I dig the idea of a regular teenager fighting gods with shovels and rifles.

"The planet broke before the guard did" Winston Churchill

"Against creatures like you, teeming and numberless, powered by the wills of thirsting Gods, he holds the line. He has held the line for ten thousand years. So what is your excuse, Monster?"

The Guard in a nutshell is, we have more bodies than you have bullets.

In 3-4 years I can definitely see you being one of the biggest Warhammer KZfaqrs pls don’t quit

The Imperial Guard novels tend to paint them as highly trained for normal humans. Often looking down on planetary defense forces for their lack of military skill and expertise.

I heard a story about how during a set of matches for a store run tournament that were supposed to be being played on the same world, a guy used a Deathstrike missile launcher to hit an chaos army fighting against marines on another table lmao

shout out to the one fanfiction where Abbadon almost made it past the Eternity gate, but even as his marines are butchering the last few guards standing between him and the Throne, it's described something like "99.9% of the lasbolts fired in desperation by these terrified soldiers, bounce harmlessly off his armour. One. ONE. finds a crack in his helmet and is able to fry the bastards brain. even the soldier who fired the one in a million has no idea it was him. it's just sheer swell of numbers that pulls it off."

One thing I always thought was goofy and darkly absurd with the Guard was you can sometime be literally *born* into military service. While there are several male and female-only regiments there's also quite a few that are co-ed, and whenever a baby inevitably results from this they're pretty much immediately inducted either into the Guard the moment they're born and raised to be a Guardsman or given to the Schola Progenium (the same place where they train Sisters of Battle and commissars) if their parents die in battle.

My favorite regiment has got to be the Mordian Iron Guard. Strict discipline, flashy uniforms, companies of tanks, and gun lines that held out against Tyranid invasions. The only thing that sucks is that they no longer have models.

To be fair, the legions did a lot of the conquring during the great crusade. The guard have mostly been what held the Imperium's territory since.

"What is your duty?" "To serve the Emperor's Will." "What is the Emperor's Will?" "That we fight and die." "What is death?" "It is our duty." "What is your duty?"

“I have three det packs left, okay? Three more tanks must, die, then I get that caffeine the Captain promised.” - Andrej Valatok, 703rd Steel Legion Stormtrooper Division Best character in the best book.

Deathstrike Missile, AKA, the Killy Everythingy 9000

I love how in most battles the guardsmen basicly break the enemies legs and arms and the space marines just put em out of their misery

Orks, Eldar, Tyranids, Daemons, they’re all super dangerous. And fun targets for artillery and mortars with airburst shells full of mono-molecular wire and tens of thousands of sabot spikes or explosive sub-munitions.

For the Emperor! Cadia Stands!

My favorite guard regiment is the preatorian guard, their flashy uniforms and posh british attitudes are amusing to me in the 40k setting. On top of all of that they are incredibly stubborn to the point where they will not retreat despite being surrounded and outgunned, yet they somehow come up on top. What people forgot about the fall of cadia is there was more then just cadians, there were several regiments there, however knowing the preatorian were there means they were probably some of the last to evacuate if they ever did at all.

"And they have held the line for 10,000 years"

Call me a casual if you like, but my favourite regiment are the Tanith First-and-Only. They tick all of my checkboxes: tragic history, elite light infantry, complex characters, Celtic stylings... I could go on. Colonel-Commissar Gaunt himself is literally just a nice bonus to me.

Krieg Deathriders are deployed on the field: AND THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED!

I love the scale that even the lowly guardsman give to the setting. They are solders not militia or cultis or hivers. they equipped with a lasgun and for every guardsman there’s probably a pdf guy with his autogun

I fully agree with this video.

bro you deserve more attention you’ve got a pretty unique way of presenting WH40k lore and I dig it

The Death Korps of Krieg take most of the principles of the Guard to their logical conclusions. Whether it be attrition warfare, artillery usage, or dying for the Emperor, the Kriegers do nothing by half. They are my favorite regiment. Mainly because of the WW1 aesthetic, but they are so…. RESPECTABLE… in the lore.

Those requirements are more stringent than the US Marine Corps.

A lot of imperial guardsmen (specifically cadians, being the most common guardsmen) have been trained since childhood and surpass most modern IRL special forces in experience and skill. Most of the inexperienced soldiers are usually planetary militias, outside of the guard.

I always loved the Guard because they are relatable humans ... They are how we would fight.. Steel Legion for the win.. Tallaran and Cadians also amazing Harakoni are also cool and underrated

An Ogryn can slap an Ork's head clean off and punch a hole through a Tyranid Warrior As things go, the Imperial Gaurd has their own heavy hitters, they can barley even be considered mutants since they evolved into what they are A hairless Gigantopithecus plated in Flak armor with an Giant bayoneted auto Shotgun with shield and club variety Even a space marine would question if they could 1v1 something with that much raw power

5:53 “metal plated Cossack armour”, that phrase is just beautiful

My favorite Guard regiments is the armageddon Steal legion. They have so many things that I like. big guns, armor, mobile armor units, the kind of determinations that would make the devil quake in his boots. There's just so much.

