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Stalingrad does that for me. Human waves wherein only the front rank even has a rifle, and the second rank a few spare rounds of ammunition, the rest are there to stop bullets and, when the guy with the rifle goes down, pick it up and keep moving forward! That, and the commissar leading from behind with a pistol pointed at your back. That's my vision of an infantry-centric guard army...

Stalingrad does that for me. Human waves wherein only the front rank even has a rifle, and the second rank a few spare rounds of ammunition, the rest are there to stop bullets and, when the guy with the rifle goes down, pick it up and keep moving forward! That, and the commissar leading from behind with a pistol pointed at your back. That's my vision of an infantry-centric guard army...

Yes enemy at the gates is a great documentary of life in the guard.....

The exact opposite of me. Mine run forward because of conviction and inspiration, not fear. It should be accompanied by the Hymns of the Ecclesiarchy, not a Commissar's shot. They should be supported by their armour, not pounded into dust with artillery. They should be equipped with pride and show their colours with big banners and not run into battle half naked. And finally, they should be personally lead by a strong heroic leader whom the men are eager to follow, not by a fear driven recruit while the general sits in a tent far off.
Bonus points for this charge taking place while sunrise so that the light of dawn can enlighten their path and blind their enemies.

Like this: http://i.imgur.com/l4nqJfm.png

With this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoxYTmQQRME J

Just replace nazis with Chaos and see the final platoon storms in as the worlds collide.

I know it's not grimdark, but it's idealistically heroic and it brings a flicker of hope to humanity in a time of darkness and despair tongue.png

Starship Troopers. The movie, not the book and animated series where even the mobile infantry has powered armour. Classic example of Imperial Guard versus Tyranids, after a fashion.

Though I understand where the OP is coming from. It even inspired me to go and try to save up and collect a platoon of Praetorian Guard (probably through Victoria Miniatures). But that is in some far future. First I have some Egyptian space marines to finish, my Plague Marine army to expand even beyond expansion, put together a platoon of Scottish Guard, Except for the finecast models even start to assemble my Dark Eldar, ..., ..., ..., ...

So little to do and so much time...

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You mean aside from the Praetorians being from Zulu? laugh.png There are a lot of parallels you can see in film etc, but the Guard is a human army in space so it's easy to do. What good comrade wouldn't see the Guard everywhere he looks though? tongue.png

Get some thumping militaristic music or marches and I hear the Guard. Watch a good war film and I see the Guard. Play a war game and I am the Guard! I will have to reinstall the original DoW now as that does them more justice - but not until I've done my painting for the day tomorrow msn-wink.gif

I should clarify that the whole Stalingrad thing is the way I see guard in general.  My own, being mechanized, don't fit that mold at all.  Mine are actually modeled very closely on contemporary (actually, turn of the century, that was a while ago, lol) American combined arms.  Hey, do what you know, right?  I commanded a platoon of four Abrams tanks, usually in support of mechanized infantry...so I'm just applying the real world to the tabletop...and it works VERY well!

for me its ww1 and trench warfare on the western front. To me ww1 feels what its like to be in the imperial guard.That and probalby ww2 infantry warfare. Every time I see them in a documentry I always want to start m imperial guard up. Also this song always gets me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaCVoF0V4Cs.

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