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Tactica Imperium

Collected thoughts on His most glorious Imperial Guard

~Light of the Emperor

Dear Reader, welcome!

Warseer has once again proved itself nothing if not willing to share some more heaps

of dubiously objective opinion, so after a great deal of discussion, begging, pleading,

and outright flaming, we finally have something to offer. What follows is a collection

of articles from an assorted group of authors, giving their thoughts and opinions on

units and tactics for the Imperial Guard Codex. We trust you may find some gleaming

morsels of wisdom among our interminable ranting. Interspersed with this are a

variety of rather stunning photographs, used with the kind permission of their original

owners. I’ve also subjected you to a collection of quotes that you will have to forgive

me for finding amusing, used without the knowledge of their unsuspecting authors.

With that said, all that’s left is for me to wish you the best of luck, for surely you shall

need it. For the Emperor!

~Lord Cook, your Editor for… however many evenings it takes you to read this.

Contents

“People play Marines because not everybody is cool enough to play Imperial Guard.”

~ Slaaneshi Slave

1 - Introduction – Lord Cook

4 - Company Command Squads – ColonelGreiss

6 - ………Advisors

6 - ………Upgrades

7 - ………Special characters

10 - Specializing your Command Squad – Steel Legion for Life

13 - Orders – ColonelGreiss

15 - HQ Characters – ColonelGreiss

17 - Techpriest Enginseers – Lord Cook

19 - ‘Commissar Catullus’ – Ash

20 - Ogryns – Lord Solar Plexus

22 - ………Ogryns and special characters

24 - Ratlings – Lord Cook

25 - Psyker Battle squads – Lord Cook

27 - Guardsman Marbo – Lord Cook

29 - Storm Troopers – SonofUltramar

31 - ………Special operations

34 - Infantry Platoons – Richblake

34 - ………Platoon Command squads

36 - ………Infantry squads

38 - ………Heavy Weapon squads

39 - ………Special Weapon squads

40 - ………Conscript platoons

41 - Chimeras – Vaktathi

43 - Mechanized Platoons – Vaktathi

45 - ………Deployment illustrations

50 - Veteran squads – Cleansingfury

53 - ………Harker and Bastonne

54 - ‘Rhork’s Drift’ – only joking...

55 - Sentinel squadrons – Gondorian

57 - ………Common strategies

58 - ………Equipment and weaponry

60 - Rough Riders – Awilla the Hun

62 - ………Counter assault

63 - ………Mogul Kamir

63 - ………Aggressive assault

65 - The Dogs of War – Captain Micha

65 - ………Hellhounds and Bane Wolves

66 - ………Devil Dog

68 - Valkyries and Vendettas – Steel Legion for Life

69 - ………Weaponry

70 - ………Deployment options

71 - ………The airborne army

73 - ‘Mobile Air Control Tower’ – DigitsDavid

74 - Firepower niches and building your army – Sircyn

76 - Heavy Artillery – Sircyn

78 - ………Deploying the big guns

79 - ………Defending your artillery

79 - ………Killing stuff

81 - ………Griffon

83 - ………Basilisk

~Silentsmoke

84 - ………Medusa

85 - ………Colossus

86 - Hydra Flak Tank – Sircyn

88 - Manticore Rocket Launcher – Sircyn

90 - Deathstrike Missile Launcher – Sircyn

92 - Leman Russ – Colonel Jacka

94 - ………Using the Leman Russ MBT

96 - ………Tank formations

99 - ………Vanquisher

101 - ………Demolisher

103 - ………Exterminator

104 - ………Eradicator

105 - ………Executioner

107 - ………Punisher

108 - ………Conqueror, Destroyer, Thunderer, Atlas

111 - Assorted pictures

118 - Special thanks

Content coming soon:

Dogs of War deployment illustrations – Captain Micha

Penal Legion – Lord Cook

Wound allocation shenanigans – Lord Cook

Aspects of the Guard – Solar_Eclipse

Sample army lists – Onlainari

Do you have an idea for an article? Cool pictures

available? What have we missed? Send a PM to me

(Lord Cook) on Warseer and we’ll sort out the

details!

If you would like to write about something that

has already been covered but you have different

opinions or ideas, don’t hold back. Let me know.

Variety is the spice of life!

