IG: Cramming not Spamming,,,honest ;)

How many vehicles can you fit into your army list at 1500?

Not that many right? 8? 10? 12?

How about lucky number 13?

Why would I want to? Surely I’m sacrificing too much to gain an extra hull or 2?

Let us examine…

In the process of creating my current Imperial Guard list here, I have tried to eliminate all wasted points and operate as leanly as possible.

When I was messing around and trying to put together a mobile midfield list, I tried to do the same.

It is a process I go through whenever I build a list.

The only thing I thought about these 2 lists was the inclusion Av14. Now, Av14 is hardcore…of course it is, so is av13 on the side arc, but with a lot of Lance weaponry around (Eldar, DE, Nids, BA) and the extreme abundance of Melta weaponry in EVERY bloody list…why am I paying more for it?

The Demolisher has been a great addition to my force, but at the expense of long range anti tank. It takes up a slot in the Heavy section, a lost that is already jammed full of extremely viable units…

What if I dumped it? It’s expensive, and whilst presenting an extremely visible, psychological and actual threat…it’s expensive!  

If we examine my current IG list, we see that I am lacking a little something…long range anti tank. Now, I have a Hydra, 2 Vendetta’s and a plethora of S6 for suppression…but couldn’t I have more?

Fuck yes, is the answer.

If you remember back to Atreides and I planning for our first tournament (Brighton Warlords Doubles, 3^rd) we tried to cram in a massive amount of long ranged firepower.

Efficient firepower, not looking to pay over the odds for extra strength when weight of fire will prevail…

So how can I get his into my list:

CCS 3 x Melta, Chimera

Vet Squad 3 x Melta, Chimera

Vet Squad 3 x Melta, Chimera

Vet Squad 3 x Melta, Chimera

Vet Squad 1  x Autocannon, Chimera

Vendetta Gunship 1

Vendetta Gunship 1

Hellhound

Hydra Flak Tank

Leman Russ Demolisher

Medusa

All vehicles have Hull Heavy Flamers..

So we dump the Demolisher and the Medusa. The Medusa is awesome, but BOOM! BOOM! Is not really what we are going for…

This gives us 300 points! Lets just change this up for more Hydra godliness.

2 squadrons of 2.

Now I could leave it as that…a straight swap… but adding 2 more AV12 Hulls..

So, as I can leave it at that…I will.

What do we have then?

CCS 3 x Melta, Chimera

Vet Squad 3 x Melta, Chimera

Vet Squad 3 x Melta, Chimera

Vet Squad 3 x Melta, Chimera

Vet Squad 1  x Autocannon, Chimera

Vendetta Gunship 1

Vendetta Gunship 1

Hellhound

Hydra Flak Tank

Hydra Flak Tank  x 2

Hydra Flak Tankx 2 

All vehicles have Hull Heavy Flamers

15 S6 shots

20 S7 Twin Linked shots

12 S8 Melta shots

6 S9 Twin Linked shots

Nice, but how about anti horde?

11 S5 Heavy Flamers

1 S6 Inferno ‘I can shoot round corners’ cannon

Plus, screw it, 20 S7 shots per turn will mess up most horde units…

But you’ve lost your Av14 and your S10 shit?

I have, but we do now have no less than 13 Av12 hulls on the table.

And we have 4 competent Melta units that CAN alpha strike if need be…

Next up, we’ll look at how this would look like on the tabletop and how we’d deploy, counter it etc.

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