These troops are organised into regiments normally between five and ten thousand men each. These men are volunteers, driven by poverty or a sense of adventure, though Brimlock could choose to conscript men in times of crisis. The inhabitants of Marguerite are commonly known as "margoes." Some within the Brimlock System consider this term purely descriptive, but most use it to be mildly derogatory.Īs a highly populated planet, Brimlock is able to provide several million men to the Imperial Guard each standard year. Marguerite ("Blessed Marguerite" is a common oath on Brimlock, alongside "God-Emperor"). One of these planets was renamed Marguerite by the Brimlocks after they conquered it in honour of the patron Imperial Saint of Brimlock, St. The tribute worlds provide material and a tithe of men to fight in the Brimlock Auxilia. The other planets in the Brimlock System are "tribute worlds" which fall under the control of Brimlock's Planetary Governor. Brimlock is a planet that is particularly famous for producing ornate rifles and other high-quality military equipment.īrimlock is the administrative and military centre of its star system. The poorest of Brimlock's populace live in slums known as "rookeries." Some workers work on the outside of large dirigibles which float over the planet's hive cities. Some of these workers are literally born and die there. This world is at a late Industrial Revolution-era level of technology, with the rich living well and the millions of workers manning semi-automated production lines. The Civilised World of Brimlock is a world defined by heavy industry and manufacturing located in the Ultima Segmentum. Multiple Brimlock Dragoons regiments fought in the Damocles Gulf Crusade, the first military conflict fought between the Imperium of Man and the rapidly expanding Tau Empire in the Lithesh Sector of the Ultima Segmentum in the galaxy's Eastern Fringes during the late 41st Millennium. Regiments drawn from this world are known to have a preference for operating as mechanised infantry, deploying in Armoured Fist squadrons. The Brimlock Dragoons are the regiments of the Imperial Guard that hail from the Imperial world of Brimlock. Trooper Rit ‘ Mouse’ Chaffey Brimlock 11th Imperial Guard regiment, Ellinor Crusade And then you send them out again ’til you’ve only got one in ten of those still kicking. And of the ten men who thought they were tough, nine find they weren’t tough enough of the ten who thought they were smart, nine find they weren’t smart enough the ten who thought they were lucky find their luck runs out. ’Til just the toughest, just the smartest, just the bleedin’ luckiest are still breathing.
And you keep ’em fighting ’til for every ten you started with you got only one man left. But you take a million men and you throw them into the fight. A single regiment, a dozen companies, a few detachments of support.
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