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I play Imperial Guard. I love it but im not sure what to get next.
I curently have creed and kell, a techpriest, regimental advisors. 2 lemen Russ batle tanks w battle cannons, a Vendetta, and chimera. 4 infintry squads 2 command squads. heavy weapon squad w/ 2 autocannons and a lascannon. 2 sentinals w lascannons. a squad of ratlings. 4 troops have flamers, 4 have grenade launchers. any ideas what i should get next?

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for starting an IG (imperialGuard) army, i recomend the codex and battleforce. this will get you all your stats, and enough to start a platoon. you should also get comissar yarrick and or guardsmen marbo. if you want stats or dont undestand how something works, comment and ill help. a single battle tank w a battle cannon is great help. DONT GLUE ON SPONSONS. depending on what army your versing you will want to change them. Keep in mind ordinance is an insta hit so you only need to roll scatter and wounds. Lascannons are usualy an insta kill. And dont forget spec. rules.

NEW! besides titans because i dont play appocolips yet and there really exxpensive, what should i get? i commented further down the post as well

How do you play Imperial Gaurd?

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REAVER TITAN!

Veteran squads to go in vendettas.

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I'm going to have to second Waaagh_Gonads suggestion for a Reaver Titan

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1st: Welcome to Dakka Dakka!
2nd: More Troops, Heck But another battleforce, and a squad box.
Start the next platoon and fill out the outer one in troops.
3rd: Maybe buy 10 boxes of the cheep guard (ones that come in sets of 5) and build a conscript platoon (50 strong)
4th: Lord Commissars kick Grots down stairs then remove their hearts and eat them. Aka they kick A$$

welcome.
You need at least another 50 guardsmen.

Definitely a pair of Warhounds.

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that would make up for the shortage of guardsmen too.

Guardsmen. Also, eventually you will need more heavy weapons. So what was said before...another army box would be utilized fully.

And a reaver titan...

You need some vets.

Have you given any thought to an Imperator?

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Welcome to dakka dakka

Thanks, i was planning on heavy weapons squads. probably 3 lascannons, 1 auto cannon, 2 missle launchers. Infintry are deffiantly going on the list, and 2 full platoons and two more vendettas will probibly go on too. As far as a ravine Titan, i dont think so, there expensive and I dont play appocolips yet.

AS far as how i play imp guard, i camp tanks in back corners, sometimes have a meat shield. I keep heavy weapons up a little but near by, I alwayse have one vetern squard with forward senteries. I put sentinals in reserve, along with chimera and platoon comand squad. Creed,kell, and regimental advisors go in a different command squad w/ body guards.

Any other ideas are welcome.

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Forget the Reavers and Warhounds.

Go for Emperor Class Titans!

NO TITANS. way to expensive and im not that handy with stuff. Ive never used green stuff or plastic card. thats on the list

Chimeras... lots of them.

Hello and welcome.

Why chimeras? they kinda suck. I would get lemen Russes

ImpGuardPanzies wrote:Why chimeras? they kinda suck. I would get lemen Russes

I hope your joking.

Chimeria's are one of the best transport in the game, if only for their low cost and excellent damage output. give them a hull mounted heavy flamer and you can crack open other transports and burn an enemy out of cover so you can blast them.

Plus you can do melta-vet drive bys, and that's just awesome.

Also, you can have both chimerias and russes, one's a dedicated transport, the other's an excellent heavy support choice.

ImpGuardPanzies wrote:Why chimeras? they kinda suck. I would get lemen Russes

As a fellow new Imperial Guard player, I'll tell you: I also dismissed Chimeras early on. They seem weak at first glance, but trust me: use them. They grant your troops a survivability they simply cannot achieve on foot, add 2 heavy weapons (Not great ones, but still, the extra firepower is always useful), and with 5 fire points, they barely limit your troops' damage output. They are completely worth it.

Also, more Vendettas. All Vendettas, all the time.

I don't play guard, but my little bro is getting into them. His next idea is (along wiht a codex sometime) chimeras. Essentially, they are infantry portable tanks. Spam those, and a nice mechanized army will do the job.

Ok. Chimeras it is i guess. I would prob get another vaylkrie or vendetta, as they can deepstrike and pack a lot of punch for a fast atack. Granted chimeras are dedicated transports. if anything..i would buy 4 more chimeras...try to get 3 to outflank...and only have people in one. this way the opponent is drawing fire from main people and shooting at all the people he thinks is about to be a threat. I wanted 2 heavy bolters on my chimera, but i got it b4 the update and I couldnt find the bitz pack, so i put on the multi laser and a heavy bolter. So far...its sucked. Im gona try a flamer, until i get a flame tank. It would be great if it was legal to have 10 flamers in one squad..o well

I dont think you can outflank a chimera... almost positive

IHEARTLARGEBLASTTEMPLATES wrote:I dont think you can outflank a chimera... almost positive

I can outflank chimeras. All I need is Creed, Al'rahem, or Stormtroopers. Theoretically if I fielded all of the above, I could outflank 10 chimeras.

If you're wanting to outflank three chimeras empty for firepower though, I'd just tell you to do a squad of scout sentinels instead.

Edit: Harker's squad gives me 11 chimeras to outflank!

ahhh okay my fault

Thats what i usualy do with AL'raheem. However that seperates him from the platoon, and makes it difficult to give orders to another squad besides his. However putting part of the platoon in a vendetta would easily fix this problem

YA! or a warhound or 2 never hurt. Wlecome to Dakka