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I am planning on buying/building an infantry Platoon to go with my 10 Leman Russ Striking Fist armoured company and Baneblade.  I saw an IG deal of 120 cadians for special order.  Does anyone know if that will supply me with enough to do the following list:

SO

Command w/ mortar

Veteran Standeard Bearer

JO

Command w/ plasmaguns

Infantry Squad x2 w/ lascannon

JO

Command w/ meltaguns

Infantry Squad x2 w/ missile launchers

JO

Command w/ flamers

Infantry Squad w/ autocannons

Armoured Fist x3 w/ heavy bolter  Veteran sarge

 

• It's 110 models and all the heavy/special weapons are represented.
• I plan to take the SHIELD GENERATOR asset to help the infantry survive.
• I have never played guard, but if I take the drop troops doctrines, can those command squads with special weapons use that ability, and if so, what happens to the leadership of the infantry squads?
• would it be wise or a waste to buy 5 commissars to go with the infantry squads?
• the basic tactics involve the infantry as anti-tank and the russes as anti-troop, any suggestions on the details of set-up beyond keeping the infantry within 12" of the SO's command?

I plan on buying 3 sentinels w/ autocannon, h-k missile to support and three chimeras for the AF squads.  Am I better off buying enough additional lascannon teams for the infantry and using the left over heavy weapons for fire/anti-tank support squads?

Thanks for any feedback.

Just like to note that since I saw SUPREME HQ I thought of IG benefiting the most from it, with the fearless and tank hunters all around it. Sure, it becomes a tasty tasty target for 5-7-10" templates, but what isn't?

- Salvage

I presume you don't have a guard codex?

In that case you just need to know the following:

guard squad = 1 special weapon + 7 lasguns (or 6 + Sarge) + 1 heavy weapon team

command unit = 5 men, you can use lasgunners for it. it can replace 2 men with a HW team, and probably 2 men with special weapons.

Therefore:

You need for 6 squads:

6 HW teams = 2 boxes of heavy weapons @ 3 per box.

42 lasgun men = 3 boxes @ 20 per box (you will have 18 left over for extras like command squads)

You'll also need to buy the special weapons extra - they come in packs of 2. I can't remember. But there's 1 in each guard squad and probbaly 2 in each command section, depending on how you tool them up.

And the command blisters for the standard bearer and officer.

Should be easy to work out what you need from there. If not, probably not a good idea to play IG.

As for units, Sentinels. Russes, Chimeras and Infantry squads are all effective. Just avoid HK missiles, grenade launchers and too many  flamers ( a few are OK ).

YES, you will have more than enough. It comes with 120 guardsmen, 16 special wpns, somthing like 9 or 12 heavy wpns, and a command squad. Its a good deal.

@ smartalex

do you know which heavy and special weapons come in the box exactly?

Posted By dornsfist on 10/20/2007 7:06 PM

@ smartalex

do you know which heavy and special weapons come in the box exactly?

Generally in a cadian shock troop box there is 1 GL and 1 Flamer.  For a HW sprue, it comes with all of the available HW's and a base to put one plus the 2 troopers that operate it.  I think there are 16-18 Special Weapons in the company box, it should say how many on the website.

That's correct. With a little ingenuity we can stretch the Heavy Weapons box further. I've made one of every heavy weapon except the Mortar out of each of my heavy weapons teams.

There is always the WarStore for the special weapon bits the boxes don't come with. If the big box of men is economical (which I am inclined to think it is, by a 20% margin or so) it probably makes sense to get it and just get the last little bits special.

Just a random musing: Since there are no force org requirements in Apocalypse, instead of standard infantry platoons why wouldn't one make all of his infantry squads Hardened Veterans? I'd think a large number of squads with a heavy weapon and multiple special weapons shooting at BS4 would make a formidable force.