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

===What to buy===

The <s>battle force</s> Defence Force. This gives you two squads of 10 and a leader pack, as well as heavy weapons and a Leman Russ which can be customized into any of its variations and a Chimera. This will be helpful if you are going blob or mech. You can make them vets for a quick 500pt army. You can even save the heavy weapons for vehicle modifications later when you buy tanks if you go for mech.
Next thing would most likely be another Leman Russ and another chimeras if going mech,and another defence force if you are going blob.


Also if you dip, or one of your friends dip, ask them for the metal lids to the tobacco containers. These are the exact size of the heavy weapons base. Making it extremely easy to take advantage of all the heavy weapons in the pack. Just use the bending knee for the dude shooting, and put the other dude as a standing man. Green stuff some sandbags or a wall to take place of the tripod stand.


As far as organizing your army, you ought to know better that you don't have to pimp out every platoon FULL of men. Usually, two large Platoons decked out will do the job, BUT you can take smaller platoons in order to get more Junior officers on to the table for more orders. That all said, let's calculate the body count if you spammed every slot.

HQ: CCSx2 (18 models; Commissar, Chimera, and all Advisors, including Officer of the Fleet and Astropath, which are MANDATORY)<br/>
Priest x3<br/>
Enginseer x3 (With 15 servitors. Give 'em ALL plasma cannons. Because you can.)
Primaris Psyker x3

Elites: 3x FULL Militarum Tempestus platoons, bitches (117 models)

Troops: 6x FULL Infantry platoons (6x5-man PCS + Chimeras, 30x10-man Infantry squads + Chimeras, 30x6-man Heavy squads (it's two guys on one base, be glad I'm not counting the gun model), 18x6-man Special squads, 6x50-man Conscript squads, and 6x Commissars. 834 models, bitch)

Fast: 3x Rough Rider squads (30 models)

Heavy Support: 9x Leman Russ EXECUTIONERS WITH FULL PLASMA-SPONSONS (STFU. You want them)

Grand total: 1087 models, INCLUDING Chimeras. Yes. You can have one-thousand models on the table. THIS IS THE GUARD. OUR INFANTRY ARE BLOBS.<br/>
<s>Want MORE INSANITY? For an extra 500 points you can make those 300 Conscripts UNDYING MONSTROSITIES! This is also mandatory, no exceptions.</s> Chenkov was removed in the newest codex.

But unless you're a millionaire or you've been in the Guard since 2nd edition, you aren't pulling this off. ALSO IT COSTS 11630 POINTS TO FIELD ALL THIS SHIT [[Emperor|JESUS]]

Things get even more ridiculous with the new 2000+ double FOC change in 6th edition!

HQ: 4x CCS + advisors + chimeras, 6x Priest, 6x techpriest + servitors, 6x Primaris Psykers

Elite: 6x Stormtrooper Platoons

Troops: 12x Infantry Platoons

Fast Attack: 6x 10-man Rough Riders

Heavy Support: 18x Leman Russes

Total: 1948 troops, 118 tanks (100 Chimeras, 18 Leman Russes)
That's right, a non-apoc IG can and WILL run your ass over with a megaton of tanks and bodies!!! That's a true fucking RAPETRAIN! (If you have 23,200+ point games that is)

Ideal generalized army list that you should start with:

HQ: 1x CCS

TROOPS: 2 Infantry platoons of two Infantry squads each

FAST ATTACK: Scout Sentinel x2, Valkyrie and Hellhounds if you wish.

Once your army has reached this point, start looking at where you want to go with it. You'll have a decent base for starting the typical MechVet army that is shining right now. If you want to get Leman Russes, get three, split between two Battlecannons and a Demolisher. Max out melta. It's the best thing in the game currently. Just do it.

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