Is it at all possible to outfit a (relatively) small IG Regiment with Power Armor on par with the ones the Echlisiarchy...

Is it at all possible to outfit a (relatively) small IG Regiment with Power Armor on par with the ones the Echlisiarchy and Inquisition use?

Or is that dumb by even 40k standard?

Dumb even by 40k standards, yes. IG, even the better regiments, aren't worth shit.

Yes

They call it the Sisters of Battle

Pretty dumb. At that point they would have to be important enough to not die, and at that point they're probably an Inquisitor Retinue

This.

Closest second would be Tempestus Scions, since they have pimp carapace armor with cool helmets. Not powered, but still better than your standard IG t-shirt.

No. The equipment used by those organizations is close to the very best that the Imperium can produce. Even if the Munitorum could get it's hands on the schematics they wouldn't issue them to front line soldiers. The main idea of The Guard is as much firepower for as little cost as possible. There's the Ordo Tempestus but they're still far cheaper to produce than sisters of battle

On very specific types of circumstances, like that one planet that was composed entierly of nobles do I see it feasable. A bunch of rich shits who are wealthy enough that every family can afford to give their firstborn a dented up set of Mk IV or III. Due to their status as nobles however, I can't imagine that they'd be the most disciplined lot.

Only good thing about IG is cheap numbers. Why would you want to throw it away?

It wouldn't even be a Regiment, but yeah. A real well off world might be able to field a company of those types, but there's a lot better things you could do with the money and resources going into that.

>Imperium
>Ever spending its money sensibly

Administratum needs to spend money sensibly to save up money for all these fancy cathedrals and huge statues

I could see a Lord Commander Militant or some shit fielding a small honour guard of soldiers in power armour, but other than that, no.

For a regiment it's pretty unlikely. Bear in mind that most regiments are many times the size of a space marine chapter. I guess it would be possible for select units in a PDF to get them on extremely wealthy or technologically advanced systems but by that point you're either a forge world so power armour's kind of redundant or wealthy enough to command a constant imperial presence

there's tens of thousands of sisters of battle

If they wear power armor, they're too important to be shot by a comissar.

That's what the Ecclasiarchy was and later turned into the Sisters of Battle. People forget they were men first.

The Guard are unlikely to get that because they need quantity more than they need quality. But you do see exceptions like the Elysians. I imagine it's possible, particularly on worlds tasked with defending forgeworlds that make powered armor and aren't interested in Skitarii.

it is relatively smart to make stormtroops with power armor, but this cant happen for two reasons

warhammer is about being dumb, and derives humor from guardsmen being given armor and weapons roughly 10,000 years out of date and being told to fight and win anyways

secondly, scions armed with plasma are not too bad at murdering MEQs, and their carapace armor helps mitigate Gets Hot, powered armor would allow slightly more spamming of plasma bolts and allow them to weather more return fire, dont play enough for an accurate assessment, but thats what i think

and i suppsoe there is a thematic element at play, the guardsmen are supposed to triumph using grit, determination, and sheer mass, so power armoring them might make them into marine-lite and take some that manliness away

that being said, i would appreciate at least an option to buy power armor for veterans

>That's what the Ecclasiarchy was and later turned into the Sisters of Battle. People forget they were men first.
Well no, the Frateris Templars were a separate organization to the Sisters of Battle (then Brides of the Emperor). Kinda like regular army to elite guard.

I think the SoB ended up inheriting a lot of Frateris Templar equipment. They started as a death cult, got upgraded to Vandire's personal guard, then took over all militant functions for the Ecclasiarchy. They were separate and around at the same time, but they're essentially their successors.

Also I wonder what the emperor is going to do with that world and huge fleet of Frateris Templar soldiers he has trapped in a warp storm should he ever let them out.

It'd be a bit like equipping every individual man in a contemporary infantry regiment with a main battle tank.
Sure, it could be done, but no one would ever do it.

I mean a AnCap would, but that's a different story entirely.

Speaking of which, what would a AnCap in 40k be like? Would they be chaos cult of slaanesh or a asshole imperial group abusing there power for reasons

>What are Orks?

>powered armor would allow slightly more spamming of plasma bolts and allow them to weather more return fire
They'd get too expensive and become a prime battle cannon target.

>it is relatively smart to make stormtroops with power armor
No it ain't, they're air assault/rapid deployment troops. Even carapace armour is sort of pushing it.

Rogue Traders

Except you don't need 3-4 men to drive a suit of powered armour, and you won't also need infantry support for said powered armour like you do with tanks.