Vostroyan firstborns are my favourite they just look so unique.

Yup, i honestly love the i imperial guards more than space marines. ❤ my most favorite regiment has to be Catachan for representing the "Survival specialists" as for "other favorite" i also love tge Elysium drop troops for being unique in appearance and having a rich lore background. Imperial guards are absolutely diverse and has alot unique regiment to choose.

My favorite guard regiment is definitely the Maccabian Janissaries, as I also really like their biggest enemy: The Severan Dominate. My favorite Abhuman for the guard on the other hand is actually the Beastmen. Granted they were used in the great crusade and in recent times are prosecuted fiercely as its believed they have chaos taint, which makes them turn to chaos, but I still love the idea of Loyalist Beastmen.

Gotta say my favorite regiment is the first ans only Tanith. I love all the bools, the characters and the extended lore of the Sabbat Worlds/ Crusade! The Sons of Sek and the royal Volpone 50th are close 2nd/3rd picw

I’ve almost made it through all your videos while painting on my days off this week, keep up the good work man 👍

I had a friend who went up against my knock off guards men army which only cost me about $130 with his ultra marine army with the new Roboot G man model at the time, and the look on his face when I dropped an ICBM on G man follow by a few artillery rounds because the guards have insane range on their artillery as well taking him out in one turn.

I am vastly under educated on guard lore and it would be nice to hear your spit take of a few so I can get an idea of a direction to start in. Maybe a series (eventually, don't push yourself unhealthally) on the major Guard factions?

Also, I love seeing people playing Astra militarum! The table is just beautiful. Just drowning the board in bodies and bullets

FOR THE GRACE FOR THE MIGHT OF OUR LORD

The baneblade was originally a light scout vehicle.

I understand the jungle fighters and their superhuman strength tho. Imagine being born in a 80s or 90s action movie those boys were born and bread to kill giant jungle demons, and imo its a testament to human tenacity and strength that these unupgraded muscleheads are just as strong as space boys

Ahh I was glad to have brought this topic up the other day! These different army's could seriously give you endless content. Some of them are fascinating. The thing that I have always loved about the Astra militarum is that in a world of daemons, demigods, psykers, homicidal mushrooms, hyper intelligent murder bugs, advanced tech undead robot Egyptians, etc., the regular person out there is still a competitive force in the galaxy. It is amazing that regular people can summon the courage to basically look hell in their face and spit in their eye with a grin on their face. There's just something charming about it! Also loved the vostroyan firstborn mention! I think that's who I mentioned in my comment but yeah those dudes are so awesome. I know everyone knows the cadians and the entire planet of Rambos, but it's just cool that humanity is so large that you can always find another human army to bring up. Just cool

the lasgun is on par with modern firearms, as autoguns and stubbers have the same stats as a lasgun, (the heavy stubber is 50cal. machine gun) but the massive upside of no need for logistics to produce bullets since any electrical outlet is new ammo, plus no moving bits or gunpowder means no dirt can get inside drastically increases reliability. The lasgun is the best service gun in the 40k universe also guard artillery has such a long range that you need to play apocalypse mode for it to matter, I was in a 4v4 game which used 4 maps put side to side to have enough room for everyone, my Manticore missile carrier still could shoot form one corner to the opposite corner

whenever i hear your intro i cant stop getting that rat named Reggie out of my head

Just subscribed to your channel and thanks for getting me into warhammer and 40k. I’ll be starting with imperial guard.

its actually a misnomer that the average imperial guard is untrained, while some are, such as conscripts and criminals. the standard guardsman is actually trained to a level far surpassing most modern militaries

Going to bring something to the fore. The Imperium's siege of the world of Vraks. It took 18 years to complete the siege. It is only something the Imperial Guard army can do. Okay, the Krieg 88th Siege Army wasn't helped by internal politicing, Chaos Marine predations, Plague Daemons & poor logistical support. But they kept in there. When the Red Scorpions took the BREACH, it was the guard that carried on.

I am constructing an octo-baneblade model currently (Baneblade magnetized for all 8 variants) and I can feel the fumes getting to my brain. Also I did not need to know that Felinids were a thing

SHOW THEM STEEL! SHOW THEM CONTEMPT!

Vitrian Dragoons, ready for duty

Savlar Chem-Dogs

Love my guard army. However, I play by "Rogue Trader" rules only. So, my guard also get robots. A well programmed robot can scare the crap out of any Ork, Elder, or Chaos army. They have no fear, can carry just about any weapon including hand to hand, and are real fun to use against larger opponents like tanks, dreadnoughts and Elder Avatars.

