EMPIRE PISTOLIERS
egiments of Pistoliers are recruited from the younger sons of Empire nobles eager to win their spurs as Knights and for whom the clarion call to arms pounds in their veins. Some may gather their friends and form regiments of their own, but most join the ranks of the Pistolkorps, a semi-formal organisation funded by the Emperor, College of Engineers, and several Knightly Orders. Here, the nobles learn about horsemanship and war from the Outriders — grizzled veterans paid by the Knights to train their sons — before being judged worthy to join a Knightly Order.
In battle, Pistoliers and Outriders act as light cavalry who gallop around the enemy flanks to disrupt formations and launch devastating hit-and-run attacks with their pistols or handguns blazing.
You may include a unit of Pistoliers or Outriders as a Special Units choice in your Empire army.
ost of the young men who survive their time in the Pistoliers go on to join a Knightly Order and put the skills and scars they have earned to good use as a fully armoured Knight. Others, for whom the thrill and excitement of life in the Pistoliers is too hard to relinquish, stay with their regiment or go on to become drill instructors in the Pistolkorps.
These men typically wear more ornate armour and tend to sport eccentrically waxed moustaches to better differentiate themselves from their younger charges. These older, wiser riders frequently lead the headstrong Pistoliers into battle, at other times they form separate regiments of Outriders for the College of Engineers, each equipped with deadly repeater handguns, weapons capable of unleashing devastating storms of lead at long range. The leader of the Outriders will often be armed with an even more outlandish weapon as befits his status, gifted to him by a patron Engineer.
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