How to Start an Astra Militarum Army in 10th Edition - Collecting Imperial Guard in Warhammer 40K!
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- Опубликовано: 4 авг 2024
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0:00 Intro
0:43 Why Collect Guard?
6:38 Planning an Army
9:51 Regiments + Paint
13:09 Combat Patrol Astra Militarum
15:41 Buying Warhammer Miniatures
17:31 Other Guard Options
20:08 Units to Expand the Army?
23:38 Rules in Game
27:02 Example Army List
29:13 Outro 
Игры
Watching this with my 5000 points of guard wondering where i shouldve started
As much as there is to love about the Guard, I have to say the thing I love the most is the community this faction gets. Not many factions have as much comraderie and content creators as IG does.
Gotta be a coin toss between guard and orks for the best, custodes easily the worst
@@bowler9785As a Guard main and Custodes secondary, can confirm. Hell of a culture shock when I walked into their side of the house.
@@theshamurai32 - I knew about IG and Orks (Ork player here), but not about Custodes. Theories as to why the players of the golden boys are the way they are? I thought Valrak was a Custodes player at one point, and there is not an atom of bitterness in that man's body.
As a Guard main and Ork secondary, can 100% confirm! We have the best (fun and camaraderie) factions! May our big guns never tire, and there always be another Waaaaggghh! 💪🫡
@@andrewbakescakes9684As a custodes player myself, it's because custodes are by-design more competitive of an army, and as such attract a ton of hyper competitive people. The custodes feel like they need to be trying to win, or else they're going to be wiped off the board, especially now that their durability has disappeared outside of their raw datasheets
Option 1: Learn to Survive without food
Option 2: Take out Mortgage
Option 3: Organ Selling (Your organs optional)
Option 4: All the Above
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Why go through all that hassle?
...just read this manual and perform the ritu... process of summoning the gear you require.
The dark gods answer your prayers. If that corpse on the throne cared for you like grandfather Nurgle does, he would not make you suffer so. jOiN uS
There is one really cool thing about the current leman russ kit, you get two turrets per kit, so you don't have to stress about which main gun to choose as hard
Just started an IG army and yep a second turret was a nice surprise. However, where is my hunter killer missile and heavy stubbers!?
@@DaGoookvehicle upgrade sprue $15 usd on its own or in the chimera kit
@@DaGoookI get annoyed that the different vehicles either do or do not come with a hunter killer. And even if they do, they're different types of missiles for different vehicles.
I get an accessory sprue with each tank so all my stubbers and HKMs match. I also put the track armor on every tank too. I like the chunky look.
@@kenupton4084 I hear you on making everything uniform. The extra hit to the wallet is unfortunate though.
And you can kitbash the extra upper hull into something else. I made a chaos hulk with legs instead of treads for my traitor guard.
The easy answer: Don't. Your bank account will break before the guard will
I, their biggest advocate, cannot go any discussion on starting a Guard army without singing the praises of Wargames Atlantic. If you want 3rd party Guard minis, accept no substitute. Cheap, hard plastic, high model-per-box ratio, and with generally most of the special weapons you could want. (Though this depends greatly on which kit you buy). And they cover all the defunct Guard regiments GW only sells rarely, at a huge markup.
If you're starting a Guard army, I highly recommend their 3 or even 5 box deals, as they grant graduating discounts (not to mention free shipping). With their "The Damned" line coming after a successful crowdfunding campaign, the unit options are about to expand dramatically. They're even modifying their original designs for a troop transport, to bring it more in line with the GW Chimera. So you can soon buy, not only the troops, but the vehicle to drive them in.
Wow! Thanks for that recommendation. I've been looking around on etsy for a bit now. Wargames Atlantic takes the cake.
Are they resin or plastic
Plastic usually ive collected their les grognards and they are amazing
I’ve put in some money for their Damned army that should be coming out soon for a chaos guard themed army. Their stuff is super cheap compared to GW and it still looks great.
Not to be dramatic but I would die for the Bulldogs.
"That's why the Guard always wins, we're expendable. One trooper for three post-human adversaries? That's victory" - Oan Mkoll
I will be interested in a video about how to stop collecting an astra militarum army
He who doesnt sleep strikes again
I couldn’t resister going for Solar Auxilia. I love the look and the updated tank proportions.
For official GW minis, I'd recommend 30k's Solar Auxilia for Infantry Squads; 20 bodies for $75 is the best price per points as far as infantry goes.
Leman Russ tanks are next, as you get a solid vehicle for both its price and points. One or two can be converted to Tank Commanders for easy characters to lead your primary damage dealers!
