Warhammer 40k Imperial Guard Regiments

There's an infinite variety of choices out there, GW are shooting themselves in the foot by not giving IG guys what they want, how many thousands of just Heads are there on the secondary market for boring ass cadians? Kromlech, Victoria, West Wind, Pig Iron...

I just wish they'd bring back the Lost and the Damned Codex.

Oh hell yeah, ive spent like 30-40 pounds on just heads, torsos and backpacks alone for IG

I converted 120 Cadian infantrymen with Pig Iron heads... After I had painted them with the boring heads too. That was a moment of madness.

PLEASE tell me they didnt have faces in the new heads

Gas Masks... It would have killed me otherwise, you know I realise i didn't count also the heavy weapons teams.

Serves me right for wanting to paint an actual infantry company like a historical one with 120 men bayonets

Pip pip old boy

I'd buy them still

>Infantry Company
>Only 120 men

It's almost as if you don't Infantry Guard.

Ah my friend, that is more like a Battalion than a Company however.

Show me the painted models too then my mind will be blown. ;)

Sadly, that isn't an option with the money I make.

But it is certainly a dream.

If only they still did Epic hey

That's just a cadian plumber.

>No love for valhallans

Valhallans were the first box of IG i ever bought. For Space Stalin!

he's going to sort out that clogged drain at bayonet point.

Modern future style pretty cool

Am I the only one who really dosnt care for the new stormtroopers? I was never a explicit fan of the old ones, but these guys just look ridiculous

Excuse me, best Regiment coming through

1d4chan.org/wiki/Hua_Yuan_Exterminators

Cadians would look fucking great if they just changed the helmet to look less goofy

I will never be able to bring myself to hate the Death Korps.

I desperately want plastic mordians but the fact that Geedubs doesnt sell heavy or special weapons for them like they do for Steel Legion and the Vostroyans it's unlikely It'll happen. At least the 3rd party Mordians are good looking and versatile.

Idunno, i quite like the new space SAS, adds just that little more variation.

I think they're a good mix of OPER8/10 and the gothic aesthetic of the imperium.
If you don't like the breastplate they look great with cadian torso too.

I'm working on making a IG army based on a 1944 British infantry battalion.

ants.

I wish guard could combat squad so a guard Infantry squad could be broken into Sergeant and some rifles and a separate heavy weapon team.

as a valhallan player i obviously want plastic valhallans, and a generic kit that allows you to build diffrently flavored IG soldiers , stuff like Inftantry in dress uniforms, more modren looking, medieval or penal infantry
At the very least better proportions are a must
get your shit together gw's, FW knows what human proportions look like so why don't you? converting guard regiments is pretty much impossible unless you go full 3rd party because of this

they've grown on me
i think they look pretty cool as a separate entity in the imperium

they look horribly out of place in an ig army with their Not!marine colour schemes however

Yeah, IG could use a more modern looking aesthetic, at least for the generic IG/Cadians. Play it right and you could have the Operator/Gear Queer crowd drooling over the guard.

Nevertheless, unless its replacing the Taurox the next release should be new infantry and no new vehicles.

This. Kind of like how fireteams in a section are actually used today.

this used to be a thing in Cityfight games

My wish list is for 20 man boxes with price of about 36 dollars.

They look way better with the kasrkin chest piece rather than the plate armor look.
Shame there is only two books about them.

A good way to make Cadians less boring is change the dumpy helmet.

Drookian Fen guard

Just those guys in general

>Still no plastic Steel Legion
For what fucking purpose

Pretty much the same price as a 10 man marine tac squad although just under in terms of point cost, I like it

I would accept another 5 years of the same old cadian sprue if they threw in a special weapon sprue that let us have access to plasmas and meltas without having to buy a command squad for one of each special weapon

It looks like those helmets they put on softheaded babies

Its a test of creativity.

Has anyone tried stapling WHFB Empire State Troops as IG troops?

