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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/08/26 21:00:58
Subject: Re:What makes you folks like IG?
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Imperial Guard Landspeeder Pilot
On moon miranda.
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IG have by far the coolest models (even if they aren't all part of the basic range), and no other army lets you field 14 tanks and 85 infantry in 1750pts
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IRON WITHIN, IRON WITHOUT.
New Heavy Gear Log! Also...Grey Knights!
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/08/26 21:03:17
Subject: Re:What makes you folks like IG?
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Frenzied Berserker Terminator
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May the coolest models are vostroyans!
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" $@#& YOU! There are 3 things I want in a guy: Tall, Handsome, and plays Dark Eldar!"-every woman since
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/08/26 23:10:14
Subject: Re:What makes you folks like IG?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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-Being the Military myself.
-The idea of being a normal Human having to face the horrors of the Galaxy with nothing but guys and a flashlight.
-Idea of creating your own regiment based off a favorite fighting style (airborne, ect.) or even a historical regiment.
-Lots of variety in both style of armies and play.
-Some good looking models
-The BEST models on Forgeworld, easily the Elysians and Death Korps of Krieg
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19th Krieg Siege Army 7500pts.
40k/HH Night Lords 5000pts.
Orks Waaaghmacht Spearhead 2500pts.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/08/27 04:33:05
Subject: Re:What makes you folks like IG?
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Blood-Drenched Death Company Marine
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the_Armyman wrote:
Love the Vossies, RT. Shame about losing Griffons in the 'dex, tho. Hopefully people still let you run them with FW rules.
Thanks Armyman! Much appreciated.
And yea, I actually field the Griffons as make-shift basiliks (Removable barrel extensions using plasticard tube), or more recently I just call them Vostroya pattern Wyvern mortar tanks using the Griffon mortar to represent the Stormshard mortar system.
The particular Griffon models I use is the old OOP GW metal/plastic hybrid kit coupled with the more modern Chimera hull. (Fit nearly perfectly into the new-school plastic hull and is a 100% GW product.)
Thankfully nobody in my gaming group has an issue with me using the Griffon proxy as a Wyvern, though I haven't gone to a tournament since the new IG codex came out, so who knows what'll happen with a tournament organizer if I try to use the Griffons as Wyverns in the future. Hopefully nobody will take umbrage with the swap. I love my artillery tanks, and want to keep using them. If you'd like to see better pictures of them, check out my gallery also.
Take it easy and thanks again for the kudos Armyman.
-Red__Thirst-
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/08/27 16:42:56
Subject: Re:What makes you folks like IG?
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Hurr! Ogryn Bone 'Ead!
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I love the aesthetic and back story of the Guard - just regular humans holding the line and doing their best to live long enough for reinforcements to arrive.
Besides rolling three dozen dice when anything gets within 12 inches is so much fun
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/08/28 01:45:40
Subject: Re:What makes you folks like IG?
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Storm Trooper with Maglight
In Warp Transit to next battlefield location, Destination Unknown
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Engine of War wrote:Tanks.
Lots of Tanks.
And you can customize them to (almost) no limit.
I have, making a Experimental or Salvaged series of war machines weidling the wildest of Sci Fi weapons or Bolted together from the firey inferno of war.
That and the idea of mere mortal men fighting god-like super soldiers (demonically infused or otherwise), giant green war loving aliens, endless all devouring legions of bugs, the physical manifestation of fear and destruction and thensome and come out on top.... that's just plain cool.
Hey, noticed your Regiment is the 91st Experimental Cadia. How many infantry companies and Armored Squadrons is that?
This is yet another reason to play IG. My 91st Cadian Regiment "Glorious Sentinels", will be completely different than yours. I am currently writing up a TO&E for version of the "Glorious Sentinels". It is organized as a brigade of 1 mechanized infantry regiment with 1 mixed support regiment of 5 battalions each. To each their own.
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Cowards will be shot! Survivors will be shot again!
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/08/28 04:18:00
Subject: What makes you folks like IG?