Ironically, the nerfs to artillery make getting Basilisks and Manticores great value to fill an army's points total. I'd recommend one unit per 1000 points to not overly irritate your local playerbase.
For infantry characters, I'd start with Ursala Creed and a Platoon Command Squad. This gets 3-4 orders where you'd want/need them.
For newer players, I do NOT recommend Sentinels, as they are very expensive for how many points they're worth; you need 3 kits to maximize a single squadron!
Step 1: Buy a 3D printer.
Its not joke... Konversions of some Vehicles looks great.
Step 2: buy/3d print every special characters in the codex.
Great creators for this are The Makers Cult (I have a while Kreig type army of their guys) Station Forge or ThatEvilOne. These have some of the best models for this range. ThatEvilOne has some really badass guys and unique in the space.
@@yagsipcc287 You may also want to check out Factorum Labs. Mordian glory has his malcador proxy and it looks amazing.
@yagsipcc287 Gonna add Rund's Guard to the shout out. Great STLs, especially for vehicles. I always get comments on my Hellhounds ("Fury" in their catalog IIRC)
4:01 missed opportunity to shout ‘IT IS THE BANEBLADE!’
I'd have gone with "Ready to unleash 11 barrels of hell!"
Buy as many leman russes as you can. Then realize no store will ever have enough leman russes to satisfy you
Pity the Guardsmen🔥
"He holds the line.
He has held the line for ten thousand years."
Amazing, the loyalty and friendship kindled from the Guard community. You guys always seem like you're having a blast collecting and playing!
Nice video to start my work day!
This video is perfect I am literally in the process of building a list for the guard, it’s like you have seen my mind!
I just dived in head first to Guard after getting a massive bonus and some extra overtime.
Guard combat patrol, heavy weapon squad, 1 Kasrkin box, and Guilliman plus some enhancements is 995 points.
All I’ll need to hit 2,000 is to buy Lord Solar, a Krieg kill team, and a Baneblade, since I already own Canis Rex and a Voidsmen squad.
Not that many purchases to have a seemingly fairly balanced list.
Guilliman just casually watching as a Greater Demon of Khorne gets a Taxi sized hole through it by the bane blade
I definitely appreciate this guide, this will help me start my Krieg force down the line
Buy a 3D printer,
buy various Krieg STLs.
Print a 252 model pure infantry army, using Krieg as proxys for other units.
Im 170+ done so far.
Perfect timing. I just started collecting guard the day before yesterday.
To anyone curious about using auxilia as guardsmen, you’ll need to go in with the intent to convert. The heresy weapon upgrade sprue fits them well, but it will require some cutting to get them to fit. It’s not the worst thing ever, but it’s the best option to get some plasma and melta. It’s a ton of fun, but not for everyone.
As for other units, the heavy sentinel is the same height as the 40k one, if a bit chunkier. but you’ll need to buy a smaller base. It fits the base well. Carnadons and auroxes are basically the same size as a rhino, so comparable to a chimera. They could be fun chimera and hellhound stand ins. The basilisk uses the leman russ chassis, but it’s not much bigger than the chimera basilisk. Ogryns are huge and require smaller bases, but they fit them well. Not so bad. Rapiers can fit into the base size of heavy weapons teams if you’d like to use them for that.
Malcadors are not comparable to the rogal dorn. If you want a Malcador, you need to use it as such. The dracosan has no 40k rules, but maybe you can say it’s a Malcador defender if you feel like it.
The one thing I do like about the Field Ordnance Batteries over a Basilisk is that you can give them Orders from any Officer, you don’t need a Tank Commander or the Lord Solar to do it since they’re a Regiment unit. So you can save those rarer vehicle orders for the tanks and still have orders for the artillery.
Guardsmen never die!
In all seriousness, Guard have been my one true love since I started playing in 4th Edition (~2004), although I have enjoyed playing and collecting many others as well (GSC, Sisters, and Votann rank among my other favorites). I've actually been working on a feudal Guard force (the re-released Bretonnians are the basis for my non-vehicle conversions) from a planet called Yore that the Imperium decided needed to rapidly industrialize in order to aid in the war effort in their sector, but the change has happened so abruptly and so recently that although the technology available to them has effectively leapt ahead over a thousand years overnight (dirt hovels to trailer homes, crossbows to lasguns, mules to tractors, peasant farming to sweatshop factories, you get the gist), the underlying social structure has remained essentially unchanged.
