LE043 Baron Petrochemicoli

 

 

Above you can see LE043 from the rear and from the side.

 

 

 

A New Light in the Nepolise Dawn

Quite a few Armoricans were surprised when the annual troop review took place in Nappoly when after thousands of gaudily dressed Todoroni marched past in a variety of styles all different to each other naturally they saw something new. Last in the review were five new regiments that had been privately raised and then gifted to King Tadio Polo who sat on his golden throne and clapped excitedly at the new troops marched past in perfect formation and saluted him as they went. They were the Cotechino Guarda.

Murmuring the Elves asked each other, who were these excellently drilled, uniformed and equipped soldiers and why were they wearing the trademark bearskins, the headgear of elite guard soldiers. The King waited for the review to end and then at a signal he ordered the regiments to wheel back in to the square in front of the royal stand. As one they raised their muskets and fired a salute to the king making several high ranking Elves duck. They had never seen such precision from Todoroni. At this point a short and portly Toad stepped from the ranks and bowed to the assembled nobility and Elves before ascending to the stand.

He was the Baron Petrochemicoli a very, very rich noble who had become sick of being the butt of all the jokes going on military ineptitude. Hiring several dozen renegade Joccians and Albion Orcs who had fled a flogging at the hands of Wheeling-Turn he quickly discovered that many of them had been part of the elite Coldscream and 1st Foote guards. Elite regiments in the best organised army in the world. The training had taken two years but now they were ready. To a rising chorus of applause the Baron bowed once more and after formally asking the highest ranking Armorican officer to officially enter the regiments into the Armee he went a step further. He did something no Toad had ever been brave enough to do for fear of failure in battle. The 3rd Regiment he dedicated to his monarch. They would not fail.

 

Uniform Details
The Baron dresses in very fine silks and gilt. He favours white for his tunics and leggings with a lot of gold line work and stitching. His under tunic is blood red and his Nepolise made shoes are black with golden buckles. His powdered wig is white and the telescope in his hand is hammered brass with a glass lens. The Baron is a noble Todoroni and as a result his skin tone is a vivid blue not the more common greens and browns of most Toads.

Rules for Flintloque 3rd edition 
In your games of Flintloque treat the Baron Petrochemicoli as follows;

Vinchento Demadera Petrochemicoli is a Veteran / Regular / Elite Little Todoroni armed with a standard pistol and a telescope.

In play Petrochemicoli may spend ONE additional Command Point per game which is not included in his total of three command points. This may be done in addition to other command points at any relevant phase of any turn of the game.

The Baron is the commander of the Cotechino Guarda and when not socialising he is found on the field of battle with his beloved guard quality Todoroni soldiers. When he leads a section of this regiment he may automatically remove 1D3 Shaken tokens from himself or other friendly GUARD troop type characters within 20cm per turn.

The Telescope in the Baron's possession is beautifully made though it is better suited to spotting ladies and race hippos at medium distances. It is useful in battle though as once per game he may elect, in the Initiative Phase before any dice are rolled, to reduce all enemy players rolls by -2.

With his normal features and special abilities as listed here he costs 67 points.

Rules for Slaughterloo

The Baron Petrochemicoli (General) (Experienced) (340 Points)

FAIL ME NOT: Any unit of the Cotechino Guarda in the Baron's division may add +1 to their Form rating when within 20cm of an enemy unit of any kind at the start of the turn.

PETROL FYRE!: Once per game the Baron may elect to give EVERY unit in his division a +1 to their Fire Mod rating for an entire turn.

This declaration must be made at the end of the previous turn.

The Baron Petrochemicoli (Special Unit Officer) (60 Points)

If used a unit officer the Baron may only command a unit of Guard or Grenadier type Todoroni line infantry (anything else is beneath him!).

He takes the place of the normal unit officer and while in play the unit gains +1 free additional action per turn without a form roll. He is really inspiring.