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Hey all,

I have an IG force currently that is pretty standard: you know, a large mass of infantry platoons with heavy weapons supported by some leman russes and a basilisk. Unfortunately I don't do as well with this setup as I'd like to. There's a ladder tournament coming up at my local shop, and I was thinking of expanding into a more vehicle oriented Guard army to make it more competitive, hopefully. Here's what I came up with so far:

Doctrines:
Grenadiers
Close Order Drill
Veterans
Drop Troops

HQ

Command Platoon (275)

Command Squad (110)
Senior officer: plasma pistol, power weapon
4 Guardsmen: 4 plasma guns

Sentinel Squadron (165)
3 Sentinels: lascannons

ELITES

Hardened Veterans (85)
Sergeant: plasma pistol, CCW
4 Veterans: 3 melta guns, 1 lasgun

Hardened Veterans (85)
Sergeant: plasma pistol, CCW
4 Veterans: 3 melta guns, 1 lasgun

Hardened Veterans (85)
Sergeant: plasma pistol, CCW
4 Veterans: 3 melta guns, 1 lasgun

TROOPS

Grenadiers (217)
10 Grenadiers: 2 plasma guns
Chimera: multilaser, hull heavy bolter, pintle heavy stubber

Grenadiers (217)
10 Grenadiers: 2 plasma guns
Chimera: multilaser, hull heavy bolter, pintle heavy stubber

Grenadiers (217)
10 Grenadiers: 2 plasma guns
Chimera: multilaser, hull heavy bolter, pintle heavy stubber

FAST ATTACK

Hellhound (115)

Hellhound (115)

Hellhound (115)

HEAVY SUPPORT

Leman Russ Battle Tank (155)
Hull heavy bolter, sponson heavy bolters

Leman Russ Battle Tank (155)
Hull heavy bolter, sponson heavy bolters

Leman Russ Demolisher (165)
Hull heavy bolter, sponson heavy bolters

As you can see, the proliferation of anti-infantry geared vehicles in this list should _in theory_ be enough to take out just about any kind of infantry, from large swarms to MEQs.

The grenadiers will be used for rapid firing, holding objectives, and nailing mid range vehicles with their plasma weapons, as well as just filling out the list a little.

The veterans, command squad, and sentinels will drop and blast heavy vehicles and heavier infantry to bits, hopefully getting side and back armor shots off.

The general strategy is to hope I can just bury my opponent under the sheer volume of shots and templates produced by my tanks and infantry until the drop troopers arive to deliver the killing blow.


Anyways, what do you guys think? Is this a viable way to run a guard list? If this isn't tournament viable (and I know you guys are the best), please be brutally honest. I'm hoping to bring my record up from my current mediocre half wins and half losses.

Thanks,
Bitmapman