Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20161126200910

For the most part the Empire never deploys a whole legion to a world nor a cohort (It would have to be pretty bad to do so) For the most part a single Century and maybe, maybe a Centuria sent to a world. Now the basic unit of the legion is the Vexillation (4 squads of troop each squad 21 individuals)

A Vexillation is squad base with 4 individual squads working relatively together but able to hold their own. Each Vex is lead by a Tesserarius with each squad lead by a Decanus.

A Squad is 21 individuals each armed about the same. Squads come in a few variants:

Tactical:

The basic squad used for pretty much anything.

Support:

Everything you need to support a legion comes from these squads. Normally defensive in style.

Heavy Fire:

Pretty much the heavy hitters within the legions used to obliterate positions.

Each Squad is it's own fighting unit that can hold back large masses of enemy troops and at times drive them back. They come into battle by use of a drop ship and carry a small banner into battle (Carried by one of the legionaries upon his back)

Each Squad has it's basic tactical legionaries but they also are required to have one Banner Carrier, One medic, One engineering Legionary (Trained by the cultis mechanicus), and one Visionary. 