Imperial Guard Thread

>>54010451
Only faction I'm even remotely interested in.

There's my boys.

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>>54010451
The real men of the Imperium.

>54010555
You have good taste in guard regiments sir.

Holding the line for the last 10,000 years.

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>>54010555
>>54010582
The Steel Legion combine old school looks with new school tactics.
They're one of my personal favorites.

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>Kriegers finally seems viable with the latest index.

>>54011038
anyone know if Z's Steel Legion are decent?

Enjoy it while we can lads, with Robot Guidoman mass producing space marines again Guard will be back to being reserves and garrisons again like during the crusade

>>54011310
Why couldn't it have been Sangunius...

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>>54010451
I must say, i'm quite comfortable with the size of this image.

>>54010451
anywhere I can find cool art prints of IG online?

black library only has prints of shitty space marines. I'm trying to get some badass art for my new place.

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>>54010451
IMPERIAL GUARDS FINEST REPORTING IN

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>>54011054
Are the rules for all their stuff up?

How're the Hades now?

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How good are the Eylisian Drop Sentinels with Multi-Melta's in this edition?

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>>54011931
>Replace <regiment> with death korps and the infantry gets the cult of sacrifice (ignore deaths from being shot when working out morale)

The drill itself seems okay, with a CP you have a fair chance of making 9 inch charges and destroying a vehicle. The vets though lack the ws3+ of other krieg, and inexplicably lack the bs3+ of other vets, whilst still being 6ppm (the drill is 65).

I'm thinking of getting a vet unit with shotguns for counter-charges, does anyone know where you get 40k scale (as in, ludicrously big for 28mm) shotguns from?

>>54015271
anvil industries?

is there actually anyone out there that makes good female guard models? the victoria miniature ones look alright but there dont seem to be any other alternatives other than female heads on male bodies..... which looks a bit daft

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>>54011907

>>54015229

I don't think you can gain special rules by changing keywords. Otherwise you could take conscripts with cult of sacrifice.

I might be wrong. Haven't played a game of 8th yet.

>>54015271

Anvil industry. Victeria miniatuires sells them as well but the anvil ones are more detailed.

>>54014960
60 points a pop, so pretty cheap given their weapon, but terrible at actually shooting it. Compared with something like melta command squad vets, who clock in at only 19 points, and have a 3+ BS, the poor meltinels get left in the dust. When you do have to shoot over bubblewrap, where the superior range of the multi-melta would help, I'd probably still rather drop missile HW teams.

What the sentinels can do is drop down and offer a somewhat hard-to-remove presence on objectives, but for that you want heavy flamers. (If you can't aim in the first place, set things on fire.)

>>54017064
There's a list of units that let you Krieg them up - infantry models on that specific list do gain Cult of Sacrifice.

Sadly, the only pure infantry unit on the list is the Master of Ordnance - beyond him, the only non-vehicles are artillery crew.

>>54017393
...and, yeah, I guess the drill isn't technically artillery, but it's also on the list.

>>54017407
but the kriegers have a krieg version of the drill, which unloads combat engineers instead of vets (and fuck, the acid gas grenades looks good)

Im thinking about making two separate detachements, one thats going to be full krieg infantry and mars pattern leman russes and death riders, the other a spearhead with artyllery (maybe some styges pattern tanks) and a vendetta.

could i load some grenadiers on a vendetta? since they share the imperial guard keyword?

>>54017516
The Vendetta can carry anything that is ASTRA MILITARUM INFANTRY (but not OGRYN) or has the Authority of the Inquisition ability, so yes, your grenadiers will happily ride your plane.

>>54017591

[fortunate son in german]

>>54017646
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKGtQ0ak3qo

>>54011291
I'll be ordering some soon. I have his dkk and they are good, if not a bit battle damaged.

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Post Guard? Yes please!

>>54017516
Kreigers used to have a krieg version of the drill which unloaded combat engineers.

>>54010451
>Imperial Guard Thread
So basically "NPC thread"?

>>54011054
Huh, that almost looks real at first glance

>this unit can shoot this phase even if it advanced in the movement phase
Do I suffer a minus one to hit for rapid fire weapons if I issue this to a unit that advanced?

>>54018199
Is there a pdf?

