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The primers are IIRC for different campaigns - so there is a Damocles Crusade edition.

I don't belive that all Guard Regiments are literate either

I would think that a Primer for a Barbarian Regiment... or the Death Korps... would be a waste of paper... well, at least for use in its Administratum-intended purpose.

I actually have both the original as well as the Damocles Gulf edition. The campaign sections don't mention anything about equipment - which kinda makes sense; a regiment doesn't just switch over to new gear just because they go on a new deployment.
The DG part talks a bit about the Tau and travel aboard Imperial transport ships. Fun stuff as well, was worth the 2nd purchase. I might even cave in and buy a 3rd one whenever they release it.

TheCustomLime wrote:Note, I am just guessing. It's just as possible that the Uplifting Primer really is that useless of a document for your "average" guardsman.

Which would fit well with the grimdark style of the setting, if you think about it.

 Psienesis wrote:
I would think that a Primer for a Barbarian Regiment... or the Death Korps... would be a waste of paper... well, at least for use in its Administratum-intended purpose.

Are you saying it isn't already a waste of paper in it's Administratum-intended purpose?

Even so, I doubt that the Munitorum would care if the guardsmen could use or read it. From my impression of the book it is somewhat like a German Soldbuch. You have to have it on your person at all times or you'll suffer the consequences (I am not sure if the Primer has you put your name in it or it records what equipment you were issued). So, in the case of the illiterate it's intent would be to instill discipline and respect for Imperial authority.

Of course, if a Commissar started executing people from a particularly tribal world for defiling a stupid book I am sure he would find himself on the business end of one of their knives... or having to execute mutineers faster than he can reload his pistol.

 Mitranekh the Omniscient wrote:
This may seem odd, but do the IG recruit women? My reasoning is twofold;
1. In the Space Marine game, the main NPC was Lt. Mira, a woman. But...
2. There are no female heads in the Cadian or Catachan troops sets iirc.

In typical GW fashion the info is conflicting (I'm not anti-GW in any way, no hate please). So I thought I'd ask.

So what is the IGs policy on women?

They recruit women (there are a few in the books as well) but obviously there won't be as many women in the army as men but it is still weird that there aren't any female minis for guard iirc