Name: Astra Militarum (or the Imperial guard)
Leader: General Carus Balzuer
Goals: The Purpose of the imperial guard on Arcadia two fold. First they are to secure Arcadia for further Imperium expansion onto the planet. The second is to train the local PDF to be able to defend the planet.
Troops: The guard forces on Arcadia consists of 3 guard regiments with conscripts taken from refugees numbering about 40,000 men.
The regiments on Arcadia;
88th and 128th Voltage Heavy Infantry regiment: From the imperial Hive World Voltage a planet that is cover with massive electric storm forcing the planets population to stay underground. In these condition the voltage guard was formed to keep the population in check. This eventually lead to the voltage guard specialize in urban warfare and peacekeeping. The latter they do with utmost brutality to keep order in the hives of Voltage.
The stander Voltage uniform with their short barrel voltage pattern lasgun. The regiments number around 30,000 soldiers.
152nd Voltage armored regiment: The hives of voltage have the industrial capability to create and maintain armored regiments. Voltage armored regiment tend to favor the demolisher, eradicator, and punisher pattern for their usefulness in urban combat. These regiment tend to be deployed alongside guard regiments that specialized in urban combat to maximized their effeminacy. The Wyvern Suppression Tank and the hellhounds are also found in the regiments. The regiment has 260 Leman Russ tanks (100 Leman Russ Battle Tank, 23 Demoisher patterns, 23 Eradicator patterns, and 14 Punisher patterns) and 77 other armored vehicles (30 sentinel, 25 Wyvern, 20 Hydra flak tanks, 20 support vehicles, 12 hellhounds.) Along with 1,100 personnel. Before their deployment onto Arcadia 4 super heavy tanks. The super heavy unit is made up of 1 Shadowsword and 3 Baneblades.
Conscripts: Conscripts represent hastily conscripted men, raised from local in dire situations to defend the imperial locations from across imperial holdings. The conscripts have been recruited form the refugees that were evacuated from a planet before the ships were sucked into a warp storm and ended up over arcadia. Organized into squads of 20-50 soldiers these squads are pressed into combat with regular guard units to act as meat shield for the more valuable guardsmen. 10,000
Important Members: Field Marshal Carus Balzuer
Marshal Verspasian Kummeler commander of the 88th
Marshal Garald Zhirinovsky commander 152nd
Marshal Roman Kusovlfa commander of the 128th
Lord-Commissar Cyrus Dratch
Tactical Advantages: Armored Might: The tanks and other armored vehicles of the imperial guard are some of the toughest and rugged vehicles on the planet. With a wide verity or armored vehicles can fill many roles that the Imperium needs on the battlefield with ease.
Lords of war: Among the forces of the imperial guard are powerful super heavy vehicles each pack the fire power and armored to decimate entire battle lines. These lords of war are massive with the smallest the size of a hab-block.
Experience officers: With the imperial guard deploy to fight on the many worlds of the imperium the officer core for the guard has years’ experience gives them an edge on the battlefield.
Tactical Disadvantages: Stretch thin: Even with the assistance of conscripts there is still not enough guardsman to proper man and support protect the territories of the Imperium. This by extension leaves many places under maned an in most cases lacking important equipment due to it being sent to more important location.
Unreliable Conscripts: Due to the mass conscription many of these units lack any combat experience and in most cases with the lack of commissars to discipline for heavy combat. Another problem they have is that the normal guard forces have given themselves priority when it comes to supplies leaving the conscripts under supplied.
Mortals: Despite their training an imperial guardsman are still human.
Origin: Warhammer 40k