Editing Warhammer 40,000/6th Edition Tactics/Imperial Guard/Armoured Battlegroup (section)

==Armoured Battlegroup Arsenal==
It's Imperial Guard tanks! They are big, boxy and gothic, so they need big, boxy and gothic upgrades. Armoured Battlegroup delivers.
*'''Mine Plough:''' Dozer Blade on steroids. Not only does it help by allowing you to pass through dangerous terrain at any speed, it also allows you to smash through unlucky soldiers with tank shock. However, it's nowhere near as effective as destroyer blades or the formerly almighty Deffrolla (Rest in Peace Deffrolla, you were good until 7th), with S2 and only D3+1 hits.
*'''Artificer Hull:''' +1HP. Helps if your opponent tries to glance your tank to death, but near useless against melta and railguns.
*'''Armoured Track Guards:''' 4+ save against immobilization. Cheap, but tends to be ineffective, as you do not get immobilized that often.
*'''Improved Comms:''' Extra 6" of order reach. With 24" already you won't need it, unless you have some devious plan which includes outflanking a Demolisher squadron (for which you need to roll a random warlord trait anyway).
*'''Anti-grenade Mesh:''' 5+ invuln against grenades. Good on short range tanks, which get krak grenaded a lot, and pretty useful against haywire grenades, but again useless against melta.
*'''Anti-aircraft-mount heavy stubber / storm bolter:''' Garbage. Can only be useful on glancing AV10 flyers and lucky-wounding FMCs. Avoid.
===Specific tank upgrades===
*'''Illum Shells (all LR's with shell cannons):''' Big blast searchlights. Not really worth it, considering you have searchlights on Chimeras and Hellhounds, it's generally inadvisable to sacrifice a tank's main gun firepower in order to use these shells.
*'''Augur Shells (LR Conqueror):''' [[Necrons|Entropic Touch]]! Woo!...but not really, it's far worse than the Necron's equivalent. Works only on pen/glance rather than hit, and the gun itself is just S8, so it can't be used to drop almighty AV14 down. Well, against AV12 it can be good, especially considering the Conqueror's built-in co-axial storm bolter. 
*'''Infernus Shells (LR Battle Tank):''' Big blast of heavy flamer hits. Make those Hellhounds cry in tears of jealousy.
*'''Beast Hunter Shells (LR Vanquisher):''' Instant. Fucking. Death. Known to fuck up Tyranid and Daemon armies (even more than usual). Bonus points for one-shotting Mephiston, Dreadknight or the Swarmlord.
*'''Co-axial Heavy Stubber (LR Vanquisher):''' Coaxial bonuses are great. Take it! There is also a storm bolter variant, but for more points, worse range and fewer shots, you'd have to be a filthy fucking xeno-loving heretic to prefer it over the stubber.