>>54015229
Not bad, other than the lack of demo charges or mole mortars
7's not exactly huge, but it's hardly made out of paper

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Hey, bros.

>>54020437
>>54017393
>>54017516
Wait, did you say that's just for normal IG and there's a slightly better unit (man-wise, at least) for Kreigers?
Hot damn!

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>>54020473
Does anyone actually play Renegade Guard?

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>>54010578
And women.

>>54020477
i Just checked, and sadly they lost their engineer hades for now, i guess we will have to wait for the codices, but at least you will have hades vets with krieg rules which is nice, as they are tagged as infantry

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>>54018534
Arkurion makes quite some good pics

Nothing against Cadians but I would love to see a more "standardized" and regular style IG models with some customization. Maybe as part of Guillimane's efforts to streamline most worlds to some level of tithe standards while leaving the more unique planets free reign to produce their specialized troops.

>>54022724
The "many worlds emulate Cadia" line of fluff was written specifically to make Cadians the 'standardized with some customisation' guard models.

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>>54011291
>Z's Steel Legion
What is this that you speak of? I would like to know places to buy Steel Legion men that is not GW.

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>muh Normal dudes

Eat shit loyalists, your time is coming

>>54020801
Looking into it myself although I'm waiting for the updated rules for 8th.

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I've always liked the Steel Legion, since they're just a bunch of regular factory worker dudes given lasguns and told to stop the baddest ork Warboss in the Galaxy.

What do people use for Steel Legion Models anyway? I don't think Games Workshop sells them anymore and even if they did, I'm guessing they're overpriced and made of Finecast.

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>>54026601
They still are and are metal only and are 30 pounds a squad.

>>54023804
check blackmartketminiatures periodically

>>54027505
>heck blackmartketminiatures periodically
Is there any reason that their product doesn't show up?

All their Infinity and Kingdom Death shit shows up but none of their 40k stuff.

>>54028291
their entire 40k catalogue vanishes and reappears perodically

>>54026601
mad robot miniatures makes models that are perfect steel legion replicas except for the lasguns - if you want authenticity for that, you'll need catachan lasguns

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>>54020801
>>54020473
I did, pretty sad now honestly. I ran Bloody Handed Reavers menaing a guard regiment that became space pirate so I can't really run them anymore. At least I can still convert and paint them I guess.

Hey /tg/ what should I take for an IG list as sniper, Ratlings or Vindicare Assassin?

>>54020801

Sure did. Bloody-Handed Reaver, Mutant Overlord, and Shock Legion Taskmaster were my favorites.

I haven't seen the new rules for 8th yet, but I'm hoping my entire army isn't trash now. At lesat I could salvage the armor.

>>54028654

Just take marauders. They are vets who are good in melee and can take a special upgrade for free (carapace, stealth or better melee). Marauder spam would do the space pirate theme better than grenadiers.

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>>54010451
so, if felinids are in the Imperium, does that mean that they can join the IG?

>>54029335

There's plenty of subhuman's ordained worthy to serve in the Most Holy Emperor's Imperial Guard.

Ogryns, ratlings, squats... Well, at least there's two.

>>54029335
There is legitimately no advantage to taking a Felinid guardsmen over the average human guardsmen.

People in 40k are killed over minor mutations, an entire planet of retarded cat people? That calls for an exterminatus

>>54018491
>The Emperor's 18 sons are the only PCs in this world
Go tell the Commissar that you love the 4-armed Emperor, anon.

>>54023933
Quick, quick, hide! Nobody tell him-
Oh, too late! Look, your side's got normal dudes all over it! See? >>54020473

>>54026601
If you wanted to be overly extravagent, you could use forge world's death korps models

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Guard for life

Is a multilaser good for anything?

I've always wanted to die in a riveted box by a red hot rivet to the head, said no one ever.

>>54030959
Yeah its there to make the heavy bolter look good

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Cadians are pretty good but I prefer a bit more ornamentation on my dark-age space soldiers.

>>54033429
Man I wish we finally got plastic Vostroyans.

Tell me again why the imperial guard basically uses a couple of aircraft, with just some variations. No designs for jets, helicopters, bombers. Only those vtols or craft with turbines straight from a WWII era book.

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>>54033796
>>54033796
>No designs for jets, helicopters, bombers.

