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==Regiment==

===Background===

1st Cale's World Rifle Regiment officially known as 1st Calean Rifles colloquially or "The Big Green One"

* Homeworld: Imperial
* Commander: Maverick
* Regiment Type: Line Infantry
* Training Doctrine: Die Hards
* Training Doctrine: Sharpshooters
* Drawback: Cloud of Suspicion (The "untimely inquiries" takes the form of the propaganda officers taking an unhealthy interest in what the Guards are doing.)

The Cale's World 1st Rifle Regiment is, as the name implies, the first regiment to complete its training and leave to find its destiny in the stars. Cale's World has already become something of a PR coup for the Imperium; its discovery and subsequent peaceful conversion to the Imperial Creed over the last hundred years has been the subject of many propaganda pieces. But the work has only begun. And so when the 1st Rifles left home, they brought along some unusual companions.

The Cale's World 1st Rifles are destined to become the new face of the Imperial propaganda machine. And so their regiment has makeup artists, writers, cameramen, PR officers, and all other manners of hangers-on whose job is to get just the right shots at just the right time. But the best shots are action shots! And so the 1st Rifles always find themselves where the fighting is the thickest, where the odds are the most stacked against them, and where the chances of survival are slimmest. It doesn't matter if they die, so long as they die on camera. Heroism can be added in post. Each of the Guards has already given interviews for battles they haven't fought yet, just in case they die too soon and they want to use their faces for a while longer before turning them into heroic martyrs.

===Special Rule===

Calean military training emphasizes marksmanship and mobility. Caleans can use Called Shot as a Half Action.

===Composition===

The regiment, led by the colonel, is composed of infantry companies.

Each company is led by a captain. Captains and lower ranking officers generally share the colonel’s leadership style. (They can all be considered Mavericks.)

Caleans consider 5 to be a holy number, so the regiment has 5 battalions of 5 companies of 5 platoons of 5 squads. Each squad is composed of 5 fire teams of 5 troopers. The total numbers are 25 companies, 125 platoons, and 625 squads, and 15 625 troopers. Additional command section troops and support specialists such as priests and tech priests bring the number closer to 16 000.

This makes 1st Calean Rifles above average in size among Imperial Guard regiments. That is why they have some additional ranks not common among smaller regiments. Each  battalion is led by a major, who assist the colonel in keeping the regiment organised. And the squads, being significantly larger than usually, have corporals in charge of fire teams, in addition to the sergeant leading the squad as a whole.

Each company has 5 platoons - four infantry and one heavy weapons platoon - and the company HQ. The total strength of a company is as follows:
* 1 captain
* 1 commissar
* 6 lieutenants
* 29 sergeants
* 5 priests
* 5 tech priests
* 614 other ranks (including a medical section of a surgeon and 5 orderlies)

661 total

Company command section includes the following:
* captain
* adjutant
* signalstrooper
* senior sergeant
* standard bearer
* forward observer
* vox operator

The commissar usually, but not always, accompanies the command section.

The heavy weapons platoon includes a command section, a mortar squad, two anti-tank squads and two fire support squads.

Infantry platoons have a command section and 5 infantry squads. The command section has a following composition:
* 1 lieutenant
* 1 vox operator
* 1 medic
* 1 gunner
* 1 assistant
* 1 missile launcher

And the infantry squads have the following composition:
* 1 sergeant
* 1 vox operator
* 1 special weapon
* 1 sniper
* 21 other guards

===Standard kit===
* 1 uniform, 
* 1 set of poor weather gear
* a rucksack
* 1 set of basic tools
* 1 mess ket
* 1 canteen
* 1 blanket
* 1 sleep bag
* 1 rechargable lamp pack
* 1 grooming kit
* 1 set of cognomen tags
* 1 instructional handbook (Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer)
* 1 Munitorum Manual
* 2 weeks rations

* Main weapon: M36 Lasgun and four charge packs
* Sidearm: Accatran-Pattern MKII Heavy Laspistol and two charge packs
* Melee weapon: Knife
* Grenades: two frag and two krak
* Armor: Best-quality storm trooper carapace armor (7 points protection in all locations)
* Favored Basic Weapon: Plasma Gun
* Favored Heavy Weapon: Lascannon