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More love for the Elysians. Catachans and Steel Legion tied for a close second.

Just for completeness cause not everyone even seen th 2nd edition guard armies had (yay, digging out my old codex!) - not mentioned so far:

Patria - native american looking eagle head dress

Utica - Desert foxes - looks like tallaren but more of a lawrence of arabia look

Prateorian guard - looks like moridians with pointy hats

Dieparian mountain men - looks like moridians with plated body armor

Kallistan Rifles - looks like 80's rock bands with big hair

Warhounds of the red moon - kind of looks like tanith without the facial tatoos and wearing hats

Defenders of Sebastin - looks kind of like the arbites or the police in "The Fifth Element"

Logres Ice world -looks like arctic researcher garb

Tekarn iron fist - space samurai ! seriously

Yamnin Volunteers - looks like some sort of Indian (the country, not Native americans) head dress and robes

Paladius - looks kind of like 12th century english archers

Phyruss - looks like cadians with bigger shoulder armor

Vastadt - imagine vallahallen soldier wearing rags. very poor apparently

Gryphonne IV - tech guard? anyways looks like a Dr. Octopus backpack and S&M face mask

Morbidian Skull takers - has Aztec looking armor with like dragon/horse bone helmet

Fornus Lix Fire drakes - looks alot like cadians with hellgun and star war storm trooper from star wars helmet

Kaslon Regiment - looks kind of like an eldar harlequin

Bushmen of Serica - looks like Australian, seriously!

Oartad Feral World Veteran - looks like a pirate bandanna with some sort of fur vest

"Bloodpools" - looks like Catachan's with fur boots

Honus Squad - planet Arminiun - looks like some sort of archaic fire fighter uniform. Or kind of like the Sardukar from the old Dune movie

Al-Arach cult - looks like generic 'magician' or monk in a robe look holding lazgun

Oran I- Jaguars - guy wearing a suit that looks like he stripped a tiger of its skin

Teutons - like kreig pointy helmet without face mask and long great coat.

Nordian Berserkers - looks like a space wolf lord with some sort of animal pelt around shoulders

"Lucky 13s" - kind of strange plate with studs armor and a hat that looks like what princesses in old English farie tales used to wear

Xenoia - Amazon chick fighters (all women regiment?)

Cthonol Regiment - looks like steel legion uniform greatcoat but shorter (only up to thigh) and no face mask with heavy backpack (like engineer from C&C)

Justus "Emperor's shield" - like moridians with taller peaked hats. (all commisar looking @_@)

Van Saars Necromunda gang - future skinsuit with fancy shoulder/knee, and toe pads

Tachoman - yep, it's really old Roman armor alive and well =0

Mortant VII - "headhunters" - clean cut guy with a wierd face mask on a stick attached to his back

Kovnia - Elite Gharkas - kind of looks like WWI british uniform with cloth hat (not the steel helmet)

Amerigo Secundus "Wolverine Regiment" - looks like scruffy 80's rockers that reminds me of Mick Jagger from rolling stones

Ogul 37-c "Bashkur Regiment" - Kind of like the classic Viet Kong uniform with same style safari helmet

Cognomen: Feral Dogs - kind of like a drunk logger with some sort of watch cap

Interfectors from Folas Tertus - looks like an enginseer of today with a big exhaust on his back and no face mask but hood is still on

Tangar "Woad Warrior" - naked guy (seriously is naked) covered with paint to simulate camo

"The Gate Keepers" Ghulag planet - spiky left shoulder guard, roman gladiator right shoulder armor with kind of a Elysian helmet but with imperial eagle on top

Remus "gladiators" - imagine the old roman gladiator helmet and one side armor (typical of the "murmillo" look - go google it!)

Ocanan Phalanx Troops - bulky suit with air tanks on back with kind of a "space man of the future look" from the 1970's

Dneipr tanks - apparently female regiment of tankers? wearing something like current chinese republic army uniform

Ezelti Lancers - armored knight from the 12th century complete with clear plexiglass shield

Gantor Rider - looks like a mutant lizardman wearing rags and face covered up riding a "Cold one" raptor from fantasy maybe, hard to describe

Krum "Ironsides" - calvery looks like a samurai on horse with goggles

Ratskins - guy wearing a rat suit (like he skinned a big rat and is wearing it)

Remus Cognomen: The Crushers - once again with the gladiators influence with plate armor on the arms and flaring shoulder guard

Paladius Freelancers - cadian helmet with chain mail skirt and shoulder armor

Praetorian Hussars - looks like sherlock homes hat with mordian uniform

Attilans rough riders - see current IG codex (go Mongols!)

Code 967/2345213 - looks like someone wearing a running suit from the 80's and a ski mask with some sort of boiler on his back


There's probably more like the guys wearing mirror chain mail in the Gaunt Novels but I can't remember their names atm.

