Codex:
Fighting Tigers of Veda (pg 4)
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Using the Fighting Tigers Army List
The Fighting
Tigers army list is identical in structure to the standard army list in
Codex:
Space Marines; the changes you’ll find here are purely stylistic,
to reflect the Chapter’s history and traditions. Unless noted in this volume,
all of the rules, options, and limitations that apply to a Space Marine
army also apply to a Fighting Tigers army.
Choosing
Your Army
When you are
choosing your army, you may make choices from the Codex: Space Marines
army list, staying within the normal limitations of the Force Organization
chart, points value of the battle, etc.
Fighting
Tiger Traits
The Fighting
Tigers diverge only minorly from the Codex Astartes, the great tome that
describes how Space Marine Chapters should be organized. The Tigers are
considered Sombre (see page 43 of Codex: Space Marines)
and often Cleanse and Purify, their Tactical Sqauds exchanging missile
launchers and lascannons for flamers, plasma guns, and meltaguns.
Some of the
worst defeats the Tigers have suffered have been drop-pod assaults gone
disastrously wrong (especially against the Warband
Bloodcomet) and the Tigers will choose to Die Standing (see
page 45 of C: SM) rather than use them.
Fighting
Tigers of Veda Organization
The Fighting
Tigers do not organize themselves into 10 companies, as do Chapters, like
the Ultramarines, who adhere strictly to the Codex Astartes. Instead, to
adequately patrol Veda, a large and mostly unsettled planet, the Fighting
Tigers divide themselves into two castes, or jatis, one based
on each of Veda’s continents,
Mahaduyana and Ghuyarashtra.
Each jatis is identical in size (about 500 Marines, plus attendants) and
organization. Each jatis takes its name from its home continent and its
markings from the tigers found there.
Optional
Rule: Jatis Mahaduyana emphasizes strength: with your opponent’s permission,
an all-Mahaduyanan Fighting Tigers army may replace two of its Fast Attack
units with one additional Heavy Support unit.
Optional
Rule: Jatis Ghuyarashtra emphasizes speed: with your opponent’s permission,
an all-Ghuyarashtran Fighting Tiger army may replace two of its Heavy Support
units with one additional Fast Attack unit.
Of course,
as the two jatis almost always work together during off-planet missions,
almost all Fighting Tigers armies will include members of both jatis. In
these cases, you would use the Force Organization Chart as normal.
The Fighting Tigers
further divide each jatis into five sabhas, or associations,
of similar warriors, and each sabha names themselves for the ancient Vedic
god they venerate. Thus, all the Tactical Marines are bound together as
the Tigers of Rudra, the Assault Marines as the Tigers
of Kali, and so on.
Sabhas are
led into battle by tanadars: Heroes, Librarians, Chaplains,
and associated command squads. All of these leaders are attached to the
sabha and venerate its god, but many of them (particularly the Librarians,
Chaplains, Apothecaries, and Techmarines) also have another patron god
to whom they are dedicated.
Sabhas contain
not only Marines but also the vehicles they use; the Fighting Tigers give
each machine larger than a bike a name and consider those vehicles members
as well.
The organizational
philosophy used by the Fighting Tigers is that sabhas are pools from which
leaders can draw upon when assembling a shikar, or campaign
army. Unlike Codex Astartes Space Marine Companies, individual sabhas are
not intended to effectively operate independently, but by having pools
of units, Fighting Tiger Kshatriyas (captains) can, for example,
call upon lots of Assault and Devastator Squads when battling tank armies,
or extra Tactical and Veteran units when facing hordes of infantry.
Fighting Tiger
squads usually number 5 or 10 members, as the numbers 6, 7, 8, and 9 are
favored by the forces of Chaos (Slaanesh, Nurgle, Khorne, and Tzeentch,
respectively).
The current
Fighting Tiger Organization chart is given here.
Excerpt
from report by Chief Xenobiomage Gupta to
Maharaja
Shiva Nagordarika, concerning Vedic lifeforms:
Medical
and psychic studies of the native people have confirmed that the tribesmen
are the descendants of colonists that came to Regulus Secundus during the
Dark Age of Technology.
Apparently,
the colonists brought gene samples and cloning equipment to duplicate Terran
bio-forms—dogs, cats, livestock, crops, etc.—intended to help support the
colonies. Other Terran lifeforms were cloned as well, perhaps to recreate
animal populations extinct on Earth or to control native herbivores that
threatened the colonists’ crops.
The
northern, or Mahaduyanan, tigers are most like the tigers of Earth (extinct
since the Third Millennium). These animals—the male is orange with black
stripes, the female white with black stripes—average 10 ½ feet in
length and 850 pounds in weight, though males up to 18 feet and females
up to 15 feet have been observed by villagers.
Dwelling
in mated pairs in the jungles, these sabertoothed cats swim and climb well.
Their favorite prey is the babirusa, a tusked, six-legged,
heavily armored boar-like omnivore. Mahaduyanan tigers usually wait for
their prey in high grass or large trees, then silently pounce, claws and
enlarged canines extended, in a boneshattering attack that can easily crack
open babirusa shells or even, as a few of your patrols have learned, Space
Marine power armor.
The
southern, or Ghuyarashtran, tigers average 8 ½ feet in length and
200 pounds in weight. Their tails and legs are longer and they lack
the heavy jaws and sabretooth fangs of their northern cousins, but the
most striking difference is coloration. The male is mustard tan with brown
stripes, the female white with brown stripes, perfect for the drier grasslands
where they dwell.
The
Ghuyarashtran tigers hunt in pairs at dawn and twilight, the female stampeding
herbivores towards the waiting male. These tigers can reach speeds of up
to 45 miles per hour for short bursts. They prey on deer, gazelle, wild
pigs and—like the Mahaduyanan tigers—humans. |
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Related Pages
Fighting
Tiger HQ
Fighting
Tiger Elites
Fighting
Tiger Troops
Fighting
Tiger Fast Attack
Fighting
Tiger Heavy Support
Current
Fighting Tiger Organization
Glossary
and Pronunciation Guide
Codex Main
Page and Table of Contents
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