Cadians and Draconians!

I managed to procure a second-hand Imperial Guard army for cheap! Phew. That saved me a lot of time and money than if I were to build them up from scratch. Best of all, these are all old-school models, with most of them being metal models from the early 2000s/90s! Basically this is what I think I have:

4 Leman Russ tanks (main battle tanks)
2 Hellhounds with heavy flamers
1 Company Commander
4-5 Sergeants with boltguns
1 Sergeant with a power sword and boltgun
3 Sergeants with power swords/chainswords and laspistols
1 Sergeant with shotgun (I actually had 2, but a friend wanted one of them)
1 Guardsman with infantry primer (though he might be a medic)
1 Guardsman with vox-caster
3-4 Orgyns
66 Imperial Guardsmen with lasguns
3 lascannons heavy weapon teams
4 autocannons heavy weapon teams
2 missile launchers heavy weapon teams
5 heavy bolters heavy weapon teams
2 guys with heavy flamers
6 guys with flamers
1 guy with grenade launcher
3-4 guys with meltaguns
6 guys with plasma guns

I bought my own Leman Russ Executioner with plasma cannons and a company command squad (2 Company Commanders - 1 with boltgun & power sword and 1 with plasma pistol), 1 heavy flamer guy, 1 flamer guy and 1 plasma gun guy. So I'm slowly building up my ideal Imperial Guard army! Soon I'll get hold of a Shadowsword and a second company command squad, where I will kitbash a Primaris Psyker, and a Lord Commissar, and I will attain the list I posted the other day. I have two versions of the list, one which makes use of a Cadian armored group with Vostroyan infantry, and the other with a Cadian armored group with Catachan infantry.

Spearhead Detachment (Cadian) Tank Commander - Leman Russ main battle tank with plasma cannons and lascannon 2 Leman Russ main battle tanks with 3 heavy bolters each Leman Russ main battle tank with 3 heavy flamers
Leman Russ Executioner with lascannon and plasma cannons Heavy weapon squad with 3 lascannons. Supreme Command Detachment (Cadian) Company Commander with plasma pistol Primaris Psyker
Lord Commissar Shadowsword with 3 twin heavy bolters and 2 lascannons Battalion Detachment (Vostroyan) 2 Company Commanders with boltguns 2 Command Squads with 4 plasma guns each 3 infantry squads with 1 plasma gun and 1 boltgun (Sergeant) each

Nothing much to say here, except yeah. Eventually I'll swap out the Leman Russ tank with 3 heavy flamers for a second Leman Russ Executioner with palsma cannons. The alternative is this:

Spearhead Detachment (Cadian) Tank Commander - Leman Russ main battle tank with plasma cannons and lascannon 2 Leman Russ main battle tanks with 3 heavy bolters each
Leman Russ Executioner with lascannon and plasma cannons
Heavy weapon squad with 3 autocannons.
Supreme Command Detachment (Cadian) Company Commander with plasma pistol Primaris Psyker
Lord Commissar
Shadowsword with 3 twin heavy bolters and 2 lascannons
Battalion Detachment (Catachan) 2 Company Commanders with boltguns and power swords 2 Command Squads with heavy flamer and 3 flamers each 3 infantry squads with 1 flamer, and 1 power sword (Sergeant) each
2 Hellhounds with heavy flamers

This is meant more for horde lists such as Orks and Tyranids, wheere the flamers will come in useful. I hope this works!

Oh, and for the fluff. So now I'm stuck between Draconian Armored Dragoons and Draconian Armored Defenders. And there's a new option, Draconian Armored Auxiliary. I'm not sure what everyone thinks is the best name, and it appears no one is reading this blog so I doubt I'll be receiving any feedback regarding that. Oh well. On the other hand, I am adding new fluff to Draconis III.

Basically the Cadian 4444th Regiment (the Death Dragoons), the Cadian 724th Regiment, the Cadian 1651st infantry Regiment led by Castellan Jakren Stein, the Cadian 1652nd armored Regiment (the Steel Host) led by Silas Ovik, and the Cadian 1653rd artillery Regiment have made Draconis III their new home. After the events of Sanctus Reach: The Red Waaagh! where the Cadians survived an Ork Waaagh! followed by a Daemonic incursion, the Inquisition set out to purge them or mindwipe them. Fortunately, the Space Wolves misdirected the fleet transporting the Cadian fleet and they ended up missing the Inquisition purge team altogether and inside the Draconian system. Thus the 1651st, the 1652nd and 1653rd Cadian regiments have made Draconis III their new home, training new soldiers from the feudal world and incorporating new recruits into their burgeoning ranks. Castellan Jakren Stein remains regimental commander of the Cadian 1651st while Silas Ovik is still tank commander of the Cadian 1652nd Armored, and they train new generations of Draconians, inducting them into the ranks of Cadians.

The Cadian 4444th is an armored regiment and the 724th is an infantry regiment that specializes in plasma weaponry. They continue to train and hone new batches of Draconians. The Draconians also maintain their own separate Draconian Imperial Guard regiments, but they have begun to train infantry regiments to support their armored columns. They often request the Cadians to train the Draconian Regiments, and as such the Draconians uphold the Cadian regimental doctrine, especially the armored companies. On the other hand, the infantry maintain close ties with the forge world of Draconis IV, and they specialize in enhancing and augmenting their own weapons, which allows for their lasguns and plasma guns to perform better in combat. There are two types of infantry regiments - those that specialize in plasma weaponry, and those that specialize in flamer weaponry. The flamer regiments make use of Hellhounds, heavy flamers and flamers to incinerate their foes in blazing promethium whereas the plasma regiments outgun their enemies with high-energy bolts of superheated plasma.

Makes for a better fluff, don't you think?