Mordant Acid Dogs
From Lexicanum
| Mordant Acid Dogs | |
| Branch | Imperial Guard |
| Homeworld | Mordant Prime |
|---|---|
| Type | Infantry regiments |
| Role: | Tunnel/nocturnal fighters |
The Mordant Acid Dogs are the Imperial Guard regiments recruited from Mordant Prime.
Mordant is an mining world where the population lives in the subterranean tunnels. The conditions within the tunnels are harsh, where criminal gangs are the only authority and citizens must prey upon each other for the meagre resources. Only the skilled miners, part of a very old organization of clans, do not suffer from the poverty of the world. The miners contract local manual labour, paying just enough to allow the most basic of living conditions in the shacks of the shanty caverns.
The Mordant regiments are generally formed from those that cannot live on the miserable payment of the mining clans or earn the wrath of one of the criminal gangs.
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Battle style
Regiments of Mordant make excellent tunnel fighters and are typically deployed to combat zones in which their natural affinity with dark and confined spaces can be taken advantage of. Mordant regiments are often destined for nocturnal worlds.
Equipment
Mordant regiments have little in the way of a standardised appearance, much of their personal equipment acquired from previous war zones. As with Imperial Guard regiments in general, their equipment is marked with symbols from the culture of their home world.
Mordant soldiers will often be armed with weapons not issued to them during their regiment's founding, such as the Triplex-type lasgun, a rare model in the regions the Mordant regiments have fought, but highly valued by soldiers who must fight in underground tunnels. A veteran of many campaigns will often have acquired a range of specialised and uncommon weapons and equipment, either from past war zones or stolen from soldiers of other regiments.
Notable regiments
Mordant 13th "Lucky 13s"
- Formed a resistance force against the Black Crusade of Jihar The Lacerator. Due to their exposure to Chaos, they were afterwards annihilated by the Inquisition.
Mordant 303rd
- The 303rd regiment was originally a unit of Mordant Prime's Planetary Defence Forces before being tithed to the Imperial Guard.
- Regimental history and battle honours
- The 303rd's most notable combat experience was against an infestation of (presumably) Hrud, in the battles during The Plague of Delphic.
- Postings and garrisons
- When Abaddon launched the Thirteenth Black Crusade, the militia was recruited into the Imperial Guard as the Mordant 303rd to take part in the Imperium's defense.
