If you were to start a new IG Regiment...

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**bebe-paquito**

Which would you choose? Which models do you like most? Why?

**Cryonicleech**

Vostran.

I will obey the Commissar without question (Plus, I'm into the whole russian thing)

**hawkeye**

Tanith First and Only. I would use Catachans and Green stuff camo cloaks on them to help push costs down.

**LuigiX**

If Death Korps came in plastic, I'd have a platoon right now. Resin models from FW? Might as well be made of unobtanium. If all the above were in plastic, definitely Death Korps, with Elysian a close second. As things stand now, if I were to start from scratch, Cadians.

**avantgarde**

Elysians.

Valks and Vultures strafing targets and tons of guard deepstriking in. Plus the Vulture is going to get Punisher cannons soon. Either 20 TL or 40 shots, awesome.

**DarkHound**

I voted DKoK (they are just too awesome not to), but I'm probably going to make a Nurgle Traitor Guard as my 3rd army.

**H.B.M.C.**

Vostroyan. I like DKoK and Steel Legion, but the Vostroyans are the most 40K-y 40K army in a long time, like the concept sketches just leapt off the page and became an army.

I might still get a Platoon of them eventually.

**chaos0xomega**

What, no love for Phantine Air Corps?

**Kaffis**

I was torn between Mordian and Valhallan. Picked Mordian, ultimately. I want both in plastic, though -- since the gods of Games Workshop have not decided to descend from on high and bless us with such things, when I get around to building IG, it'll be Cadian. =/

**Leigen_Zero**

I would choose none of these and start a preatorian army, nice orderly lines of riflemen in red jackets and pith helmets!

*requests OP includes preatorians in poll*

**SilverMK2**

I would certainly be interested in Krieg, as I love the models, but my love for drop troops means that I would probably go more for Elysian's.

I am planning to convert my IG into drop pack equiped troops once I have finished painting up my CSM.

**Steel Rabbit**

I have a full Vostroyan army, but I'm hoping to start a Death Korps force. I'm gonna pick up some Forge World stuff at German Games Day, and I'll just build my force up Forge World order by Forge World order. It'll be a nice project, and I already have five other armies (one of them Guard, as mentioned), so it's not like it'll slow me down from gaming.

**Exarch_Nektel**

I just love the look of the drop troops with shotguns.

**CT GAMER**

Poll needs an option for "other".

Some people prefer to create IG regiments other those you have listed...

**dietrich**

If the Catachan's didn't look like the steroid-version of Barry Bonds, I'd be more inclined to go with them.

**airman**

Lucky 13's

**Exarch_Nektel**

CT GAMER wrote:Poll needs an option for "other".

Some people prefer to create IG regiments other those you have listed...

i think he means model-wise. Which model style would you like to base your guard off of.

**statu**

model wise-elysian
if GW made this army instead of a sketch in the old codex-terrax guard

**Shep**

Although I have a pretty large Vostroyan army that I love to pieces, I voted cadian. Here's why..

Between them and the catachans they have the most robust plastic line of models. They even beat out the catachans as all of the plastic tank riding models from the vehicle accessory sprue match them pretty well, as does the tank commander on the baneblade and probably this new tank commander we've seen popping out of the hellhound (the coat and cap not the rebreather)

The style of equipment and guns mean you can glue most all of the accessories onto your tanks from the accessory frame. I've had to skip most of the cool gubbins on all my vossie tanks because vossies use expensive fancy hand made lasguns, whereas the tanks have machine stamped lascarbines.

Lastly, if you don't enjoy converting your own 'counts as' models. I believe the cadian special character set beats out the catachan special character set by a hair in terms of competitiveness and fun.

But I do love my vostroyans a lot, and I'd only consider switching off of them if they were lost in a fire or if my entire collection were stolen.

**Space Marine**

Tanith first and only because you can convert them from almost any model (i think) because they recruit from the planets they visit I'll just use green stuff to make the camo cloaks

**CT GAMER**

Exarch_Nektel wrote:
CT GAMER wrote:Poll needs an option for "other".

Some people prefer to create IG regiments other those you have listed...

i think he means model-wise. Which model style would you like to base your guard off of.

I know what he meant. My wip "Martyr Brethren" inducted IG for my Witch Hinters are 100% GW models and are based on none of those choices and I have seen others that have done same...

**Exarch_Nektel**

CT GAMER wrote:
Exarch_Nektel wrote:
CT GAMER wrote:Poll needs an option for "other".

Some people prefer to create IG regiments other those you have listed...

i think he means model-wise. Which model style would you like to base your guard off of.

I know what he meant. My wip "Martyr Brethren" inducted IG for my Witch Hinters are 100% GW models and are based on none of those choices and I have seen others that have done same...

oh... yeah, then there should be an other option.

**bebe-paquito**

Poll updated with "Preatorian" and "Other."

**FoxPhoenix135**

If I had the money, it would be the DKoK. They look friggin sweet.

**JohnHwangDD**

Tallarns, because I already own loads and loads of them, and it would kill me to rebuy and repaint them.

OTOH, if we're wishlisting, I'd like proper greatcoat Guard, thanks.

**youbedead**

Vestroyans, for the motherland

this would be my theme song

**bebe-paquito**

So, if the Vostran's are Russian's who are the Valhallan?

**Gadhip**

bebe-paquito wrote:So, if the Vostran's are Russian's who are the Valhallan?

Exactly, don't the Vostroyan have nice fancy hand tooled lasguns and armour? The Vostroyans are very not Russian in terms of equipment and style. The only thing that is kinda Russian is their face. But even that looks more akin to a stylized Greek God. Valhallan on the other hand are almost a cookie cutter version of the Red Army. Exhibit A) They are from an Ice world. Exhibit B) Commander Chenkov, Russian name coupled with Russian Tactics. Exhibit C) Valhallan uniform looks very much like a Red Army uniform. Bottom line is Vostroyans are not Russian; Valhallans are.

**Shep**

bebe-paquito wrote:So, if the Vostran's are Russian's who are the Valhallan?

Valhallans mirror soviet russians during the world war 2 era.

Vostroyans mirror tsarist russians (especially cossacks) during the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Valhallan design influences are easier to spot, mostly because the tech level of the 1940s is a lot closer to grimdark than turn of the century technology. And because we are all so familiar with Ivan.

**FoxPhoenix135**

Well put, Shep. I am just glad nobody has asked who the Tallarn are supposed to represent. I swear I had better never see somebody come in with Tallarn demo-charge teams modeled up to be martyrs, otherwise I am throttling said person. Its a disrespect to those of us who served in uniform.