Steil's Swords
Officially this was the 1st Company, 3rd Regiment of the Altdorf City Guard, but no one referred to it as such. When Maximillian Steil took command of the company, it was a downtrodden and ill-disciplined rabble a whisker away from mutiny. In the decades that followed, Steil transformed the Altdorf 3rd into a fighting force as steady as any to be found in the Empire, and whose soldiers were celebrated as heroes amongst other Altdorfers.[1a]