One of the consequences of this is that Yoric knights, apart from some stubborn traditionalist holdouts, fight from battle tanks instead of horseback, brightly painted in their livery with their heraldry displayed proudly for all to see, banners flying from the turrets as they lead devastating mechanized cavalry charges against their enemies (It's kind of like a 40K take on "A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court" by Mark Twain).
Anyway, the list I'm building is thus:
Questing Knights of Yore
2000 point Combined Arms Detachment
Characters
Commissar (the out-of-place Imperial official)
Gaunt's Ghosts (highwaymen and bandits used for skirmishing)
Lord Solar Leontus (because of course there's gotta be at least one guy on a horse)
Platoon Command Squad (because someone's got to lead the poor bloody infantry)
Tank Commander with Demolisher Cannon and Grand Strategist (drive me closer, I want to hit them with my sword!)
Tank Commander with Demolisher Cannon (because that five point difference gets you *so* much...)
Battleline
3x 10-strong Catachan Jungle Fighters (no one's gonna trust a bunch of illiterate peasants with anything more complex than a flamer)
Mounted
10-strong Atillan Rough Riders (you didn't think that horsey boy was gonna be the only knight on horseback, did you?)
Vehicles
2x Leman Russ Battle Tanks (good all-around tanks at reasonable prices)
Leman Russ Demolisher (yes, it could've been a third Tank Commander, but I already have more characters than is probably safe to bring)
Leman Russ Exterminator (the ability to give my entire army an AP buff against a single target is way too good to pass up)
Rogal Dorn with Oppressor and Pulverizer Cannons (the final argument of kings)
I'm painting up the Dorn and the infantry for a contest over at Play On Tabletop, and it's been a lot of fun. I can't wait to do the rest!
Update us dude, this all sounds cool as hell.
Wargames Atlantic for the infantry and Calvary.
3D printing sellers on eBay and Etsy for the tanks and artillery.
Honestly, right now I cannot advise _anyone_ to start collecting Guard in any meta sense, because during 10th edition GW has been churning the index so thoroughly that almost nothing that was played early on is played now (and the meta still has to settle after the _latest_ overnerfing of meta pieces for no real reason, as well). If you like the models, good! If you want to start from a meta standpoint, I think only Leontus is safe (and the more he is used because he is the only good OFFICER in the index, the less likely that becomes as well).
"for no reason"
Look at the top 5/6 Guard wins in the past 2 months. Every single one contained the same 4 units and had 2-3 of each: Manticore, Basilisk, Kasrkin, Bullgryns. Literally 2/3 Manticore and basilisk per list. There's not enough variety of food Guard lists winning. I'd love to see an all infantry list, or mechanized list, or tank company, make it to the top and do well. Not just shock trooper artillery spam
@@dominicl5862 "For no reason" because Guard wasn't smashing tournaments left and right: they had seven wins in GT+ events in the whole run after the last meta shakeup, and all those wins were in the hands of players of _absurd_ skill (as a matter of fact, five of those were concentrated into a minuscule slice of the world top rankings - the top 0.5% of ELO score players).
And this tracked, because not only the total winrate was pretty bad, but peer-vs-peer was pretty bad as well, with _Admech_ (!!!) doing better in basically all categories.
So yeah, for no reason. They could have buffed the nonperforming lists without slamming a 170-points increase on the top-performing lists, or at least they could have provided significant buffs to go with those. Instead they did neither.
this is perfect
Did somebody call for an EARTHSHAKER!?
I just started an Imperial Guard!!
Then GW drops the price increase news!! Whoopee!
Would really appreciate a video focused on collecting guard regiments other than Cadians. It’s difficult especially for newer players to properly collect Catachans or some of the older metal regiments.
I think one thing that would be good tk touch on is the value that the blooded kit offers for guard players running a more chaos aesthetic, it gives you a squad of guys (with enough wargear to be standard infantry or ran as dkok datasheet, as well as an officer, if you rebase it, and a bullgryn, with 3 boxes thats a free squad there)
Can you make the same for Iron Warriors? It also would be great to show examples of army lists for 750 - 1000 - 1500 points
The new recruit app is a very solid way of putting an army list together and trying some stuff out.
I really really hope that the Krieg subfaction gets the same treatment as the kroot one. We need platic weapon teams, plastic HQ, plastic riders and plastic grenadiers. Bonus points if we get monopose 20man squads like the Solar auxilia. I would be happy to buy all that.
My current guard army has tons of solar auxilia units since they look cool, can pull double duty for Heresy 2.0 and are a cheaper than buying tempestus scions.
