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2013/12/24 02:29:23
Subject: Share your views on the Imperial Guard 'machine'
flamingkillamajig wrote:It feels a little weird though that they'd need to send out letters when they probably have vid-screens and etc. I suppose it'd work with the whole WWII feel of the guard but if you have vid-screens I could imagine about 45 seconds per person would be enough (it is the imperium).
Apart from it possibly just being a matter of style/theme for the setting, it could just be that there's only two ways of interstellar communication - astropaths, or physical delivery. If the Imperium would be able to broadcast signals out over such massive distances, they wouldn't need psykers to play telephone. And of course whilst physical delivery would allow both traditional mail as well as actual recordings, letters are easier to write in the field (you can literally to this in the trench or a tent) and cost the Munitorum less to support.
And they are easier to censor.
2013/12/24 02:33:47
Subject: Share your views on the Imperial Guard 'machine'
I dunno I always was of the opinion that these days and in the future it'd be faster to send a message and easier than to travel to do the same. I'd imagine astropaths would be like the operator.
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General Sturnn's speech at the end of the IG campaign in Winter Assault sums up my attitude towards the guard.
As for logistics, I always assumed that they just took mini factories along the campaign and, along with whatever local factories are available, just made what they needed on planet. It seems that most 40k conflicts aren't across the planet anyway.
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2013/12/24 08:53:37
Subject: Share your views on the Imperial Guard 'machine'
I view the "Guard Machine" as an incredibly diverse army with regiments raised from all over the galaxy, each with their own fighting styles.
For example, my regiment often takes great losses in battle, but gets the job done, because the late-World War II Russian armored doctrine is the one we follow. That is to say, we use incredibly aggressive armored thrusts to destabilize a front line until one company or another can break through. Such aggression costs lives, but they're lives spent rather than wasted, and the Leman Russ is the perfect vehicle to do it with.
On the other hand, a buddy-of-mine's Regiment (which he built specifically in response to mine) uses Devil-dog "medium tanks" in a more German way, taking advantage of the Fast vehicle rule (and the power of the Melta Cannon) to dart about in front of the enemy line. He takes nine of these usually, with one Command Leman Russ and two armored fist squads, armored fist veteran squads, or armored squadrons as troops (if he can fit them in).
2013/12/24 14:08:56
Subject: Re:Share your views on the Imperial Guard 'machine'
I realised I actual made no contribution to the thread, so here go's. I see the guard as a fully fledged military, well kitted out, but with each regiment kitted out differently to suit its assigned specialisation. I see the guards generals as good leaders, who realise that sacrifices must be made to achieve victory.
"Lives will be lost, the only thing we can do is to make sure that the enemy lose all of theirs and we do not." That phrase is exactly how I would sum up guard commanders (the good ones at any rate)
basicaly it is a military that has so many troops, its acceptable losses are much higher than any other.
Psienesis wrote: The Mordian Iron Guard are legendary for their discipline under fire and their iron-strong adherence to orders. They follow their orders to the letter and without a moment's hesitation. They are excellent sharpshooters, using precise fire and iron resolve to destroy the enemies of the Emperor.
They fight in their dress uniforms, as "the bright colors and elaborate decoration on Mordian uniforms often mislead their enemies into thinking they are facing ceremonial troops with little combat experience, though this misapprehension is usually corrected as soon as they attempt to advance in the face of the Iron Guards' precise volleys and unyielding resolve." If you're bringing people in from somewhere else they don't have this uniform to wear.
It should also be noted "even in the face of the overwhelming daemonic hordes of Chaos, Iron Guard regiments will stand their ground, striking down their foe with disciplined fire; if forced to withdraw their lines will never break." Why GW did not give them Fearless or Iron Discipline or... something to represent this is anyone's guess. So I would not take their lack of SR on the table-top to represent that this unit is not just as special as the Catachan (just in a different manner).
Unless every man on Moridia (or whatever planet the Iron Guard hail from) is born standing at attention in neatly pressed uniform, waiting to shoot the nearest alien, they learned how to do that.
Therefore, other humans can learn this too.
It is also possible to make new uniforms (if it weren't the Iron Guard would quickly have to learn how to fight naked after a few days of combat...).
hell yes thats how Mordian is
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LightKing wrote: doesn't Caliban produce the best guards of the whole imperium
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I thought Caliban got all kaboomulated at the end of the heresy?
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