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A friend of mine wants to get into playing Warhammer. I'm meeting with him tonight to run him through a game, and he's using my army. I've got a ton of IG to work with and I want to try to introduce him to as many concepts as possible with one list. Suggestions are very welcome, with the understanding that this isn't supposed to be a competitive list in the least. Points don't really matter.

Also, I'll be fielding both armies, so I'm limited by the number of vehicles I can take.

HQ:
Command Squad, 4 Plasma (Plasma Weapons)
Primaris Pysker (IC, Psychic Powers)

Elite:
Storm Trooper (Deep Striking)

Troops:
Flamer Vet Squad w/ Chimera (Flame Templates)
Scout GL Vet Squad w/ Chimera (Outflanking, Small blast templates)
Melta Vet squad w/ Chimera (Melta)

Fast Attack:
Vendetta (Fast attack)

Heavy Support:
Basalisk (Ordance Weapons)
Leman Russ (Blast templates)

bit complex for a beginner, try 3 squads of identical troops, a CCS and a russ to begin with, just so they get a taste for vehicle rules and infantry also, then add more for the second game.

I think you're mistaken in your approach mate. If it's your friend's first game, that would be really overwhelming, things would be entering the board in different ways and using different abilities all over the place, in ways that will be pretty impenetrable to him. Just take infantry and normal vehicles, then in the next game take transports as well, then bikes, cavalry, jump troops, etc, then devote a game to the different special deployment options, then do psychic powers last maybe? My point is don't throw all the special rules at him at once. You may even want to demonstrate basic movement/shooting/assault without bringing special rules like IG orders or storm trooper missions into the mix.

I suppose you're right. He's planning on Vanilla SM and while I suppose most of what IG can do applies, I'm probably better off with a shorter list, more focued list.

How about:

HQ:
CCS 4 x Plasma

Troops:
Flamer vet w/ Chimera
Grenade Launcher vet w/ Chimera
Melta vets w/ Chimera
Plasma vets w/Lascannon

Heavy Support:
Leman Russ x 2