23:50 Index Astra Militarum Sons! Yes, Cadians with warpfire flamer incoming
for anyone new new: new leman russ kits just came out for horus heresy, see if you can find 3 of the old models for cheap through the community
Step 1 - get a 3d printer 😁
Instead of making more Space Marine combat patrol and battleforce boxes, how about making more than just one Guard discount box available at any given time.
i got 560 imperial guard infantry, been casually painting them for 10 years. might get them done before i die. if you join guard you've gotta be in it for the long haul.
When i want to focus on Cadians is it still cheaper to look for 3rdparty alternatives, like for other regiments, or should i just buy them from my local gamingstore? (33 Euros per 10 man squad)
Funny thing about the sentinel is that you can leave the weapon unglued and it will pressure fit
Funnily enough I’ve been working on a new guard army, been loving building and painting them. Just need to get hold of 3 russ tanks and a squad of scions to finish them off!
Ebay and etsy are your friend for 3D printed goodness. I paid £22 for my Russ and £27 for my Dorn and I couldn't be happier
@@bowler9785 been searching them on eBay, nothing has met my needs yet but I keep an eye on it
I only came here to see if he would mention Mordian Glory and Auspecs did not disappoint
Perfect video to start a Traitor Guard army
Also recommend looking into CSM cultist spam. Converted a ton of spare failed Cadians from when I was learning to paint into Nurglite Traitor Guard and running them in the CSM format is a fun change of pace. You do need a hell of a lot of then though.
Frankly the plastic for the gun can sit on pretty tight so I wouldn't worry about magnetizing.
On the topic of horus heresy leman russ if you buy it then one 40k russ you have enough sponsons for both from the 40k box.
I had the kickass idea of using clone troopers as proxies but idk how the hell I'd incorporate the AT-TE
Just got back into the hobby last week what timing I was just thinking about what to buy next
No this. Army is super expensive
@@mattyorshin yeah I’m aware haha but I don’t have time for table top I just pick up kits and paint till it’s done then get the next. So even after so many years I prolly got like 1k points? But in no rush to get to 2k so it’s a healthy collecting/spending habit atm.
@@zec4800 it's a luxury buy anyways
@@mattyorshin 100%
I'm new but is it correct that now Send in the Next wave can be done only once per battle? Doesn't seem right with how guardsmen tactics are in the lore :(
My local store had one of the Christmas boxes for months and the day that I go into buy it, as I’m walking in I see a dude walking out with it. I was so upset
Anyone know how to kitbash a Lucifer Blacks army?
my plan (rule of cool) is:
Characters (Castellans, Commissars, Psykers, Enginseers)
Cadian Command Squad 2x5
Cadian Shock Troops 4x10
Kasrkin 1x10
Heavy Weapons Squad
Field Ordnance Battery
Chimera x2
Basilisk x2
Leman Russ x2
Rogal Dorn
Baneblade
Cadia Stands!
I'm also planning to use the troops as proxies for Scions in an "Inquisitorial Force":
Characters
Scion Command 2x5
Scion Squad 2x10
Ratlings 2x5
Bullgryns 2x3
Taurox x2
Sentinel x2
Valkyrie
Exaction Squad
Inquisitorial Henchmen
Navy Breachers
Cerastus Acheron Knight
I’m planning an Imperial Navy Boarding Corps
1x Cadian Castilian
1x Command Squad
2x 20 Guardsmen (using Solar Auxilia as proxies since they look more like voidmen)
2x3 heavy weapons teams
3x Armored Sentinels with lascannons
3x Scout sentinels with multilas
1xMaurader Destroyer
1x Thunderbolt Fighter
Using some detachment trickery, 5x Imperial Navy breacher teams.
Since you can’t fit tanks inside the narrow halls of an enemy cruiser, I’ve opted to use Imperial Navy aircraft as my anti tank options
My death korps regiment:
A proxy of lord solar leontus (something like a death rider representing colonel Jurten), with 10 DKKoK as a bodyguards
Three 20 DKKoK infantry squads, with each a DKKoK marshall and a command squad with plasma gun, regimental standard and a mortar. One of these squads starts the game on the field, the two others are in reserves.
2 Hades breaching drills to bring the reserves to the field
1 mighty Malcador tank, followed by a regimental enginseer to not loose 250 points in one shooting phase.
1 Cyclops demolition vehicle, the mascot of the regiment really
2 single scout sentinels to recon for the battery of 3 Earthshaker canons.
~80 death Korps infantry models, heavy artillery, subterranean warfare, a heavy tank, the Death Korps of Krieg in all its glory.
3 points of advice as i have a simmilar army.
1. Try to buy sprues/used models. There is a lot for the guard
2. Watch out for the basilisk. The instruction is WRONG! Find the old one on the internet. Tehre should be no holes ont the back and bottom The cannon should be able to move!
