What's everyone's favourite regiment? For me, it's Savlar Chem Dogs and penal legions in general.
Blood pact is the only one that matters.
My entire personality was destroyed by this
>>97751262Bruh they were always cadian variants?
>>97751247I'm basic. I like the good ol' Deathkorp.Though, if I had the option, I'd choose a bunch of Frenchmen instead.
>>97751338Overrated Reddit faggot pick
>>97751360Have you learned to let go and have fun yet, anon?
>>97751247I'm also quite partial to some good old Chem Dogs. But if we talking my actual favourite, the 13th Legion Colonel Schaffers Last Chancers. Even managed to find the three old books, havent found a copy of Armageddon Saint anywhere yet though
>>97751370You killed steel legion
>>97751418Games Workshop did. No one forced their hand.
>>97751427Nah you vraks Krieg shovel fag meme lords did
I swear guard fags are hipsters. Krieg are too popular now so you cry over dumb shit.They got updated but then all the guard fags wanna look cool for knowing something obscure and I’m sure whenever steel legion are updated you’ll change your personality to the woad warriors
>>97751262For Super Terra.
>>97751432Sorry that your favorite corpo isn't pumping out your particular brand of uninspired slop into your trough.
I like the cadians with grey camo and red paldrons. Urban warfare regiment
>tfw we will never get new tallarn modelsYou'd think with the DUNC films some space arabs would be all the rage.
>>97751338I want the faggiest, most-snobbish, chain smoking commissar possible.
>>97751472Do you prefer them as a "british tankers going full native" or as a distinctly Arabic unit? I've seen people usually portray them as one or the other.
>>97751247The Patrian Fists of Lagar for having the honor of first mentioning Kroot in 40k.
>What?, Orks?, no Orks here ol' boy, be a good lad get your chin up and pop the kettle on
>>97751534Full Arab with British commissars is best IMO. TE Lawrence and his merry band of guardsmen.
>>97751247Traitor Guard in general
>>97751247Vostroyan Firstborn feel like the essence of 40k to me
>>97751247Guardfags are smelly and should just go play historicals tbqh
>>97751838Imperial age Russians in Spaaace!
>>97751247The one I'm making that comes from a dead Knight world
>>97752042>Imperial age Russians in Spaaace!>CossacksThat...is a matter of contention.Actually, come to think of it, is there an army that is indisputably Russian?
>>97751658Are the commissars off-worlders or something?
>>97752368Yes? schola progenium is where Commissars are trained. you know the british boarding schools in space
>>97752368Commissars are usually Schola Progenium students, so they’re probably off-worlders by default.
>>97752368Yeah, commissars are meant to be dissociated from petty politics of the regiment so them being from a different world would make the most sense
>>97751534What would the differences be?
>>97752353Would the Valhallans count?
>>97752389>>97752419>>97752429Huh, I've always assumed they tried to source orphans from the worlds the regiment hailed from to maintain a level of cultural cohesion. Hence, why they seem to wear the various trappings of the unit they associate with.
>>97752530Probably. They usually have russian names. Kind of a generic Winter War participant mashup. Could easily be finns.
>>97752498I guess, strictly by appearance, the ratio of British millitary accouterments to Arabian tribal finery and just how swarthy your dudes are.
Vostroyans. Only regiment I ever liked.
>>97752603Exact opposite of what you want from a political officer, their job is to enforce loyalty to the central power. If the unit's local interests start to conflict with the central power's interests, they have to squash that, and they will do so much less effectively if they share those local interests.
>>97751262Maybe slap grav-chutes on Kasrkin models?
Armageddon Ork Hunters--the most badass response to staring annihilation in the face
I always thought valhallans and steel legion were the coolest. The limited edition british ones were pretty rad also. Never collected guard though, but the more variety of umies to fight the better.
The last surviving Steel Legion guardsman.
>>97751338why are they from cocaine?
>>97751534Blond circassians exiled into the desert, like what the Turks thought lawrence was when they captured him in the movie.
>>97752603There’s a chance that a newly-minted Commissar might get assigned to the same regiment their parents fought in, but the Schola has a homogenizing effect that would separate them. A political officer is supposed to enforce loyalty to the powers above, and being too emotionally/culturally attached to their unit could compromise that. They may adopt the trappings of their unit and participate in some of their traditions as a way to push the message and maintain morale, but ideological purity overrides unit culture.
