Mobility and the Midfield: IG List idea

I’m loving Imperial Guard.

I get to run all kinds of different tanks and units.

I’ve even managed to squeeze in 11 Av12 hulls in at 1500 points.

Yup. 11.

My current list has a massive range of tools and utilisations. It is quite literally a swiss army knife.

Check it out here.

Back? Sweet. As you can see it has all kinds of units fulfilling differing roles and with inbuilt redundancy etc.

There are no problems with it other than mobility…

But, I hear you say, it’s a great list and it’s fully meched up…but the Hydra needs to be static to be at its maximum efficiency.

The Colossus also stays static in order to lob shots um, well, wherever.

Now, this is only 2 units. The rest of the force piles forward and supports each other with additional fire, blocking, board control etc.

I’m picky though.

I want everyone single point of my army working hard and working hard all the time.

I do not want to have to move my Hydra 6” and only fire one cannon for a turn. Worse, I definitely do not want it NOT firing for a turn because it has to move 12”.

Or the Colossus, having to shift to get out of 24” so it can fire, or even worse…it actually survives past T3/4 and then the situation becomes massively galling as it can’t fire at units that have crossed the midfield line!

I, of course, am completely comfortable with losing units. So is the army.

This is part of my list design, and in my humble opinion, should be part of everyone’s list design. Every unit is minimally costed. Per threat, not per unit, we spent no more than 100 points.

No death stars.

No super elite, pimped, blinged up units.

Just death in budget format.

This way, when I lose a unit, it is no big deal.

So back on track.

 2 units that are incredibly useful, but not 100% what I am enjoying with the guard army.

What do I like?

 Hard to kill, shooting, synergy.

Synergy is the key to this post. I want everything complementing everything.

I want the whole army rolling on you and forcing you into incredibly hard targeting decisions.

So I have come up with this:

CCS    HQ x5 3xPlasma, Chimera ML, HF  

Vet Squad x10, 3 x Meltagun Chimera - ML, HF

Vet Squad x10            , 3 x Meltagun Chimera - ML, HF

Vet Squad x10            , 3 x Flamer Chimera - ML, HF

Vet Squad x10            , 3 x Grenade Launcher Chimera - ML, HF

Vet Squad x10            , 3 x Grenade Launcher Chimera - ML, HF

Hellhound x1  Inferno Cannon, HMM          

Hellhound x1  Inferno Cannon, HMM          

Leman Russ Demolisher x1, Demolisher Cannon, HHF       

Leman Russ Demolisher x1, Demolisher Cannon, HHF

1500 on the nose.

Damn dangerous if you ask me.

But I am asking you? What do you guys think?

I am loving both Hellhounds and Demolishers at the minute and think that by having two…I’m putting all kinds of crazy hurt out there on the battlefield.

I have 5 troop units. 2 Melta vets, 2 midfield suppression units (grenade launchers) and a dedicated flame unit.

I have 10 hulls, 2 at Av14, but not at Land Raider cost.

Literally tonnes of Multilaser S6 goodness. Heavy flamers galore, including my current FAVOURITE unit in the world…2 Hellhounds!

2 x S10…. 4 separate Melta units, plasma…

 I’m thinking actually that flamer unit wants to be another grenade launcher unit.

So lets link in this post to the Deployment in Action series to demonstrate its strength.

Capture and Control, Spearhead.

Instead of leaving a unit behind to claim and cover the back to units in the list mentioned originally, I can place my objective aggressively in the midfield and move my whole army up to take the opponents.

So deployment would look like this: 

Visually, we can see the strength of the list here. No backfield target for those pesky and deadly wolf scouts…no concerns over outflanking units.

No units not bringing their firepower to bear as we’ll be steaming forward first turn.

Yes, I’ll need to work on keeping my parking lot a bit more spread out vs S10 templates, but that kinda goes without saying.

So what do we think guys? Strong? Weak in some unforeseen areas?

Let me know what y’all think! (on a side note, it’s a sad day when I field no autocannons! Lol)