The soldiers of the Empire train every day to fight with specialised tactics that rely on their legendary discipline - the detachment system. Detachments are smaller regiments of troops that remain close to a parent unit in order to protect its vulnerable flanks and offer support, either by using missile weapons or by employing close combat weapons to threaten an enemy's exposed flanks. A favoured combination is to have two detachments supporting a parent unit, one armed with ranged weapons, the other armed with close combat weapons. The detachment armed with missile weapons fires as the enemy advances - and should the enemy charge them, they will flee. This draws the attackers onto the blades of the close combat specialists or leaves them struggling in front of the main body of the regiment, ready to be charged in return.