I still like Cadians. Can't wait to get back to them after I'm done with other projects.

I agree with this sentiment.

Cadians are ok, just wish IG had some variety.

It's weird to me that they haven't because they literally only need two boxes. Ome for regular infantry and one for HWTs.

I wanna build a regiment of these guys so bad

I wish they had become the default guys. Cadians are so boring.

>Goes to check prices
>35 buckaroos for one squad
>17 for a heavy weapons team
>10 for one fucking guardsman with a plasma

Jesus...

Fuck off. Krieg regiments are the most bland edgy shit there is. If you want archaic uniforms and ruthlessness have Vostroyans, if you want gas masks have Steel Legion (or Vostroyans).

I kind of liked the old non-kasrkin storm troopers alongside Vostroyans or someone more fancy. Makes them look like secret police or something like the Gestapo or NKVD.

Superb looking

HARAKONI WARHAWK.KASHRIKIN
CMON GW WALLOW IN MY POOR DECISION MAKING AND DISPOSABLE INCOME

They grew on me. REplacing the chest piece is a must though

I know it sucks to do so but just scavenge. I have about 9 space marine plasma guns in my guard army. if your FLGS has a bits bin, check it often and collect some weapons.

So with that logic, you'll have a CAD with 1 CCS in Chimera (representing a Bren Carrier, but a Tourox could also do) & Missile Launcher, 3 PCS's with a mortar crew each, and three infantry squads per platoon with a Bolter crew in each. That's 785 points not counting the logistics trucks.

Well as far as gunlines go your anti-infantry is without pier. Almost exactly what the Emp's Sheild Infantry Company should've been.

>tfw no Harakoni models
>tfw converting them with the FW Grav Chutes and the FW Cadian Hazardous Environment suits costs $9.30 CAD per trooper, plus weapons ($35 for 10 Cadians, $22 for 10 grav chutes, $36 for 10 Haz suit conversions)

Then again, if you've ever been to a gun range much less a battlefield you'll probably enjoy the massive ear protection. I can only imagine the heavy bolters sound like a modern firearm on steriods.

Plus, built in radio? But then what would that make the vox?

Wow, you're right. It really was that chest piece, they actually look pretty great. (I'm not the guy who posted the original comment, by the way)

With a half length trench coat plastic fig and alternative head/rifles you could do justic to both DKoK (hehe da-cock) and Steel Legion in one box

This is so much better holy shit, I now have a terrible urge to buy these fuckers.

nice

any idea what they replaced the chest piece with?

That's just a standard Cadian torso

No shit?

He asked buddy, no need to be rude

I wasn't trying to be rude I'm the one who asked. That wasn't sarcastic or meant as an insult that was a "huh really?" moment. I was seeking confirmation.

Oh sorry to be defensive, they are indeed just the cadian torso, apparently it's possible to extract something good from those kits!

There is nothing wrong with the Death Korps. They fit the universe, and if you actually read their stuff they can be quite compelling. Yes, it's grimdark up to 11, but so is a lot of shit in Warhammer.

I could argue that Vostroyans are hella more bland than Kriegers, but that wouldn't really go anywhere it would just devolve into a pointless screaming match and I'm not going to sink to that level.

You like what you like and other people like what they like. Just because they don't like what you like doesn't mean you have to pick fights with them.

I like the Krieg but a bit of their fluff is a bit too edgelord for sure. I don't think GW writers understand that it's not exactly possible to never ever take a gasmask off.

Stuff about the quartermaster scavenging equipment and stuff is cool though. Either way though they are fantastic models and actually look like they fit the 40k world (the world rendered by John Blanche anyway and not the more modern shitty cg looking artworks).

Technically the lore doesn't say they never take the masks off, just that they wear them at all times when on duty. There is a distinction.

