u/horsepire

Hi all,

Played my first game of 40K since 4th edition last weekend, and had a lot of fun (even though I got tabled in three turns). I want to play again soon, but I want to switch my list up and take primarily (entirely?) tanks. Because I play imperial guard, damn it!

I feel like I’ve got a decent grasp on the core rules, but am still very much learning the tactics and strategies associated with objectives and stratagems. So, I wanted to run a few questions by the sub:

Is it considered poor form to run an all-armor list at 1k points? I’d be playing a pick up game at my local store and don’t want to be that guy

If all tanks is a dick move, what’s the minimum socially acceptable amount of infantry I need to take, and what type do you recommend?

I’m unfamiliar with how Purge the Foe plays - is the goal mostly to kill things since tanks are bad at holding objectives?

Thanks in advance! Picture of (some of) my tanks for visibility

Played my first game of 40K since 4th edition today.

The brave guardsmen were wiped out to a man when they encountered the would-be fifth chaos god, Vashtor, and a contingent of traitor marines

They fought valiantly, banishing Vashtor back to the warp (for probably about five minutes or so), destroying a Vindicator, and wiping out a squad of cultists and a handful of heretic legionnaires

Commissar Ibram Gaunt fell to a traitor’s demolisher cannon shell

The Lord Commissar and his banner bearer were the last two guardsmen standing.

In death, atonement.

(it was pretty one-sided, but I had a lot of fun! Vashtor seems very hard to kill, and after turn 2 when it was mega obvious that I wasn’t going to win, I focused on banishing his foul presence back to the warp. His hazardous effect alone killed about half the Death Korps. Final score was something like 93-12, I got tabled on turn 3. But at least my army looked better on the table)

I’m getting back into 40K for the first time since 4th edition and wrote up this 1K point list. I’m not incredibly concerned about it being great, but would like a list that will help me learn the nuances of the faction and 11th edition.

The list is:

Krieg command squad

RDTC

2*20 Krieg blocks

Scout sentinel

Basilisk

LRBT

Not sure what detachment is ideal, figured Grizzled?

I have about 3500 points of Guard painted up so I have a lot of freedom to rework things, but these are cool units that I like and this just *feels* like an appropriate Guard list to me.

The original comic by Nathan Pyle involved a cat. But as a corgi owner it spoke to me.

As these heroes of the imperium are finally getting official minis, it seems only right to fit them into kill team somehow - especially since most of the Cain novels revolve around kill team-sized actions.

Inquisitorial Agents seems a bit in the nose, but does include a melee expert with a chainsword, a melta gunner, and, well, inquisitorial agents - who could feasibly stand in for Amberly Vail and company.

Any others make sense, though?