Imperial Harquebusiers
These are an elite formation of marine cavalry carried as ship's troops on certain combatants of the 186th Fleet in the Old Suns Subsector. They consist of troops wearing light battle dress, compact fusion carbines, revolvers and hull metal cutlasses. There are one hundred marines per company and ten companies per regiment. Each company has eight APCs, with three crew and eight dismounts. There is a small headquarters section with two specially equipped carriers and twelve men. The crazy eighty-eight usually jump in with assault drop capsules for commando raids and the APCs follow up for fire support and then extraction. An extra drop capsule is used to deploy decoys during the descent, and small remote fire support units for direct and indirect fires. They use fleet bombardment, only after the element of surprise is no longer critical, fleet fighters provide CAS and enable the grav vehicles unfettered access to their charges. Many of these marines go on to serve in the household units of the local nobles. They love to hire seasoned veterans with a few terms under their belts.