3. Magnetize the vehicles. Especially the Leman Russes, as the veriants come and go each edition. That includes the sponsons, not just the gun in them! I tend to leave them at home if i know i play on tight terrain as without them the tank cant fit through more holes and two more plasma guns aint worth it if you cannot see/engage the target.
I own 3k worth, still clicking immediately.
I'll start with the Solar auxilia battle group
The only guard worth building is Krieg. How do I build a Krieg only list, Auspex?
As Mordian Glory would say, "The Emperor's TRUE finest!" 🤣
Hi :D
Here's how I'm breaking down my path to a full 2000 points list, with each list building off the previous one. THESE ARE NOT ARMY LISTS, just what I'm buying at each step.
500 points: Combat Patrol box, Castellan, Scout Sentinel
1000 points: Combat Patrol, Castellan, Rogal Dorn
2000 points: Lord Solar, Ursula Creed, Combat Patrol, Cadian Shock Troops, Heavy Weapons Squad, 2x Leman Russ
So Lord Solar and a Platoon command squad can just be on their own squad together? They dont need a squad of infantry with them? Thanks o.o
No, they do need to be attached to a battleline squad to work together
Death riders plastic, please 🙏.
Three Bane Blades yeah?
The Emperor's True Finest 🫡
first even doe there’s at least 18 prior comments
catachan !
LETS DO HOW TO STSRT DAEMONS NEXT
It feels like Guard can boost the BS/hit on their big tanks far too much to still feel like Guard.
U can buy 3d printed guardsmen with no hazard from 3d printers materials. It will be like 4-5 times cheaper.
Having a large Krieg Army to play any game up to 10k for apocalypse games or a 2k match up, I'm proud not to have anything printed or 3rd party I'm not happy with GW at all for favouring making prices so bad you don't want to go down the official route and get a printer it's sad .
Im a simple man. I see guard. I click.
I don’t care how many feature videos this army gets, I ain’t ever calling them anything aside from the Imperial Guard.
Start NOW cause on 10th of June prices go up 🆙 🆙🆙🆙😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫
Imagine not having spent every spare cent of your entire life collecting fancy army men
Best faction, takes way more skill bro! Also older sculpts were better!
DO NOT GLUE OR MAGNATIZE THE WEAPONS ON THE NEW MODEL SENTINEL, THEY ARE FRICTION FIT.
Step 1, win the lottery
My favorite army I can’t afford
how to start there are two ways.
Get LOTS of TANKS :D
Get LOTS of Guardsmen.
Step 1: Buy Sly Marbo Step 2: win every match
Step 1 Buy a 3d printer resin Step 2 look into SUNLU ABS resin
Wargames atlantic minatures. 100% better and cheaper
Step one: Find out how many mortgages you can get. If it's less than 3, don't bother.
Step 2: Join a Buddah temple. You'll need that level of patience to paint 300k of the same models
Step 3: Bid your friends and family good bye. You'll never see them again until everything is painted
Finally: Rent a U-Haul and become your local hobby store's favorite customer.
Good luck! I hope this helps!
Top tip: start collecting in 2003
how do you start the guard ? 3d printer goes brrrrrrrrr
Step 1: Realize that your rules will always suck. Accept that every battle will be an uphill battle and you will never experience being overpowered, and even “well balanced in context of the entire game” will be a fleeting and extremely rare experience
Step one Rob a Bank
With a 3D printer because fuck GW
Just a quick fix => "Regiments of the Astra Militarum you can actualy buy at GW : Cadian and a bit of Krieg"
Such a shame they abandonned all those cool regiments ... But looks like the priority right now is to have female custodes 😑
Price hikes means you dont.
Step one buy 6 boxes of Bullgryns and enjoy your time building and playing with them as they will be irrelevant in 11th Edition if you are buying an IG army you are going to live a life of being smashed by the meta hammer constantly each edition and your Army relying on a one trick pony wonder unit each edition
3D printer go bbbrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Add a comment...😢
Painting faces... So many faces...
Dont. Come play militia or SA in 30k where you usually get options and treated like a real faction.
*This video was paid for by the Mordian Glory gang
Do not.
Spare you the pain.
I'm worried but Krieg lore being ruined with the new Dex and book.
Step 1:sell kidney
Step 2:sell house
Step 3:sell everything else
Step 4:sell soul to GW
Step 5:realization that you still don't have enough
Step 6:3D printer
First!
Wrong🤷♂️
Get a 3d printer :D
printing faster than i can paint
Just do it
First