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HELLO!
if you dont know recently someone sold me roughly 100 guardsmen, 4 valkyries 2 leman russes NIB and 2 special forge world flyers that i dont know what they do.
if you play guard could you tell me what i need next?

EDIT i have the codex and elysian army list!

You will probably want to pick up some HQ units to lead the army. A company command squad is a good choice as it gives you access to the better orders. A priest is a nice cheap addition and will make your squads fearless, and guard psykers are one of the cheapest available and have access to divination.

Depending on the composition of the guardsmen you bought, you may wish to add some heavy weapons teams or special weapons to give you a boost to firepower.

If you are looking for more tanks, a wyvern is a solid addition to the army. Possibly one of the best tanks in the codex, it will make a mess of most units.

Guard can be quite slow on the table, a real problem in some objective-based missions or in maelstrom missions. The flyers could be used to give your army mobility and transport capabilities, or you could invest in a couple of chimeras to ferry your units around.

i have 100 guys i have 3 pyskers 2 of the regimental advisors 2 prieasts 1 company command squad and 1 seargent harker


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i have 3 infantry platoons. so i have HWT

I would say that you are pretty well set for your first few games then. You seem to have enough firepower and variety of units to play at least 1500 pts. Get a few games in, see what you are lacking in terms of your army choice, units to reflect your playstyle or mobility and you can purchase new units to cover these.

I tend to run an infantry heavy list, lots of heavy weapons and orders and a few tanks for support. It lacks mobility, but can put out a lot of firepower (do not underestimate the damage that massed lasguns and "First rank fire, second rank fire" can do) and can take a lot of damage.

 hanshotfirst wrote:
if you play guard could you tell me what i need next?

You need to build those Russes, and get a half dozen games under your belt.

The army is a solid foundation, with adequate infantry, armor and mobility. You have choices.

Personally, I'd look toward adding a Knight and/or Baneblade, but those can wait.

 hanshotfirst wrote:
...and 2 special forge world flyers that i dont know what they do.

Do you know what they are called, or can you describe them? Some of the fliers are much more useful than others, although they are all really nice to use in games.

there like the lighting-voss and the thunderbolt i think but im not sure


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the flyers are the vendetta and the thunderbolt. i looked them up on FW interwebz

 JohnHwangDD wrote:

 hanshotfirst wrote:
if you play guard could you tell me what i need next?

You need to build those Russes, and get a half dozen games under your belt.

The army is a solid foundation, with adequate infantry, armor and mobility. You have choices.

Personally, I'd look toward adding a Knight and/or Baneblade, but those can wait.

I've never found the Baneblade to be that useful in games. I have one and it's a beautiful model, but units in cover just shut it down. Knights are awesome though, I hate going up against them.

i built the leman russes yesterday and played against my friends. demolisher cannons are very fun! i killed my freinds tac squads and my other friends orks!

You have enough as it is. Pay a dozen games and decide yourself what you need. A commisar perhaps, if you dont have them

 triplegrim wrote:
You have enough as it is. Pay a dozen games and decide yourself what you need. A commisar perhaps, if you dont have them

I concur with this. I think one mistake I made when starting out with the game was buying a bunch of stuff I thought I needed but when it came to playing I found I didn't use maybe a third to a half of what I got. Try out the game a bit... maybe proxy units you'd like to try out to see if you'd like them.

i bought the lot for 386.99 from a dude at my game store wich is good deal

 corrm wrote:

 JohnHwangDD wrote:

 hanshotfirst wrote:
if you play guard could you tell me what i need next?

You need to build those Russes, and get a half dozen games under your belt.

The army is a solid foundation, with adequate infantry, armor and mobility. You have choices.

Personally, I'd look toward adding a Knight and/or Baneblade, but those can wait.

I've never found the Baneblade to be that useful in games. I have one and it's a beautiful model, but units in cover just shut it down. Knights are awesome though, I hate going up against them.

The Baneblade is an 8-in-1 kit, and you mostly get it because it's huge and amazing-looking. If cover is the issue, field the Hellhammer version. For the money, with all of the swappable bits, the Baneblade / Hellhammer / Shadowsword / Stormlord / ... multi-kit is easily the best value Superheavy / GC you can buy.

The new combi-Knight is also a great kit, large and imposing. Hard to go wrong with, especially if he has built the Russes as short-range Demolishers.

buy the best baneblade.

i ordered a knigth warden And found someone on craigslist selling a NiB baneblade for 80$... my wallet hungers.

Knight *and* Baneblade (Hellhammer)? Sweet!

At this point, you have the tools to play, so get in more games and see where you want to take the force.

I played at my Flgs- out of 4 games im 2 for 2! i played one guy who had just all the rules for the space marines printed out. but on his rules it said bolters were strength 5 so i packed up and left that game.

 hanshotfirst wrote:
I played at my Flgs- out of 4 games im 2 for 2! i played one guy who had just all the rules for the space marines printed out. but on his rules it said bolters were strength 5 so i packed up and left that game.

lol wow

Posting from my tablet. he was at the game store today playing against some 13 yr old kid. with ap2 rocket launchers. i called game store manager and he told him to get out. I hope that the cheater can still play because its the only gamestore within a 1hour drive.