Medici Third Brigade Armored

Structure
1.	1 command tank(Colonel and veteran 5 man crew)

2.	3 companies of 20 Leman Russ Tanks(360 men)

Equipment
Standard issue equipment included:

•	Olive green Cadian Pattern armor(Brigade and Regimental Sigils on the L. shoulder Silver Aquila on the Right)(seldom worn but for the helmet)

•	An olive green long sleeved shirt(rank markers on the sleeves)(most cut the sleeves down)

•	Bloused trousers (same color) with gray puttees and black boots. •	Cadian pattern lasgun(seldom carried)

•	Medici pattern auto pistol (used as a sidearm) and 2 extra magazines. •	Bayonet/combat knife.

•	1 week of rations/ meal kit

•	2 extra charge packs

•	Imperial Guardsman’s Uplifting primer

Notes on Regimental Culture
Their tanks were painted with slate gray and Olive Green Camouflage vehicles kills were represented by black lightning bolts on the hull. Only exceptional crews were allowed to name their tanks leading to intense competition in the ranks for that honor. They tried to make their tanks as home-y as possible with pictures of loved ones and various nicknacks including fuzzy dice hanging from the cannon barrel (Tessera translates from High Gothic as "Dice")

Women were a very rare minority in the Medici armored regiments but they still served, earning the respect of the men they fought with. That being said images of female tankers lying on their tanks in various suggestive poses were popular with infantry soldiers.

History
"'''Sir, the Targeting Scope is out!"

"Then aim down the frakking barrel! Give me something!"

- a tank commander to his gunner.

The Regiment was founded as part of the 3rd Brigade Tessera under the command of the command of Brigadier General Adriana Serino. She was not quite as capable as the others due to getting her position in part by political means. As such they and the Brigade as a whole learned a harsh lesson fighting Orks on Trazadone. Orks had begun to reappear after Tubthumpa's defeat there, quickly reaching a point where the Trazadone PDF could not cope, calling on Medici for help. Serino eager to prove herself and her new command engaged the WAAAGH on the plains near Mount Morphene. They were quickly outflanked and only the quick thinking of Colonel Andretta saved the battle. He broke formation, racing to engage the Ork Deff Dreds approaching on the Left flank. This action alerted the Artillery Regiment who switched targets and smashed them before they could engage with "The Storm" tearing through the survivors. this event would be known in Brigade history as "The Storm of Iron and Brass" The Colonels then acted on their own catching the Orks in a pincer movement that drove them from the field. General Serino killed the warboss personally, putting a laspistol shot into his skull and then mounting it on a spike welded to Condotto, Colonel Andretta's command tank. They learned from that battle, doing well against Orks elsewhere in the Kashidaan Cluster and Xomia but failed to do as well against the Tyranids. The one black spot on their otherwise good record is their total inability to do anything against them, the regiment was overwhelmed and destroyed in the first hour of fighting. There were no survivors but they died surrounded by mounds of Tyranid dead.