Warzone Unit Spotlight: Imperial Trenchers

Spotlight: Imperial Trenchers

In the Lore:
The life of an Imperial Trencher is incredibly hard. Any week of the standard trencher three month deployment can send a weak or frail mind insane. Week upon monotonous week is dominated by battlefield filth and drudgery, sentry duty and drills, punctuated only by hour long bouts of sheer terror as the enemy attacks or the trenchers themselves are sent over the top. The future of an Imperial Line Infantryman, as they are officially known, is bleak; a life living, sleeping and defecating in a hole, or series of interconnected holes in the ground is unnatural to the human body and it is potentially fatal. The omnipresent barrage of artillery frays the nerves of even the most stalwart, inducing insubordination in the subordinated and acts of unexplainable and misdirected violence in the mild. Insanity cannot be an option, shell-shock and combat stress when caught early enough can be avoided or quickly extinguished. Every soldier is well stocked with a reserve of calming, stress-suppressing (and cancer inducing) drugs. Trenchers are no strangers to misusing and abusing chemicals as a tool of war. Standard issue gas-masks both administer their drugs, but also protect them from the thick, acrid, chemical gases Imperial routinely uses against its enemies.

On the Tabletop:
Trenchers are a great troops choice in an Imperial force they come stock with 4 Invader Assault rifles and one Charger HMG. The Charger has a strength of 13 and a rate of fire of 3 making it a great addition to the squad.

Trenchers have the most versatile under the barrel grenade launcher as well; it allows them to shoot 3 different sorts of grenades. Smoke which obscure them as they advance and brings a -2 RS modifier to anyone shooting through it. Targeting flares which grants a +2 RS modifier to shoot any models within 2 inches of the marker. Lastly they have a Greyhound tracking beacon that allows the Greyhounds mortar a more accurate shot.

The Trenchers Special Skill allows all trenchers that can claim light cover to count it as heavy cover instead. This is a hugely beneficial rule and makes them very resilient in cover.

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