Unit of Renown - The Wolf and Falcon Brigades

One of the opening acts of the War for Terra Nova was a coup in Port Arthur. CEF loyalists turned on their fellows and seized control of the city-state. Colonel Arthur made it out alive but many of his trusted allies were executed by the CEF loyalists. Much of the GREL population was put to work as effectively slave labor, turning Port Arthur back into the military beachhead it was intended to be. As Colonel Arthur rallied his followers to retake the city, inside the inhabitants were in near open rebellion. Led by Colonel Proust, the GREL portions of the population resisted CEF occupation hard and would later prove instrumental in the retaking of the city. NuCoal and allied forces were organized into two “brigades” codenamed Wolf and Falcon. Wolf consisted of much of Arthur’s tank and infantry forces while Falcon was predominantly gears. These two forces alternated playing hammer and anvil as they destroyed CEF units sent to contest them. Eventually they made it to Port Arthur and the resistance forces helped force the CEF to abandon the city’s defenses. Proust himself fled, taking a huge amount of equipment, supplies and new recruits with him just as Colonel Arthurs forces breached the gates.

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Léon’s Port Arthur Korps

Today we’re featuring another army from the community. Léon (aka Part Time Commie) from the local community has sent us pictures of their fantastic looking Port Arthur Korps army (with a little CEF mixed in).

Here’s my PAK armies, sometimes shamelessly used as CEF for narrative purposes, I decided to go with PAK because I really liked their tanks, especially the MHT-68 all hail the MHT-68, and their combined arms approach. I could have went with CEF but I found the narrative possibilities with PAK more interesting since you could do more with border politics than the big bad threat from outer-space. I also really liked the idea of those old tanks being maintained past their primes and supplemented with old gears they got for cheap. I have other armies from which I can pull models to put them in and maybe later I will paint gears in PAK colors and decals. I decided to go with something very standard for the color scheme as I had multiple armies I wanted to paint and wanted to be flexible in my narratives. It’s not original but I really like that color scheme and it screams PAK/CEF when you look at it, at least to me!

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