scatmandoo Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 When you actually enjoy the idea of sending conscripts led by a commissar forward and pray for a comedy/glorious death! Isn't that what conscripts and commissars are for? Fighting is for professional Guardsmen, and leading them is for Commanders... That is totally the idea. I was just highlighting how fun it is in games. Mwahahaha Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/288137-you-know-youre-an-imperial-guardsman-when/page/11/#findComment-3980517 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FashaTheDog Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 When you actually enjoy the idea of sending conscripts led by a commissar forward and pray for a comedy/glorious death! Conscripts are for slackers. The proper way to do it is with wave after wave of battle hardened siege warfare experts that are not even given names. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/288137-you-know-youre-an-imperial-guardsman-when/page/11/#findComment-3980556 Share on other sites More sharing options...
librisrouge Posted April 2, 2015 Author Share Posted April 2, 2015 When 57% of your army is made up of non-IG models but the IG still does more work than them. When you play with Knights and Assassins but the melee that your enemy fears the most are a few guys with ten minutes training and a fiery priest. When you're invited to a 1k tournament and you genuinely consider just taking a Steel Host. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/288137-you-know-youre-an-imperial-guardsman-when/page/11/#findComment-3995942 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulrik_Ironfist Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 When 57% of your army is made up of non-IG models but the IG still does more work than them. When you play with Knights and Assassins but the melee that your enemy fears the most are a few guys with ten minutes training and a fiery priest. When you're invited to a 1k tournament and you genuinely consider just taking a Steel Host. Why wouldn't you... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/288137-you-know-youre-an-imperial-guardsman-when/page/11/#findComment-3996154 Share on other sites More sharing options...
librisrouge Posted April 2, 2015 Author Share Posted April 2, 2015 Because fielding all four assassins and still having the points for 68 IG models just sounded too fun to pass up. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/288137-you-know-youre-an-imperial-guardsman-when/page/11/#findComment-3996158 Share on other sites More sharing options...
librisrouge Posted April 4, 2015 Author Share Posted April 4, 2015 ...when you're asked by a friend why you don't just play renegades and heretics and you answer, "Because we don't take kindly to traitors in His guard." Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/288137-you-know-youre-an-imperial-guardsman-when/page/11/#findComment-3997266 Share on other sites More sharing options...
librisrouge Posted May 11, 2015 Author Share Posted May 11, 2015 When you are increasingly realizing that IKnights will not be welcome at national/regional tournaments but you don't sweat, it's just a chance to show them why IG are the Hammer. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/288137-you-know-youre-an-imperial-guardsman-when/page/11/#findComment-4037794 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulrik_Ironfist Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 When you look at your army and say, "Needs more infantry/tanks..." Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/288137-you-know-youre-an-imperial-guardsman-when/page/11/#findComment-4037855 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FashaTheDog Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 When you look at your army and say, "Needs more infantry/tanks..." Especially in response to an opponent complaining that you already have too much of both. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/288137-you-know-youre-an-imperial-guardsman-when/page/11/#findComment-4038435 Share on other sites More sharing options...
librisrouge Posted May 11, 2015 Author Share Posted May 11, 2015 When you respond to your opponents criticizing how many models your army has with, "Oh, you should see my mean army." Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/288137-you-know-youre-an-imperial-guardsman-when/page/11/#findComment-4038440 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatOneMarshal Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 You know your an imperial guardsman when you play your space marines like imperial guardsman. When half the reason you start the horus heresy is too play imperial guard space marine style. When your opponent brings his Morknaught (or gorknaught only those green savages know) and then you tell him hold and you bring your leman russ vanquisher. He doesnt believe it'll hit him because its BS 3. Against all odds it hits him and then blows it up killing orks at the bottom. When you are told Imperial Guard are horrible because their infantry are terrible your response is "well we'll just have to drown you then...IN BODIES". When your in close combat with Orks and one of your artillery land on the squad enganged. Your opponent is happy that hes wiiping out the squad but you startle him by laughing. A medusa and pask punisher with a platoon of guardsman are waiting for them. When after watching saving private ryan you want to collect imperial guard again. Also you want as many flamers as you can in your army. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/288137-you-know-youre-an-imperial-guardsman-when/page/11/#findComment-4039178 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulrik_Ironfist Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 When you stand at your side of the table and think to yourself... What would Patton do? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/288137-you-know-youre-an-imperial-guardsman-when/page/11/#findComment-4039202 Share on other sites More sharing options...
