What does an Imperial Guardsman carry with him in combat?

If you're too lazy to look it up, you don't deserve to know.

>>48589093
His/Her huge balls.

>>48589093
Totally dependent on the regiment, you might have a guy carrying power armor, hellguns, vox casters all next to a tea set, while a guy from the very same system may come into battle in a fucking space-tiger hide and wooden spear, having forgo his lasgun because he doesn't know how to use it.

>>48589805
>having forgo his lasgun because he doesn't know how to use it.
How can you not know how to use a lasgun?
>Insert power pack into receiver until it goes click
>Pull charging handle, listen for the whining noise of the charge chamber starting up
>Point barrel at thing you want dead
>Pull trigger until it dies or the charge pack goes dry, whichever comes first
Congratulations, you now know how to operate a lasgun.

>>48589888
By being a backwater savage from a literal tribal society like several imperial planet are.

These are the same guys who decided that it's better to give the people who are trained in Hun/Mongolian like Calvary rocket spears rather then train them in how to use lasguns.

>>48589805
There's variation but there's not that much variation.
The top end will be in carapace and hellgus and the bottom end will be autoguns and pointy sticks with a bomb attached them, as even the imperium thinks it's a good idea to spend a few hours teaching backwards feral world regiment #1899247 how to change a magazine and pull a trigger so they can actually hold the line.

>>48589093
faith in the emperor. everyone who answers differently is a heretic.

>>48590210
They give the huns laspistols though. And the sergeants get special weapons.

>>48589888

you just described a standard firearm but I doubt earth can put 7 billion into the field right now

>>48589888
This is the exact reason why slavshit is so popular among third world negro countries. Cheap, piss easy to mass produce, and a monkey could operate it.

>>48590397

There are close-combat oriented regiments, but they probably still had pistols

>>48589888
>>48590210

The thing about firearms in general is that they're stupidly easy to understand given proper motivation and time (Hell, some African warlords can teach 8-year-olds high on heroin how to operate them). It's possible for spear-throwing savages to learn how to operate one - it'd just be a bit of a culture shock.

Now, they may abandon them for cultural reasons. That's actually plausible.

>>48590516
>>/k/
there are so many things wrong with your statement you need some fucking learning.

Slav guns are known for their lifetime. You can drive a tank over a kalashnikov and it won't break. A Mosin Nagant can be shot from half a km away with perfect accuracy, and has been in sue from fucking 1891 with hardly any changes.

>>48590551

given the infinite number of guard regiments it might always be a viable option to have some specialist regiments for even the most far fetched scenarios. Spear-wielding savages could be stationed on a planet that cannot produce or supply lasguns or ammo for a variety of reasons, silent infiltration missions, night fighting, death-world duties and so on. Not going to be a lot of use sure, but there's probably some

>>48589888
also
>no recoil because well... its a buffed laser pointer
>pinpoint accuracy: no bulletdrop since the laser goes to lightspeed, so basically the moment you pull the trigger, the laser hits perfectly where you had your sight on

>>48590551
>>48590820

maybe they're imperial puritans who see all technology as tech-heresy, and those who use it as blasphemers who look down on the Emperor's humble spear that is the only true weapon of the righteous warrior

I feel like this thread was supposed to be about personal items Guardsmen might carry with them, not "their standard equipment".

A knife and big flashlight. Sometimes firecrackers.

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>>48590413
One does not "carry" faith in the Emperor.

One's faith in the Emperor, uplifts them.