I love Russes and can't wait to run them in this edition but they made Basilisks and Manticores so comedically under-costed and well-synergized (see scout sentinels and Born Soldiers) that you are simply impeding yourself not to spam them from a competitive perspective.

Do you know what else "Reinforcements" works on? Sly Marbo. He's the only character in the codex that has the "Regiment" keyword. For 2 CP you can infiltrate him back onto the board on your next turn instead of being destroyed - a neat way to represent his old redeployment ability.

Characters include themselves in aura, so Marbo includes himself in return fire, it also triggers effectively endlessly if played right, and can trigger on overwatch... That you can declare if anyone moves within 12 to engage you, before then can shoot, then move out of the 12 inches.

As someone who routinely makes education videos and has to record for them I am in awe of your ability to put out the sheer volume of content in these few weeks. Massive applause 🎉

Thanks for doing the guard so early. You are working so hard at the moment, we all appreciate it.

Yeah after playing against them with my csm I gotta say that they must always be taken in 20s so you can absolutely throw bodies back in the fight

One overlooked thing with the Master Vox in the Cadian/Platoon Command Squad is when they join with an infantry squad of some kind. All the squads allow you to also add a second Leader to that squad. So if you add another Officer like a Castellan to that squad as well they can also use the Master Vox since they’re now part of the unit and so both Officers can issue an order up to 24” away. Even better if the extra Officer is Ursula Creed or Lord Solar Leontus so they can order things at range as well.

Just wanted to say, thanks Auspex - as someone who had to abruptly shift from GSC to Guard due to the (admittedly fluffy, but unfortunately unhelpful for my pet project) changes to GSC t his edition, this has been an enormous help in getting my bearings. I had already looked at doing guard prior so I had some familiarity, but it's great to have an expert walking us through every datasheet. o7

I've been waiting for this! You and Mordian have been my inspirations to commit to imperial guard as an army!

This could be good collaboration material with Mordian Glory But on topic I love the scions can take up to 15 scions in group

I’m really happy with the points situation rn, bc through funny circumstances and Emperor provided luck, a fluff list I’ve been thinking about for a while has ended being a 1980 point army. I had dremt up a recon company for my wider regiment, featuring 9 Scout Sentinels and an infantry platoon. Later pondering led to the idea of a trio of Leman Russ for infantry and light armor suppression (this was before the index came out). I decided to do the math when the Munitorum Field Manual dropped, and found enough space to drop in 3 Basilisks and the Lord Solar, a proxy for whom i’d been planning for ages and am starting to actually work on. So now, my recon company is exactly the way I pictured it with the added plus of being able to call in artillery fire. For the fluff, the Basilisks and “Lord Solar” are off map, but obvs for games they are targetable.

Personally I am a bit in awe at the new hydra. There are A LOT of units with fly. Jump infantry and skimmers are suddenly great targets now. Wounding monoliths and greater demons on 2s will be great

I just noticed on the leman russ exterminator auto cannon card it says the main weapon is rapid fire 4, but on the armoury section it says its sustained hits 1. Quite a massive over sight there

I guess its one more bug already in index - "For every 10 models in this unit" in infantry squad means no vox and special for 9 model squad, and only 1 special for 18-model squad

MIght have quickly glanced over the fact that the Hellhound can remove cover from 36" away. Otherwise, good round up, thanks.

Been waiting for this since index dropped. Well worth the wait! Thanks for all your hard work man.

I agree a Mordian colab would be sleek. 🫡👌

Im really impressed with our index. We got a sneak preview with our 9th Codex. I like the detachment as it allows a variety of combos. Infantry, Armour, Artillery (actually works). Reinforcements will be fun. I want to use it on a full Armoured Sentinel squadron. If she's not FAQ'd Inquisitor Greyfax has the best Leadership stat in the game (??) and shes good against psykers. She can lead any Imperial Infantry unit.

