Corsica - A Quick Historical Analysis of Modern Military Thought

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Regiments of Corsica

Traditionally, Corsican regiments have been predominantly infantry-based, backed by formations of cavalry and artillery.  Very few transports are implemented into the Corsican Commanders' school of thought. This primarily reflects the historical Corsican culture.

 When originally rediscovered by the Imperium, Corsica was a developing feudal world. Corsican las technology was deteriorated, specifically in their cooling mechanism. Because engineers on the planet could not fully comprehend the internal components of a lasgun cooling system, Corsican-pattern lasguns were developed to only allow one shot every 15-20 seconds.  This allowed an infantryman to fire three volleys every minute, without overheating his rifle.

Corsican commanders developed their battlefield tactics to adapt to the technology, and would arrange their soldiers in ranks, coordinating disciplined firing lines to allow a constant barrage of las fire at their enemies, which, more often than not, were other Corsicans.

Most lasguns produced on Corsica today still retain the firing delay mechanism, for both historical reasons, and for civil protection. Most Corsican boys raised with lasguns, taught how to shoot them, how to hunt with them, and as such they are already well trained marksmen when they are drafted into the military.  Most serve their mandatory 5 year compulsory term in the Planetary Defense Force, but some are conscripted and sent off-world to fight in distant Imperial campaigns.

The Corsican regulars are generally given a Corsican-pattern lasgun, with the delayed firing mechanism. Fully automatic lasguns are reserved specifically for regimental veterans and elite combat units.  As such, Corsican commanders that take to the field still employ the old firing ranks that were used centuries ago on Corsica, and they use it devastatingly.  Of course, this isn't true for every Corsican commander. The more liberal commanders are starting to employ more transports and fast vehicles in their armies, developing rapid deployment and mechanized strategies to adapt to the ever changing ebb and flow of war in the 41st millennium.

Post One

I've decided to start a blog to document my progress in painting and playing. I have roughly 2250+ points of Imperial Guard and Blood Angels. I started 40k somewhere around 2001-2002, right at the tail end of 3rd edition. I picked up space marines, of course, and eventually turned them into Blood Angels, thinking that would help me win the inevitable close combats I fought against my friend's Ork horde. Oh, I was so young and naive. I eventually started collecting Imperial Guard as well, once the plastic Cadians were released.

I dropped 40k once I hit college and picked it back up in August of 2010. To my surprise, and discouragement, both of my armies had new codexes. $50 down the drain from the get go...that is the 40k I remembered. I had a sizable mechanized force built up for my Blood Angels, which surpassed me since vehicles were awful back in 3rd and 4th(remember the naivety), but I guess the young me was just preparing for 5th edition.

However, my Imperial Guard was the standard foot slogging list of 4th edition. I didn't even own a single chimera. I had planned on building a mechanized IG force, "That will be more challenging," I told myself. But then I found out about the leaf blower lists, and how mech guard was the new big thing, so I turned back to my foot guard. Thus the Corsican 523rd was reborn. 523 for my wedding anniversary(May 23rd), and Corsican for their Napoleonic, rifle line play style that I refuse to give up on.

Will they frustrate me enough to turn them into the 101st EBay Regiment? Will I surrender and purchase all the melta guns and chimeras I can find? We'll find out.

BoxerSaint, out.