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[Urist McScoopbeard]

I don't really want to play Eternal Crusade because it doesn't have Imperial Guardsmen.
Shame.

Same. Lol. I just want a dark-souls-esque game where you play a run-of-the-mill guardsmen who resurrects for some reason, or even better literally thousands of guardsmen. Regardless, the main mechanic is dying. Wouldn't it be great? Every level would give you AARs with statistics on how many guardsmen died and were wounded, etc. etc. to each objective. You'd get upgrades, lose upgrades, run out of supplies, die, lose the war, get executed. etc.

[Kot]

Fuck, I'd even play Guardsman if everyone were an incredibly OP super-soldier Greenskin Eldar Chaos Space Marine from Genestealer Cult, just for the sheer fuck-you of putting an sabre through the CSM gut as a regular human.

[Twinwolf]

Fuck, I'd even play Guardsman if everyone were an incredibly OP super-soldier Greenskin Eldar Chaos Space Marine from Genestealer Cult, just for the sheer fuck-you of putting an sabre through the CSM gut as a regular human.

This is the main reason Imperial Guard are my favorite tabletop faction (as in, if I had the money for 40k I'd play them). This right here.

[Kot]

Spoiler: Yes. (click to show/hide)

At the end of the day, though he's been ferried through hell on a ship that's ten thousand years old to some godforsaken, war-torn rock; though he deployed from high orbit with nothing but a grav chute; though he is one of ten million men and women snatched from his homeworld to fight a war he barely understands; though he has been given a weapon that fires small suns and may annihilate him as he fires because the knowledge of how it functions has been lost; though his company is supported by tractor-tanks that run on anything you can burn; though he wages war against a devouring hivemind, ravenous demons and hordes of hyper-advanced aliens with strange technologies and sorceries he never dreamed existed; no one will remember his sacrifice, there will be no records of his deeds, no glorious parades in his honor, and no remembrance of his name. All he will earn is a shallow, unmarked grave on a forgotten world untold lightyears from home.

Yet for all this thankless sacrifice a Guardsman is a man, just like you. He has no millennia-old genetic engineering, no prophetic leader, no miracles of faith. He has his lasgun, his orders, and those beside him. He is the Imperial Guard.

And he will hold the line.

Some more HFY.

[Rolan7]

Fuck, I'd even play Guardsman if everyone were an incredibly OP super-soldier Greenskin Eldar Chaos Space Marine from Genestealer Cult, just for the sheer fuck-you of putting an sabre through the CSM gut as a regular human.

This is the main reason Imperial Guard are my favorite tabletop faction (as in, if I had the money for 40k I'd play them). This right here.

I took a special joy in playing Imperial Guard in Dawn of War: Soultstorm.
I am the governor of this planet.  I don't respect your authority, zealot-marines.  We will purge the heretics and the xenos.  And if necessary, we will purge you.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

BEHOLD
THE
BANEBLADES

[KingofstarrySkies]

Fuck, I'd even play Guardsman if everyone were an incredibly OP super-soldier Greenskin Eldar Chaos Space Marine from Genestealer Cult, just for the sheer fuck-you of putting an sabre through the CSM gut as a regular human.

This is the main reason Imperial Guard are my favorite tabletop faction (as in, if I had the money for 40k I'd play them). This right here.

I took a special joy in playing Imperial Guard in Dawn of War: Soultstorm.
I am the governor of this planet.  I don't respect your authority, zealot-marines.  We will purge the heretics and the xenos.  And if necessary, we will purge you.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

BEHOLD
THE
BANEBLADES

I'm a Tau-nerd and even I think the Imperial Guard are fuckin' awesome. Especially in Soulstorm. Fuck you, SoB-I bow to noone but the god-emperor.

[Dorsidwarf]

That's why I play Guard. Because they're just humans, fighting the fight for eternity

[Flying Dice]

There's actually a scene of soulstones forming in one of the bl novels. In that instance they form from the suffering of Eldar souls bound by Slaanesh to eternally relive the Fall, in the form of crystal tears.

You say that as if it isn't more fun to imagine that the Eldar are literally shoving their souls into pieces of crap.

[Tack]

How do you kill a power-armoured Ogryn?

Multi-melta. The answer to "How do you kill X in 40k" is always: multi-melta.

Given that Melta is only S8 and Ogryns have three wounds...

Spoiler: You would be wrong (click to show/hide)

[Loud Whispers]

Multi-melta. The answer to "How do you kill X in 40k" is always: multi-melta.

One of my fondest tabletop experiences was deep striking a Necron monolith right on top of a guardsman convoy, destroying its lemon russ, heavy support squadrons, flaying through enough guardsman to make the survivors flee - all but one lone guardsman with a melta gun. The only unit capable of firing.

Guardsman blew up my monolith

[Kot]

What regiment they were? I need it... for scientific purposes.

[Loud Whispers]

What regiment they were? I need it... for scientific purposes.

The Only Light Brigade of the Emperor's 314th Honourable Regiment, using Cadian guardsmen

Amongst the hero Melta guardsman was the guardsman simply known as 'Blood Guy.'

He was a medic, 'Blood Guy,' who became nigh-legendary when his command squad was attacked by the C'Tan Nighbringer. Veterans all around him, officers and commissars with the oldest and most powerful of wargear all around him, all were effortlessly killed by this resurgent god of death. Despite Blood Guy's best efforts, he simply couldn't fix total bisection. Eventually Blood Guy was the last man standing - he passed his morale test, deciding that he was more than happy to fight a god in close quarters combat armed with nothing but lots of blood packs. Second round of CQC, the god of war is unharmed, but so is blood guy. Third round of CQC, the god of war is unharmed, but so is blood guy. This goes on and on until at last on the fourth bout, blood guy gets downed. A shadowsword takes notice of this heroism and promptly unleashes all of its titan-killing glory upon the C'Tan, until the C'Tan explodes. The shadowsword then gets covered in scarabs, at which point the shadowsword explodes and destroys the scarabs.
From then on it became a recurring theme, that whenever the C'Tan and Blood Guy were on the same board, they had to fight to the death. I like to imagine Blood Guy staring down death, and laughing, because death forgot to bring his own blood pack

[Kot]

*whispers* For the Emperor!
BLOOD-PACKS FOR THE EMPEROR!
*MANIACAL LAUGHTER*

[nenjin]

How do you kill a power-armoured Ogryn?

Multi-melta. The answer to "How do you kill X in 40k" is always: multi-melta.

Given that Melta is only S8 and Ogryns have three wounds...

Spoiler: You would be wrong (click to show/hide)

2nd Ed rules, Multi-meltas do 2d12 wounds.

And that's the only edition the Emperor approves of.

[Grim Portent]

Pretty sure that's also the edition where standard guardsmen could take a one shot vortex grenade launcher for 10 points a model and end the game on turn 1 as ten vortex grenades cleansed the entire enemy army in one go.