Hello, I'm Captian Belesarius, commanding officer of The Beinirham
Colony Expeditionary Force, 1st Company. The 'Company' originated from
Catachan. (It is actually only about platoon strength plus some Setinals).

My 'Company' is comprised of just 38 soldiers (536 or 629 points if
the Fast Attack squad is used as regulars. Plus points for grenades
and booby traps if I use them). Divided into a Command Squad; A
platoon with two 5 man squads; another platoon with a two team fire
support and two squads, one of which has a missile launcher and the
two 'locals'; An I/R Platoon (Catachan Patrol): and a squadron of two
Setinals.

The only non Catachan, including the two 'locals' who are possibly the
closest thing the planet had to a PDF, is the Commissar.

(Other than those RPed) The Company has only been in one 'Battle'. It
was actually more of a mostly friendly war game between my Company
(minus five men, the commissar, and two officers. Myself being only a
lieutenant of a platoon, but also serving as Acting Company Captain),
and a Squad of Space Marines with an armored train (Also mine and
played by my self, but fairly, the battle being to 'decide' the
outcome for the main character of a 4 pg story I wrote which had a
sort of poor conclusion in my mind, although it was the intro and 40k
terms that made me loose points, and now both are inaccurate). The
goal was for my company to stop the Space Marines from taking their
prisoner (The sample Space Marine I painted when I first bought my
starter set two years ago) through the exit point on the other end of
the board. On the third turn a missile finally Took out the
locomotive, before or just when the train was entirely on the board.
Leading from the front, and my shots not penetrating the Armour of the
Astrates I was aiming at I tried to get closer, and assault. But
didn't make it to the ladder on the tender, the train being wood
powered, cheap on jungle worlds.I learned that pretty much standing
directly under someone with a missile launcher pointed at you is not a
good Idea. T- Shirts and some leaves don't really make a difference
against krak missiles. But we won, in a victorious slaughter. Thanks
to the disabling of all 4 high point cars on the train, killing all
our opponents, meeting the objective, and with one unit still alive in
the highest fatality unit. Having the advantage of infiltrate, Victory
was obtained by Jungle fighters alone. The setinals receiving mostly
low roles an having to start in the deployment zone, on the opposite
corner of the map, only made it about half way across the map.

The company is finely going to get an assured chance for action,
having been skunked the last three excursions. (Three trips to my to
my local GW Hobby center turned into nothing more then painting with
free paint due to lack of players in my points range, and one case of
exclusion.) After Months of constantly taunting, provoking,
challenging, seeking progress reports from, and even persuading a
small group of tau (305-308 points or so), they finally seem to be
gearing for war, and now instead of us halving to initiate
communication/ remind them of the subject, they have started
initiating the conversation themselves.
5 men from my weapons teams have just been issued their new lasguns
(Unpainted still), Also the emperor's war paints are still needed for
Myself, the officers, and even 'Mr.Whippys' (The Commissar,
his name due to the, still to be painted, red 'whippy stick' held
behind his back. Ironically NOT considered a weapon in the rule book,
although at my local GW center the ones in the starter set ARE. His
Chimera if I get one will become the Mr. Whippy's Van).

I'll let out know How that turns out. They like to mention their
broadside a lot, but then we remind them that without their precious
markerlights, they wouldn't be able to hit the side of a starship, if
they were INSIDE it.