Primal Vanguard
The Primal Vanguard is a Transformer organization concerned with off-Cybertron peacekeeping, dating back to Nova Prime's day. The races it peacekept tended to be organics, who tended to get squished (literally) very soon into a fight. Its members have built-in weapons as part of their anatomy.
Members include:
Fiction
IDW Generation 1 continuity
Tailgate claimed to be part of a bomb disposal unit with the Primal Vanguard, though this later turned out to be a lie. Hangers On One of his claims was that the Vanguard used surprise attacks a lot: using a transmat pad to appear and stomp the enemy. He might have made it all up though. Before & After
The Vanguard had its best days under the command of the legendary Delta Magnus. During the Interregnum, after Nova Prime went missing, the Guardians looked after the Matrix of Leadership until a new Prime could be found. An Intimate Beheading
In their better days, the Dynobots had been members of the Primal Vanguard. Rage Officially known as the Vanguard Covert Strike Force, they were model soldiers with a spotless record until a mission gone wrong left their medic Skar dead and forced the rest of them to adapt monstrous new altmodes. When their superiors callously placed the Dynobots in quarantine to study how they acquired these new modes, the team was outraged and deserted from the Primal Vanguard. Underworld
By the time of the Clampdown, the Vanguard had gone downhill. The organisation was mired in the "Phobos Controversy" and at one point an ex-Vanguard member was responsible for a shooting in Apophenia. Post Hoc Ironfist, however, continued to study and fangasm about the Delta Magnus days, filling his workspace with Vanguard artifacts and writing monographs about them. An Intimate Beheading