Anyone else notice that RAW for infantry squads if they take a heavy weapon they lose a special weapon since it will no longer have 10 models (and a 20 man will have 18 models allowing only 1 special weapon instead of 2). Hopefully this gets errata'd soon.

The dumbest thing about Ogryns is that you can't take them in squads of 4 (the number that fit in a transport). If you're paying the heavy cost for a guard transport it really needs to be delivering a full payload

Stormlord doesn't even have to disembark models to shoot, as firing deck rule isn't restricted to a single unit embarked and if you load it with heavy weapon squads or ogryns, you can shoot more models than you fit in it in the first place, between that the fact that all of those guns count as equiped by Stromlord you can focus buffs on just that model for maximum power, probably stupid idea but fun to think about, according to my estimates you should be able to pack 18 heavy weapon squads, so 18 lascannons? although all hiting on 5+ unless stationary so that Leontas would be really usefull EDIT: I forget that you could only deploy 3 heavy weapon squads so 9 models at max

Finally a 10th ed video worth watching, can't wait to see it

Please do Genestealer cult next!!

A peculiar oversight I didn't notice until the mobile Battleforge arrived: Death Korps Squad has the Medipack listed under Wargear Abilities, but nowhere in its Wargear Options or Unit Composition does it list how to add one to the squad, or if there's one in it by default. The Mobile Index doesn't show it at all in the unit index.

I like the change that orders now last until your next command phase. It always seemed strange to me that you order a unit to fix bayonets in your turn and when the enemy attacks in your turn they forget they had their bayonets attached 😅

Great review. Like the new rule set, artillery seem super strong.

I love the look of the new kriegers. 20 troops, 5 special weapons, 1 vox for CP refund, respawning infantry, getting buffs for losing units (losing 1 or 2 infantry will actually help because of the hit buff) I think they could definitely be the best infantry choice this edition

Slight correction on the sentinel ability: It only ignores the hit penalty for indirect, not the cover part. Though discussed this with a friend that even if it did it would be difficult to find a situation where you have to fire indirectly and not going through some terrain that grants benefit of cover if the terrain makes the target model not fully visible to the firing model.

I'm finishing my guard now. So glad I got the cadianstands box set. Th basilisks are super good now. Earthshaker rounds are great.

I'm not a fan of Born Soldiers. It pushes players to stand still on their side of the board trying to table the opponent rather than playing the objective and getting creative. That's why I played Tallarn in 8th. They should have made it a buff that focuses around the objective just like the rules they gave to infantry squads and the stock leman russ.

The masterpiece I've been waiting for

The Ogryn Bodyguard could possibly get his buff if the officer overcharges a plasma pistol and suffers from the hazardous effect, assuming that the officer makes enough FnPs from his guard to not be taken out of the fight of course.

Its weird that the "veteran guardsman" in the command squads are just worse versions of regular guardsman.

*Hammer of the Emperor*

As a guard main since 4th the 10th edition iteration feels somewhat bittersweet. Although it's sad to transition from an incredibly short lived but genuinely fun and tactically rich 9th edition codex (that I had to wait 5 years for btw :/ ) In essence I feel the new iteration adequately captures the spirit of the imperial guard in the neuvo retro theme that 10th is aiming for. The vast majority of the datasheets have both fluffy and impactful special rules with a few notable exceptions. The russ variants getting their own unique roles is probably the best part of the codex with the exterminator finally becoming a relevant option in literal decades xD That being said the internal balance of the army is one of it's major weaknesses at the moment, especially given the borderline schizophrenic points values released recently. You really are incentivized into windmill slamming every piece of undercoated artillery and relevant support into your list to the exclusion of everything else. This playstyle was already not fun to play against in 9th with simple mortars and it's ten times worse with how powerful manticore and basilisks are. My main gripe with the new rules is just how restrictive orders are though, mainly being you can't use them after disembarking or deepstriking so entire playstyles just don't get to use either of your army rules at key points( and kasrkin don't even get to use their special rule in a chimera ffs) Losing orders after battleshock is actually super fluffy, thematic, and has counterplay so I see it as a huge plus and not splashing like in 9th is a fine balancing decision as well. Also born soldiers is lame plain and simple, a guardsman standing still is a dead guardsman. A rule incentivizing coordinated units like the tau rules but for +1 to wound would have been much more thematic and gameplay relevant rather than heavily incentivizing static artillery based gameplay in a movement based objective game. Overall pretty decent for a new simplified ruleset 7/10 Looking forward to the codex options coming out in 3 years hopefully too :P I just hope moving forward they make russ a bit less expensive, artillery quite a bit more expensive, and add in a caveat to voice of command allowing you to actual use your army rules on anything other than the giant missile laden parking lot in the back of your deployment zone

