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Imperial Guard have always appealed to me. I like the idea of pitting poor human souls against the worst the galaxy has to offer.

Due to the sheer scale of any Imperial Guard army I have never started to buy or build an army despite me owning the last 2 codexes. Daft eh?

Thinking about it, I realised that with all my other armies (DEldar, Vanilla Marines and Tau) that I bought to excess in an attempt to cover all possibilities any given codex has to offer. (10 Mandrakes and Decapitator anyone? perhaps you would prefer 15 Vespids?)

I would much rather have more choice of armies than a totally comprehensive collection of just a few armies.

With this is mind I'm going to sell off all my excess fat from my other armies and put it towards the Guard army I've always wanted to do. This 2,000pt list is all that I am going to buy for Imperial Guard so I'd like to get it as right as possible.

I have never played either with or against an Imperial Guard army and whilst I have the codex and have garnered a bit of an idea of effective units I'm not totally down with a decent list. I have basically been scouring the Army Lists forums and browsing all the forums here on Dakka to look for the best ideas and/or units to use. So you guys have basically made this list!

An important point before I start:

I do not play in tournaments. I have a pretty small gaming circle and whilst I certainly like to win the ultimate list is not a massive priority for me. That being said any units/items you think are out of place or suck balls then critique away. Please give a constructive reason for such though and not just 'that unit is crap sack it off! ' cheers

Here's the list;

HQ:

(145pts) Company Command Squad with 4 Meltaguns and Chimera with Multilaser, Heavy Flamer

Troops:

(465pts) Infantry Platoon:

PCS with 4 Flamers and Chimera with Multilaser, Heavy Flamer
Infantry Squad in Chimera with Multilaser, Heavy Bolter
Infantry Squad in Chimera with Multilaser, Heavy Bolter
Heavy Weapons Squad with 3 Autocannon
Heavy Weapons Squad with 3 Autocannon

(100pts) Veteran Squad with 3 Meltaguns

(100pts) Veteran Squad with 3 Meltaguns

Fast Attack:

(130pts) Vendetta Gunship (veterans ride)

(130pts) Vendetta Gunship (veterans ride)

(110pts) Sentinel Scout Squadron:

2 x Sentinel with Multilaser
1 x Sentinel with Autocannon

Heavy Support

(345pts) Leman Russ Squadron:

Leman Russ Battletank with Heavy Bolter, Multimelta sponsons
Leman Russ Demolisher with Heavy Flamer

(315pts) Leman Russ Squadron:

Leman Russ Battletank with Heavy Bolter
Leman Russ Demolisher with Heavy Flamer

(160pts) Manticore Rocket Launcher

Total 2,000

Fire away! Cheers

Dont mix the Leman Russes. Take a unit of 2 demolishers and one of two battle tanks. The reason being, anything the demolisher cannon is good at shooting at, the battle cannon isn't, i.e., terminators, thunderwolves, land raiders....

and anything the battle cannons are good at shooting at is probably a waste for the demolisher.

Using the battle cannon and the demolisher also allow your opponent to abuse wound allocation. If you cause 2 battle cannon wounds on a unit of 3 thunderwolves, and 2 demolisher wounds on the same unit, both demolisher wwounds can be allocated to the same model so only one suffers instant death. If you cause 4 wounds from demolishers all would have to take at least one wound with the potential to inflict instant death.

Agreed with shake

Also MM sponsons are near useless on russes, especially ones that are probably going to take advantage of their 72" battlecannon

Dropping them can get some extra points to spend like say on the infantry squads or something

Hmm good point. It's never clicked before now that they both have to shoot the same thing. Damn.

I suppose switching isn't a big deal, I kind of thought the Battle Cannon pummels things as they advance and then when in range the Demolisher lets rip but ofc it cannot work like that. Thanks for the heads up.

I'll put the respective tanks together then to settle that one

Cheers

Boar



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The sponsons were put on as a little bit of an afterthought really, mainly due to wanting to mix up the appearance of the 4 Leman Russes a bit. Having all four without sponsons might look a little odd maybe?

Anyways if I won't find much mileage in them I could drop them. Leaving me 30 pts to spend. I could also drop one sentinel to up the amount to 65/70pts. Maybe Marbo or a Primaris Psyker? Or even Ratlings? I love the Ratling models but have not read many great reviews on them.

Never experienced any of these, are they any good? What role and purpose would they serve? Marbo seems pretty good in the codex. I'd have to convert one as I don't even like the model they are selling and I won't be using the catachan models anyway so he'd look a bit out of place.