How to Start an Astra Militarum Army in 10th Edition - Collecting Imperial Guard in Warhammer 40K!

Let's talk through an overview of collecting Imperial Guard in Warhammer 40K 10th edition...

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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

[stripeybag]

Option 1: Learn to Survive without food
Option 2: Take out Mortgage
Option 3: Organ Selling (Your organs optional)
Option 4: All the Above

[Spooktical]

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.

[TheTrueLeafless]

The easy answer: Don't. Your bank account will break before the guard will

[MrMilitarum]

Watching this with my 5000 points of guard wondering where i shouldve started

[Bluecho]

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.

[Sidertrune]

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

[Rexir]

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!

[SeriousBusiness]

"That's why the Guard always wins, we're expendable. One trooper for three post-human adversaries? That's victory" - Oan Mkoll

[chaosheaven]

Amazing, the loyalty and friendship kindled from the Guard community. You guys always seem like you're having a blast collecting and playing!

[danielmartinezmartinez]

I will be interested in a video about how to stop collecting an astra militarum army

[Dirt]

I couldn’t resister going for Solar Auxilia. I love the look and the updated tank proportions.

[NornQueenKya]

Buy as many leman russes as you can. Then realize no store will ever have enough leman russes to satisfy you

[TuShan]

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.

[Crunch]

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.

[pez]

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!

[PitFriend]

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.

[chrisgoodier]

4:01 missed opportunity to shout ‘IT IS THE BANEBLADE!’

[peterallen]

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!

[Agent_doofus]

Been playing 40K for roughly 8 months, guard was my starting army and I’m kinda glad I started somewhat decent, a lot of people at my local shop were actually surprised to see that I had a decently balanced army for a newbie when I was just like “this thing looks sick, and it fits my army theme”

[Hardcover_Pilot]

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