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Released this May, the new Imperial Guard Codex details the tireless defenders of the Imperium and their eternal struggle against those who would eradicate Mankind from the galaxy. Below are just some of the great new Citadel miniatures accompanying the Codex in May. Pick-up your copy of May's issue of White Dwarf to find out more about the Imperial Guard, and remember to check www.games-workshop.com for new articles and hobby ideas.

Is it me or does the Cadian standard bearer have a Power Sword?

He has a power sword.

Comissar Lord looks awesome though.

That or it is a safety to prevent him dropping it all the time due to bionic arm failures.

I'm more interested in why a six foot mound of sweaty flesh and muscle would need a medical mask when rutting inside your wounds with sweaty sausage fingers.

Is one of the Cadians just reading a book?

Nice post btw BM

So he doesn't drool in your wounds.

I think he's rolling out bandages.

Though the image of a guardsman being stormed by hordes of possessed Marines looking for the appropriate chapter in his field manual is kinda cool. Sad but cool.

"Wait! Are the pink ones evil or good?!"

idk i like the look of the medical mask

is the second pic a Catachan command squad?

BrookM wrote:I'm more interested in why a six foot mound of sweaty flesh and muscle would need a medical mask when rutting inside your wounds with sweaty sausage fingers.

It's to keep him from getting whatever is in the soon to be dead Guardsmen's blood on himself.

Wow cadian officer looks NICE and the commissar lord looks BA. Can't wait for this release. This is in the first wave, correct?

OMG THAT IS FREAKING AWESOME!!!

BrookM wrote:I'm more interested in why a six foot mound of sweaty flesh and muscle would need a medical mask when rutting inside your wounds with sweaty sausage fingers.

You should becomea trashy romance novel writer!

One thousand praises to you Brook! Nice sets. I just wish I could see them better.

While they are nice, these guys showed up at the open day or whatever a while back.

please tell my my eyesight is bad and thats not a missile launcher on the rats back 0_o

JD21290 wrote:



please tell my my eyesight is bad and thats not a missile launcher on the rats back 0_o

OK. Your eyesight's bad.

It's a little bit of masonry he's leaning against.

Nah, it's terrain.

Dosn't the Catachan Commander (lad with the Bolter) look like a complete and utter, out of proportion, pile of poop?

The rest are ok.

I like the medic.

sA

Apone wrote:Is one of the Cadians just reading a book?

He's reading "The Infantryman's Uplifting Primer".

Dosn't the Catachan Commander (lad with the Bolter) look like a complete and utter, out of proportion, pile of poop?

Hmm... Nope! Looks good to me!

Oh dear, oh dear, I really feel the new IG release is going to be expensive for me

Im getting more and more excited now

Hmm.. Good thing my birthday is in may .

The cadian officer with the cigar looks brilliant, but the catachan officer with his armoured tank-top is... just wrong... The guy with the face mask would make a perfect interrogator; he'd be pretty suitable for creeping people out - maybe as a retinue for a an inquisitor?

Is it bad that my only complaint is that I don't like Plasmas/Meltas without the backpacks?

Those catachans arms aren't large enough. Color me disappointed.

I wonder why we're still getting bandana'd rambo clones rather than the gas masked greatcoat wearing dudes everyone actually wanted?

Because listening to customers is a channel for supplementary revenue (forgeworld) not main line releases!

Not typically a fan of the IG, but I'm quite liking some of these; Catachan standard and the snipers in particular.

AJC

I just have to say, if the rest of the new stuff is that cool, be prepared to say high to a new gaurd player! (P.S., really like the officers!)

I definitely would have considered starting if they'd done some nice plastic greatcoat gaurd. But the new cadians don't impress me and I hate Catachans. So I'll steer clear.

Da Boss wrote:I definitely would have considered starting if they'd done some nice plastic greatcoat gaurd. But the new cadians don't impress me and I hate Catachans. So I'll steer clear.

I hear ya, and I think if they could go back in time GW would replace plastic catachans with plastic greatcoat guard, but I think when they made the decisions they made both Catachans and Cadians were relatively wise choices. Catachan plastics were 98/99, and IIRC catachans were the most popular of the old metal ranges (they still show up more than anything on eBay, but that may be due to their continued popularity in the plastic era) and fit with the (quickly aborted) plan to release sub-codices for different battle field types. The Steel Legion had yet to be released, and while valhallans were popular, Catachans were more so and probably easier to stamp out. The major problem with the catachans, outside of their inherent sillyness, is that they were a rare misfire, joining DE warriors as some of the only plastic kits that are now too ugly to use.

Flashing forward five years, the decision to green light cadians over greatcoat is a bit murkier, but that IG book is loved by one and all for it's insane flexibility with regard to doctrines. While Greatcoat guard would look sweet, it would be fair harder to use them as drop troops, or light infantry, or even in many terrain sets. You can put a cadian model in jungle, urban, wastes, desert, or even ice camo, but Great coats are a bit more limited.

Essentially, I think they figured that Cadians would have the widest appeal, while Great Coat guard would have the deepest, and they went for a broader appeal. I collect Praetorians, so I've watched the plastics come out and I've been utterly unimpressed, so I know how you feel.