Forge World has a few things to say about that.

I will admit there are no Guard helis, but this is mostly because their VTOL tech is good enough that they don't particularly need it. The Vulture is one of the best gunships that flies (particularly in 8th) and it uses the Valkyrie airframe because those hover jets work just fine.

I DID entertain the notion of converting my Vulture using Samson-style tilt rotor wings (think the Avatar gunships) but I decided it was too much of an aesthetic divergence.

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>>54010451
We are here to confiscate any heretical narcotics and entertainment. And uh...dispose of them.

When playing krieger list can I also use all the normal units from the normal codex?

>>54034147

What makes the vulture so good "particularly in 8th"? I ordered one after 8th was announced but before I saw any rules for the Vulture because I hadn't wanted one for my 7th ed force

>>54011907
Goddammit I hate the scion models. They look like toys. I wish kasrkin were less expensive.

I do like how they changed up Schola's and made them more grimdark but at the same time I miss the Schola's of the Cain days.

>>54017516
I'm not home now but I have a squad of engineers that I got when vraks first dropped because I loved the models so much. I flicked some red ink from a brush onto their fronts, just gibbed some poor bastard. Still one of my favorite things, certainly my favorite krieg unit in my army.

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Where in the FUCK are best boys in this thread? C'mon guys.

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>>54034306
Take a look.

112 points base. Twin miniguns are 40. Everything else costed as you might expect.

>>54034522
Right here >>54034166

>>54026627

Actually they are only slightly more expensive than Cadians on GW's website and include a squad heavy weapon.

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Steel-Legion-Squad

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>>54034210
You can use the units listed in the FW Index in addition to pic related.

>>54034522
>catachans
Whenever i see those guys i can't but wonder about Catachan fertility and sexual activity rates.

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>>54035044
Wrong pic. Sorry.

>>54035067
I'm not sure, but doesn't that mean that I still could use them, they jus don't have the death korps of krieg keyword?

>>54035097
Those units listed in the box can be used in addition to the units detailed in FW Index Astra Militarum.

>>54035097
They gain the DKoK keyword.

>>54035044


Wait, shouldn't the heavy stubber be a twin heavy stubber?

>>54036178
I think FW might have dropped the ball on that considering there is both an option for Heavy Stubber and Twin Stubbers.

So I've been modeling some IG and I've come up with my own custom regiment. It even has a special rule, an infantry squad can take 2 special weapons so long as both are flamers.
Thoughts?

>>54036516
uhm, flamers are pretty damn good in this edition, are you going to implement something more to balance other than the flamer restrictions?

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COMING TO FUCK YOUR DAY UP, XENOS AND/OR HERETICS!!!

>>54010451
I'm pretty hyped. I'm going to be mixing all kinds of regiments and characters and mixing in ministorum units. I know some people at my store get super bum roasted when people mix regiments, but they are all my custom regiment. Count as shit shouldn't be a problem as long as you're not cheating.

>Watch Guard bat reps
>Almost every report has a super heavy

How boring. Baneblades and Knights are so boring and lame.

>>54010451
To save our Holy Terra from any Xenos attacks,
From vicious vile creatures who have once again come back.
We'll unleash all our forces, we won't cut them any slack.

The Imperial Guard deploys!

>>54029335

Newest abhuman fluff leaves felinids ambiguous as to nature, but according to the description which can be read several ways, they're almost like Fenrisians but with cat instead of dog.

>>54015229
So DKoK Engineers can't use these anymore?

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Preparing my IG for the new global campaign next month. Repainting all of my IG, and just finished painting 3 Vostroyan squads and command squad

>>54028725
Rats any day

>>54042641
Looks awesome, get amongst it boys! Be ready for the campaign.

>>54011291
yeah they're good.

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Hi friends.

>>54015229
Any other leaks? Waiting for my FW book to arrive via mail, but curious about Death Korps and Vendetta.

>>54045582
I see...
>>54035044
These orders are awesome.
>>54035067
About what you'd expect.

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Is it shameful to say my favorite Regiment is one I made up myself for Only War?

>>54015271
forge world sell veteran kits with shotguns

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>>54046234
Not at all. My dudes are my favorite Guard regiment, I'd imagine the same is true for a lot of IG players.

