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Hey guys and beautiful gals hope you are having a nice day.

Well I am going to play with some friends later this month so I am doing up some imperal guard lists.

Here is what I know

Eldar wraith knight crazy guy
Orks
Space marine... Well to be fair titans with a few marines.

So here is the question for these games most people are running big stuff FW stuff. What can my little imperal guard ever do vs this? Bane blades stormsurges? Throw toy soilders at them?

FW lacks a super heavy imperal guard tank so what should I do?

Oh is the storm blade bigger then the bane blade? Actual model size.

OgreChubbs wrote:
Hey guys and beautiful gals hope you are having a nice day.

Well I am going to play with some friends later this month so I am doing up some imperal guard lists.

Here is what I know

Eldar wraith knight crazy guy
Orks
Space marine... Well to be fair titans with a few marines.

So here is the question for these games most people are running big stuff FW stuff. What can my little imperal guard ever do vs this? Bane blades stormsurges? Throw toy soilders at them?

FW lacks a super heavy imperal guard tank so what should I do?

Oh is the storm blade bigger then the bane blade? Actual model size.

Stormlord. 15 TL S 6 AP 3 Rending shots will do a hell of a lot for you, and you can literally fit an army in the transport bay.

Forge World has more content for the Guard than it does for everyone else put together (or did, before 30k). You'll be fine.

The Baneblade-chassis kit is a normal GW plastic kit, it contains eight variants built on the same hull (Baneblade, Banehammer, Banesword, Doomsword, Hellhammer, Shadowsword, Stormlord, Stormsword). On top of that you have access to four Macharius-chassis tanks, three vehicles built on the Crassus hull, the Gorgon, four Malcador variants, the Valdor, the Minotaur, and a unique Baneblade commander (all last printed in Imperial Armour 1 2nd Edition), as well as the Marauder and Marauder Destroyer (last printed in Imperial Armour Apocalypse).

The Shadowsword is your most effective Titan-killing tool in the Superheavies department (with a D-strength large blast at 120" range), its weakness is its inability to face down the Knights or Wraithknight in melee.


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 master of ordinance wrote:
Stormlord. 15 TL S 6 AP 3 Rending shots will do a hell of a lot for you, and you can literally fit an army in the transport bay.

If you're open to Allies the Stormlord is a great focal point. It's highly resistant to most of the shooting you're facing, easily repairable, a great target for buffs (and easy for support characters to hide behind), and can effectively engage most targets on its own. Grabbing reliable psychic buffs, grav-cannons, and some counter-charge (remember that the Stormlord counts as open-topped when disembarking, which means you can charge out of it) from the Space Marines goes a long way towards keeping it alive and making up for the targets Guard can't deal with easily.

"Chimaeras, 612! Bloody hundreds of 'em!"

Aye, stick a bunch of Techmarines/Enginseers with servitors inside and watch your opponent weep as you repair faster than he can damage it.

 Elbows wrote:
"Chimaeras, 612! Bloody hundreds of 'em!"

...Can't recommend this one. You take five hundred points of Chimeras with Techmarines, I'll take five hundred points of scatterbikes. We'll see how long it takes for the Chimeras to go away.

 AnomanderRake wrote:

 Elbows wrote:
"Chimaeras, 612! Bloody hundreds of 'em!"

...Can't recommend this one. You take five hundred points of Chimeras with Techmarines, I'll take five hundred points of scatterbikes. We'll see how long it takes for the Chimeras to go away.

I meant to put the Enginseers and Servitors inside the Stormlord

Thanks for the comments guys, with christmass coming up the plan to beef out my imperal guard with more tanks and apperantly techs is inorder.

I left them for dead when 7th hit not because i Hated 7th hell I never played it but because the new rules to learn, 2 kids in diapers and moving ect ect. Now that I am moving in november "again" and the kids are off to school I got more free time to relearn some stuff.

With super heavies for fun and my army being 90% troops it is time to tank the world baby soooo many tanks lol

The stormlord doesn't actually have rending. See if you can get yourself a copy of the Mont'ka suplement's rulebook for your options. Personally, I have little trouble taking an Acheron for such things.

keep in mind no one's going to blink if you run an IK along side your guard (well or they'll blink no matter what super heavy you drop)

CRASSUS ARMOURED TRANSPORT.

Nuff said.

Rhino

even with tanks being weaker this editions for 35 points, nothing beats it.