Our military technology is not functionally that different to what exists in the 41st millennium. Our guns are shootier, our tanks are tougher, and our voxes are louder, but while making them may be a more complicated affair, operating them would be as simple as anything back during the Imperium. It's all functionally the same stuff, just better.
IIRC Avernite military tactics are very decentralized; relying on junior officers and NCOs to take the initiative with each unit operating both independently and as a whole. It's why Avernites are notoriously immune to decapation strikes. The tactics are also dependent on four factors; extensive training, Comm tech, experience and education.
1. pretty much, higher officer do give orders and expect them to be followed but most of the time the orders are a bit on the general side and leave a lot of room for initiative, when they are not it is usualy for a reason
So our combat style is the opposite of the Orks, where the mooks are trash, but stopping a Warboss is fucking impossible without yer own Hero Units, but if you do, they crumple like glass.
yeah, you can often take out a massive percentage of an Avernite armies command and find that it still fights nearly as well, though not as coordinated
How big a group are we talking here? A regiment? Division?
Division
Man, that must've SO annoyed the Dark Eldar.
Also the fact that all our military leaders aren't particularly assassinatable, what with them being century or two old deathworld survivors.
That's still a million men with over a thousand officers "killed". Avernite units must be deeply creepy to the others, almost inhuman.
And in actions like city fighting, light and heavy skirmishing, and massed close combat, where the strategy is a chain of tactical actions that lead naturally into each other for units with good low level initiative, you'd find that decapitated or disorganized regiments still act a lot like they're being intelligently commanded as a whole, when really it's a bunch of lower level decision makers who happen to be working with or around each-other.
and thats not even talking about the poor Mandrakes who tried to off General Richards, humans should not be able to ambush Mandrakes, and wipe them out without taking a hit
Not to mention how Avernites would be positively beaming the entire time. They are finally validating their living on the killiest death world in the galaxy.
...I wonder if by Total War rules Avernites would have Causes Fear, Immune to Psychology, and Unbreakable.
Propably Disciplined, that one makes you immune to the leadership damage from loosing your Lord.
Haven't seen that, but it sounds neat AF. And quite fitting.
Definitely a Regiment of Renown style unit, though, you can only have one, but boy would it do WORK.
Some Dwarfs have that. I think Longbeard and Ironbreaker.
It's in Rome 2. Legionaries have it, that much I remember.
I'd just like to put in my headcanon for the Krork.
Slaanesh's Revenge.