>>97754271It's named after a mythical land that is meant to represent the opposite of a peasant's grim existence. We can only assume this is meant to be ironic.
>>97752625>Could easily be finns.Nah, the Valhallans are 110% WWII-era Soviets In Space. Their named character is a guy called Chenkov who specialises in callous human wave tactics and the Valhallans' defining moment as a society was that one time Orks invaded and turned the whole planet into underground frozen Stalingrad for a while. Pic related are GW studio miniatures and you can see the Sentinel appears to have a Cyrillic letter on the front of it, and the skulls on the trooper's hats have all been painted red.
>>97758594I'm convinced.
>>97751247The Serican Bushmen sound fun in theory. A bunch of rough riding Australians rangers could be cool.
>>97751247Personally? Feudal themed guard. Bretonian infantry in space with knights as officers is a really cool aesthetic. I have the pieces to kitbash a squad of them to play as Kriegers on kt, but at this pace I'll probably just make them because of love for the hobby and not for playingof the existing, canon regiments? I think Mordians look really good
>>97752530Valhallans are more like entire Northern Europe in space, but the planet of Valhalla is undoubtedly space Stalingrad
>>97751247I know this is not exactly the question but I would love to have some "feudal" guardsman. I know there is already a lot of medieval stuff in 40k but I really like the dichotomy between high tech and low born peasants. See image for my attempt.
>>97764872Oups missed your post. Yeah me too, and I mostly did your idea using Krieg arms. I did start with 3D printed guns but it was very fiddly to attach them to the guys properly, especially when trying to get them to hold them with two hands. So for the second batch (left in previous image and those in the attached image) I just cut the mail past the should and glue the Krieg arms.I especially like the original bright colours with each squad/group coming from a different duchy/kingdom/...
>>97751338Based Qsy enjoyer
>>97751247for me it's the death korps of kriegI like the minis and I like Steve Lyons' bookslop
>>97751838https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgh43VUqrv8Objectively fucking supurb.
>>97767804As much as they are a reddit meme faction, I have to agree that they are peak in terms of design and their rough lore about willingly giving themselves up for the war effort to an appalling extent, when they don't actually have to, and the Imperium just letting them because it's useful.Personally I'd prefer if they leant more into the WW1 French side of their design inspo than the Angsty German side of things though. Makes it more tragic instead of just funny meme gasmask noises.
>>97751247Maccabian Janissaries. I really like their masks
>>97768747I forgot the pic
>>97751534One of them niggas is named "Al Rahem," they're ay-rabs. It's a very British form of cope to be like, "Mate they're actually One Million Lawrences of Arabia"I haven't gotten around to the Tallarn book in the HH series but I always wondered how it portrayed their culture
>>97754246No he is not. I refuse to accept this.
>>97754246next patch will retcon him into being former Mordian Iron Guard instead since stool legion aren't canon anymore and weren't even that cool to begin with
>>97768833Wasn't there planet lush during the great crusade? The idea of a bunch of honkies who've adapted to the desert sort of fits.
>>97764872I had a character in dark heresy once who I played as a feudal guardsman and I've been meaning to make the whole regiment with the only war rules, he rolled around with a lasgun-halberd combi weapon. I wish the kill team scene around me was more active because that would give me an excuse to actually model some of them
>>97768613>Makes it more tragic instead of just funny meme gasmask noises.That does kind of sound like you're letting internet memery cloud your perception of the actual thing there.
>>97768833I think you are underestimating how big a part of British pulp comic and historical culture in general Lawrence of Arabia, the Long Range Desert Group and the Desert Rats were.Wearing full Arab garb was a Lawrence (and other Arab Revolt Liaison) thing but the LRDG and SAS wearing at least some especially shemags is well known.Everything about the Tallarn tactically comes from the WW2 British doctrine in North Africa.
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>>97773249aztec imperial guard and samurai imperial guard need real lore
>>97752625>Could easily be finnsFinns are a statistical anomaly and do not exist anon>>97758594Valhallans are pretty neat
>>97773257>Roman themed guys>Home World: RemusYou have no idea how much I love this trope
Are there any wild west war games with cowboy hatted heads and legs with chaps to kitbash into an IG homebrew?
>>97754246makes sense in lore, he got time shifted in a warp storm. thats why hes the last left
>Steel Legion confirmed lmao GW just sent those redditors calling them "glubo shitto" fucking flying
>ctrl+f Elysian>0 (zero) foundSHAMECatachans and Steel Legion also cool.
