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okay heres some questions on the imperial guard regimental structure:
1) how many companies are in a Cadian regiment?
2) how many men in a company?
3) how big is an infantry regiment?

and does anyone know the rank system in a regiment from highest ranking officer to lowest?
regimental commander, than a whole buch of guys, company captain, luietanent, sergeant, trooper, recruit... not even sure :L

1,2, &3) it varies depending on individual regiments(size is non-standardized); the 8th(infantry) have 24 companies(roughly 8,000 men and women).


All though the names vary from planet to planet the ranks are as follows
Colonel
Major
Captain(Company Commander)
Lieutenant(Platoon Commander)
Sergeant
Corporal(not distinguished in game)
Private/guardsman

And of course the ubiquitous General and Lord General.

Infantry regiments can be 1,000 to 10,000 and thus companies and the amount of men in them differ also.

A "regiment" is not a certain number of men. Rather, it is a catch-all administrative term, used to describe the wide variety of military units raised from the hundreds of thousands of worlds that supply soldiers to the Imperial Guard. As such, a regiment might be anywhere from a few hundred to tens of thousands of soldiers.

The rank system is the same. All the "Senior Officer, Junior Officer" stuff in the IG Codex is representing the fact that those people could have any one of a million different titles, depending on where they come from.

In general, the ranking structure is;

Warmaster; commands a Crusade

Lord General Militant; commands an army group (or "battlegroup") of several armies and attached assets.

Captain-General; Commands an army, several hundred thousand men and attached war machines at least.

General; Commands a number of regiments arranged into a single strategic unit; the equivalent of a modern corps or division.

Colonel; commands a single regiment.

Major; is the second-in-command of a regiment, or may command a battalion composed of several companies.

Captain; commands a company.

Lieutenant; commands a platoon.

Sergeant; commands a squad.



None of these titles are particularly universal, but these are the positions available to be filled.

Lord General appears to be universal, as it's an Imperial title rather than a regional one.

Going from smallest to largest using a non-Apocalypse rulebook or rules. Unit name, number of soldiers, commanding rank. Ignoring SWS and HWS

Squad - 10 men - Sergeant
Platoon (2-5 squads + command) - (Average 3) 35 men - Lieutenant
Company (2-6 platoons) - (Average 4 I'd guess) 145 men - Captain
Regiment (Any number of companies) - (Guessing about 3) 440 men - Major or Colonel

Bear in mind that not all units use this structure and not to this extent. The Tanith First are 2,000 strong and operate many platoon sized squads, no companies. The Valhallan 'Tundra Wolves' have a group of 125,000 men. I'd say an average would be about 2,000 men including support weapons and all of the units below.

These numbers do not include supporting SWS, HWS, Conscripts, Sentinels, Veterans, Kasrkin, Abhumans or Commissars. Vehicles would be attached separately.

Also remember that theoretically a platoon could be 55 strong, and a company could be made up of six of these, so 335 men. Then ten companies of this would be 3,350 men without any other attachments.

The Tanith do have companies which oddly enough keep changing from number designation to letter which makes it a tad annoying at times.

Right, if you want the CADIAN system, then just wikipedia the British Army.

As for the rest, it's a total crapshoot. The imperium LIKES to impose this vague idea of a "regiment" so that they know roughly how much general killing power they're sending into an area at any given time, but this is vague, at best, and has nothing to say about the underlying structure.

a "regiment" could be a 1 million man Pictish charge, or it could be a single titan, and anything in between.

I'm fairly certain a titan doesn't count as a regiment.

Perhaps they mean "regiment" the way the Germans, Russians and Americans do: an infantry battalion or two, tanks, artillery, engineers etc, or what the British call a "brigade"?