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The Zaythine 73rd Mobile Infantry – Iron Circulators

Origins

The Zaythine 73rd Mobile Infantry, known as the "Iron Circulators," hail from Zayth, a war-scarred world in the Calixis Sector where massive hive-vehicles—city-sized fortresses armed with ancient weaponry—traverse a single macro-continent. Zayth’s surface, barren for millennia, is a toxic wasteland of shell craters, strip-mined gouges, and radiation, churned by these mobile clans. Each hive-vehicle shields its population from the lethal environment, their red fatigues a blood-hued mark of survival, black armor a steel embrace against the void. Knowledge of crafting these machines is lost—great generators hum behind sealed copper doors, guarded by hereditary Engine Orders who preserve clan traditions with chants and silver-wired ingots as coinage.

The 73rd unites warriors from multiple hive-vehicles, their red-and-black garb reflecting Zayth’s unyielding spirit. A stranded Catachan regiment, the DCCXIV, crashed on Zayth after a warp mishap—two squads, Gunnery Sergeant Harker, a mortar team, and a jungle-camo Valkyrie with shark’s teeth—merged into the 73rd, adopting red shirts to match. Armed with the compact Ursid-pattern heavy stubber, a Zaythine design favored for its portability and drum-fed reloads, they embody mobile warfare honed on a world that never stops rolling.

History

The Forging (M39): Zayth’s hive-vehicles united to repel an Ork Waaagh!—the 73rd rose from survivors, red fatigues stained with blood, black armor dented but unbroken. Their banner, the Iron Cog, symbolizes their rolling fortresses.

The Pact of the Rose (M40): Supporting the Order of the Rose Veil against a Chaos cult, the 73rd earned the Veil of Amalia—a dusky rose banner from the Sisters, carried by their Standard Bearer, cementing a sacred alliance.

The Catachan Merge (M41): The DCCXIV crashed on Zayth—Harker’s squad joined, red shirts aligning with Zaythine fatigues, green camo a nod to their roots. The Valkyrie became a predator in their ranks.

The Iron Stand (M42): With the Star Knights and Rose Veil, the 73rd held a hive-vehicle against Tyranid swarms—Ursid stubbers roared, mortars pounded, and the Valkyrie dropped Catachans to break the xenos tide.

HQ

Command Squad

• Officer
  • Power Fist, Laspistol
• Officer of the Fleet x2
• Astropath
• Officer of Bombardment
• Regimental Standard
• Medic
• Melta Gun
• Lasgun

Commissariat

• Lord Commissar
• Commissar

Elites

Sniper Team

• Four Guardsmen
  • Sniper Rifles

Adeptus Mechanicus

• One Techpriest
• Two Combat Servitors
  • Heavy Bolter x2

Stormtroopers

• Kasrkin Sergeant
  • Power Sword, Hot Shot Laspistol
• Nine Kasrkin
  • Plasma Gun, Meltagun

Troops

Squad Red

• One Sergeant
  • Chainsword, Laspistol
• Heavy Weapon Team
  • Autocannon
• Seven Guardsmen
  • Grenade Launcher
  • Voxcaster

Squad Blue

• One Sergeant
  • Chainsword, Bolt Pistol
• Heavy Weapon Team
  • Lascannon
• Seven Guardsmen
  • Special Weapon
  • Voxcaster

Squad Yellow

• One Sergeant
  • Chainsword, Laspistol
• Heavy Weapon Team
  • Heavy Bolter
• Seven Guardsmen
  • Grenade Launcher
  • Voxcaster

Squad Green

• One Sergeant
  • Chainsword, Laspistol
• Heavy Weapon Team
  • Mortar
• Seven Guardsmen
  • Flamer
  • Voxcaster

Squad Silver

• One Sergeant
  • Chainsword,
• Heavy Weapon Team
  • Heavy Bolter
• Seven Guardsmen
  • Grenade Launcher
  • Voxcaster

Squad Brown

• One Sergeant
  • Chainsword, Laspistol
• Nine Guardsmen
  • Grenade Launcher x2, Flamer
  • Voxcaster

Special Weapon Squad Red/Black

• Six Guardsmen
  • Plasma Gun x2, Demo Charge

Special Weapon Squad Yellow/Black

• Six Guardsmen
  • Flamer x3

Heavy Support

Heavy Weapons Squad

• Heavy Weapons Team x3
  • Mortar x3

Heavy Weapons Squad

• Heavy Weapons Team x3
  • Heavy Bolter x2, Autocannon

Heavy Weapons Squad

• Heavy Weapons Team x3
  • Lascannon x3

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