Imperial Guard Logistics Division

>not just playing a WW2 game at this point

You guys are so cucked by Games Workshop that it's not even funny anymore. It's just sad.

>Relaxing cooperative economy/strategy miniatures game
I didn't know I needed that.

God, I really wanna play an Only War game where you spend 90%,of your time dealing with broken axles, shitty quartermasters, and fighting off supply line raids. In wheeled vehicles. Less ungodly battles, more mundane supply chain shit.

That shit sounds hella tight.

Unfortunately, I think any worthwhile scale would send it into board game range and take away the miniatures. Unless it's literally a single outpost or something, you'd be dealing with supply chains and whatnot on the macro scale, making it more about bigger maps.

And now I know what game I'm going to run next. If I can convince my group to go along with it.

youtube.com/watch?v=ZYfoFJilFw4

We got these containers full of very ordinary Imperium stuff that is yotally not xenos or heretical in anyway. Dont mind the screaming and banging.

the day of compliance of my planet is almost arriving and we're in need of some flags and greenskin skulls

also need a few commemorative mugs with and some t-shirts with the insignias of a few chapters. People love astartes merchandise

>You have been sent to be part of Supply division for your regiment.
>As your regiments expertise is in siege and fortification it's vital to your regiments strategy to push forward, take ground, and dig in and they often carry only as much as they need to get the job done relying on you to keep them topped off with food, supplies, porn, and amasec to see them through the bloody fighting

>Reverse Looted an Ork trukk
Stop that right now!

Now I want to see an entire IG army made of reverse-looted ork gear.
Up against orks with entirely IG looted gear.

This isn't really a complaint, just a question.

Our planet hasn't seen an invasion in at least 300 years. It's strategically unimportant and the Nids aren't anywhere close.

So why in the hell were we shipped 100 Baneblades?

OY GIT, DIS IS ORK TURF, WE MOVE SHINY BITZ BEST, SOD OFF

WHERES MY FUCKIN AMMO YOU PIECE OF GROX SHIT?!!
I GOT 900 BASILISKS AIMED AT AN EMPEROR DAMNED HORDE OF ORKS BEARING DOWN ON ME , AND NOT A SINGLE SHELL TO BE HAD!

Reading this thread has made me wonder if anyone else in here read M.Y.T.H Inc. in Action?

[Receive Transmission]

"Oh hey, Colonel Waller here, eh. I was a Lieutenant when this action started but... well let's just say we've had some losses, eh.

My 34th boss two weeks ago requested an emergency evacuation from this here position and we've been holding the bunker here ever since-Oh wait hold on a second-"

*BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM*
*FWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH*
"DIE XENOS MOTHERFUCKEEEEEERS"
*PRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRTTT*

"-whew, yeah sorry about that, eh. Anyway, since High Command is taking their time getting here, I figured I'd ask you guys if y'all could "ship us" some Valkyries and Landing-And-Orbit Capable personnel carriers. And if you could-ah yeah hold on one second."

"AAAAAHHHH AHHHH IT HURTS AHHHHH AHHH MY EYES MY EYES MY EEYYYEEEE-"
*Blam*

"Thanks, Craig. All that screamin' was makin it hard to talk to phone guy. Oh yeah, sorry about that, eh. Anywho, that reminds me: If those could be equipped with the Medivac modules that'd be swell don' 'cha know. Oh wait hold one more second-"

*DAK DAK DAK DAK*
"RRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
*CRACK CRACK CRACK DOOOOOOOM*
"THEY'RE OVER THE WALLS! FIX BAYONETS GUARDSMEN. THE FIERY CRUCIBLE OF HELL ITSELF IS BEFORE US AND WE SHALL NOT BREAK BEFORE IT!"
*KEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKE*

"Oh hold on one second Craig, I gotta finish talking to phone guy. Ahh, okay sorry again about that, eh. I don't mean to be steppin on nobodies toes don' 'cha know, but if there's any way we could put an expedite order on that munitions request, well you'd really be doin' me a solid there, buddy. Don't mean to be rude or nothin' but I gotta go take care of a thing so I gotta hang up pretty quick here, like. Sorry for there trouble there, buddy, but I'm sure everybody here'd be, like, super happy for your time-"

*Crack* *Crack* *Crack* *CRASH*
"MEET THEM BLADE FOR CLAW AND BLOOD FOR BILE! TODAY WE ARE HEROES, MEN!"

"Oh, woops. Gotta go. Thanks again, there buddy. See ya 'round, maybe."

