Editing Warhammer 40,000/9th Edition Tactics/Weapons (section)

====Imperial Guard====
THE WALL OF GUNS. The hammer of the Imperium. The Astra Militarum. The IG is the regular army compared to the ultra-elite marines. They are the posterboy for GEQs, with the regular guardsmen having T3 5+ W1. Easy to take off the map, but easily spammable, you could also take a big variety of infantry choices, from even more spammable units (conscripts), more elite units (stormtroopers) or very specialized units (ogryns for melee). Also, no IG list will be complete without tanks. The IG uses all kinds of tanks to compensate for the lack of firepower of their infantry, and since most of their units are quite cheap, they'll be able to have a ton of them in a single list. They can also abuse artillery to high degrees of success. 

They are a very adaptable army, but usually can be dealt with by using units that can get up close and personal against them to deny the lasgun abuse and take advantage of their poor defenses, or with a lot of anti-horde firepower. Their tanks alone can't really hold objectives, and while they can shoot in melee now, keeping them bogged down in there against units that can take the losses (ork boys, genestealers, chaos cultists...) is a good way to suppress their firepower.

'''Popular units''':
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!Unit
!Good for
!Countered with
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|Imperial Guardsmen
|flexible all-rounded units, high number of models, high rate of fire, good table control
|high volume shooting, melee attacks, morale modifiers
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|Conscript
|very high number of models, very high rate of fire, great table control
|high volume shooting, melee attacks, morale modifiers
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|Ogryn
|powerful melee, hard to take down
|multi-wound shooting, mortal wounds, charge nullifiers
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|Tempestus Scion/Kasrkin
|flexible all-rounded units
|high volume shooting, high volume melee attacks
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|Leman Russ Battle Tank
|cheap tank, heavy shooting, flexible loadout
|multi-wound attacks, horde charges, mortal wounds
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|Basilisk Artillery Gun
|long range, powerful shooting, blast
|attacks in close range, horde charges, deep strike
|-
|}