02 - Iron Kingdoms W.. - Captain Spud Is Amazing

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Samantha “Sam” MacHorne (female Thurian
Ftr15): Samantha won ownership of the Devil Dogs
in a wager with the previous owner. She took up
leadership of the company as a new form of income
after war ruined her river trade business. Company
members who were concerned about Sam’s haphazard
ownership need not have worried. Since taking over,
the enterprising captain has run the company like she
ran her business—fast and smart. Now Dog Company
has weapons that bark and blades that bite.
Winds of War
a merCenary Company dating all the Way baCk to the
first expansion Wars, the thunderhelm irregulars Were
devastated during the reCent fighting in llael. employed by
Cygnar to reinforCe the llael-khador border, Commander
jakob sCull had his entire Company stationed in laedry. in
the last days of ashotven 604 ar, the khadoran offensive
began With assaults on both laedry and rynyr. not knoWing
that the khadoran military had developed aCCurate longrange
mortars, sCull Was baited outside of the Walls of the
City by the skillful maneuvering of kommandant gurvaldt
irusk, the renoWned khadoran WarCaster and general. irusk
turned the earth against sCull and his men and left them to
be slaughtered under a deadly barrage of mortar fire. With
the merCenary troops gone, the small llaelese garrison
surrendered to irusk’s overWhelming forCe. only the
renoWned duellist, Cullyn lopryssti (male ryn rog5/ptr2),
survived to bring neWs of the defeat to Cygnaran forCes
stationed in Corvis.
Draimie’s Red Raiders
Mostly known simply as the “Raiders,” this group of
rangers and trained woodland skirmishers are among
Khador’s most proficient huntsmen. The company is
well acquainted with the treacherous depths of the
Scarsfell Forest and has been stationed there for some
time now. Originally chartered by King Aleksy Vanar
in 539 AR, the Raiders have always been paid well by
the regime for their expertise and more recently, for
their silence.
The Raiders, all former scouts and Widowmakers,
are charged with guarding the environs of Fort
Scarsfell from any unwanted intrusions, and anyone
not marching under the Khadoran flag is considered
an unwanted intruder. Even Khadoran patriots
foolish enough to wander unannounced in the
Scarsfells are unwelcome at this desolate location.
The Raiders have no qualms about putting a man
in their sights regardless of his ethnicity, and in this
instance, their moral ambiguity is richly rewarded by
the Khadoran regime. The Raiders are stationed at
Fort Scarsfell to protect the citizens of Khador from
the horrors of the fort and to maintain the deadly
secrets the stronghold conceals.
Akina Vaskovna (female Kossite Rgr5/Rfl8): The
only child of Vasko Dmitrovich, a successful trapper
in the Wolveswood River region near Tverkutsk,
Akina grew up in her father’s company—her mother
died when she was four years old. One of Vasko’s few
treasures was a pinlock rifle that he had won in his
younger days in an archery competition in Ohk. He
trained his daughter to be a crack shot, and when her
time came to serve the Motherland she won a spot as
a green recruit in the famed Widowmakers. Years later
after her second tour of duty with the Widowmakers,
Akina decided to try her luck as a mercenary hoping to
see more action than she had with the Widowmakers.
She was highly recommended to the Raiders and
has proven herself time and again as one of the best
marksmen in the company. Having worked her way
up to the position of lieutenant, she recently became
the commander of the Raiders when its previous
commander, Radjko Starov, was killed when one of
their “charges” from Fort Scarsfell went berserk and
attempted to escape.
Leatherskin Irregulars
The Leatherskins are a small but reliable company
of veteran scrappers based in Ceryl who are frequently
hired for bodyguard and escort duty by people whose
lives are in immediate peril. They have worked
throughout western Cygnar and southern Ord and are
well known in Five Fingers and all along the Dragon’s
Tongue River. Not normally battlefield troops, they
do occasionally enter larger battles alongside other
companies. More commonly they are hired as scouts
or special reserves and used for probing engagements
or screening attacks—former customers include the
Lord Mayor of Ceryl and the Order of the Golden
Crucible. Their current roster lists three score skilled
mercenaries including fighters, rangers, a squad of
riflemen, and several skilled pistoleers. They field no
fewer than three refurbished warjacks reserved for
difficult contracts.