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Im starting an IG army and would like some feedback on my ideas.
Take note that iv just started and hav'nt painted many of the models.

Algri Shield Company
Algri is the main agri world that supplies Cadia. It gets its name from the vast endless sea of marsh lands and the unique algae that is farmed to supply the troops of Cadia. Many enemy commanders have seen the importance’s of this world and have seeked to destroy it but all have came face to face with the heavy residence from the planets defenders, the Algri shield company. The company gets its name from their leader Supreme General Alexander Shield who is said to have survived being marooned on a Tyranid infested world for 10 years and is said to be the only man to have seen the city of Commorragh and escape alive.
“It’s the commissioner’s task to execute those who show cowardice in front of the enemy and it’s also their task to be many times more terrifying then the enemy. So it must take extreme bravery to stand up against a commissioner in the mist of battle? If so I can defiantly say that you have just executed the bravest man I have ever met.” Supreme general Alexander Shield to lord commissioner Bryon Fritz.
Tactics: The Algri shield company prefer anti-infantry firepower instead of anti-tank because most tanks get bogged down in the marshes of Algri. They also prefer large numbers of chimeras with dozer blades to traverse their large number of guardsmen across the marshes.

Camo:
Infantry: The infantry uniforms consist of Catachan green armour plates with Gretchen green cloth and Bolt gun metal, Scorched brown, Blood red, Chaos black, Skull white and Ard coat for detail. All infantry have their left shoulder pad marked with a tank marking to show what infantry belong to the squad.
Tank: The tanks use the same palette as the infantry but with a Gretchen green under coat with Catachan green ovals that are encircled with chaos black.

Banner: even though the shield company is its own regiment it doesn’t have its own banner. Instead it uses the Cadian banner because most of its troops are born on Cadia.

Army list....Total: 410points
HQ:
Elites:
Troops:
Red shield platoon
-Platoon command squad with commander Chenkov, platoon standard with a laspistol, vox-caster, medi-pack, heavy flamer, krak grenades....155points
-Infantry squad with sergeant, vox-caster, flamer, mortar, krak grenades, chimera with a multi-laser, heavy bolter, pintle-mounted heavy stubber, hunter-killer missile, and a dozer blade....160points
Fast attack:
Heavy support:
Hydra flak tank battery
-Hydra flak tank “REAPER!” with a heavy bolter, hunter-killer missile, and a dozer blade...95 points

Planning:
HQ: supreme general Alexander shield and retinue, company command squad with colonel ‘iron hand’ Straken, 5 ministorum priest, 2 techpriest with servitors
ELITE: ogryn squad with 9 ogyns and a bone head, psyker battle squad with 9 psykers and a overseer, guardsmen marbo
TROOPS: platoon command squad with captain Al’rahem, 9 infantry squads, 10 heavy weapon squads, 4 special weapon squads, 2 conscript squads with send in the next wave rule, veteran squad with sergeant Bastonne, penal legion squad
FAST ATTACK: rough rider squad with mogul Kamir, armoured sentinel squadron with 3 sentinels, hell hound squadron with a hellhound, devil dog and bane wolf
HEAVY SUPPORT: Leman Russ squadron with 2 punishers and a vanquisher with knight commander Pask, 2 more hydras, ordinance battery with 2 basilisk and a colossus.

Platoon comand squad
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/225357-platoon%20comand%20squad.html

Infantry squad + chimera
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/225360-infantry%20squad%2Bchimera.html
Infantry alone
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/225359-infantry%20squad.html
Chimera alone
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/225358-chimera.html

Hydra REAPER!
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/223084-hydra%20conversion%20%28painted%29.html

I've got the rules for supreme general alexander shield written up and will be posting them very soon.

So what do you think ?

Well fluffwise yea its alright. Paintjob is pretty good. Gaming wise though, very inefficient with all the "fun choices". Especially with the fact that you're pretty much using 80% of all the imperial guard special characters.

If you're new to IG I would recommend only one thing when designing and building an army list:

Don't put any upgrades on any tanks and leave the expensive infantry-based upgrades well alone.

You can often tie up 20% of your total points on bits of wargear that would have allowed you to fit in even more men/tanks.

Thanks for the responses.
Any more sugestions on how to make this a winning army.
I should throw in that the only person i play collects Necrons.
offtopic: Thanks kenshin620 for voting my pic.

I can't understand your list ddue if you write it out properly I can perhaps help you. Very cool fluff though

I'll rearange it then.
Thanks for letting me know that it was hard to read.
EDIT: is that better?

Not really because you've just listed what is in the army and no wargear. Best to list the list well like a list lol. Put the units in a list starting with HQ put down the units and wargear inside them.

Ow, your talking about my planning bit. i havent decided on what upgrades the squads get, yet.
But i can say that all squads will have some special weapons and grenade upgrades.