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Dakka Veteran
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Just a quick question. How many IG players are or were actually in the military? I bet that percentage is actually pretty high. The IG play most like real life forces do. Also, thank you for your service!
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/08/28 04:20:25
Subject: What makes you folks like IG?
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Heroic Senior Officer
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Munga wrote:Just a quick question. How many IG players are or were actually in the military? I bet that percentage is actually pretty high. The IG play most like real life forces do. Also, thank you for your service!
I havent been in the military, but if the military is anything like my guard I can only imagine that very soon I will be conscripted due to horrific losses on the front lines.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/08/28 04:21:55
Subject: What makes you folks like IG?
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Dakka Veteran
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If things got that bad, I'd probably volunteer.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/08/28 04:25:11
Subject: What makes you folks like IG?
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Heroic Senior Officer
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So if your nation sent men in huge waves of men, with commissars aiming at your back and armoured coffins backing you up, while enemy fire cuts everyone down in the dozens a minute, you would join?
I mean, Guard dont play like real life, and thankfully so haha.
Also my nation isnt very warlike, so as a result we dont have a militaristic culture etc.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/08/28 04:38:27
Subject: What makes you folks like IG?
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Haha, when you put it that way... I'm referring more to the World Wars. They certainly did that in a couple of situations.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/08/28 04:42:22
Subject: What makes you folks like IG?
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Pyromaniac Hellhound Pilot
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Catachans for the win.
Why I like the IG?
1. I can relate to the idea of an infantry man in the universe
2. Special characters are great, but not OP. Wish they would make a Commissar Caine and Gunner Jurgen.
3. I can bring more at any game than any one else. Plus, old metal catachan just look cool.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/08/28 05:04:07
Subject: Re:What makes you folks like IG?
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Pyromaniac Hellhound Pilot
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SYKOJAK wrote: Engine of War wrote:Tanks.
Lots of Tanks.
And you can customize them to (almost) no limit.
I have, making a Experimental or Salvaged series of war machines weidling the wildest of Sci Fi weapons or Bolted together from the firey inferno of war.
That and the idea of mere mortal men fighting god-like super soldiers (demonically infused or otherwise), giant green war loving aliens, endless all devouring legions of bugs, the physical manifestation of fear and destruction and thensome and come out on top.... that's just plain cool.
Hey, noticed your Regiment is the 91st Experimental Cadia. How many infantry companies and Armored Squadrons is that?
This is yet another reason to play IG. My 91st Cadian Regiment "Glorious Sentinels", will be completely different than yours. I am currently writing up a TO&E for version of the "Glorious Sentinels". It is organized as a brigade of 1 mechanized infantry regiment with 1 mixed support regiment of 5 battalions each. To each their own.
Actually, my troops are not Cadian, the armor and equipment on the troops is the Cadian design. For the only reason being I can't get any other troop models (and in terms of the Kasrkin they just look cooler then Stormtroopers),. Catachans look funky and Krieg is far to expensive. Fluffwise Cadian style armor is prevalent across the imperium anyways. Schrott the planet they are from is an Ad Mech controlled world, so the 91st Schrott Experimental Regiment (full title) is controlled by the Ad Mech.
In terms of numbers of squadrons and such.
I have not actually counted all the infantry. Im in the process of counting everything together.
I have right now 24 Leman Russ Tanks of each variant minus the Conqueror. (including 1 LR Annihilator, named the Twin Blade)
8 Baneblade chassis SHV, 4 Malcador, 3 Macharius, 1 CRASSUS. and plenty of Artillery and lighter armor. (with armor only counted up WYSIWYG, im at 13,631) I still need all of my fortifications and all of my infantry.
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Regiment: 91st Schrott Experimental Regiment
Regiment Planet: Schrott
Specialization: Salvaged, Heavily Modified, and/or Experimental Mechanized Units.
"SIR! Are you sure this will work!?"
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/08/28 05:26:07
Subject: What makes you folks like IG?