What I don‘t understand is the way they locked wargear options to the two command squads. I clearly have a cadian regimental banner bearer with a chainsword. He even is a copy from the 122nd Models shown in the 8th edition Codex. Now only the regular command squad can field a standard bearer with that option, not the cadian one. But the regular command squad can’t join a cadian unit. And the new cadians can‘t use heavy flamers . It’s a bit confusing to have my cadians divided into non cadians (platoon command squad and Infantry squad) and real Cadians (cadian command squad and cadian shook troops).

An infantry squad with a command squad and primaris psyker attached could, with orders, have a 3+ save, 4+ invulnerable save and 6+ feel no pain on an objective in the open. One neat package. Don't think the standard guardsman has ever felt so tanky.

We greatly appreciate you brining these rules to us. But I must say, a moment of silence for the loss of our oldest hero, Old Man Commissar Yarrick.

I'm tired with lethal hits or sustained hits being 2 buffs appearing as go to buffs for all armies, regardless of their flavour. It makes everything feel just the same.

Well done 👏. Mind doing a video in the Grey Knights for 10th Edition?

Concerning Leman Russ Tanks, it looks like they put all builds now in one Box. Before it was Leman Russ, Vanquisher, Exterminator, Eradicator in one Box and Leman Russ Demolisher, Punisher and Executioner in the other. I'm sitting here with a new box and got confused for a moment. So you get 2 Turrets (and two hulls) one for Leman Russ derivatives and one for Demolisher derivatives.

The Edition Broke Befor the guard!!!

Out of curiosity, do you have a plan for how you are going to cover each index? Like what order you are going to do?

Being someone collecting guard it just struck me as how extremely annoying it is that every weapon and piece of wargear is suddenly free because all the sergeants, officers etc who are equipped with chainswords and bolt pistols are just obsolete as versions with power weapons and plasma pistols are superior in every way. Then we got the tanks where the "close quarters move up the board etc" versions got storm bolters and not a single sentinel got chainblades (because why would they in previous editions?)... Then we get the Super Heavies... Geez... Double amount of side sponsons for free? Granted it's been a while since I assembled my tank but I seem to recall the kit only having one set for each side and if you wanted the extra side sponsons then they sold those as a separate kit (which is no longer being sold it seems). Now, I've always assumed that pros and cons with various weapons would change across editions and that is fine because there would always be points or some niche for various things but when the choice is, if we take the Baneblade as an example, between a baneblade with 2 lascannons + 2 heavy bolters or one with 4 lascannons + 4 heavy bolters for the exact same cost then it's just stupid and I honestly don't like it.

I appreciate that the Executioner special rule is related to the name, if not the gun itself. Execute all those damaged units! Would ogryn even need to debus from the Stormlord to shoot? Firing deck of 24. Also consider filling up the firing deck with heavy weapons. Make 'em alot tankier when mounted on a literal tank, and could give it a few more lascannons to kill whatever the superbolter can't.

With the lord solar you can still issue respawned units order simce he can give three orders to any units in the army.

