Sunday, January 13, 2008

About the Imperial Guard & History


The Imperium of Man is beset in all quarters by perfidious traitors. Savage aliens from without, and wrap-spawned fiends from beyond. Across countless Warzones, the warriors of the Imperial Guard from the staunch backbone of the desperate war to hold back the relentless tides of the Imperium's enemies.

The Imperial Guard are a force of great power. They find it difficult to fight huge, massive, horrible and giantic creatures, especially because they are human. From the private rank to the general the soldier of the Imperial Guard are unique. The Imperial Guard is the largest and most diverse organisation the galaxy has ever seen. It contains billions of men from a million different worlds. Men whose home was blistering desert, tropical jungle, icy steepe or desolate. The entire diversity of the massive Imperium is encapsulated in its ranks.

The power of the Imperial Guard does not lie in numbers alone. It is equiped with lumbering but deadly battle tanks, fast striding walkers and the heaviest artillery known. Whole worlds are dedicated to the production of war marchines of the Imperial Guard which, while inelegant, are fearsomley practical.

The Vast organisation known as the Imperial Guard has been the backbone of the Imperium's fighting forces for uncounted centuries. Its earliest origins can be traced back to the Imperial Army of the Great Crusade at the Dawn of the age of the Imperium.

THE TACTICA IMPERIUM
The Tactica Imperium is the most widespread manual employed by the Imperial Guard. Its not a single tome, however and has no one author; instead it is a whole collection of secret documents, papers, relics, doctrines, manuals and notes approved for Department Munitorum and the office of Lord Commander Militant. This is how the Imperial Guard get their regimental orders and the battle plans are made....


WHY COLLECT AN IMPERIAL GUARD ARMY

In the midst of war, genetically engineered super-beings, alien killing marchines, warrior mystics, and technology that approaches sorcery in its sophistication, the Imperial Guard are mere soldiers. In battle they can be bad sometimes especially guardsmen, they have 4+ to hit, and what ever the target is to wound. 5+ armour save on guardsmen. Tanks however are amazing, 2+ to hit and many other cool stuff, use large blast templates and have heavy bolters on the side. Imperial Guard is the best army for Heavy Support, especially the new Imperial Gurd tank "BANEBLADE" the tank from Mars.

The Imperial Guard have many herofic characters in their army, especially the Armageddon hero in the Third War. Commissar Yarrick

" Heroes of Armageddon! You have withstood the evil savgery of the Orks and they have nothing left for you to fear. So raise high the black banners of vengeance- now is our time"

Also other characters include Lord Castellan Ursarker E. CREED, and his friend Colour Sergeant Jarran Kell. These special characters require over an army over 1,500 points. Also Colonel- commissar Ibram Gaunt and Colonel Schaeffer's Last Chances are major characters in the Imperial Guard.

The Imperial Guard are a fanstatic army to collect.....

IMPERIAL GUARD ARMY

( Troops and Hq)
Heroic Senior Officer
Senior Officer
Junior Officer
Platoon Commander
Veteran Sergeant
Guardsmen
Conscript
Comminssar
Sanctioned Pysker
Priest
Tech-Priest Enginseer
Hardened Veteran
Hardened Veteran Sgt
Storm Trooper
Storm Trooper Sgt
Ogryn
Ogryn Bone'ead (Sgt)
Ratling
Chimera (Tank but Transport tank, armoured carrier)
(Heavy Support)
Basilisk
Leman Russ
Demolisher
Earthshaker
Heavy Weapons Teams, misslie, lascannon,mortar or autocannon.

(Fast Attack)
Rough Riders
Sentinel
Hellhound

(Characters)
Lord Castellan Ursarker E Creed
Colour Sergeant Jarran Kell
Commnissar Yarrick
Colonel- Commissar IBRAM Gaunt
Colonel Schaffer


(What to get first?)
The best thing to get first is the battleforce, it comes with a Leman Russ, 20 Shock Troops and 3 Heavy Weapons Teams.

Or a Squad of 20 Shock Troops

For more information on Gamesworkshop Websties like Online Stores go to Warhammer 40,000 Eldar section.






2 comments:

Tom Scrivens said...

Imperial Guard are the best, they look like Nazi Germany in World War 2.

AndrewO said...

imperial baneblades are sick