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Storm Trooper with Maglight
In Warp Transit to next battlefield location, Destination Unknown
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Munga wrote:Haha, when you put it that way... I'm referring more to the World Wars. They certainly did that in a couple of situations.
the Russians did exactly that during the battle of Stalingrad.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/08/28 05:56:26
Subject: What makes you folks like IG?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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A lot of what I'd say has been said by now, but I think I could add...
- Guard is the most versatile army in the game. You can't run drop pods, a 'wing, or a bike army, but otherwise, they can do practically anything. Giant horde of goobers? Check. Giant horde of tanks? Check. Airforce showing up to blast everything and drop off some special forces? Yup. Artillery blowing things to smithereens? Of course.
And within its main play styles, there is a lot of variety. A conscript foot guard army will play very differently from a carapace/camo cloak vet foot army, and a tank army mostly of hellhounds and chimeras will play very differently than an army of mostly russes. And then, of course you can combine all of these, from a horde backed up by tanks to a rapid response army of hellhounds and vets in valks. You can do practically anything.
- They're bonkers. Not QUITE ork level of bonkers, but pretty close. They have commissars that make people "hear" orders better, and shoot cowards on the spot. They have angry old men that give squads Hatred:EVERYTHING and can bash apart a tank with their bare hands in righteous supplication. They have DOOMSDAY MISSILES (that, depending on your rules set can take the vortex upgrade).
And their fluff is bonkers, too. The imperium literally shovels them in as fast as they can, and maybe half of them make it there, or maybe they all get lost in a warp storm, but if you just throw enough bodies at the problem, it goes away eventually. They have endless supplies of vehicles, but nobody knows how they work, so they have to literally pray to them for proper functionality. Everything is basically superstition and guesswork and bureaucracy, and somehow the guard comes through it all, and is victorious.
And, as people have said, because they're human they're more relatable. You can look at some of the crazy ork fluff and say "yes, but then they're orks, after all", but you can't do that with guard. They have to put up with all of the worst the universe has to offer, and they have the ability to know better...
- You get to play an army of underdogs. Guard waxes and wanes on the power scale like every other army, but there's always something special about that regular dude with a powerfist exploding some giant monster or lumbering vehicle. Or that time when a panicking group of conscripts passes its orders for once and throws 150 lasgun shots at that demon prince, and with one lucky hit stops the beast dead in its tracks before it slaughters them all.
Random chance is the bedrock that 40k is built on, but it somehow feels more special when it works in guard's favor. You expect the space marines to show up and kick ass, but with guard...
- SPAM! Combined with the above is what I'd say rounds out my personal appeal of guard. You can take that flexibility in list building and combine it with whatever fluff you want, and then go insane with it thanks to the guard's ability to take everything in absurdly huge multiples.
Some people like to carefully balance out the pros and cons of mixing certain units to create an army that plays in a certain way that synergizes within its... blah, blah, blah.
Or you could play guard and say "today I'm going to field 12 punishers. MORE BULLETS!" or "today I'm going to field ALL THE INFANTRY!!!" or "105 stormtroopers deepstriking? Better ally in some tempestus just to be sure!"
Yeah, spamming opens you up to hard counters and isn't the strongest way to play, but when you show up to a game with 9 hellhounds, or 150 conscripts lead to their immanent doom by the clergy, that doesn't seem to matter...
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/08/28 06:04:08
Subject: What makes you folks like IG?
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Heroic Senior Officer
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Munga wrote:Just a quick question. How many IG players are or were actually in the military?
Recently finished my infantry course.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/08/28 06:34:07
Subject: What makes you folks like IG?
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The Last Chancer Who Survived
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/08/28 09:03:40
Subject: What makes you folks like IG?
