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Hi,

I'm going to the Throne of Skulls Gathering Storm tournament in June at Warhammer World, an event that appeals because its billed as "a non-competitive gaming event for anyone who wants to play fun games of Warhammer 40,000 set during The Gathering Storm." I'm definitely not after a power army and probably don't have enough experience to play one effectively. I would though like to make sure it won't be wiped out on Turn 1!

Given the fall of Cadia, I thought an Imperial Guard army would be a good choice. I've included traditional guard infantry squads, 3 x Leman Russ, plus some of the fun abhuman Elite choices. Thoughts and feedback welcome.

Combined Arms Detachment - 1850 points

HQ

Company Command Squad
Carapace Armour
Voxcaster
Medi-Pack
Regimental Standard
Plasmagun

Master of Ordnance

Primaris Psyker

Troops

Platoon Command Squad
Voxcaster
Medi-Pack
Heavy Weapons Team w/ Missile Launcher and Flakk Missiles

Infantry Squad
Voxcaster
Grenade Launcher
Heavy Weapons Team w/ Heavy Bolter

Infantry Squad
Voxcaster
Grenade Launcher
Heavy Weapons Team w/ Heavy Bolter

Heavy Weapons Squad
3 x Heavy Weapons Team w/ Lascannon

Platoon Command Squad
Voxcaster
Medi-Pack
Heavy Weapons Team w/ Missile Launcher and Flakk Missiles

Infantry Squad
Voxcaster
Grenade Launcher
Heavy Weapons Team w/ Heavy Bolter

Infantry Squad
Voxcaster
Grenade Launcher
Heavy Weapons Team w/ Heavy Bolter

Special Weapons Squad
3 x Flamer

Special Weapons Squad
3 x Meltagun

Veterans
Voxcaster
3 x Plasmagun
Autocannon
Grenadiers [Carapace Armour]

Dedicated Transport

Chimera
Storm Bolter

Elites

Ogryns
2 x Additional Ogryn

Ratlings
2 x Additional Ratlings

Heavy

Leman Russ Demolisher
Lascannon
Sponson Multi-Meltas

Leman Russ Battle Tank
Lascannon
Sponson Heavy Bolters

Leman Russ Battle Tank
Lascannon
Sponson Heavy Bolters

Looks like a fun, fluffy list. Two items of feedback:

-You do lack mobility. Consider tossing in some more Chimeras, outflanking sentinels, Hellhounds, Valkyries or what have you so that you can cap objectives more effectively. The only mobile unit you have is your vet squad.
-Add a priest or commie to your ogryns. Back in 2015 I brought ogryns to a bunch of tournaments. They are a fun unit but they really need either a priests’ zealot rule or a commies stubborn/execution rule to keep em in the line.

As you know, you took a lot of sub-par units and upgrades (well pretty much everything in our codex except for wyverns is sub-par these days). But don't worry. I suspect that these sub-par choices (things like the heavy bolter heavy weapons squad, dismounted CCS, heavy weapon in a mechanized vet squad, hull and sponson weapons on ordnance tanks, and tons of wargear on your command squad) are a great fit for a casual, fluffy tournament.

Have fun!