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I have been playing Imperial Guard since before the new codex, but was lucky enough to only have to endure the old one for about 4 months or so until the latest edition came out. Soon afterwards I concocted an all-comers Guard list that began to dominate my local tournament scene. For 6 months I took 1st place five times and 2nd once in our monthly tournament. On the seventh month I took 3rd after losing the final round to a good friend of mine and have since stopped playing in the tournaments. I stopped because I seriously began to notice a lot of condemnation about my Imperial Guard army. Many of the people at my FLGS have branded me as the "Leafblower" Guard player and it seriously frustrates me, instead of "Hey, great game man, you played well" I get "Hey man, I am not surprised I lost against another Leafblower." My list does have some of the same characteristics of Darkwynn's list, but with some major differences. To give you guys a bit of a brief example, I will throw up my 2000 point list:

CCS w/ 4 plasma + Astro+ OotF in Chimera

x2 Infantry platoons with autocannons in the Infantry squads and x4 Flamers in both PCS with the PCS squads in Chimeras

Two Vendettas

Executioner

Eradicator w/ plasma sponsons

Leman Russ

x2 Melta vet squads with one heavy flamer which ride in Dettas

x2 Penal Legion squads

PBS in Chimera

To compare, Darkwynn's list can be viewed here: http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2009/09/40k-ard-boys-armylist-leafblower.html


I have been running this list since well before the "Leafblower" ever existed and have been very proud of it. Unfortunately, I get the feeling that any Mech Guard player who ever has success will always be branded as running a Leafblower list. Have any other Mech Guard players out there run into this problem? Is it really fair to use this brand in the first place? Is this list a Leafblower?!?

Thanks for your reply Mr. Giggles! Your reply was certainly not long winded and I rather enjoyed reading over it.

What I ended up doing was taking over organizing our local tournaments and for the past 3-4 months I have been one of the TOs. My primary concern was just wondering if this "Leafblower" brand is happening to a lot of other Guard players out there.

Thanks for the posts on this one guys, the advice has really been helping settle my nerves a bit on the issue, especially Polonius' post.

As to switching up what I am playing, I think I may have to do that. I love my Guard to death and the idea of putting away the Chimeras and lowely Guardsmen makes me shudder a bit... stepping out of the box and bringing something else to the table is most likely a good idea (if not to prove a point to the other gamers at my FLGS).

I have about 4k points worth of Tau I got cheap from a friend a while back, perhaps I will try and see if I can do anything with them.