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Veteran Knight Baron in a Crusader
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I'm not sure why people like IG. Ever since I was a 10 year old kid first looking at all the races, I wondered why anyone would play a boring human army when there's so many cool things to choose from. It's like having your pick of any car at a high end dealership and picking the corvette you see everywhere over a 458 italia or a Ford GT. Also, I can't imagine painting a zillion little plain looking army men for a 2,000 point force. Even though I usually rolfstomp them, seeing IG on the other side of the table just makes me yawn. It's like someone took a WWII army, put them in a time machine and set it to 38,000 years in the future. *yawn*
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/08/28 10:06:22
Subject: Re:What makes you folks like IG?
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Implacable Skitarii
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Probably one of the biggest things I love about IG on the tabletop is that I can field an entire collection's worth of models in sub-2000pt games. With Marines or Xenos armies there's always some models I love that I just can't seem to fit into a list...and it really grinds my gears when that happens. With IG, however, I more often end up having to dig up more models for the table top than I have to shelve to stay within the points limit. Sure, other armies might have scarier guns/stompy-things, better soldiers, dirtier tricks, or just, but screaming "За Родину! За Императора!" while advancing forward just doesn't have the same effect with a few marine squads or Wave Serpents as it does when 70~ guys and 10 tanks surge forward--and nobody else can put on such a spectacle with as much points efficiency as IG.
Plus, there are these little gems of events that always seem to happen with guardsmen somewhere on a given battlefield, like this one:
Likan Wolfsheim wrote:This goes way back to when I played IG. My kid brother had just started his CSM army. It was either our first or second game, I remember most of his stuff were really loyalist models pressed into service as their Chaos counterparts. We had 2000 point armies and the game was the multiple objectives one in 5th edition. As such, I broke up my two 50-man blobs of Guardsmen into ten-man squads and had them running all over the place supporting my tanks and whatnot.
At some point I diverted my Devildogs (I love this bloody tank) and a Chimera command squad along with a nearby group of footsloggers to deal with a Chaos Rhino trying to circumnavigate around the big gorefest in the centre of the board to get an objective with a winged Daemon Prince of Khorne rushing to the scene. So by the time the Daemon gets there the scoring threat of Rhino+troops was already dealt with and the vehicles zooming away, leaving the poor footsloggers, already whittled down by the Rhino's bolter to their fate. And what a fate.
They get to shoot, managing to put one wound on the Daemon. The Daemon then charges them and in the first turn of combat proceeds to kill all but one Pvt. Macias (I named each man and painted their names on their uniforms...it was a chore). Macias fails to do anything that turn but rolls  for his morale test. From that point on the Daemon never again gets another wound on this man. Pvt. Macias then proceeds to beat the Daemon Prince to death with his lasgun over the rest of the game. This guy's aquilas were painted gold after that and he was elevated to being a Veteran. Best moment in all of 40k thus far.
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Deathwatch 2000pts
Sick Marines 1500pts
Spikey Marines 2000pts
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/08/28 11:48:16
Subject: What makes you folks like IG?
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Killer Klaivex
The dark behind the eyes.
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Toofast wrote:I'm not sure why people like IG. Ever since I was a 10 year old kid first looking at all the races, I wondered why anyone would play a boring human army when there's so many cool things to choose from.
You assume that everyone finds the same things cool.
I mean, as a counterpoint, it's not like most of the other races are more original:
- Daemons - Never heard of those before
- Space Elves and Evil Space Elves - Maybe if they stick with Elves long enough, they'll come full-circle and become original again
- Tyranids - More original, but not everyone wishes to play as a faceless army with no lasting characters (except for one really contrived one who was shoehorned into the existing fluff)
- Necrons - Evil robots. I guess that's original if we ignore every sci-fi film ever. Oh, wait, now they've changed to Egyptian Robots in space with demi-gods trapped in pokeballs. Well, it's more original, but there's a good reason for that...
- Space Marine Army #1-28 - Wow, save some innovation for the rest of us, da Vinci!
Regardless, what you seem to have missed is that for a lot of people the human aspect is a strong selling point. In fact, it's the whole point of the IG - they're just ordinary men sent to battle unimaginable horrors with nothing more than some antique armour and a flashlight - often under the watch of a Commissar who will shoot them at the slightest hint of fear.
