IG Bits

[T Spear_Chucker]

I noticed that unlike Tyranid troop boxes, IG troop boxes don't come with all of the possible bit options. For example, a gaunt box has pretty much all of the options from devourers to adrenal glands while a Kasrkin box only has a flamer and grenade launcher. They sell heavy weapons SEPERATELY!!! Another example would be the heavy weapons teams. They NEVER come with an HQ box or a infantry box (except for a battleforce). You always have to buy them seperately as well! (for a ridiculous price too)

So, where do you guys get these miscellaneous bits off of from without actually buying them? Do you trade? Greenstuff? PROXY!?!?!

Honestly, this makes imperial guard very expensive...

[Psychichobo]

I'd suggest converting for getting various odds and ends - try to cut corners as much as you can. For example, what I've suggested to another friend starting guard:

Buy two boxes of 20 cadian troops and a chimera.

This gives you 40 men and a vehicle.

Now, with the first box, use them for the two sets of ten men in the Infantry platoon.

With the second box:
Use 10 men as the crew with the chimera as an armoured fist squad.
Use 5 men for the Platoon command squad for the previously mentioned Troop.
Use the remaining 5 men as the HQ choice command squad.


Technically all you need to do is convert little things, as all guardsmen are quite similar, and can look vastly different (as you can see in your codex near the back. In fact, there's a few new ones in the fifth ed rulebook. One version is nothing more than a Celtic warrior with a lasgun). As for the weapons, I'd recommend conversions, just using various bits you might be able to get off other players - won't have to look perfect, just roughly like it's counterpart, or like a 'counts as' thing.

[zeewulf]

Honestly, though, you get your hands on a heavy weapons squad box, and you can make at a minimum 3 squads, and with a bit of modeling work, four squads (using every weapon on the sprues!) The key is, though, not to use all the kneeling infantry except for gunners, and to use the tripods/bipods on the right pieces.

[T Spear_Chucker]

Hmm, that sounds pretty smart. I think I'll try that one. Thx.

[zeewulf]

Generally what I've done is use the bipod for mortars, the tripod for the heavy bolters or lascannons, just simply shoulder-mounted the rocket launchers (Just like a modern-day AT-4 anti-tank rocket launcher or the old Bazooka) and I'm in the process of figuring out how to set up the Autocannons with either putting them on a barracade pintle mount on a 'wall' placed on the base, laying it on some sandbags, or sawing the barrel off and having the weapons team in the process of carrying/assembling it just like the M2 .50 cal. The only kneeling models I actually try to use are firing mortars or the heavy bolters or lascannons, though my first couple weapon bases I hadn't thought of that and ended up wasting some serious parts. A bit of basic conversion work, though, and you can come up with some pretty good stuff! When my guard arrives, I'll show you some.

[WestRider]

I've seen people manage to get all 15 of the heavy Weapons from a box put together with just an extra Box or so of Cadians and some random bits of plastic. I got 12 myself.

The Grenade Launcher and Flamer can be converted into Plasmaguns relatively easily (just get some of the Plasma Pistols that most SM players have a billion of lying around), and, with a bit more work, into Meltas.

[zeewulf]

If I get the tanks I'm aiming for, I'm going to use some of the bits to build some of the Imperial Armour tanks, such as the Executioner.