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Hi, all.

I've read through the Stickies about Imerial Guard tactics, and they're a good read. I'm just curious, what do most people do? Are there more players running Mechanised Veterans, or do the vast majority of players run Combined Squads? I'm just curious.

I only play casual with my friends. I'm either up against Eldar, Tau, or Chaos Space Marines.

I never really win, but I never loose via a white wash, either. Most of the time I just don't meet the game's objectives.

What I normally run is:

x1 Company Command Squad, w/ Regimental Advisers

x1 Platoon Compand Squad
x4 Infantry Squads (Combined Squad) w/ a Heavy Weapon, and a Special Weapon per individual Infantry Squad

x1 Veteran Squad w/ Heavy Weapon and plasma guns

x1 Chimaera
x2 Sentinels
x1 Valkyrie
x1 Leman Russ Vanquisher

We generally field a lot of cover, so I can't really move much, so I end up just standing the Combined Squad still and filling the air with las-bolts. The Vanquisher normally acts as artillery and tries to take out Hammerheads, and Land Raiders, etc., and I normally do something daft, like, drop my Veterans from the Valkyrie behind the emery's lines, all sneaky like, I get a few shots off, then they get eaten my Striking Scopions, or something, lol.

Is it worth trying an all Veteran Squad army?

Veterans, because I hate losing. I tried maybe 20 games as blob guard and swiftly came to the conclusion that it simply does not win you games.

By contrast veterans in chimeras have brutal firepower that can be concentrated wherever you need it, as well as forming a wall of armour that most opponents will struggle to deal with. Though, I hate taking plasma since it only takes 4 shots on average to kill the guy holding it, and often by turn 4 or 5 I find I have very few plasma guns left.

I've started setting up as a Blob guard... simply because I like seeing massed infantry, and rolling lots of dice and taking lots of casualties whilst still saying "meh".

I use my IG as a cheap disposable horde ally for daemons, so it's all about the blobbed platoons. What makes guard such a great allied choice is that you can squeeze so much into a single foc choice. One troop choice can have 100+ scoring boots on the ground, scattered in their own separate units.
That vet squad may have higher bs and some more plasma guns but it can't hold every objective on the board simultaneously like that platoon can.

Personally, I run non-blob foot guard, unless its KP, and then I blob them up.

They perform okay, and are very very good at blocking access to my armoured vehicles, and controlling what my mechvets can hit.

I do both Vets and Infantry. they both offer me a different value so I think having both matters in my list. But in some it wont. If forced to choose one or the other I suppose vets but thats not saying much because my list is better in totality with both being repp'd

30 man blob
3 melts vets doing chimera drive by

MSU, (unless kill points) because noting wins the game like having more scoring units than your opponent can actually kill.

Vets in chimera, 2x manticore, 2x Bassie.

Minimum of 2 30 man blobs and 2 vet squads on foot with carapace and plasma/melta. At higher points values that grows by 2 more 20-man blobs (or one 40-man). I generally combine squads just because it fits the theme and style of my army, and also because sending hordes into the meat grinder is just fun.

I've also had success running an all-foot-vet list, everyone in carapace armour and with 30 stormtroopers as backup.

Interesting, quite varied, then.