Anyone mention Tanith 1st and only yet btw?

Mordians by far.
Cool under fire, disciplinded, last line of defernse on both their home world and in other conflicts.
Snazzy uniforms.

NO DEATH KORPS!!??!! HERESY!!!!

where's DKOK and Ellysians doh??

Savlar Chem-Dogs!

Will require a lot of conversion though.

Ocanan Phalanx Troops sound pretty cool

sudojoe wrote:Snip

Praetorians have been mentioned and explained...
Though your explaination was... weird.

Tanith First.

Why are so many regiments based on 80's hair bands?

TheAngrySquig wrote:Why are so many regiments based on 80's hair bands?

I think actual roman armor guys outnumber the 80's hair bands. I only count 2 maybe 3 IG based off the rockers

Frankly the new IG codex is more focused on heroes but I always felt they should have kept the 2 page insert on all the other regiments that were thought up. Seems like armies are getting lost faster as the imperium plunges into the 42'nd M either that or Cadia is just conquering everything in sight.

sudojoe wrote:

TheAngrySquig wrote:Why are so many regiments based on 80's hair bands?

I think actual roman armor guys outnumber the 80's hair bands. I only count 2 maybe 3 IG based off the rockers

Still kind of alot. Roman armor at least makes some vauge sense in the military

Steel Legion, easily my favourite models and colour scheme, and they're just generally badass

Human Necrons?

loves my Mordians, they fight in their dress uniforms, like a baws.

My current guard regiment is a blender at the moment, Cadians are the most numerous, but they are a plurality not a majority. They started out with a penal legion theme (the cloth under the hard parts of the armor was painted orange like a prison jumpsuit), but I kept picking up the odd cool model here and there, then I bought some Catachan, and by then it was just a clusterfrak. I have Schaffer as my senior officer (since he isn't in the codex), so i guess it still works in that respect. My guard started out inducted into my WH army, and the fluff became that they were the guardsmen picked up by the Inquisitor for his own private army. I may switch my senior officer model for the inquisitor (who would count as a senior officer), just to keep my previous fluff.

I like the generic look of the Cadian models. They lend themselves well to being any IG army, not just Cadian. That being said, neither of my IG armies is actually Cadian (I just use the models). My favorite is my own creation, but my second favorite is my Tallarn army.

I didn't think much of the way they looked for a long time... Lawrence of Arabia in spaaaaaaace and all that... but over the summer I saw a guy running a Tallarn army that he had painted up with a Turkish flavor. He gave the models dark skin so they didn't look like Lawrence of Arabia, he used the Turkish flag as an army badge, etc... The effect was striking. Even though his painting skills were far, far inferior to those of the studio 'Eavy Metal team, his Tallarns looked better than the ones we keep seeing in the IG codexes. He inspired me to track down the old metal models and start up my own Tallarn army (I went with Saudi-inspired imagery as opposed to Turkish).

Awesome, I really like the Valhallans because of Ciaphas Cain books

Pretorian IG



sherlock homes hat!

ok fine, it's more like a London Police hat, I'll give you that.

(It's called a pith helmet )

I voted Steel Legion, but I like DKoK and Praetorians.

sudojoe wrote:

Spoiler:

Pretorian IG



sherlock homes hat!

ok fine, it's more like a London Police hat, I'll give you that.

Sparks_Havelock wrote:(It's called a pith helmet )

Spoiler:

Owned...

British cops in SPAAAAAACE<Angry Russians in SPAAAAAAACE, IMO

Owned...

TheAngrySquig wrote:British cops in SPAAAAAACE<Angry Russians in SPAAAAAAACE, IMO

They are British Empire Infantrymen in Space. The British Space Empire.
That beats anyone and anything in space.

purplefood wrote:

TheAngrySquig wrote:British cops in SPAAAAAACE<Angry Russians in SPAAAAAAACE, IMO

They are British Empire Infantrymen in Space. The British Space Empire.
That beats anyone and anything in space.

As long as it doesn't run into an alliance between Space Americans and Space French.

But Valhallans have delicious Tanna tea

We have proper tea...

Armless Failure wrote:Space Americans and Space Cheese Eating Surrender-Monkeys.

Fix'd that for you (courtesy of Groundskeeper Willie)!

Castiel wrote:

Armless Failure wrote:Space Americans and Space Cheese Eating Surrender-Monkeys.

Fix'd that for you (courtesy of Groundskeeper Willie)!

Rofl +1 to that

Hrm... I'm sure some of the regiments can definatly represent space Americans but I'm having a hard time finding the space French army look-a-like even in that dumb list I generated. What would be the ideal French military look be anyway? All I keep thinking is the French guys from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.