spafe Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 When you stand at your side of the table... and think 'hmm, I'm pretty sure theres a table under that army...somewhere' Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/288137-you-know-youre-an-imperial-guardsman-when/page/11/#findComment-4039301 Share on other sites More sharing options...
librisrouge Posted May 12, 2015 Author Share Posted May 12, 2015 What's a table? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/288137-you-know-youre-an-imperial-guardsman-when/page/11/#findComment-4039519 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FashaTheDog Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 When you stand at your side of the table... and think 'hmm, I'm pretty sure theres a table under that army...somewhere' Nope, there is no table under all that Guard; just MORE Guardsmen. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/288137-you-know-youre-an-imperial-guardsman-when/page/11/#findComment-4039524 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulrik_Ironfist Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 When you pray for your opponent to kill off some of your models, just so you can put the rest of your models on the table.. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/288137-you-know-youre-an-imperial-guardsman-when/page/11/#findComment-4039577 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoffeeGrunt Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 Everyone is lamenting the drop to 1000pts for a local tournament. You turn up with four Chimeras and an Eradicator with over sixty pairs of boots on the ground between two Veteran squads, two Command Squads and a thirty man Platoon. You even have 50pts spare for a Lascannon Sabre Platform...just in case of Fliers. You then lose every game because you're me, and thus you're bad at games. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/288137-you-know-youre-an-imperial-guardsman-when/page/11/#findComment-4039605 Share on other sites More sharing options...
librisrouge Posted May 12, 2015 Author Share Posted May 12, 2015 When you've won games even though the enemy killed one of your units with every one of his...every turn. You still had some left on objectives. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/288137-you-know-youre-an-imperial-guardsman-when/page/11/#findComment-4039973 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bjorn Firewalker Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 "What would Patton do?" Get more Leman Russ tanks, maybe some Valkyrie and Vendetta gunships- Patton was a cavalry officer, after all, and the term "airmobile cavalry" should be familiar to those who read, 'We Were Soldiers Once... And Young', or saw Mel Gibson's film adaptation- and then crush the enemy beneath his treads. Don't bother getting a Baneblade, use those points to get yet more Leman Russ tanks. Numerical superiority for the win! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/288137-you-know-youre-an-imperial-guardsman-when/page/11/#findComment-4040360 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulrik_Ironfist Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 But the Baneblade is so much fun... That's why I want it, because it's fun. But yes in most cases, get more Leman Russ tanks. I'm a big fan of the Vanguisher, BattleTank, Punisher, Demolisher, and Eradicator varieties. When you laugh at other armies trying to be battleforged at 500 points... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/288137-you-know-youre-an-imperial-guardsman-when/page/11/#findComment-4040432 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bjorn Firewalker Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 I was answering a common criticism of Patton, i.e., that he opposed the M26 "heavy tank's" introduction (not true), which resulted in many American soldiers' deaths when they met Tiger and Panther tanks on the field. (See 'Death Traps', by Belton Y. Cooper.) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/288137-you-know-youre-an-imperial-guardsman-when/page/11/#findComment-4040484 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stofficus Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 When not getting tabled is a sign of a crushing defeat for the foe. When you respond to complaints about your footslogging Korps taking too long to play, you respond with a 9 Leman Russ + Baneblade list to alleviate their concerns. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/288137-you-know-youre-an-imperial-guardsman-when/page/11/#findComment-4040583 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SW1 Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 When you respond to complaints about your footslogging Korps taking too long to play, you respond with a 9 Leman Russ + Baneblade list to alleviate their concerns. This had me in stitches but so true. You know your a guardsman when your opponent never knows what you'll bring to battle. Is it the waves of footsloggers or walls of tanks or fast mech troops. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/288137-you-know-youre-an-imperial-guardsman-when/page/11/#findComment-4040594 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulrik_Ironfist Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 When you can't sleep unless it's in full battle rattle and on the ground... So comfy and secure. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/288137-you-know-youre-an-imperial-guardsman-when/page/11/#findComment-4040861 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bjorn Firewalker Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 When you use demolition charges as pillows. If the Commissar is stupid enough to give you a rude awakening, he won't be getting up again, either. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/288137-you-know-youre-an-imperial-guardsman-when/page/11/#findComment-4041658 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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