I found a good strat for artillery: Scout sentinel to give +1 to hit Order for another +1 Hellhound to remove cover So not only do you ignore the indirect nerf but also hit on a 3+

Do primaris psykers get lethal hits when standing still and do they get sustained hits and crit hit on 5+ when attached with cadian castellans with drill commander on the same unit? Hazardous aside, having 5+ lethal hits, sustained hits 1 and devestating wounds with 2 damage per shot AND D6+3 shots with blast sounds pretty rad.. (standing still sucks tho)

I'm a bit sad about the tempestor prime as it lost all of its weapon options. I ran all of mine with power fists... so I guess they are just fancy fist looking daggers...

I can't wait to order the baneblade around, can even hide the lord solor behind.

I guess it's artillery spam until GW guts those again and brings russ prices back to better levels. Also, the 2+ armoured sentinels might as well be the new Bullgryns, because our current ones are dogwater with their 4+ save.

GW seems to have forgotten something, since there's nothing in the krieg wargear section that says you can actually take a medkit, and if so how many... Effectively, they don't even have that rule unless it's fixed, since it's tied to wargear they can't take.

In which order are strategems used? Like, the attacker use strategem to boost attack, the defender use strategem to boost the defence. Or can the attacker wait with using strategem until defender has used one?

With the orders not splashing anymore (and them getting weaker with less options) along with us only getting born soldier when we dont move this feels like an incredibly huge nerf.

Let's go boys! It's Guard time again!

How does the aquila enhancment work againts rites of battle? Is it always 0 CP for rites or is it increased to 1?

Do you actually generate cp with Creed if you put her free strategem on a unit with a vox?

Do you plan to do the imperial agents? I do wonder if i can run all the assassins by themselves with an inquisitor as the warlord...

@ 45:30 VANQUISHER does D6+6 dmg, not D6+2; It would seem calculations are not correct

Does anybody know if officers with multiple orders like Lord Solar Leontus can use the same order multiple times in the same command phase in 10th edition? It could really change army building.

I have no complaints from what I have just seen. Catachans are useful again, think we are looking good for tenth. My jungle fighter army is incoming to hunt down some xenos

I don't think infantry squads get a heavy and special weapon per 10 soldiers. You can only take a special weapon per 10 models, so with a heavy team counting as one model, you don't get a special weapon if you take a heavy weapon. This kinda wrecks all my existing squads, even grouping them into 20s doesn't work as there are only technically 18 models.

I wonder if the exterminator buff stacks 49:12

Sentinels don’t cancel out the armor save bonus for cover on indirect fire, or am I missing an interaction sir?

Ive noticed that all the vehicles dont have the regiment key word? Does that mean cults cant take them?

i think auspex misread or mispoke the vanquisher is d6+6 damage

I’m confused, Platoon command squads can’t fit in any transports to take advantage of the chimera mobile ability. They’re leader so must be attached to a unit. Min squad size is 10. By default they’re too big to fit inside a chimera or Valkyrie. Guess only commissars or death korps marshals or Ursula can use the ability then?

@5:20 you mention a further buff for the "Heavy Weapons" keyword. What's this rule/keyword? I am only new to IG (bought Cadia Stands shortly before 10th announced) I thought Heavy weapons only had a penalty for moving and shooting?

Can the Platoon command squad join a catachan squad and do the scout move with them?

Personally I'm looking forward too run a Taurox with kasrkin and creed. Advance jump out then use maybe fields of fire for free

I love the idea of absolutely terrorizing my opponent with a Basilisk and Deathstrike in tandem. Watching Terminators trying to do a silly little dance with 2-inch move and extremely choked movement lanes sounds great.

I just had a game with guards, their artilleries will be the first to have a point cost nerf

I have to assume you can only have a single medpack in even a double strength Krieg squad, because that's a silly amount of regen if you can double up. Who are looking really good for infantry.