So, when they do prevail, their victories feel much more heroic than those of, say, Space Marines - which are fully-armoured Super Soldiers, with access to the best vehicles and weapons the Imperium has to offer,
Toofast wrote:Also, I can't imagine painting a zillion little plain looking army men for a 2,000 point force.
This is a fair point.
Toofast wrote:It's like someone took a WWII army, put them in a time machine and set it to 38,000 years in the future.
This is the reason I picked IG...
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blood reaper wrote:I will respect human rights and trans people but I will never under any circumstances use the phrase 'folks' or 'ya'll'. I would rather be killed by firing squad.
the_scotsman wrote:Yeah, when i read the small novel that is the Death Guard unit options and think about resolving the attacks from a melee-oriented min size death guard squad, the thing that springs to mind is "Accessible!"
Argive wrote:GW seems to have a crystal ball and just pulls hairbrained ideas out of their backside for the most part.
Andilus Greatsword wrote:
"Prepare to open fire at that towering Wraithknight!"
"ARE YOU DAFT MAN!?! YOU MIGHT HIT THE MEN WHO COME UP TO ITS ANKLES!!!"
Akiasura wrote:I hate to sound like a serial killer, but I'll be reaching for my friend occam's razor yet again.
insaniak wrote:
You're not. If you're worried about your opponent using 'fake' rules, you're having fun the wrong way. This hobby isn't about rules. It's about buying Citadel miniatures.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/08/28 13:01:01
Subject: What makes you folks like IG?
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Rough Rider with Boomstick
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Munga wrote:Just a quick question. How many IG players are or were actually in the military? I'm actually enlisting pretty soon so that's exciting! Toofast wrote:I'm not sure why people like IG. Ever since I was a 10 year old kid first looking at all the races, I wondered why anyone would play a boring human army when there's so many cool things to choose from. It's like having your pick of any car at a high end dealership and picking the corvette you see everywhere over a 458 italia or a Ford GT. Also, I can't imagine painting a zillion little plain looking army men for a 2,000 point force. Even though I usually rolfstomp them, seeing IG on the other side of the table just makes me yawn. It's like someone took a WWII army, put them in a time machine and set it to 38,000 years in the future. *yawn* And for the record, the new corvette looks amazing! Just like IG!
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/08/28 13:20:43
Subject: What makes you folks like IG?
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Munga wrote:Just a quick question. How many IG players are or were actually in the military? I bet that percentage is actually pretty high. The IG play most like real life forces do. Also, thank you for your service!
I served 8 years in the US Army Reserve, but that was a long time ago! I guess I've just liked playing with little armymen since I was old enough to remember. In that sense, nothing has really changed
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/08/28 14:17:22
Subject: What makes you folks like IG?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Toofast wrote:I'm not sure why people like IG. Ever since I was a 10 year old kid first looking at all the races, I wondered why anyone would play a boring human army when there's so many cool things to choose from. It's like having your pick of any car at a high end dealership and picking the corvette you see everywhere over a 458 italia or a Ford GT. Also, I can't imagine painting a zillion little plain looking army men for a 2,000 point force. Even though I usually rolfstomp them, seeing IG on the other side of the table just makes me yawn. It's like someone took a WWII army, put them in a time machine and set it to 38,000 years in the future. *yawn*
Painting Space Marines is snore-inducingly boring compared to painting guardsmen. Hooray, lots of flat non-camouflaged surfaces, no skin tones, no variety.
Also, I would take my 1990 Toyota Camry over that Italian thing any day. My car will have better gas mileage, less maintenance costs, and will still be running long after the Italia has died.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/08/28 16:48:33
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/08/28 17:06:23
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Frenzied Berserker Terminator
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DKoK always reminded me of space emos. L
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" $@#& YOU! There are 3 things I want in a guy: Tall, Handsome, and plays Dark Eldar!"-every woman since
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/08/28 17:23:48
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Heroic Senior Officer
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And don't forget:
- Tyranids - stolen from the Aliens movies. Seriously, take a look at the original metal hormogaunt.