*Click*
[End Transmission]

>Player One requests lasguns
>16 years later Player Two says he cant spare any more lasagna, Player One will have to make do with what they have
>For the Emperor etc.
>5 months after that Player One receives twice as many lasguns as they asked for, addressed to a different regiment, and a Leman Russ tank thats had the insides completely removed
>The shipment is received by a group of Gretchen because Player One's Guardsmen have long since withdrawn
>Player Two gets 14 points for a job well done but the points are destroyed en route by an Imperial patrol who mistook the transport for a Tyranid Hive Fleet

I believe that this was a mix up in the paperwork.

>this shouldn't be this accurate

Here you go. A fresh load of shells from you Basilisk Cannons!

Phosphex.
Promethium.
Plasma.
Crumpets.
Psyk-out solution.

All you can spare. I swear this is legit.

Um, captain, why are we delivering Medusa shells to a basilisk company?

Now I'm imagining a game where you play as a Noble General, and you have to try and arm your army by gathering enough of all the different kinds of equipment.
The game board shows a few forge worlds and the world you're on, and you can redirect ships with influence or gathered Thrones, as well as negotiating with other players that have the influence.

Because there's not enough equipment for everyone, so you have to backstab, feign ignorance, hoard equipment you don't need as a bartering chip and basically fuck everyone else over to ensure that your men are armed.
And at the end of it you can see how the Administratum never fucking gets anything where it needs to go as there's players with 50 artillery and no food and a shipment of lasguns that players have sent on an eternal circle because they can't risk it entering any other warp lanes and falling into other player's hands.

Bacon is for sycophants and products of incest

Maximum Kek

ought be right up your alley then, wouldn't it sir?

lol, there is a character idea, a witty Ogryn

>2017
>Imperial Guard
lolwut?

AHHHHHHH HELP THEY'RE EATING MY LEEEEGS!

Tell the munitorium to send 1000 lasguns. What do you mean why? Cause they only send us one power pack per lasgun! Whats that? Why don't I just order ammuntions, why.. (wheezes with laughter!)

Hey!.. (laughs) Hey Serge! This kid wants to know why we don't order more ammunition! (Whole squad breaks up with laughter) Listen, kid, we only get resupplied with ammunition every 6 months, and of that, maybe a quarter of that war material reaches the front lines. You just order the lasguns and tell the captain I'll send him his usual bottle of amnasec and box of cigars!

Heya, captain... I was thinking... maybe those lasguns-

Dooooon't eeeeven think about it sergeant.

Yes sir.

Aha!
Israel!
I knew you had nukes!

You know what that means.. (in unison) I win the poool, (makes a gimme motion) thats right, pay up!

Ey! What about you Iran! DO you have nukes?

Ehhhhhh, c'mooooon, guys, we all got a little something on the side... (HES GOT NUKES, GET HIM) Tackles on the floor with UAE and the Saudis while roughousing...

ehhh, I love you gaiz! Except for Palestien... poor palestien.. (cut to little palestienian boy who hung himself)

Poor bastard hung himself. Was the third time this month.

I mean c'mon palestien, lets not get all emo or anything! [spooiler]God damn it what am I writing[/spoiler]

thats just the way those people are billy. they just love bombing the shit out of each other. They like yelling loud and arguing about things until they just explode.

I think thats how it happens. A bunch of Iranians and Israelis are all in Jerusalem arguing about the nature of god and one of them gets so angry he just explodes!

Like no dynamite, no nothing, he is just so angry, he (poof) BOOM! explodes!

I know there are rules to be a salvage regiment in Only War.

Every squad gets an Atlas.

40k tow truck drivers!

And a compass. a geopoint compass.

What the- /pol/!? Goawn! Get out of here! Git! Your kind ain't welcome here!

Hey guys...
what if adamantium...
was just really good quality steel?

What if iron was the only metal you ever find in any abundance on habitable planets?

...

Sounds like you want to be sent to an adamantine mine.

thats the spirit!

gaiz, gaiz, how bout a commisar, who is super nice and extra friendly? Like imagine how fucking creepy that would be?

Like inglurious bastards. God damn, that guy was charming! I mean he really was! It really got you to let your guard down when he did all that fucked up shit.

But his voice is like milk and honey. If I weren't such an ardent heterosexual I might have fallen to slaneesh and gotten a battle boner.

Let's see:

Logistics Convoy Protection game.

1500pts each, one player is given 3 transports (use chimeras, but unarmed, not amphibious, no troop capacity).

Said Chimeras must move 8" per turn from one short end of the board to the other, remaining in column, they cannot back up but they can choose not to move. They cannot move more than 45 degrees L/R from original heading (representing they're following a trail or MSR and are not all-terrain).

No HQ, no Heavy Support for either side.