~Lord Cook

Company Command squads , by ColonelGreiss

"Bloodcrushers pulverized the entire left flank, wiping out a squad and leaving only

five of the other squad alive. Miraculously for the guardsmen (but face-palm for their

commander), they make their snake eyes morale check and hold the line."

~Formerly Wu

~Ingold Toynbe

The Imperial Guard Command Squad is one of the most versatile and flexible units in

Warhammer 40K. This Tactica will specifically address its strengths and weaknesses, different

load outs, and the ways it can compliment different army builds, in relation to the brand-

spanking new Imperial Guard codex.

Your Company Command squads come with one Company Commander (CO) and four

veterans. It is important to note that the CO is one of the few models in the Guard codex that

can actually dish out some hurt in close combat. Another important thing to note is that the

veterans all have Bs4, which is a huge boost from the previous codex. These squads now

represent a cheap and efficient way to pack a lot of special weapons into your army. The

Command squad’s best strength is their wealth of options. The CO can be equipped with a

boltgun for some (slight) long range shooting, or a plasma pistol for splattering marines, or a

power fist for cleaning up units in close combat. Every veteran can be given a special

weapon, either a flamer, plasma gun, meltagun, or grenade launcher. In addition one veteran

can take a heavy flamer, or two veterans can be turned into a heavy weapons team manning

a lascannon, autocannon, heavy bolter, missile launcher, or mortar. You can give any un-

upgraded veteran a medi-pack to give the whole squad the Feel No Pain USR, and give

another un-upgraded veteran a regimental standard to help anchor your battle line. You can

also give the unit either carapace armour, or cameleoline, to make them a little less fragile in

the face of enemy fire.

And that’s without the use of ANY special characters or advisors.

There are two schools of thought on Company Command squads. One is to keep them cheap

and effective. Eschew expensive upgrades, characters and advisors and make the unit hit as

hard as it can for as cheaply as it can. The other school would rather tech out the Command

squad as much as possible, having it survive for longer in order to dish out more of the

Emperor’s righteous fury to heretics. [I have unashamedly long-since dived head first into the

first school. ~Editor].

Basic builds

Unit of Fiery Doom

CO w/ Power fist and shotgun

3 Veterans w/ Flamer

1 Veteran w/ Heavy flamer

Chimera w/ Turret heavy flamer, hull heavy bolter

This is a great unit, with the ability to put enough wounds on an MEQ unit to severely

damage it, as well as having the ability to wipe entire 30-model strong units of Orks off the

board. The heavy flamer and power fist are not necessary, but can greatly increase the units

hitting power if you have the extra points in your list. However, this unit takes no advantage

of the veterans’ improved BS of 4, and also puts them directly in harms way, which can be

something you want to avoid with your commander. This build is much better suited to

Platoon Command squads with their BS of 3 and relative expendability.

Plasma Taxi

CO w/ Boltgun

4 Veterans w/ Plasma guns

Chimera w/ Multi-laser, heavy bolter

This unit can terrorize an opponent. Monstrous creatures, MEQs, Terminators, and light to

medium vehicles will all want to keep their distance from this Chimera. Pouring out eight

plasma shots a turn at Bs4 is nothing to ignore. However, the amount of plasma gunners in

the unit can quite quickly decrease. The inability to take a medic alongside four plasma

gunners is unfortunate, and leaves us with two unsatisfactory solutions. We can take a medic

and three plasma gunners, which will save our gunners from killing themselves two thirds of

the time, but lower the units maximum damage potential, or we can give the unit carapace,

keeping the units damage output the same, but only saving the gunners half the time. Or you

could take the medic and the carapace. I personally like to keep this squad fairly cheap, and

so just trust that I’ll get a little lucky when it comes to "Gets hot!" saves.

Melta Taxi

CO w/ Melta bombs

4 Veterans w/ Melta guns

Chimera w/ Multi-laser, heavy flamer

A great anti-tank unit. Combined with the “Bring it down!” order this unit is basically

guaranteed to kill any vehicle it gets within 6" of. Even without that order it is guaranteed to

do some sort of permanent damage, barring horrible luck. Giving the Chimera a heavy flamer

(or even two) is a fun trick that will often fool your opponent into shooting your "more

dangerous" heavy bolter and multi-laser chimeras, giving this one the time to get up close

and personal. This is even more effective if you give your long-range Chimeras a heavy

stubber as well.

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