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So, I just won a tournament and received $120 of store credit. I'm looking to expand my IG army which consists of
100 troops
2 chimera
2 battle tanks
Commander pask
1 heavy weapon squad
Company command squad

I was thinking maybe the start collecting Skitarii? Or some admech? I really don't know. What do you guys think? Open to any suggestions.

I would consider allying an Inquisitor detachment. They have some fairly handy tricks which they can bring to the party.

Inquisitors are pretty cool. Would it be too fluff breaking to have some guys summoning daemons? Lol

Not if he is a Radical Inquisitor. Been documented before e.g. use Chaos against itself, etc.

I agree with inquisitors. They bring cheap access to psykers, stubborn, grenades, and some good assault units.

An inquisitor in a blob squad keeps them fighting at leadership 10 with stubborn. Great for holding an objective. It also gives access to servo skulls to prevent scout and infiltrate while making your template weapons more accurate.

Their "troops" (because everything is an elite slot) are basic guardsmen that are super flexible with squad creation. They can have a psyker for the cost of two melta bombs. And they can take pretty much everything a space marine can have except grav.

I include 3 squads with a psyker and 3 plasma guns in each squad. Then take an inquisitor with power armor and psyker lvl 1 and 3 servo skulls. That is only a couple hundred points all together and really expands the power of a guard list

Congrats! Won the tourney with an AM/IG army?

 wuestenfux wrote:
Congrats! Won the tourney with an AM/IG army?

No, I won with Necrons. My IG army is in its infancy, and I thought this is the perfect time to help buff up a second army. I'm fairly new to warhammer.


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 Smotejob wrote:
I agree with inquisitors. They bring cheap access to psykers, stubborn, grenades, and some good assault units.

An inquisitor in a blob squad keeps them fighting at leadership 10 with stubborn. Great for holding an objective. It also gives access to servo skulls to prevent scout and infiltrate while making your template weapons more accurate.

Their "troops" (because everything is an elite slot) are basic guardsmen that are super flexible with squad creation. They can have a psyker for the cost of two melta bombs. And they can take pretty much everything a space marine can have except grav.

I include 3 squads with a psyker and 3 plasma guns in each squad. Then take an inquisitor with power armor and psyker lvl 1 and 3 servo skulls. That is only a couple hundred points all together and really expands the power of a guard list

Thanks for the input, I'll probably follow through with this idea,. This will only take a small Portion of the winning money though. Any other ideas to buff it up?


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I do have all the chaos from the dark vengeance set too. Maybe a few additions could bring about a daemonkin army.

AM is infinitely better than inq at summoning daemons with the Psykana formation (which basically screams SUMMON DAEMONS WITH ME) so if that's what you want to do id advise against it. Nothing wrong with Coteaz or Krazypantsoff added to a guard force though.

If it were me I would get a manticore and Wyvern to create an Emp Wrath battery. It's probably the best self-contained formation the IG can bring now.

That's kind of what I've seen fielded with tank commanders. you usually run that formation with a gun line though, right? And do you take the wyrven just because they're much cheaper points wise?

I take the wyvern because a commander with Volkovs Cane can only issue 2 orders. So I want Ignore Cover/Tank Hunter on my Basilisk and manticore and the wyvern can just be a wyvern that takes up no HS slot.

the_scotsman wrote:
I take the wyvern because a commander with Volkovs Cane can only issue 2 orders. So I want Ignore Cover/Tank Hunter on my Basilisk and manticore and the wyvern can just be a wyvern that takes up no HS slot.

Okay. Thanks for the advice. I Haven't actually played imperial guard before, but I've been slowly collecting models that I like, I hope they're as fun to play as they are to collect! Hah

I would suggest wyverns as well, they bring a lot of firepower for the points.

I think I'm pretty much sold on running an Emperors Wrath Artillery with manticore, basilisk and wyrven. That'll soak up all of the winnings plus some.


Does anybody actively run the Psykana Division? If so, do you proxy models for them? $15 for 3 when you need 15 plus a primaris seems ridiculously expensive. Unless there's a package deal I'm missing.

Forge world Vulture

Some terrain for your table.
It's looking a little sad.

 Alex Kolodotschko wrote:
Some terrain for your table.
It's looking a little sad.

We've got a guy that's joined our gaming group that likes to make terrain, so it's not so barren anymore. Still sad, but better.

I use FW renegade guard with renegade taskmasters as the commissars behind a big carved chaos symbol I use as a VSG. But that's because I use the Psykana purely as a daemon factory.

More tanks. 100 guard and only 2 tanks? Tsk tsk tsk.

 #1ShieldBrother3++ wrote:
More tanks. 100 guard and only 2 tanks? Tsk tsk tsk.

I knoooooow

I'm working to try and fix that.
My first army is necrons, and I have to say they're pulling their weight. With this bump the necrons have actually grown the imperium!

In all honesty, I can't wait to field enough units of guard to drown my opponents in blood. When I have to start units in reserve because my deployment can't handle them all... that's when I'll know I've made it.

I agree with the other's. Get Inquisition. If I ever manage to complete my ork horde and Da Looted City I intend to make a Guard army backed by the Ordo Xenos and their special elite mehreens they can call upon for help.