>>97751247Whatever isn't the feminized rubbish that GW are putting out now. Probably Vostroyan Firstborn though.
>>97751418GW just said they're coming back, might be a while though I reckon it was because of the push back and they don't have anything ready.
My favorite imperial guardsmen are my tables and chairs.
>>97776431The concept art they showed off is dated 2025, probably fairly late 2025 given how rough it is but still it's odd that GW didn't anticipate that people would be upset about Yarrick and Armageddon without any Steel Legion presence at all and polish something up to use as a teaser.
>>97751436>They got ruined by a faggy redesign and infested by HURDURRSHUVELMEMEH faggotsFTFY. There are plenty of perfectly valid reasons an oldschool Kriegfag might be less enthused by them these days.
>>97773213Don't bother anon, none of these Astra Militarum ponces know anything about the real Guard and the history loving nerds that created them. All they've ever known is the sanitised corposlop version of Generic Sci Fi Soldier the Guard were reduced to after GW banished the treadheads to Forgeworld and then eliminated that department.
>>97777874>Far leftI honestly thought he was equipped with a baseball bat there for a second.
>>97777874They will change the iconic Fallshirmjager helmets then.. and if they do that, why even bother with the Steellegion at all?
>>97778493Given how different the four designs are I don't think GW has actually settled on a new look yet. Hopefully they go with the guy second from the left, he looks the most like an updated version of the existing models without changing everything for changing everything's sake as modern GW has an annoying habit of doing.
>>97752353>That...is a matter of contention.Not really.Ukraine autism aside, cossacks weren't limited to it. There were caucasian, Ural, Siberian and Amur ones off the top of my head. Besides I think Vostroyans are way more inspired by streltsy.Ones I get more 3d printer up and running I wanna try some gree, or maybe even black or white mordians to get that late empire-white movent inspired guardAlso valhallans are definetly soviets
>>97752353>is there an army that is indisputably Russian?Valhallans obviously.
>>97778649>Given how different the four designs are I don't think GW has actually settled on a new look yet.Given that non is the iconic helmet, i think its save to assume they already decided to not take that particular one.
I like the planetary defence forces, even if they’re not technically Guardsmen.
>>97751534Make them irish and give them a special detatchment that lets em bring their Biel-Tan frens
>>97751247I like the Jopall Indentured Squadrons. Their colour scheme isn't great but the debt premise is a fun setup and I like how it encourages ingenuity.
>>97773249For me its honus squad
>>97751247My favourite regiment would have to be the Terrax Guard. Really like that the vast majority of the regiment is composed of commissars.
>>97764872>>97765809>>97772455I love these sort of regiments as well, I find it fascinating but also very funny of the concept of feudal world guardsmen going up against more advanced enemies with nothing more than primitive lasguns, swords and halberds And all the while the leadership of these regiments are a bunch of pompous high born noblemen knights who refuse to work alongside you on the battlefield or listen to your advice because your a dirty peasant who came up from the ranks he doesn't care your the general that requested reinforcements, not a true gentleman you are before riding off on their horses to fight some mechanized foe with outdated tactics and makes me wish we saw more of this shit in 40k than just cadians, catachans and kriegsmen
>>97777874No german gelmet, no steel legion. >>97768613The new models butchered the original design, they were unable to understand how the foot bands should look. Also originally they didn't had the retarded I want to die unles the comisar stops me meme Modern 40k is a parody of a parody of a parody from people that tries to copy but doesn't get it, and ends up putting memes on it.
>>97781964>No german gelmet, no steel legion. The metal model design less of a German helmet and more just a Paratrooper Helmet. Brits and Italians used a similar design to the Fallschrimjaeger helmet.
>>97776328Aren't Elysian a joke regiment to make fun of modern tactics when thrown into 40k bullshit?
>>97782072Drawing that sort of parallels would be a bridge too far.
For me it's gotta be Tanith, straight silver!
>>97782089clever.
>>97782030That's true, but does not make the above statement false.. it's not really the steel legion if they don't have their iconic helmet.
>>97779059>>97778481>>97777874Give guard chuds an inch they take a mile covered in mud
>>97782030NTA but it's definitely supposed to be a German helmet; the German one has a distinctive curved lip around the rim which is only very subtle on the models (but it is there), but is very clearly visible in the artwork that was released around the same time as the models.