- Necrons - Yawn, Terminators, We'll be back (don't forget to say that in an Arnie accent)
- Space Marine Army #1-28 - Heinlein's Starship Troopers
- CSM - Come to the dark side. C'mon, really? Surprised they didn't give them light sabers, oh wait, they're called power swords....
- Tau - Anime much?
- Orcs and Elves, aka Orks and Eldar/Dark Eldar. Stick with them, maybe your dungeonmaster will let you use them in the next campaign
- Daemons - OK, a little originality here. Not much, but a little. But they should have kept Malal
And IG. Humans.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/08/28 19:09:23
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The Last Chancer Who Survived
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Toofast wrote:I'm not sure why people like IG. Ever since I was a 10 year old kid first looking at all the races, I wondered why anyone would play a boring human army when there's so many cool things to choose from. It's like having your pick of any car at a high end dealership and picking the corvette you see everywhere over a 458 italia or a Ford GT. Also, I can't imagine painting a zillion little plain looking army men for a 2,000 point force. Even though I usually rolfstomp them, seeing IG on the other side of the table just makes me yawn. It's like someone took a WWII army, put them in a time machine and set it to 38,000 years in the future. *yawn*
Not all guardsmen are created equal
http://www.wargamesfactory.com/webstore/alien-suns/shock-troops-sci-fi-greatcoat-troopers
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/08/28 19:35:45
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/08/28 19:42:23
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Shas'o Commanding the Hunter Kadre
Olympia, WA
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Dalymiddleboro wrote:Just started collections vostroyans. I'm having a fun but challenging time painting them up and really working getting that new army fever. What made me want to do guard was the heavy weapon teams / platoon asthetic with a baneblade and leman Russ tanks backing them up. I chose vostroyans because I love the imperial Russian army from WW1, and I've never seen a player with a full vostroyan force. It'll be cool to field something that will make peoples heads turn.
So, the question I ask you folks, what really gets or has gotten you excited to play guard? This can apply to people who haven't collected them yet but are thinking about it.
My passion for playing Guard is mostly in the idea of the underdog. they just strike me as the "plainest" and least Shenanigan oriented army in the 40K universe. that DID change somewhat in the new Codex, because they now have a much greater ability to benefit from "force Multipliers" but even then, they are still mundane in stat line in pretty much every way. Even their tanks, while having mighty armor, sport BS 3 and are just as susceptible to charges as anyone else.
For the opponent, playing against them is fun because you're able to make the IG player take models off in hand fulls and thats satisfying to any player. Yet the retribution the IG exact against you forthis is equally brutal and so you see some really bloody hard fought games and that is just a romanticized vision of war that we all kind of have (the reality of large scale engagements is...dark...)
So Ig are fun to play and play against most of the time and they have some Great looking vehicles and troops, lotsof variety in their flavor (Jungle Fighters, Mordian Civil Warlike guys, you've got your Eastern Front looking Vostroyans, you have your Gas mask toting Death world War I knock offs, and the list goes on). Easy to get behind that much flavor in one Codex.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/08/28 22:55:25
Subject: What makes you folks like IG?
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Selym wrote:Toofast wrote:I'm not sure why people like IG. Ever since I was a 10 year old kid first looking at all the races, I wondered why anyone would play a boring human army when there's so many cool things to choose from. It's like having your pick of any car at a high end dealership and picking the corvette you see everywhere over a 458 italia or a Ford GT. Also, I can't imagine painting a zillion little plain looking army men for a 2,000 point force. Even though I usually rolfstomp them, seeing IG on the other side of the table just makes me yawn. It's like someone took a WWII army, put them in a time machine and set it to 38,000 years in the future. *yawn*
Not all guardsmen are created equal
http://www.wargamesfactory.com/webstore/alien-suns/shock-troops-sci-fi-greatcoat-troopers
These are actually the models I use. They're really awesome!
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