If I'm reading it right, you can no longer attach Bodyguards to castellans or commissars. They can only be attached to command squads. Bummer

Want a replay of 300 ?? 1 Commissar with Death mask + 2x10 and 4x20 Cadian shock troop + 4x10 and 2x20 Catachan + 6x20 Death Korps of Krieg = 2000pts or 301 chads ready to lasgun everything to death xD

sergeant Harkers buff doesnt give plus 1 to hit beyond 12 inches for friendlies, its a minus 1 to hit for enemy units beyond 12 inches!

Have the deathstrikes ever been good. In my memory they have always been a bit of a meme unit fun and fluffy but came with problems that stopped me fielding them. I just wonder since GW seem committed to them never seeing play if there was a period where they were OP.

How does "send in the next wave" work on a 20 man unit that has a commandsquart and a ogryn bodygurn attached to it?

I'm just waiting for the guard to have Primaris Tanks, forcing us to re-buy our entire army.

Put the death strike marker on the terminators then hit them with the basilisk.

When you cover the Tau, might I draw to your attention the weird inconsistency between their ranged weapons, such as Accelerator Burst Cannons having different APs between similar vehicles, and Smart Missile Systems having between 2, 3, and 4 attacks depending on what they're attached to? Also, there are several other errors, such as the Sunshark profile claiming you can equip an additional missile pod, despite only having the weapon profile for a twin missile pod.

Im not sure if scout sentinels take away benefit of cover portion of indirect fire with the way its worded. Seems like just the -1 to hit on Guard end. Thoughts?

I will 100% fall asleep while watching this but I shall do my best

Please do the Deathwatch index

Can you give orders to something like a baneblade?

im very happy my Manticores got unlimited eagle missile shots

Does the kasrkin ability to give themselves an order and ursula creeds ability to give 2 orders to her own unit stack? It doesnt seem like the kasrkin order is “issued” rather than just chosen

Still think they should of had a platoon squad and castellan for catachan and death korp.

So let me get this straight: The Chimera has Firing deck 2 Meaning two *models* can fire their ranged weapons during the shooting phase from inside (as if the chimera had those weapons) a Heavy weapon team can have a las-cannon, and one guy can carry a plasma rifle So the chimera can now not only take a las-cannon shot but also be 1d3 mortal wounded when the plasma guy Nat 1s?

Fix bayonets could have given "Fights First" Guard could really use that.

Whens the Tier list coming out?

As far as RAW goes does this mean an Infantry Squad can't have both a special weapon and a heavy weapon in a MSU? The special weapon specifies a minimum of 10 models and the Heavy weapon squad exchanges 2 models for a Heavy weapon model with the end result being a unit with 9 models in it. This implies that a MSU with a heavy weapon cannot take a special and that a unit will with max models (with at least one Heavy) will only be able to take one. I was just wondering if that's the intention or whether I'm misunderstanding the unit card? EDIT: Grammar was confusing, I reworded the question.

So I take 3 leman russes, Some Bombardment bases and a baskalis for my heavy support?

If I have a command squad attached to a unit and another officer which is allowed, can the other officer make use of the master vox as well for 24" orders? If so this would make infantry squad + command squad + lord solar very strong since it would buff his 3 orders to 24" range.

Only In Death Does Duty End!

Wow infantry squads looks extreamly efficient only 50% the cost of skitarii and the same stats minus the 6++ that will almost never go into effect anyway. Guard are extreamly efficientlu costed.

Did I miss something, or does the Death Korp not get a single character to attach to squads other than a psyker? If so, that just made my entire army a little...awkward.

For the vanquisher cannon how is it hitting on a +2 with tank orders if you can never modify a hit roll more than +1 or was that a mistake or am I just mishearing it

So can you modify a roll more than one or not? I dont see how i can get 5 up save infantry to 3 up.

Having played a few games, FRFSRF was actually the best order by far on Infantry... sitting still to get Lethal Hits and then ordering FRFSRF to just get that long range chip damage with your lasguns is strong