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I would appreciate any advice on tactics or good uints that you can give.

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Welcome to the guard.

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Once you have some idea of what comprises a good guard list, make one of your own and post it so that people can help you hone its killing edge.

After you have a good list, it's a matter of execution on the field. This one is tough to give advice on without actually seeing your movement, deployment, etc. so detailed battle reports with pictures will get you the best advice about your field game.

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Mechvets (Chimeras, Veterans, Medusas, manticores)

Foot Horde (lots of guardsmen, commisars, straken, autocannons)

Hybrid (a mix of both)

Here are some good units guard have:

Veterans (3 meltas at BS 4 and a heavy weapon for flexibility)

Medusas ( S10 5 inch blast or S10 AP 1 small blast but 2d6 armor pen)

Manticores ( D3 S10 AP 4 5 inch blasts)

Autocannon heavy weapon teams (for dakka)

Company Command Squad (flexibility of officers)

Infantry platoons (big blobs with commissars to make use of orders and tarpitting)

Banewolfs (Poison +2 and Heavyflamer hurts) ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/346483/2441901.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/346483/2441901.page GMT Starting Imperial Guard http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/346483/2441948.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/346483/2441948.page GMT Starting Imperial Guard
ZacktheChaosChild wrote:You have the codex, right? Sorry, I know that's a very standard response, but I wanna make sure.


Yep, Ive got the codex....]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/346483/2442277.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/346483/2442277.page GMT Starting Imperial Guard IG Codex review: http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Category:Imperial_Guard_Tactica

It helped me the most when I was starting my IG. Then i would suggest drafting up a list or two and posting them on the sub-forum for critique. Be sure to mention what type of games you are playing (casual, semi-competitive or competitive), as well as points level, army theme and whether you are restricted by the models you already own.

Truthfully there's very few units in the IG codex that are truly 'bad', its the list-building part that catches a lot of people out.

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Second, read a lot of the posts in the army list forums, to get an idea of what advice is usually given. I hung out there for a while, benefiting from other folks' questions and lists.

Third, as Ailarios said, decide what you want the main theme of your army to be, or at least how you'd like it to play out on the field. Agressive, defensive, mech, foot, airborne, things like that. Basically you want to pick one, and make it a main theme with around 2/3rds of the army's points dedicated to it. Then the rest can either be random support, or a secondary theme.

And my biggest bit of advice is to lay off the upgrades. The IG codex is hugely efficient when you take a unit and give it weapons and little to nothing else. All of the shiny bits can add a little funtionality here and there, but most of the time points are best spend on weapons and units. I always build my lists with minimalist units. For example, my Vets only have three special weapons, and maybe a Chimera. I don't add anything to them until I've got a few points at the end of my list. Same goes for every unit I have. I determine the minimum amount of gear I'd be willing to field a unit with, and only give them that until the very end of a list. This usually leads to a more efficient, focused list with more units that pack a harder punch per point.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/346483/2445295.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/346483/2445295.page GMT Starting Imperial Guard
Lycaeus Wrex wrote:Read this Polonius' IG Codex review: http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Category:Imperial_Guard_Tactica


Thanks for the link. It was a real help.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/346483/2445332.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/346483/2445332.page GMT Starting Imperial Guard
BUt always focus on brigning enough to the table in one or two categories that you completely overwhelm the enemy in those categories. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/346483/2445544.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/346483/2445544.page GMT Starting Imperial Guard http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/346483/2448347.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/346483/2448347.page GMT