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All guardsmen get Instinctive Behavior: Getting eaten. When in synapse range, they run away on 1-3, or get eaten by the synapse creature on 4-6. On a six, however, the synapse creature was too greedy and chokes to death on a guardman.

When a character in the same unit as a commissar fails a leadership test, roll a d6 for both and add it to the models initiative. If the character has a higher value, he shoots the commissar first.

You can now deep-strike leman russes. If a leman russ would land on top of guardsmen, they just crush them instead of mishapping.

Commissars can now have a leman russ as a dedicated transport. They can hit enemies with their sword from the cupola.

The Imperial Guard gets an Adeptus Administratum table. At the beginning of your turn, you roll on the table. Possible results: reinforcements, moral boosts, additional wargear for your units or an Exterminatus at the hands of the Inquisition, killing both armies. High chance of the later when fighting forces of chaos.

One of the relics is a crate of bionic arms, which provides IWND and FNP to models wielding two plasma pistols.

Guardsmen can attach laser-pointers to their lasguns, twin-linking them.

Added three new orders for officers: "Sit!", "Catch!" and "Play dead!". Despite what nafka claims "Who's a good doggy?" did not make it past play-testing.

Rough riders can now pick their mount from a large collection, including, but not limited to, horses, elephants, cows, donkeys, sheep, giant centipedes, dinosaurs and sharks. Due to wording issues, you can also pick multiples. A jokaero weaponsmith may chose to ride on the back of a rough rider.

You can now pick a platoon where every model is a named characters and has a unique statline, rules and wargear. You may only pick all 150 characters (including recruits and commissars) or none at all.

 Guardsmen Bob wrote:
Commissars are getting a buff where, if the enemy passes a moral check in melee combat against your unit, he gets to shoot the enemy model with the highest Leadership. Then they must reroll.

Best rule EVER!!

Supplement Codex Planetary Defence Force:

Special Rules:


Killed to a Man- The PDF are deployed simply to slow down the enemy advance ad allow the Space Marines to show up. After deployment, but before any moves are made, remove all PDF models and replace them with equal points of models from Codex:Space Marines, Dark Angels, Blood Angels, Grey Knights or Space Wolves. You must have fully-painted PDF and Space Marine army to utilise this rule

'Cause We're 'ere, Lad. Ain't No One Else: If you fail to meet the criteria for 'Killed To A Man', the PDF will realise their position and their duty, and will fight regardless. They gain +1 S,T WS and BS, and all units are Ld 10. Before and after the game, Richard Burton must give a dramatic monologue.

All las weaponry gets ignores cover, blind, lance, melta, rending, shred, and soul blaze.

Comissars get prefered enemy: Imperial guard
Comissars also causes Fear to units from the Imperial guard codex

Sisters are going to be Black Templared into the IG Codex. All sister units have zealot, preferred enemy Kitchen, and preferred enemy Tyranids.

Imperial Guard get the first major digital only Codex. Buy an iPad suckers!

Army wide special rule, Flashlight fire .

Once per game, you may turn the lights out completely and get out an official GW laser pointer, you may then flicker the light attempting to hit as many of the opponents models as possible, every model hit doesn't have to take a save as it's completely ineffective, it's just making you feel like a real life imperial guard trooper firing your lasgun!

Hooray for telling a story

Commissar Tank commanders give the tank they're occupying WS4 and can bail out.

Plastic Stormtrooper kits that allow you to make Stormtroopers or Kasrkins.

New rule "Killed to a man" for fluffy PDF regiments, remove all models and forfeit the game.

New flier is actually a Leman Russ variant with wings. 14/13/11, can deepstrike, zoom, hover, and uses quad punisher cannons that are str6 ap3. 45 point upgrade from the Valkyrie.

Catachans and Cadians are molded into one army, the Cadianchans. To represent their manliness and awesome since-child training, every guardsman has the stats of a space marine. All models get the special rule "Yell incoherently!", orders are automatically passed and all guardsmen are considered to have assault10 str4 ap1 lasguns.

Guardsmen will now cost the value of their weapon allowing you to field legions of free weaponless soldiers.

Can take Chaos Space Marines as a battle brother.

New Trader Guard special character allows you accuses to chaos marks.

For the Catachan supplement: Must roll a D6 every turn if a 1 is rolled the unit is to high to move but has FNP 4+ as a result.

They will totally retcon the Imperial Guard into a Call of Duty modern soldier/commando ripoff organization. They will use tacticool gear, they will have top-notch training and every one of them will be an OorahBringItOnOscarMike specops guy with all the awesome gadgets and air support and everything.

They will replace the normal guardsmen (both Cadians and Catachans) with models straight from the Battlefield 4 design studio. Each tank will be remade to be futuristic 21st century instead of WW1/WW2. They will still have zero suspension or ground leverage.

There will be unmanned drones, tracked gun robots and attack dogs. Overall army theme heavily emphasizes the use of these support option instead of actual soldiers. We want out boys back home in one piece after all!

Commissars lose Summary Execution and all reference of shooting their own men will be removed from their fluff.

Gameplay-wise the army will be about fielding only a handful of kitted-out super-elite guardsmen and rely on support elements to defeat the enemy.

Also, to represent the "bullet swallowing" of CoD, every guardsmen will have 3 wounds and It Will Not Die (2+).

For people mentioning the weaponless guard:

Any ARMED Imperial Guard unit that perishes (from fleeing or dying) place a marker on that squads pervious postition. Any unarmed unit that goes within 6" of that marker are now armed with the last squads weapons.

All lasgun weapons now have the "blind" special rule, because that many laser pointers shined in your eyes at one time could cause permanent retina damage.

