Tallarn Desert Raiders
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The Tallarn Desert Raiders are an Imperial Guard regiment in Warhammer 40,000. They're known for their love of mechanized warfare and guerrilla tactics.
They come from Tallarn, an Imperial planet that's pretty much entirely desert. It wasn't always; it used to be a lush, verdant, heavily-forested planet that was considered quite beautiful. But then the Iron Warriors virus-bombed the shit out of it. This led to the Battle for Tallarn, the largest tank battle in the history of the Imperium of Man.
They combine elements of Lawrence of Arabia, the British Desert Rats of WW2, Erwin Rommel, and the various cultures of the Middle East. Thus, they are Awesome.
Also, when a raider dies, his comrades suck the water out of it and put in a storage tank (yet another thing stolen from Dune, in this case the Fremen culture).
The Tallarn did the Dorfs proud by digging too deep, finding something black and shiny. As it turns out, this shiny thing was wanted by the Iron Warriors, as it was a Chaos relic would let them accessories. The Eldar then appeared (specifically those of the Biel-Tan craftworld), and after a few months of fighting they decided to ally against their common enemy. And so, holding the hands of the lesser Mon-Keighs and pinching their asses, they cleansed the world together with the power of friendship. They promised to be super best friends forever, before the Tallarn did the only responsible thing they could with the artifact - cake it in rockcrete and forget about it.