I really love this lad

rest in the Emperors grace commisares Yarick, may Gazgal become a Crork in your name

The guardsmen seem like they would play grinder while they head into almost curtain death

The Guard has Cain, Sly Marbo, Yarraick, and Creed. They have the best characters.

You NEED to do a series on each guard regiment

imperial guard is the answer for army quotas problem because, many space marines turn into chaos at heresy, even some primarchs die, lost or turn into chaos and they are not cheap to make.

He didn't mention the Tanith because they're hidden in the video. We can't see them, but they're actually sneaking into every single picture with knives drawn.

Ah the guard, my first love in wargaming. As much as I love the gas mask aesthetics my favourite regiment will always be the Cadian Shock, big damn heroes every one of them.

My tabletop army is an infantry spam guard army painted blue with white highlights and brass armor. My headcannon for them is that they are an Imperial Navy unit assigned to Battlefleet Cadia, and my army therefore features heavy usage of Cadian Shock Troops, Kasrkins and Imperial Navy Breachers. Is it meta? Nah. Is it cool? Yup. I also put "in the Navy" on repeat when painting them

You forgot to mention the most kickass-looking regiment: The Vitrian Dragoons.

6:06 IT IS THE BANEBLADE!

The volpone bluebloods are my favorite because they're actually equipped properly and their tactics are somewhat realistic, their specialty is heavy infantry, standard humans in heavy armor are my kinda stuff.

"Tanith First, and only!! Gaunts Ghosts!!"

Tanith 1st & only vid, please XD best "Irish/Scottish" regiment in the guard

I love the guard. Can't afford a gusrd army but they have "the sauce"

10:26 ah thanks GW for getting rid of blast templates and just telling people to “measure the distance.”

Oh snap my first members only vid!!!!

If memory serves during the golden age of mankind, bandblades were considered a SCOUT vehicle.

banger video brother!

I mean most guardsman would get at least a year of training before getting send off.

The unsung hero’s of 40K for every hero or legend a billion lives would remain unremebered

Helsreach is the best movie I've ever seen.

The guard will always be my favorite faction in 40k. Normal people facing the horrors of space.

When it comes to long ranged engagements nobody out rangers the guard even the Tau fall short of the imperial guard.

My fav regiment is the Tanith First and only. Really because they where the first books I read in 40k and just great charaters in it. But also stealth groups or charaters in fiction are some of my favorites. Big ranger apprentice vibes in the Tanith. I love them. DO YOU WANT TO LIVE FOREVER!!!

Qudos for mentioning Sabaton

IT IS THE BANEEE BLADEEEE

NGL I love the look of the Severan Dominate soldiers. Wish they would be brought back into the fold and become a proper guard regiment

Tempestus Scions, and Cadian Guard. Nuff said.

I gotta admit with no augmentation and armed with just a shitty rifle, facing down hordes of demons, tyranids and other frightening shit humanity does have balls of steel.

Catachan player here I just loved how epic my jungle bois were

10 months late lets goo. I'm personally collecting space marines as my first army which is fine, but I really do wanna do an astra millitarum army or 2. I'm more than likely gonna save for a cadian army, including ursela creed and some kasrkin, but I might also print off some death korp of krieg since i love them SO MUCH

And modern lore implies the Guard is extremely heavily mechanized. You’re not just fighting a squad. You’re fighting a squad with a plasma gun and grenade launchers supported by Chimera and a mortar team with an airstrike on speed dial. And lasguns might be “weak”, but lasers function in such a way that above a certain energy threshold (which lasguns are way beyond) it’s impossible to resist being damaged by them. So, they can actually break down the armor of anything they’re fighting.

1:45 That would be PDF; the Guard is ELITE.

My man Matrix dodged any mention of kreig he could and got grazed once.

The Lasgun is only "weak" because everything that wasn't already resistant/immune to it is dead.

Humans are 40k Skaven

“What’s your favourite regiment” 3 guesses, first 2 don’t count

THE BANEBLADE!!

Ooh could you do the Assassins next please?

Yes eldar and space marines are fast enough to doge lazgun shots but that doesn’t matter when there’s more laser than air

Finally something else than space marines

I love the guard so much I've been running a ttrpg for 2 years for no other reason than to have an excuse to use the minis I got back in 3rd edition. No regerts

Remember, Laz Cannons punch right through a Space Marine. The Imperial Guard Has millions of them.

Baneblade is a battleship on tracks

I just found this channel plz do one of the Kroot lol

We need an FPS where you play as either a Cadian or Krieger. Something like Battlefield Bad Company for the Caidan, or Call of Duty World at War for the Krieger