My guard total...wow

[Andrew]

So I've been sittin' here tonight rejiggering my Guard army. Wow did it's size explode from ~1000 points to over 2000! I do get to use all of my older models now though, so it works out. Here's the fun I came up with what I already own:

HQ
- Company Command Squad (330 points)

• Lord Castellan Ursarkar Creed
  
• Color Sergeant Jarran Kell
  
• 3 Veterans w/medic, vox, sniper, carapace armor
  
• Master of Ordnance
  
• Bodyguard
  
• Chimera w/2 heavy bolters (55 points)
  

- Company Command Squad (350 points)

• Colonel "Iron Hand" Straken
  
• 4 Veterans w/3 meltaguns, flamer
  
• Nork Deddog
  
• Ministorum Priest
  
• Bodyguard
  
  

- Lord Commissar w/power fist, power sword (95 points)
- Primaris Psyker (70 points


Elites
- Stormtrooper Squad (215 points)

• 2 plasma guns
  
• plasma pistol/power sword
  
• 10 men
  

- Stormtrooper Squad (185 points)

• 2 grenade launchers
  
• power sword
  
• 10 men
  

- Sly Marbo (65 points)


Troops
Veteran Squad (145 points)

• 2 grenade launchers
  
• plasma gun
  
• missile launcher
  
• vox
  
• forward sentries
  

Veteran Squad (125 points)

• grenade launcher
  
• missile launcher
  
• vox
  
• forward sentries
  

Veteran Squad (130 points)

• 2 flamers
  
• lascannon
  
• vox
  
• forward sentries
  

Fast Attack
Armored Sentinel (70 points)

• autocannon
  
• camo netting
  

Heavy Support
Leman Russ Vanquisher (250 points)

• lascannon
  
• sponson heavy bolters
  
• pintle heavy stubber
  
• Knight Commander Pask
  

Manticore Missile Launcher (160 points)


Total of 2245 points. I can only choose between the command squads or characters, but all are so fun. Creed would give Straken's command squad scout so it pops off a table edge and charges (to a nasty effect) either vehicles or infantry, it doesn't matter.

Everything else stealths, infiltrates, deep strikes, or scouts (excepting vehicles of course). All infantry have BS 4 (excepting the priest) so it's like my old army, but far better. I'm really happy with the new codex, so far as my army turned out. Infinitely better!

[NonSequitur]

It looks pretty good. Would you be deep-striking the Stormtroopers? I just would worry that the power weapons would be a waste/questionable if you did not use them to charge. It looks like you have enough antitank to make in in a regular match, I might suggest giving the Vanquisher with Pask camonetting instead of side sponsons because Pask needs to sit still to use his second special ability and +1 to a cover save seams to be better than x2 heavy bolters to me, especially if Pask will mostly hunt tanks. Other than that, the list seams to be fairly solid, it probably could take all comers, I just would worry a Little about the two command squads and strength 6+ blast weapons.

[Andrew]

Psh, camo netting. IG tanks rarely get cover saves unless they're in squadrons due to their size. Getting those two extra heavy bolters is actually more useful standing still than the camo netting (that would require me moving into cover) as I get to shoot with them. I gave it to the sentinel as it gains cover far more easily.

The command squads are chunky, but oh so much fun. We'll see how it goes.

[Leudast1215]

Now that pretty much everything IG fields can come in squadrons... I think you could get very creative with the rules.

For example, deploy your sentinels inside of a tank squadron and so long as your Sentinels gun barrels are pointed in the right direction = instant cover save for your Sentinels (tanks are big) and none for your opponent (due to the tanks at least).

Furthermore, throwing out a beefy tank like a Demolisher then hiding a vehicle squadron of other tanks behind it with the nearest tank (to the opponent) hiding behind it in the direction most likely to be shot from will net your vehicle squadron a 3+ cover save due to the closet vehicle in the squadron's front being mostly if not entire obscured by the tank in front of it that's not part of the squadron since when you shoot a squadron everything is determined by the facing of the closest vehicle.

I think it's for crafty vehicle squadron maneuvers like this that the 3+ cover save for tanks was really designed for.