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The question is this: Does the Imperial Guard have something akin to mail call (Letters, messages, care packages from home etc) at all or is it just plain impractical to shuttle around mail for someone who is probably dead anyway? Is it on a regimental basis?

Next question is that does the Imperial Guard have staff cars for generals, colonels and the like? Or are command Chimeras already filling this role? Would the cars be local vehicles or things from their home world?

Chimeras or Salamanders are often used as Staff cars. When going into battle IG Commanders are often in big things like Baneblades or Leviathan Command Tanks (see Capitol Imperalis).

TheCustomLime wrote:The question is this: Does the Imperial Guard have something akin to mail call (Letters, messages, care packages from home etc) at all or is it just plain impractical to shuttle around mail for someone who is probably dead anyway? Is it on a regimental basis?

Imperial Guard regiments operate thousands of light years away from their homeworld, sometimes much further. They don't even get people to reinforce the regiment in order to make up for combat losses, I'm fairly sure this means that mail is out of the question.
Except if you're a high ranking officer with connections to a noble house. I suppose the Munitorum wouldn't interfere if your family pays a Chartist Captain or a Rogue Trader to deliver something to where you currently are (or at least have been).

Also, electronic message transmits should be doable. At least there have been examples of this in various codices, with Guardsmen trying to write their families back home. Of course, this doesn't mean they were actually sent, but the soldiers in question at least believed it, so the rest is simply a matter of your interpretation.

TheCustomLime wrote:Next question is that does the Imperial Guard have staff cars for generals, colonels and the like? Or are command Chimeras already filling this role?

To my knowledge, nothing in the fluff suggests either their existence or a ban on them, so just make something up. If there would be something like "staff cars", however, it'd at least be safe to say that they do not exist in all regiments. Some are all cavalry, some commonly deploy on worlds where non-tracked vehicles mean you're SOL, and some may prefer being shuttled around by a Navy lander.

TheCustomLime wrote:Would the cars be local vehicles or things from their home world?

Not as per GW's Codex fluff. The Imperial Guard specifically shuns locally produced nonstandard vehicles, arguably because it's a bitch getting spare parts for them, the proper fuel mixture, or even people trained in operating/repairing them.

I suppose I could see individual officers simply "requisitioning" a vehicle from the world they are currently on, but it's not standard practice (else I suppose it would have been mentioned somewhere) and it's nothing they would keep if the regiment moves on.

The IG is insanely diverse. Just about anything is possable.

I'm sure there is a forge world in a sector somewhere that makes light scout vehicles that could be used as a commander's vehicle/staff car.


Of course, if I was an IG commander I would probably prefer a Chimera over some fancy car. Armored IFV with a couple of heavy guns on it, or a flimsy car with extra cupholders, you decide.