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I've got a rough idea of how marines land themselves and their vehicles on a planet but how do the guard do it? There's the valkyrie of course, but it's rather small and doesn't AFAIK take vehicles. So how do the russes, chimeras, super heavies etc get on the ground? Are there named transports that do this?

Valkyries are the most well known I would imagine.

There is also the Aquila Class Lander

Read some of the IG books from BL the newest one mentions a big lander that carries a Tank Company plus all the tank crews and support staff for the tanks (fuel trucks and men to man them etc.). Can't remember what they called it though.

I think the naval craft that transport them to warzones have the big troop landers. I remember reading some BL books with landers that contained whole formations of infantry regiments, tank regiments and roughrider regiments, and others that only contained companies or platoons.

Ghost in the Darkness wrote:Read some of the IG books from BL the newest one mentions a big lander that carries a Tank Company plus all the tank crews and support staff for the tanks (fuel trucks and men to man them etc.). Can't remember what they called it though.

Do you remember the name of the book?

If i have to guess , IG uses the 2 below for the large scale ones : It explains why IG have such awful BS , WS and LD lol

GALAXY TROOP SHIP

The Galaxy is a fleet support ship used to transport regiments of the Imperial Guard from one star system to another. The Galaxy itself is not a proper warship although it will often operate as part of a battlefleet, supplying troops for planetary landings.

Imperial Guard regiments are recruited from a world's best warriors - gang fighters from hive worlds, planetary defence forces from industrialised worlds, tribal warriors from feral worlds and the feudal elite from medieval worlds.

At the time prescribed by the Administratum, a troop ship such as a Galaxy arrives at the planet to recruit the elite warriors. They then begin a great journey through space during which they are trained in the armaments and tactics of the Imperium. They are issued with standard Imperial equipment - lasguns, flak armour and so forth - and instructed in the Imperial faith. When they arrive at their destination, they have been trained into a crack force, their natural warrior skills honed to a razor-sharp edge.

Some regiments are sent to conquer and pacify newly-discovered planets and may remain there afterwards as a garrison, forming a new warrior elite to rule the planet. Other regiments may be moved from warzone to warzone, fighting countless battles on the Imperium's behalf.

GOLlATH FACTORY SHIP

The Goliath factory ship is a vast interstellar refinery and fuel transporter. Its role is to supply fuel to energy-hungry industrial and hive worlds. It transports its cargo from star systems rich in mineral resources across vast interstellar distances to worlds which have already depleted their own natural resources.

It arrives at a mining planet and takes aboard millions of tons of unrefined rare ores - for, of course, only rare and valuable ores are worth the expense of interstellar transportation. En route, the Goliath's huge refineries extract all the precious minerals from the ores. Working at immense pressures and temperatures, these minerals are then converted into plasma fuels that are incredibly energy-rich.

The Goliath itself needs a vast quantity of energy. Each ton of enriched plasma fuel uses many times more energy in the making than it will ever provide. To power its processes, the Goliath makes use of resources not available to cities and planetary factories - the raw power of the stars themselves. The Goliath skims close to the surface of stars, sucking in the energy that is burning off them by means of power fields that funnel the energy through to the Goliath's reactors.

At the end of its long voyage, a Goliath will have produced several million tons of super-energised plasma fuel. Every ton of this fuel is a thousand times more powerful than conventional nuclear fuels. And any explosion aboard a Goliath produces an incinerating fireball a thousand times more powerful than a conventional nuclear explosion.

Most Goliath factory ships are part of the Imperial merchant fleets. They usually ply the chartered routes between mining worlds and industrial planets. When they are passing through dangerous space, they often form into convoys accompanied by a defensive force of warships.

Sometimes a single Goliath accompanying a large battlefleet for the safety it offers will get caught up in a battle. At other times, a convoy will be deliberately attacked by pirates seeking to capture the ship or enemy raiders seeking to destroy it. A lucky convoy will be well-defended by warships. More often, only a few ships can be spared to protect the convoy and a fierce battle will ensue between raiders and convoy defence ships.

I know that in the battlefleet gothic game there are landers that resemble the american d-day landers, but with roofs.

Grav chutes also can be used by the guard.

If you look in the background of the drawing of Creed at the battle of Cadia in the 4th ed IG dex, you can see one or two magfethingnormous ships with huge ramps extending. I'm guessing those to be the aforementioned Goliath class ships, logically it would be foolish (and a waste of resources) to shuttler personelle from one massive ship onto a massive lander.

Yes the 2 i mentioned are existing GW ones in their fluff ,
im not making it up lol.

I m not sure what ship it is but there is a huge one which looks like it is deploying troops, on the front cover of the new guard codex