Gaunt's Auxiliaries (Planetary Defence Volunteers)

Gaunt's Auxiliaries (Planetary Defence Volunteers)

The following is the great cannon for my Counts-as Genestealer Cults force of Imperial Guard.

++ Col-Commissar Ibram Gaunt and his "Ghosts" lead a stay-behind force of Imperium units.

++ Using techniques learned from suppressing Genestealer Cult and Chaos Cult uprisings, they are experts in asymmetrical warfare. ++

++ Operating from behind enemy lines with limited resources, they strike from hidden underground operating bases. ++

++ Avoiding direct engagements they instead prefer a series of hit-and-run engagements. ++

Much of this was inspired by this episode of the History Hit Podcast.
WWII Britain: The Home Guard's Silent Assassins

WWII Britain's Home Guard wasn't a bumbling dad's army but in fact included factions of highly trained silent killers and spies hiding out in secret bunkers, caves and safe houses all over the country. The Auxiliary Unit was given a deliberately boring name to disguise the top secret mission they'd been tasked with- if and when the Germans invaded the British Isles, they would have to stop the first waves of soldiers, taking them down as they moved inland, often in brutal and secretive ways. They were locals chosen from and posted around coastal areas who knew the land particularly well and most went to their graves never revealing what they'd been a part of so we're only really just learning about them now.

https://access.historyhit.com/videos/wwii-britain-the-home-guards-silent-assassins