>>97781677>no 40k caracole with a bunch of guys on horseback armed with meltaguns wheeling up to a titan and pulling triggers until a leg falls off
>>97751247My dudes. I call them the new haven scavengers. They live out of a space hulk currently under the the command of the subsector government somewhere in imperium nihilus. They operate more like renegades than proper imperial regiments but you do whats necessary to survive. The remaining local worlds hate them because they can and do just draft anything that can hold a gun. Men, women, children, the elderly, adhumans, even mutants as long as they don't have any visible chaos markets. Doesn't matter.
>>97783192>the German one has a distinctive curved lip around the rim which is only very subtle on the models (but it is there), but is very clearly visible in the artwork that was released around the same time as the models.British Helmets have it too. What Steel Legion and the British Helmets don't have and the Falschrimjager do have is a small cut out for the eyes, like a smaller version of the feature on the Stahlhelm. The goggles Steel Legion wear might be inspired by Newbold type goggles from WW1 and 2, but a lot gets lost in translation when made into hand sculpted 28mm metal miniatures. https://www.militarysunhelmets.com/2015/a-famous-goggle-type
>>97784411The colored symbol on the helmet is either meant to look like the colored symbols on German Helmets (Heer was Red White and Black, SS was Black and White with the lightning bolt runes)https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Duitse_militaire_Stahlhelm_M.35,_grijsgroen_met_rijkswapen,_leren_binnenhelm_en_kinriem_met_gesp_050551.JPGhttps://www.gettysburgmuseumofhistory.com/gettysburg-battle/world-war-ii-militaria/original-wwii-german-waffen-ss-m-35-double-decal-combat-helmet-relic-recovered-on-the-eastern-front-certified/ or the tactical recognition flashes found on British helmets. http://www.lightbobs.com/steel-helmets.htmlhttps://www.csmilitaria.co.uk/shop.php?code=12705https://www.warrelics.eu/forum/helmets/ww2-british-commonwealth-helmet-markings-badges-669121-4/Could be both too of course.
>>97784503The gorget of the Steel Legion officer is 100% German, WW2 feldgendarmerie (Military police) wore it. They even both have an eagle on it.
>>97784594He also has an SS officer looking dagger, that you can see a smidge of in the left picture as well.
>>97782072They do well, just they all die anyways. Though tbf Imperials always get shat on in the Imperial Armour books ironically enough
>>97784608Ye The folding stock the lasguns have is either MP 40 or AK inspired. I'm sure other guns have a similar folding stock but I can't recall them right now. >AKMS with a stamped Type 4B receiver
>>97784652same kind of AK with the stock folded
>>97784411The flared edge on the fallschirmjäger helmet is significantly more prominent than the British one when you put them side by side at the same angle, and every British paratrooper helmet I've seen has that prominent ridge around the rim which isn't present on the fallschirmjäger or Steel Legion helmet. To my eye the Steel Legion one looks like it was intended to resemble a cut out-less fallschirmjäger helmet.
>>97784703>he says, as he completely forgets to attach the image he's referring to
>>97784703>To my eye the Steel Legion one looks like it was intended to resemble a cut out-less fallschirmjäger helmetIf it was meant to look like a fallschrimjager helmet they would have included that cut in the art then, wouldn't they? WW2 Commonwealth Motorcycle Dispatch Riders frequently have a similar style of helmet and goggles of the Steel Legion too, and these two are wearing similar style of gloves too.
>>97784776Virtually nothing about the Steel Legion design (and the Imperial Guard in general, or any of the other stuff in 40k based on historical references) is an exact 1:1 copy of the real-world thing it's inspired by. Take the gorget for example, it's very obviously closely based on the bit of bling the Germans wore but the specifics are different - it's a different shape, it doesn't have writing on it, it's got a leather strap instead of a chain, so on and so forth. Deciding that they want to make a vaguely German uniform using paratrooper helmets (presumably because they're more subtle than stahlhelms) but deciding that they don't want the cut out for whatever reason is absolutely something that the designers would do.
>>97751472I get that feel broWe will never get new Praetorians and tales of their exploits in nig...ehh Ork decimation, especially now with everything british beign demonised by the media
>>97751247Mordians or Vostroyans but also Traitor Guard. Wish we'd actually get a proper Lost and the Damned army instead of having marines be the entirety of chaos.
>>97751247Tallarn. They're a bit cringe lore-wise, but I love the aesthetic.
