Editing Setting:Cloudburst/Guard (section)

===== [[Setting:Cloudburst/Maskos|Maskos System]] =====

As a Subsector capital, the Maskos system has produced hundreds of military units, some of which have earned their way onto the roll of Cloudburst heroes.
* 2nd Maskos Warriors Defenders “Breakwall”: This regiment was originally raised to combat the Orks of the Oldlight Exo-zone.  Although the Orks in question have long since died, the regiment lives on, its numbers replenished by periodic manpower tithes from Maskos.  The regiment has taken to battle various alien foes hundreds of times since the regiment first raised, but no battle defines them more than their losing campaign against the Dark Eldar of the Cloudburst Circuit, some four hundred years before the Seventh Glasian Migration.  The regiment reinforced an Imperial outpost that was under attack by Dark Eldar slavers, and managed to save only twelve percent of the Imperial personnel there, at the cost of seventy percent of their troops.  The regiment ultimately evacuated, and had to endure decades of shame for the event.  Perhaps to redeem themselves, they have thrown their full strength into dozens of wars since then, against foes as diverse as Slaanesh cults and the forces of the Necron Overlords.
* 91st Maskos Warriors Siege Regiment “Walltakers”: Fortress warfare is something with which the Imperium must often contend, and some regiments equip and train for that specific task.  The 91st regiment makes heavy use of mortars and mobile artillery, in contrast to other siege regiments that prefer heavy fixed guns.  The 91st employs their cheap, fast guns to overwhelm small spots on a defense line while other forces engage the fortress’ static defenses, then use breachers and combat enginseers to rapidly widen gaps in walls and trenches to bypass stunned defenders.  Obviously, this technique is best employed against human foes.  Eldar and Orks are more resistant to the disorientation that follows such blitz tactics, while the Glasians do not hold territory.  As a result, the 91st has fielded on Crusades against reticent human kingdoms and even rogue Imperial officials in the past, sometimes at the behest of Inquisitors who require their specialized skills.