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I voted for Elysians but I wanted to vote for any drop regiment. Every other regiment has armored support and a front line to work with. Drop Regiments gravchute into hostile territory, completely surrounded. Then they have to fight their way out. Without Tanks and Artillery. Just my opinion.

looks like cadians or Dkok are on top atm

No contest,it is my beloved baby ogryns.I don't care if i get shot down,i love Catachans.

Trying to argue combat capabilities is just meaningless, since they change so rapidly based entirely on the narrative taking place at that moment. So I'm going to judge based purely on aesthetics, and for me the Mordians and the Death Korps are the champions, for completely opposite reasons. Mordians represent the anachronistic nature of 40k warfare and the importance placed on style over substance, and the Death Korps exemplify the grit and despair of humans struggling against forces powerful beyond their comprehension.

 Vaktathi wrote:
Agreed, the DKoK is by far the most interesting IG faction, and no army in the game comes close to having models as cool as DKoK Grenadiers.

Gasmasked brofist

 Arcsquad12 wrote:
The 85th Vendoland managed to scramble together a defense against a combined Tyranid and Ork assault o Meridian, and then launched a suicide attack against the Hive Fleet with the aid of the Blood Ravens, and won.

If they won it's not a suicide attack

So little votes for the Tallarn and First born and rough riders, out of all the Imperial regiments their the closest ones to being warriors as opposed to soldiers

I'm going out on a limb and say each of the listed regiments is the best somewhere. The overall most elite would probably be the Storm Trooper regiment, as Beaviz81 mentioned.

But I'm going to vote for the coolest. Literally.

Krieg.

Always Krieg.

I'm also very fond of Mordians (It's either them, from Victoria Lamb, or plastic steel legion if they are a thing to replace my cadians), but that's mostly aesthetics.

In terms of combat capacity, the Cadians, as has been said many times, are one of only a handful of guard organizations able to do everything well. They won't fight a siege as well as the Krieg, they don't drop as well as Elysians, or have the same mobility as the Steel Legion, but they can do *everything* well.

If they actually had decent looking models, I'd happily field my guard as Cadians or one of the numerous cadian copies. Remember, almost every Guard regiment without its own martial history to draw upon fights in the "cadian pattern."

I'll vote. Mordians. They're just so well dressed, no other regiment brings such class to the battlefield.

It's hard to pinpoint, they each specialise differently.

Lasgun to my head? I'll back Mordians. Such well-dressed, disciplined, couldn't-care-less-what-the-enemy-brings badassery is just awesome.

 Troike wrote:
I'll vote. Mordians. They're just so well dressed, no other regiment brings such class to the battlefield.

Now you've gone and made the Praetorians upset.

Voted DKK.

But.......not on your list but what about the Last Chancers? Read the reprinted bpoke recently and those guys are hard ore thugs:-)

Praetorian Guard, Line infantry in space with lasrifles. Hell the feth yeah!

Knockagh wrote:
Voted DKK.

But.......not on your list but what about the Last Chancers? Read the reprinted bpoke recently and those guys are hard ore thugs:-)

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Well technically it's a penal legion, not a regiment.

 Kain wrote:

Knockagh wrote:
Voted DKK.

But.......not on your list but what about the Last Chancers? Read the reprinted bpoke recently and those guys are hard ore thugs:-)

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Well technically it's a penal legion, not a regiment.

Hammer of the Emperor (supplement for Only War) has the Last Chancers as a Regiment.

My top 3:

1) dkok for awesome model aesthetics, and a kick ass back story
2) asl, for still being around after so many attempts by ghazzy
3) elysians, purely because I like their style

MARBO IS BEST (fades back into the trees)

Tanith 1st, breaking the constant meatgrinder by stealth! And lets face it, they are one regiment. Every other regiment listed has countless hundreds of armoured, artillery, aircav, siege, cavalry or infantry regiments. There is one Tanith regiment and they have earnt more renown than many of the others combined.

Any one which, at the end of the day, survived really...

I'd reckon the Steel Legion. They all have the protection and mobility afforded by the Chimera and have been facing what are probably the worst Ork Waaaghs in recent times for a while, which would probably mean that they'd be pretty tough and experienced fighters.

Cadians all the way, baby!

 purplefood wrote:
It's quite obviously the Praetorians.

Indeed it is. If they were in charge, the Tyranids would be dead before tea time.

Deff korps of krieg.We all know they wear the gasmask to hide that they are orks.

 Troike wrote:
I'll vote. Mordians. They're just so well dressed, no other regiment brings such class to the battlefield.

Seconded, them and the Praetorians... "Body armour? I say dear chap that's not very sporting."

The first part of my opinion is wearing a gas-mask, the second "went missing" under Chenkov, the third is receiving some training near the Eye of Terror and the fourth sports a nice blue uniform.^^

If I had to pick one on there it'd be krieg, if I had to say one you didn't mention, I'd pick the Olympian guard, because I like the backstory of their insane bravery coming from a need to atone for the betrayal of the iron warriors (Olympia was their pre-heresy home world)

Edit: 902nd Valhallan rifles are by far the awesome at whilest still being the most tragic. The average life expectancy from the time a recruit joins them is LITTERALLY 15 hours! They are currently defending the city of bucheroc which is besieged by hundreds of millions of orks because of its countless promethium refineries / mines and fuel reserves. Not to mention the orks they are fighting have a boss smart enough to build trenches and precede assaults with hour long artillery bombardments. Not to mention bucheroc gets to be in the -30s in winter and over 100 degrees in summer making it probably the most brutal deployment in the imperium.

The 13th Penal Legion, aka Col. Schaeffer's Last Chancers.

OK so technically they are not a regiment, but per Only War they are. So I say they count.

If by 'best' you mean personal favourite, then its gotta be either Krieg (because dat grimdark) Vostroyans (dem shako) or Tallarn (Dem snipers/head wraps)
I just love how Tallarn are pretty much Afrika Korps/Bedouin raiders IIIN SPAAAAAACE!

This is such a hard decision since so many guardsmen kick ass and take names for the glory of the emprah!