>>97751472I think one of the biggest obstacles to getting new variant regiment models is that modern GW seems to believe that every subfaction release needs to be capable of being a full army with unique units instead of just releasing cosmetic variations of the same unit. GW used to be comfortable with doing exactly that when it came to the Guard range, all those different regimental models were all completely interchangeable rules-wise and all represented the same set of units from the codex and maybe you had some army special rules you could use depending on the edition you happened to be playing in (also shoutout to Catachan as they actually did have their own book at one point).You only need three basic kits to make an entire regimental variant Guard army: the infantry squad, the command squad, and the heavy weapons squad. Everything else can be kitbashed from that core handful of boxes no problem at all. But somebody at GW would probably go "oh no you can't possibly have two different kits for the same unit" even though they're a big company with huge production capacity and given your typical Guard player's autism they could probably do that set of kits for three regiments and turn a profit on all of them.
>>97751247My favorite are the Italians, I like to think they are constantly sent to worlds where their very specific skillset is useless.
>>97751360Your in a guardsman thread. Everyone is a faggot. Anyways it's only hated because of shitty memes. Grow up and use free thinking instead of the normie hate mob
>>97751247Chaos Guards. Wish they had more than some Chaos Marine unit but also Krieg. It's what got me into 40k like 5 years ago>>97751767Nice
>>97765763what did you do to my victrix late saxons boy?
>>97751436Idk why people can't just like stuff that's good>Hate cadia>Like Armageddon>Like krieg>Personal favorite is vostrayaDont even @ me with your negative vibes
>>97781677I have no proof but I'm pretty sure the origin is "some bs planet so you can readily convert your minis from another game, into a 40k ready regiment
>>97785098I can see it now >Sir we need a mountaineering regiment>Let's just deploy subterranean drill units>Catachans>Or elysians since they can just clear the mountain in a jump
>>97789666Not exactly, Satan. Feudal worlds are already mentioned as far as 2e, as in these pics >>97773249 >>97773257; you can even see two Roman themed. the ones from Remus and Tachoman.But yes, your assesment is partially true; back then GW wasn't so focused on milking their fans with overpriced toys and converting shit was encouraged, but I don't it was really cheap to do so back then. There weren't many options beyong GW, even less so plastic models instead of metal. Even using warhammer fantasy minis back then to convert a whole feudal regiment would have been absurdly expensive>>97765763>>97765809nice. are those varangians?I'm converting my guys with plastic imperial state troops and leftovers from the IG box, the old one. my officer is a repurposed bretonian pegasus knight with some bits>>97772455there are lots of feudal guard stls out there. it's a matter of finding some you like, or maybe start converting your dark heresy char and see what happens
>>97789609I like Cadia but i never got the hype, Krieg will always have a spot in my heart>>97789666>some bs planet so you can readily convert your minis from another game, into a 40k ready regimentI love this concept so much
>>97773257>Amerigo Secundus: Wolverine Regimentheh
>>97773273I always wanted cowboy guard
>>97789761ThanksNo those are Late Saxon from Victrix (like >>97789596 guessed).Those are quite nice to do conversion as they're not very expensive and have a lot of bits/options.They are slightly smaller (like original 28mm rather than GW's heroic) and it can be a bit finicky if you cant to use their original arms, you will have to do some cutting and green stuffing. I found that simply cutting vertically at the shoulder and using guards' arms works great.
>>97751838This, my favourite regime. And sadly it seems reprinters are dwinling and they will never get a proper relaunch of new set. I am happy for steel legion boys if they get one since I though those boys were good too. But Vostoyan forever
>>97779391What would a regiment of the fighting Irish of Planet Dannyboy even look like. >Powerknucks?>Ordinance Crews?>Pugilists>Light Infantry xPotatoe?
>>97780040I really like the Phyruss regiment.
>>97751436I still like Krieg, they've always been my favorite of the stock Guard guys. I lke Mordians because the uniforms are cooler and I'm not going to have to worry about them ever getting ruined because they look too cool for GW to ever give them their own line.
>>97773257Oh, English Civil War reference, I recognize that helmet from the Osprey book.
>>97751247>What's everyone's favourite regiment?Idk ask /40kg/.
>>97773249>Lucky 13', all wear tall hats>Take severe losses in battle of "low corridor"Watch out for those low ceilings, lads
Love me some ValhallanI refuse to start another Guard army till they get back in the rangeMight take a long while still