Don't get more rapid deployment than a drop pod to the face.

yeah, those things that storm troopers don't use because their doctrine's based around VTOL aircraft instead

Yes. Orks.

the scions in general carry large weapons, power armor to help lift it, and to help protect them when they inevitably get focus fired, would be quite welcome

maybe not standard equipment, but it would make sense for at least a few of them to consider having an entire team wearing power armor and volley guns to become ghetto terminators, and sweep the streets with it

You fucking mongoloid fuckhead. What do you think Space Marines have Chapter Serfs for? Why do you think Sisters of Battle carry whole legions of servants and servitors with them?

You fucking need a whole infrastructure to maintain power armour.

Why? Like the unfortunate people tasked with being heavy weapon mule now, they can carry them around just fine without adding exo-suit maintenance and usage onto their list of shit that has to be paid for/drilled into them/dealt with when it fails in the field.

Sure their joints won't be very happy about it in a decade or so, but that's not really important.

You think they actually pay for those? They're built by criminals as part of their sentence with materials supplied by companies ho don't want to be labeled heretics for not helping the church.

Aren't the main enemy the Guard fight on a day to day basis chaos cultists and rebels? Or are they just what the Guard have the most successful with?

It could definitely happen, but the circumstances would have to believably lead up to it rather than just saying it happens.

The 'big galaxy' principle is a terrible excuse by itself, but is a perfect excuse to set up a scenario that can, more-or-less, be designed to suit basically any needs. Could even be something as simple as a mining world regiment that has to be equipped with servo-enhanced voidsuits to deal with whatever their homeworld has in store, or a million other things, you just have to remember to make it believable for their world/sector/situation's background.

I think it depends where they are and when. Some recruits will end up in a PDF between tithes and never fire their weapon in anger, while others will find themselves immediately shipped out and thrown to the meat grinder. For the most part though I think cults and rebels are more the purview of the Ecclesiarchy and Arbites with PDF support unless things get really out of hand (i.e. actual war has broken out)

>Doesn't know about Tank companies

You've just made the case for power armoured regiments.

Light infantry regiment
Mechanised infantry regiment
Carapace armoured regiment (grenadiers)
Shock troops regiment
Power armoured infantry regiment
Penal regiment
Penal powered armour regiment (Starcraft pattern)
Airborne regiment (drop troops)
Super heavy regiment
Armour regiment
Artillery regiment

There is some precedent for Imperial Guard using power armour. Pic related.

iirc, that stuff has the same protective value as carapace. It's just self supporting.

>I think the SoB ended up inheriting a lot of Frateris Templar equipment

Kinda. Normal carapace (In DH 1e at least) has AP 6 on the chest, 5 on the arms and legs and 4 on the head.
The lidhl light power armour is AP 6 all round.

Right. TT that would likely be the same as Carapace (Same chest value) I think.

Karskrin?

dark heresy isn't a super great example, but even that's limited to officers

But what if I want a whole company in Sentinels instead?

It's a regiment from a world run by a king or some other sort of concentrated power figure. They also have a strong warrior culture.

The King has two sons. The eldest is the heir to the throne. The second is encouraged to find something worthwhile. So he volunteers to lead the next regiment formed for the upcoming tithe to the Imperium.

A chunk of cash is taken from the royal treasury to make this the best outfitted regiment possible. Bam, power armor.

Then you get a recon company/regiment.
Think of a vehicle, weapon or mode of warfare that the Imperium uses that is not Astartes specific.
There's a regiment for that, and just that.

They might not be as common as non specialised infantry regiments but they exist and are portioned off as needed to those regiments as backup.
The Leman Russ squadrons that you include in your army are part of a separate regiment and are attached to your foot sloggers.

Ditto hellhounds, basilisks, anything that's not a chimera

Ogryns, stormies, ratlings and Penal legion follow the same principal, as would light infantry and power armour.

>The Leman Russ squadrons that you include in your army are part of a separate regiment
nnnnnot exactly. They -could- be part of a separate regiment, but often they are merely from another COMPANY within the same regiment. So the bumfuckXIV regiment may have a mix of infantry/armored/artillery companies in it.

Auxiliary vehicles like sentinels, medusas, hydras and hellhounds can make up full companies, but as they're fairly specialized they'll often just be integrated as individual squadrons in other companies.

The image you just showed had an armoured regiment with attached AA, attached recon, attached Artillery and attached maintenance.
To the left, an infantry regiment with attached psykers and Commissars and Ogryns, no tanks.

A regiment is a huge inflexible force that does one thing. That way, if they rebel, they don't have their own armour or Artillery etc. If that infantry regiment went to chaos, the attached auxiliaries and Commissars wouldn't be party to their corruption or loyal to their officers, the priests and so on would report them and the Commissars would have them bombarded from afar.
Then tanks would roll in and mop up the survivors, because they'd have no Artillery or tanks, just handheld heavy weapons.