Death Korps cosplayers from a miserable, rainy night world. Specialize in combat engineering and armor

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>>54046374

Made a regiment of Drop Troops from GunMetal City - so a regiment of volunteer drop troops from a Hive City whose sole production is firearms. Their unit culture is based around being first, being best, and making sure they distinguish themselves out of the mass of regiments in a particular warzone.

They have two distinguishing marks. A Regimental maroon beret with insignia showing an Imperial Aquila diving for attack. The insignia is made out blue steel gun metal. The second is that every member of the regiment is give a stub automatic sidearm with custom grips showing the unit insignia. Even if someone musters out of the regiment later (retirement or wounds), they keep the pistol as personal property. Anyone found with one in GunMetal City who is not a Regiment Veteran or related to one,
can be freely killed, and its not considered to be murder as far as the Arbites are concerned.

>>54033796
When they said they split the army into the guard and navy, they were a little overzealous about keeping the guard grounded

>>54030959
>>54031208
previous edition it was nice to have some anti-light vehicles weapon on your transport, now I don't know

>>54034375
Same, The new models suck. The old metal storm troopers and Kaskrin look much better.

>>54011505
because that sumbitch is dead as hell, that's why. Maybe we'll get lucky and one of the others will come back.

That said, read the new Dark Imperium novel, Rowboat actually is a pretty funny character in it. He's a guy who was boring and based on reason back in m30, you can guess how he feels about the Imperium in m41.

Hell there's a part where he basically thinks Cato Sicarius a vainglorious shit captain who's only real talent is swinging a sword around.

>>54046234
Nope, I'm the same way. A prison world regiment that recruits from their own stock of prisoners and natives as well as recruiting from a feral world that they brought the Emperor's religion to. They also have close ties with the church and a couple of Inquisitors who use them on dangerous missions.

Haven't come up with a name for them or for the characters, but I like my own little lore so I can justify why I have so many types of units. I use a bunch of fantasy models for Rough Riders, Crusaders, Death Cult Assassins and Priests. I also use Conscripts as penal legions and the rest is whatever I feel like. I just made an Inquisitor in terminator armor out of the free Sigmar model. He deepstrikes in with Scions who are converted to look like Acolytes.

I end up mixing and matching a lot of rules. I use Straken and Pask and sometimes Creed. So half my army will be Catachan and the other half will be Cadian. Of course that's just on paper, lore wise they are all the same regiment and all the characters are a part of it. Count as models and what not.

>>54010451
I see people polling that they play Guard, but then I only see people talking about Marines. I guess the starter army is the only army at the end of the day.

>>54042641
Not red Vostroyans, nice.

>>54030795
Unique color scheme anon. I dig it.

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>>54018188
I gotta get a new shot of my army. I just built some fun ministorum units that I should add in, but they aren't painted.

>>54049300
>all white penal legion
jimmies bit rustled but looking good, maybe bit of wash here and there to give them some depth and contrast.

>>54028725
Fucking both.

Proxy one Rat as a Vindicare and give him a cool backstory,

>>54049415
Thanks. If you help me out with some good colors for black and brown skin I'll paint some in there. There are some washes on the models, but that lighting really took it all out. Perhaps I should go over with some darker washes or do some highlights.

>>54049300
Love the penal legion.

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So what are the individual <regiment> rules going to look like? Just some guesses.
>Vostroyans
access to carapace armor, higher Ld
>Steel Legion
vets as troops maybe
>Catachan
higher WS, some kind of ambush rule
>Valhallan
the return of Chenkov

>>54045549

>"There's room enough for only one infestation, you stinking warp-fiends!"

>>54050241
Catachan might have +2 cover in forests. Definitely WS3+ for Infantry squads which could be awesome for Straken + Priest + Infantry squad Sergeants with Mauls and Plasma Pistols with squad Flamer. If they got a scout movement I'd love it. All the infantry squads advancing.

>>54029335
Cat people
Your most common gun is an oversized laserpointer.

Brilliant

>>54049690
Thanks. That's my favorite unit. I'm thinking of changing the Cadian heads, but I'm not sure what to. I really like the heads from Skitarii Vanguards so I'm thinking of doing that.

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>>54014960
Hm, fair enough, thank you

>>54034615
Psst. Use the Officer of the Fleet to reroll 1's within 18".