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Honing their skills on their homeworld, Tallarn are mobile guerrilla fighters, evasive and opportunistic.{{Fn|5}} They are well known for their hard-fighting [[Sentinel]] squadrons and are masters of hit-and-run warfare. Their chief strength lies in their skill in guerrilla warfare, which makes use of various [[Rough Rider|mounts]] as well as numerous [[Sentinel]] squadrons to remain highly mobile on the battlefield, harrying their opponents mercilessly before disappearing into the background. Noted marksmen, Tallarn forces employ a unique style of [[lasgun]] which is longer and more fluid in shape than the standard Imperial Guard issue.{{Cite This}}
Some Tallarn Rough Rider squadrons ride large alien mounts, called [[Mukaali]]. These desert-dwelling herbivores are originally indigenous to the vast equatorial deserts of [[Goru-Prime]]. Many Mukaali have been transported to other desert worlds, including Tallarn itself, because they are well adapted to arid environments.{{Fn|77a}} As well as infantry, artillery and armoured companies, it is not uncommon for Tallarn regiments to include one or more patrol companies (sometimes referred to as recon or long range companies). Tallarn Armored units emphasize the three doctrines of their homeworld: stealth, swiftness, and the killing blow.{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|5}}
The Tallarn use the title Duf'adar as opposed to "Sergeant" as the origin of the word sergeant means servant and they claim to be no man's servant.{{Fn|2b}}
==Appearance and uniform==
Owing to the harsh climate and the constant raging sandstorms of their homeworld, the Tallarn have a distinctive desert combat garb consisting of light, loose cottons, a wraparound head-scarf (known as a ''kefiya''{{Fn|2a}}or ''shemagh''){{Fn|7b}} and canvas boots. They make use of curved knives.{{Cite This}}
==Weapons and equipment==
*{{Endn|5}}: [[Only War Core Rulebook]], pg. 54
*{{Endn|6}}: [[White Dwarf 286 (UK)]], pg. 27
*{{Endn|7}}: [[Imperial Armour Volume Three - The Taros Campaign]], **{{Endn|7a}}: pg. 60**{{Endn|7b}}: pg. 62
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