Heavy Infantry Comanies

The most common formation used by regiments raised on Altair Dominus is the Heavy Infantry Company. These companies are made of Carapace armored troops who use weapons like Heavy Autoguns, Heavy Stubber and RPG's to fight on the battlefield. Depending on the regiment, Heavy Infantry companie will often work with the support of sentinals or light armor, and in major engagement, they will be used as sweepers for heavy tank units. There are two kinds of Grenadier, Heavy and standard. Heavy Grenadier squads will be equiped with Heavy Stubbers, RPG's and demolition charges. Standard squads will generaly only have a number of specialized weapons to supplement their satandard autoguns. Altairan Grenediers are used in large units, and Altairan combat doctrine dictates that they alwase have the support of fellow Companies, Tanks, and Artillary. This is the First of the Altairan formations, more will follow however.

Infantry Companies
1 Company Command Squad
3 Grenadier Platoons
1 Mortar Platoon
1 Heavy Weapons Platoon

Grenadier Platoons
1 Platoons Command Squad
3 Heavy Grenadier Squads
3 Grenadier Squads

Mortar Platoons
1 Platoon Command Squad
3 Mortar Squads

Heavy Weapons Platoons
1 Platoons Command Squad
3 Heavy weapons squads

Who We Are

A brief word about the authors of The Altair Project:

Amaeon is a pretty avid player of the 40K miniatures game, playing a Space Marines custom chapter (The Huntsmen) and a Sisters of Battle force, both of which will be discussed in future posts. Additionally, he runs the Death Comes on Swift Wings play-by-forum game at RPG.net. Outside of 40K, Amaeon maintains a Vampire Counts/Brettonia combo-Warhammer army, a handful of Mordheim bands, a growing Cygnar warband for WARMACHINE, plays a fair bit of WoW...and somewhere in there goes to graduate school

Beowulf is the original creator of the Altair Sector, via his Imperial Guard army the Altairan 1st. He also collects a Tau army, has expressed frustration with the armor saves Terminators enjoy when deepstriking into his trenches, and writes science fiction. He would like to note that he is substantially better than Amaeon at any form of HALO related activity, and laments that the Uruk'hai phalanx vs. Super Elf battles of the Lord of the Rings miniatures game are a thing of the past.

An Introduction

Welcome visitors to the home of The Altair Project, a project by fans of the Games Workshop miniatures game "Warhammer 40,000" to create a series of interlinked sets of rules, setting information and fluff pieces to bring life to an isolated (and entirely custom) corner of the Imperium of Man, far from the great battles of Cadia or the fortresses of Macragge. 

The Altair sector is an entirely new setting, and will - in time - be suitable for use in campaign games of Warhammer 40K, Battlefleet Gothic, Inquisitor or the upcoming 40K RPG. Additionally, we're hoping to feature some news, discussions and reviews of the happenings in 40K and its related games and books.