple concrete look on the base and the more I looked at it, the more I didn't like it.  So I've based all the models with sand then painted gray over it followed by a black wash to give it a gravel/pavement look that I think is a lot better.

 

This mercenary battalion was formed in the aftermath of the 4th Succession War.  The unit is the remnants of a Liao militia force that was mostly destroyed then bypassed by the Davion blitzkrieg strike into the Liao Commonality.  It's first contract was to the newly formed St Ives Compact doing what it had been doing before the war, defending urban and industrial installations.  Their first client was defending some of the Ceres Metal Industries plants and installations on St Ives while they were evaluated and investigated to insure they were not Capellan agents or plants.

After a year on St Ives, they were transferred to Indicass to defend the CMI industrial complex located there.  After several years of this, and seeing the rising tension in the area, Major Aioki took a contract to move the unit away from an area that looked to blossom into full blown war again.  Taking a number of contracts the unit moved slowly through the Davion half of the Federated Commonwealth until finally arriving in the Outworlds Alliance to defend new manufacturing facilities there as part of the OA's Long Road Project.

So I still need to do up the eight bases of mech infantry using the last of my micro-armor half tracks to finish off this unit.  Unless I stumble across a really good deal for more UrbanMechs.  I mean no reason not to have more, they're like Pringles, you can't stop after you have one ..,

 So that's it for now and hopefully work will get closer to normal in a couple or three weeks and I'll start getting more regular updates and hopefully some games with Cheef as well.  I'll see you all next time and thanks for the views.

MI6 Rabid Fox Team

MI6 Rabid Fox Team Blue Delta
Major Oliver McFaddon

Lance Blue Delta Alpha
Major Oliver Mc Faddon, Phoenix Hawk
Lt. Eloise Allison, Phoenix Hawk
Lt. Timothy Langston, Phoenix Hawk
Lt. Matthew Gatesby, Phoenix Hawk

Lance Blue Delta Beta
Captain Amanda Whitehall, Kintaro
Lt. Paul Owensby, Jenner
Lt. Sebastian Mycroft, Mercury
Lt. Bernard Glendower, Firefly

                       

MI6 Rabid Fox Teams are some of the best trained special force troopers in the inner sphere.  These FedSuns experts deploy along the Liao and Kurita borders to perform reconnaissance missions, data theft raids, industrial and military sabotage, and other missions.  Blue Delta is one of those teams which are most active in the Sarna March portion of the Federated Suns.  Their skill sets, in addition to being top tier mech pilots, includes various specialties such as communications, encryption, demolition, infiltration, and numerous other skills that would aid the completion of their missions.

This team works off of the Invader-class Jumpship Raven Darkholme which has well established itself working the trade routes along the edges of Capellan and Kuritan space near the Davion borders closest to Terra.  They also use a modified Mule-class Drop Ship James Madrox that can drop deploy a pair of battlemechs if needed.  The Invader has been modified to outfit it with extra sensors, concealed weapons to the vessel some extra punch if needed, and several hidden storage compartments.

So that's all for now as it's been a bad week for me on the sinus front.  There are a set of magnolia trees across the street from where I live that have turned everything yellow with pollen and seem intent on starting a major bio-attack along the lines of what the Blakists would try to pull off.  Slowly getting it under control and hope to start paining some Urbans here in the next few days.  Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you all next time.