If Imperium acknowledged any other tactic than frontal charge

>>48174621

They do all the time, the IG is the strongest army in the galaxy. It is mostly just defeated by bullshit story crap.

IG is just a whipping boy faction in fluff for other factions to look tough. Kind of like Orks.

>>48174637
t. Comissar

>>48174621
Before the awful HH novels I always assumed part of the reason why the Imperium managed to re-conquer the galaxy was because they weren't chronically retarded when it came to logistics and tactics.

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Not every regiment is from cadia.

>>48174654
Irka dirka allahu akbar.

>>48174621
>it's the OP doesn't know anything about 40k besides 1d4chan memes episode

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>>48174657
Excuse me?

>>48174661
1d4chan was a mistake.

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>>48174621

Tanith 1st frequently employs infiltration tactics.

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They some times do gulf war style stuff.
the kriegers use WW1 trype trench tactics... Lotta Siege warfare, Closing encirclement, Tunneling.

For Every different world there are at least ten different ways to handle the same Enemy.
that's about the best way to shorten it down.
Cadians are generally retarded.

>>48174621
The Cain series has the guard using standard infantry tactics all the time

>>48174878
So many enemies in the Eye of Terror that it's impossible to do flanking or anytning

>>48174878
How can't the imperium have spaceships but not have anything resembling actual Jet fighters (that doesn't look ridiculous)?

>>48175117
DESU we can probably assume they do, its just that there is never any detail made on it because you can't make a model out of it (most jet planes would cross an entire battlefield in one turn given comparative movements)

>>48175117
Anything Imperial design at 40k scale with proportional wings would end up too wide and with the wings too thin. It'd be a pain in the ass fitting them on the table and the wings would break easily.

>>48175026
Even if the mass of the enemy is so great as to prohibit flanking maneuvers, it would still be possible to extend operations into the enemy's depth through use of airborne, long range artillery, and armoured formations.

But making the Cadians the Red Army probably wouldn't have gone down well.

>>48175026
>Creed

>>48174621
They do
They are

LMAO at the Guardfags being delusional as always
>we are totally reasonable we swear it just happens we die more often than Orks!

your meme army exists solely to show how badass everyone else is

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>>48174621
But OP, even with handicap the Imperial Guard already are the strongest army in the galaxy, see this pic for the reason why.

>>48174621
But they do. Only not on a planetary scale but at a Sector or Galactic scale. To the Imperium High Lords, planetary battles are like a firefight around a house for today's General. Outflanking means bypassing hundreds of planets for example. Who really cares what happens on a continent when you got quadrillions of soldiers.

>>48175781
See I can see why you might think that, but that assumes that there is little ranks between the men on the ground and the Sector commanders when in reality there would majors, brigadiers and generals commanding their respective sections as well, each attempting to use the forces they had available to best effect in their active area. Just because a sector commander can see the big picture, doesn't mean that that reduces the tactical capacity of the people below him.

The only exception to that is if your commander is channelling WW1 British Stereotypes (In 40k, its more common than you'd think)

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>>48175026
>>48175373
Correction: it's impossible to do flanking or anything UNLESS you're flanking a Titan or Baneblade.

>>48174621
>If Imperium acknowledged any other tactic than frontal charge on heavily fortified position
It does

>IG would be the strongest army in the galaxy.
It is

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>>48174621
Sure, only make every guardscum wearing bomb so they would die faster.

>>48174621
IG uses everything from from asymetric warfare over big ass human wave tactics to blitzkrieg and rapid redeployment squadrons.
The deciding factor are the regiments available and the quality of the soldiers.

>>48175466
>LMAO
>meme army
Hello newfriend, lurk more.

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>>48174621
Don't forget to build barricade out of your corpse, scrub.

>>48175117
Imperial atmosphere fighters are vector flyers.
So they do not need large wings.
Also >>48175228.

They are, they're also defending the largest empire in existence across countless battlefronts. If they could focus their efforts on one or two of then, it would be a curbstomp. Except maybe for the tyranids or orks.

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>>48174621

>>48177889
Which is falling apart and lost whole segmentum by 999.M41.

>>48175477
>more fucking Guardsman crammed onto that single planet than atoms in the universe

Every fucking time. Can't help but imagine it collapsing into the Eye of the Guardsman or some kind singular all-Guardsman entity after a bit.