If convoy guard player selects Fast Attack options they must be in reserve and do not begin rolling to appear until casualties (unsure how to define this just now) have been caused to rest of defending force (representing fast response units responsible for guarding all convoys, they don't come out just because you're taking a bit of harassing fire).

Game continues until convoy exits table, all convoy is destroyed or attacking playing chooses to withdraw.

Could dig out the old rules for 3rd Ed Catachan "all the board is jungle" (apart from designated convoy route) for a bit more complexity.

Lol, that represents the Imperium perfectly, moving supplies on foot instead of airdropping them in on lighters.

its a good idea for a game.

Attacking player could have ambushers, either can "hide" infantry units in pieces of terrain (perhaps 2-3 max) and reveal in any phase unless a Convoy unit comes within Initiative range of them (either do this on trust or convoy player can declare 'auspex use' and point to a piece of terrain).

Alternative, have "ambush team" counts as single guard heavy weapons team with a missile launcher, as above but only reveals in attacker's shooting phase.

Ya'll motherfuckers need trains

The name change will take approximately 9,870 years to be actually put in imperial memos.

Where did you find such a thing?

There is a Supply Ambush Scenario in the Taros Campaign. 800 points of Guard against 1500 points of Tau with Zealot Rules 6 inches from transports. Just gotta hold a few turns. Can't wait to play it.

Ah, that pic (and the new industrial machine kit) just reminds me how much I want to do a non-standard regiment/militia army with loads of industrial gear. Trucks, maybe that lifting sentinel, etc.

With the genestealer kits that just came out I'd want to do something mining-themed I think, because I have an unhealthy love for pic related - something like DKoK siege engineers + converted genestealer cult miners as "irregulars"

The squad won't be making logistical decisions and the GM probably wouldn't bother modeling logistics at anything more than a basic level. It'd just be a premise to allow for a slightly less meat-grindery game of OW. Hell, it could even be set during a true war of attrition, but because the PCs are in logistics they'll stick around longer than 15 hours.

Where did you stow my kit? I can't find it.

It's in a crate, but we lost the label.

>Even in the grimdark future of the 40th century, there are still unopened crates of nuggets

But do we have tracks? You sort of need both.

...

Only War isn't supposed to be pointlessly meat grindy. It should play like Kelly's Heroes, senpai.

Well, your highness, what would be better?

...

>been searching for threads with "Argo" in them for a few days
>get a hit today that has a picture of, and mentions, IG
>its about the logistics division

Can you help the Brigade out with an important public works project?

What? Hauling a truck load of crosses up to an appointed area to ensure the enemy commander is crucified properly?

I have a shipment of grandfather clocks that need to be delivered to a Mr girlyman, it's in your hands now soldier.

Catachan 8th Vine-Strangler Regiment here: WHERE'S MY SUPER-HEAVY? I sent it to get chainsaws two years ago.

I need to mow down these green xenos before the chop and eat all the colonists.

holy fuck we need trains

I think that is a bit too heavy for our truck.

Also here is your shipment of Grandfather clocks Mr. Girlyman

I've actually really wanted to create an IG regiment centered on Logistics/ non combat engineering like a hybrid of the Guard and Departmento Munitorum.

Basically they'd be responsible for design and building of solid FoB's and command centers in theaters of war, establishing roads and supply lines for campaigns where logistics are challenged. Essentially they are sent in to places that fall low on the Munitorum totem pole/lack of easy orbital supply lines.

Maybe they are a mechanicus alligned/friendly world that gets called in to do these sorts of things. The actual handling of logistics seems to be all over the place.

For instance, in Fortress of Arrogance it was the Mechanicus that built the FoB for the Cadians but then the Mechanicus detachment had a pretty big stake on Golgatha beyond Yarrick's Baneblade.

The greatest type of archeotech, slavshit.

*radio buzzes to life

...iz dis ting workin
it iz, ya grot
k den
oi dis is da ferst umie klan er i mean er
regiment ya git!
ya ya, ferst umie regiment er and wez in big need of mor dakka, an fast
ya deez really cool orkz iz givin us a hard time
seez we need more shooty...
u think dey fell for it
ya, umiez iz stoopid
crud its not off
*radio zaps off

These new Mechanicum construction vehicles released by GeeDubs would make pretty good for IG Logistics

Low Gothic

109th Gener here

We requested ammunition, but we were told that there was none to spare

So we started beating up the traitors with our lasguns, and they broke. Munitorum says there's no guns to be had either.

The blades and bayonets broke and there's apparently none if those to replace our lost either

We've been holding out using shovels and our own shit, but we're starting to lose all our shovels; our shit has already been lost.

Is the munitorum out of shovels as well? If do please send us some of that fat load of grox shit.