Rumor: The IG codex is delayed two months to make way for the Orks who are still using a 4th edition codex. First Nids and now IG, both of which already had newer codices and are arguably more competitive in the current meta.

Then again, maybe the power creep will reach critical levels by summer and the Orks will get Giant Squigs with D weapons and 2++ as a troop choice.

The guard will make use of ad hoc units known for their ingenuity in the field, like the A-Team.

For example, the Catachans will have the 'catachan-apult' which can launch soldiers across the battlefield into assault or for redeployment.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
In order to save time you may represent guardsmen with these new models.

You just made my day xD!!!

They are getting a new psyker, one of his powers makes the profile of his attached squad's guns strength D for one turn.

You know how I know GW is trolling us? When you try to write strength D using the weapon profile denotation in the book dakka forum turns it into "S"

Completely new HS unit, the Commisar Bassilisk.
If somebody fail a morale check, Commisar fire at the squad with the Bassilisk.


If IG takes SM as allies, special universal rule "Diomedes' wrath" allows you to deep-strike a free Baneblade once per game.

The Commissar can be execute allies and be attach to allied squads.

Flying baneblades and shadowswords with a cheese field that prevents skyfire and interceptor.

rowenstin wrote:
- New IG warlord table:

1- What wave was it? I lost count

The whole battlefield is covered in corpses. All terrain is Difficult for Infantry, and IG models increase their cover save by an additional point when they Go to Ground as they pretend to be one of the casualties.

2- Clerical error

The Administratum is working as usual. You have an extra infantry platoon composed of platton command squad, 2 infantry squads and a heavy weapons squad, but they have no wargear. Not even knives.

3- Commisars? Ha!

When one of your squads fails a morale check, as long as your Warlord is alive you can order an artillery strike against them. Resolve a Str 9 AP 3 indirect fire artillery barrage against the unit, placing initially the template so it covers the maximum amount of models from the unit that failed the test. Once the attack is resolved, the affected unit can reroll the Morale check.

4- They are traitors. And heretics. Really

You can shoot into units locked in melee. For each hit roll 1d6, on a 4+ it hits one model from the enemy, otherwise it hits one model from the Imperial Guard unit. Barrage weapons work normally.

5- I finally found a use for the conscripts!

Your vehicles with the Tank rule have 1 extra Hull point and have a 4+ save against grenades and Melta bombs in close combat, since their magnetic clamps don't work on flesh.

6- Wibble

If your warlord isn't modelled with his underpants on his head and two pencils stuck up his nose or is a comissar, reroll on this table. Your Warlord and his unit is automatically placed in Reserves and only comes into play on the roll of a 6 and doesn't enter the battle automatically in any turn, but can give orders to any unit in the table that has a Voxcaster while he's in Reserves and doesn't count as destroyed if he never enters the battle.

Duuuude Epic. Whatever comes in the codex, THIS will be the rules I will be using.

You will be able to field tanks as HQ, Elitte and Fast as well as heavy. So a list of nothing but tanks is a go.

Elite tanks can shoot all weapons regardless of how much they moved at full BS.

HQ tanks can isuuse orders via coms to anyone on the board.

A new special rule called, Army of tanks, gives all units a 3+ cover save all the time. Due to the amout of smoke made by so many tanks.

 Godeth wrote:
You will be able to field tanks as HQ, Elitte and Fast as well as heavy. So a list of nothing but tanks is a go.

This exists in IA1 (I think it's 1) as the Armoured Battlegroup list, but having it in-codex would be awesome.

 Paradigm wrote:

 Godeth wrote:
You will be able to field tanks as HQ, Elitte and Fast as well as heavy. So a list of nothing but tanks is a go.

This exists in IA1 (I think it's 1) as the Armoured Battlegroup list, but having it in-codex would be awesome.

Oh, there goes my trying to be daft.

All imperial guardsmen now come with a pet cat. The new cat models will be priced at $50 for 10 and any guardsmen fielded without his cat is considered illegally modelled.

Pet cats benefit from the Look Out Sir! rule on a 2+ exactly as if they were independent characters. and have the following profile

WS:1, BS:1, S1, T1, A1, I4, LD2

If at the start of any phase a unit contains more guardsmen than pet cats the unit must test for What Happened to Fluffy!

What Happened to Fluffy!
The non cat model with the lowest leadership must make a morale check, if this is failed roll on the table below. Commisars may not be used to reroll this, they love Fluffy too.

1) Remove the unit as a casualty, they all run off to protect the remaining cats.

2) Remove all none officers as casualties. They have been given a personal day to mourn. All officers remain to shepherd the cats.

3) The entire unit gains Stupidity as they are awestruck by the loss of Fluffy

4) Nothing Happens

5) The entire unit gains Hatred for none cat units

6) Fluffy was the best of us, there is no reason to live any more. Remove all cats, they are killed to release them from the anguish. All guardsmen drop all ranged weapons and gain +1A, Feel No Pain, Rending, Fearless, Furious Charge, Adamantium Will and Fleet special rules.

Imperial Guard to be renamed in Low Gothic as Guarda Imperiali.

Sly Marbo is now a monstrous creature with 12 wounds and toughness 10, with two turbo laser destructors.

 tyrannosaurus wrote:
Sly Marbo is now a monstrous creature with 12 wounds and toughness 10, with two turbo laser destructors.

Sounds fair.

Sanctioned Psykers will now come in units of up to 10 and be armed with Force Bolters. These are bolters, with the Force rule.

You are now allowed to field Leman Russes with no turrets attached.

Once you need to fire the tank, you can pull a turret from reserves and attach it to the tank, where it will stay for the rest of the battle.

Each tank purchased allows you to select 2 Leman Russ Turrets to put into reserves.

GW will sell "LR Turret kits" for $30 USD

-P