I like the Quartermasters. I like their Death Cult. I like their aesthetic. I enjoyed all of their books. As far as I am concerned they are the most 40k guard regiment, but I understand not everyone agrees with this and that opinions are divided on the matter. I say let bygones be bygones. Personally If i was designing the sprues I would do one sprew with a greatcoat and then have multiple head options included in the kit. Fluffy hat head for vostroyans, and gas mask head for Krieg or Steel legion. Then they could fix up the Cadian sprue a bit and put two types of heads in there. Have two different kits one with great coats and one in flack, both with two head options, and call it a day.

You can't tell me they can't do multiple head options, they are already doing it for skitarii and a few other kits. Just do it for guard so you could build different regiments out of the same one or two kits.

being said I do agree that some of it is a little over the top, but so is like 90 percent of the rest of 40k. The lore has always been wack, so I just roll with it at this point.

Gue'vesa.

I've been trying to figure out humanity's place in the Tau Empire. Do they have human auxiliaries to fight for them? Is that normal? If so, why has GW avoided making that into a unit?

i'd love to have a force of guardsmen from multiple regiments, Which I'd fluff by saying they are the tattered remnants of their regiments after the climactic battle of some massive conflict, recently pressed into a corner together, their scant remaining commanders doing their best to hold a Desperate quilt of guardsmen together to hold the line till there either relief, Death, Or glory.

Yes, they settled a bunch of Imperials that were left stranded after the first Damocles Crusade. I think it's not uncommon for humans to serve in the Tau military but there's no real source on it, all I can recall is that the first generation stranded Imperials became farmers and settlers while the second generation onward became Gue'vesa.

It used to be a thing with rules (it was basically a guard squad with the option to buy pulse rifles/carbines/a markerlight on the sarge too maybe?) but that was quite a few editions ago, and they never had official models.

GW probably hasn't done it because they're focusing more on the high tech side of the Tau than the coalition of races side nowadays.

Same bro
>Cadian Hostile Environments
>Scion Arms
>Anvil Grenadier legs
I don't want to fathom the cost of my dudes

would love to do a guard regiment like this but don't got the money to get both elysians and cadian respirators heads. I like krieg also but they don't seem much for converting infantry all that much so vostroyans is where it's at for me.

Ah well that's better. I just recall in a book where they fight the necrons they are wearing them in the mess hall which is dumb. Though in that same book a trooper does take off his gear to be incognito in a hive.

I do still love them though I think the 40k universe would make you fatalistic.

Fully agree if gw made multi head coat guardsmen they would sell by the truckload. Vostroyan might need a slightly separate box blood angel style thinking about their Armoured arms and torso but gw is leaving money on the table by neglecting the guard.

Don't vostroyans just wear big red coats though?

their coats are similar to certian other guard regiments.

Cadians
Kriegers
Catachaners
Vostroyaners

these fours are the only good ones

They wear carapace armour and maille and some have metal arms and backpacks they are a bit complex

I do something similar, with different units from different regiments. It's fairly easy to fluff it as an Imperial Crusade force with each planet contributing their specialists.

I have a bit of a collection from the old metal days with the various guard units I should get around too one day

I could live with them just rereleasing a few more special and heavy weapons, officers, and basilisk crew

How long does a turn take with that many bodies? 2 hours?

I really wish they'd make armageddon pattern wyverns and hydras

Some Chinese sites still got the Old FW Hydra. Its a beautiful kit and I'd imagine you could attach the mortars easily enough

got a link to any good ones?

>Meanwhile cadians are 29 for one squad
>15 for a heavy weapons team
>15 for a guardsman with plasma and one with melta

You have options that are marginally more expensive than cadians. Valhallans and Mordians have it worse

mirandairene.com/products/imperial-guard/hydra-flak-tank-1052.html
The Chimeras in resin which is kinda annoying but livable. Despite the general sketchy layout and the misspellings that haven't been fixed in the year or two I've known her they been pretty good

Idk what the conversion is for leafbux but Mad Robot Minis has 10 grav chutes for $8 USD

are catachans still available?
what about straken?