Bloodmarine company

A bloodmarine company usually consists of a thousand marines and is led by a captain. The company has around 10 squads with a hundred soldiers each which is further divided into ten fire teams which consist of 10 soldiers. Each part of the company is expected to operate in direct conjunction with the other squads and fireteams and this allows them to be a strong fighting force even when outnumbered. Squads are lead by sergeants and fire teams are led by team leaders. A well maintained company has a fairly large air fleet and well supplied logistics to keep it in fighting force.

Composition

Manpower

At most a 1000 marines exist in the company, counting the logistics and other supplementary services.

Equipment

The company is usually divided into 2 squads of r[Runeseers] and two squads of chaplains and two medicae squads for tending to the sick. 3 squads are normal marines and the remaining one hundred are praetorian marines armed with praetorian armor

Weaponry

A bloodmarine company usually carries the normal weapons fielded by the bloodmarines. The most common are the standard issue M44 Wraith assault rifle and the M4 Executioner pistol. The heavy weapons squads uses the ZMG 90 Titan 90 mm autocannon and the F67 fusion cannon for suppressive fire and anti tank purposes respectively. They also field around a few dozen tanks and several APCs as well as some attack helicopters , gunships and drop ships.

Type

Special Forces

Overall training Level

Elite

Used by

• The blood reapers legion
• The Imperial Terran Federation