If mah men donnae ge'their haggis right quick we'll have a wee bit of a problem, ye ken?

Dafuq is that?

martian military industrial complex, I suppose

*BOOM* *BOOM* *BOOM*
Right, now that those orks have been dealt with, I need something else from you logistics guy. Another shipment of basilisk shells so we are ready for the next attack, and a lot of support equipment and spare parts. The regiment has next to no med equipment left, half the regiment is practically wearing the weathered reminates of their uniforms as loin cloths , the other half don't have boots, we have 7 shovels to go around for 3000 men , we have no lamp packs, few tents, and no stoves. Our attached engineseers can only do so much with prayer and the single set of wrenches we have., and the prayers are about to become questionable because they are nearly out of their holy lube and incense. And my amesec cabinet is empty, that is the most urgent thing

*BOOM* *BOOM* *BOOM*
Right, now that those orks have been dealt with, I need something else from you logistics guy. Another shipment of basilisk shells so we are ready for the next attack, and a lot of support equipment and spare parts. The regiment has next to no med equipment left, half the regiment is practically wearing the weathered reminates of their uniforms as loin cloths , the other half don't have boots, we have 7 shovels to go around for 3000 men , we have no lamp packs, few tents, and no stoves. Our attached engineseers can only do so much with prayer and the single set of wrenches we have., and the prayers are about to become questionable because they are nearly out of their holy lube and incense. And my amasec cabinet is empty, that is the most urgent thing

*BOOM* *BOOM* *BOOM*
Right, now that those orks have been dealt with, I need something else from you logistics guy. Another shipment of basilisk shells so we are ready for the next attack, and a lot of support equipment and spare parts. The regiment has next to no med equipment left, half the regiment is practically wearing the weathered reminates of their uniforms as loin cloths , the other half don't have boots, we have 7 shovels to go around for 3000 men , we have no lamp packs, few tents, and no stoves. Our attached engineseers can only do so much with prayer and the single set of wrenches we have., and the prayers are about to become questionable because they are nearly out of their holy lube and incense. And my amasec cabinet is empty, that is the most urgent thing.

Alright yeah that sounds pretty fucking tight. Noble General 40,000.

Ever worked on custom logistic machines user?

I've once use pic related as souped up crane sentinels for repairs and makeshift base defence.

I don't need anything, just wanted to thank you for the grenade surplus.

Think we may have invented a new kind of exterminatus, but the planet is purged of orks! Plus it looked pretty from orbit.

what's the IG equivalent of the 83rd Rag Tag Circus?

>One unit, the illustrious 83rd Infantry Division, which was moving as
fast as an armored task force, had recently been nicknamed "The Rag-Tag
Circus" by the correspondents. Its resourceful commander, Major
General Robert C. Macon, had given orders to supplement the division's
transport with anything that moved; "no questions asked." Now the
Rag-Tag Circus was going flat out in a weird assortment of hurriedly
repainted captured German vehicles: Wehrmacht jeeps, staff cars,
ammunition trucks, Mark Very and Tiger panzers, motor bikes, buses and
two cherished fire engines. Out in front, with infantrymen hanging all
over it, was one of the fire trucks. On its rear bumper was a large,
flapping banner. It read, Next Stop: Berlin.

>The men of the Rag-TagCircus had even managed to liberate a German airplane and, harder, had found someone to fly it, and it was spreading consternation all over the front. First Sergeant William G. Presnell of the 30th Infantry Division, who had fought all the way from Omaha Beach, knew the silhouette of every Luftwaffe fighter. So when he saw what was obviously a German plane heading in his direction, he yelled "ME-109!" and dived for cover. Puzzled when there was no burst of machine gun fire, he raised his head and stared as the fighter sped away. The plane was painted a blotchy olive-green. On the undersides of the wings were the words "83rd Inf. Div."

So our forces have been reporting the craftworld dickhelms have been attacking several imperial settlements. I need a sensor array and weapons that can to hunt them down and send their souls to damn warp. What does the quartermaster recommend?

Can I borrow you guys for some crossposting?

Borderlands 2 was pretty decent tbqh

The normal crap I can handle. That'll cost you your entire months supply of "The emperors primer". They can always wipe using the cloth from the dead soldiers uniforms. The basilisk rounds have to be armed by a tech preist, and they always ask questions. I just so happen to have a vox synthisizer of the majoris voice and a copy-scribe of their holy litanies, but it will cost you. No iho sticks and no caff for 6 months.

oh shit, nigga
you on fire tonight!

I play DkoK, my Engineers ride around in a Chimera covered in tools with a Rockgrinder blade on the front. Poor Man's Hades drill.