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Corporal Mattox (Castle Guard) - A member of Castle Destro's ceremonial guard, Corporal Mattox is the leader of His Laird's Cavalry.

All Iron Grenadier combat troops have inter-personal radios built into their helmet which are ideal for communications within the squad or platoon. But when a unit commander in Sierra Gordo needs to bounce a Sat-Comm signal to Castle Destro, he needs the sophisticated Satellite Communications Equipment built into the M.A.R.S. Communications Officer's backpack. While it looks very much like the same Tele-Viper communication pack sold to Cobra, this model packs twice the transmitting power and three times the encryption ability. Who ever said that you shouldn't hold back the finest products for your own use?

All Iron Grenadier combat troops have inter-personal radios built into their helmet which are ideal for communications within the squad or platoon. But when a unit commander in Sierra Gordo needs to bounce a Sat-Comm signal to Castle Destro, he needs the sophisticated Satellite Communications Equipment built into the M.A.R.S. Communications Officer's backpack. While it looks very much like the same Tele-Viper communication pack sold to Cobra, this model packs twice the transmitting power and three times the encryption ability. Who ever said that you shouldn't hold back the finest products for your own use?

While Voltar is the overall commander of Destro's IG forces, I've always envisioned Darklon as a company or platoon-level leader who is right in the thick of things with his men. It isn't that he isn't intelligent or ruthless enough to be a top-level commander - he'd just prefer to be stalking prey in the bush, as opposed to directing the battle from afar. I see him as the guy that Destro would send in - covertly, with a small group of hand-picked IG's in plain clothes - to subvert and de-stabilize local governments, so that Voltar and his uniformed IG forces could then be sent in to "rescue" the country and restore order, guaranteeing that the government would then be grateful and beholden to Destro.

General Mayhem was originally introduced as part of the 2006 G.I. Joe Convention set. He was formerly a SPETZNAZ (Special Forces) commander in the Russian Army and was intended to be Voltar's replacement, but since my Voltar is still alive and kicking, I had to figure out a way for the two of them to co-exist. My solution was to make General Voltar the commander of all conventional IG forces, while General Mayhem commands the IG SpecOps forces.

As a kid, I always thought Voltar was pretty cool, despite his silly fuscia uniform. This is the way I think he should have looked in the first place.

While Metal-Head is probably the most ridiculous and unrealistic of Destro's senior IG leaders, I couldn't quite bring myself to leave him out of this group. I liked the overall look of the Convention Exclusive Metal-Head, but if I was going to make him I wanted him to have the classic version 1 missile launchers.

In 2007, the powers-that-be decided to make wrestling superstar Rowdy Roddy Piper a member of the Iron Grenadiers. He filled the role of Combat Training Instructor and was responsible for training IG Guards, Iron Anvils and Undertows.

Back in 1984, Scrap Iron's original filecard indicated that before joining Cobra he'd been a weapons designer for Destro's M.A.R.S. Corporation. So, I decided to add him to my Iron Grenadier forces. The entire figure is a RoC Scrap Iron, that I repainted to suit my tastes. Not particularly special, but I'm happy with how he turned out!