these guys

Aye, I hate how FW. just half-asses a bit of tallarn and are calling it quits for now.
They should do the others too, like Steel Legion, Mordian, Valhallan and the like.

I AM *ALL ABOUT* SIEGE WARFARE!

>IG thread

do you even have to ask? the kreigers embody the very spirit of grimdark

So I just had an epiphany, I saw a picture of Q and thought how he was basically a chaos god of Star Trek, then it hit me Picard is really the God emperor of mankind in that universe.

>>17080419
>midget soldiers

Catachan with ghilliesuits. Cheap, awesome-looking, and bad-ass.

I like the Ghosts.

It's funny because I buy the books out of order so I literally have no idea who's still alive unless they get mentioned somewhere in the book.

Tallarn are boss, a regiment of humans who held off an entire traitor legion AFTER their planet was virus bombed. Best tankers in the galaxy. Too bad Lucien Soulban's book dropped the ball halfway through. Opened very interesting doors into the tribal society of Tallarn's people, only to anticlimax with "oh, then tyranids came. Sorry reader."

Kriegers, aesthetically. Elysian Drop Troops for rules.

Although if Kasrkin Storm Troopers count than them. Seriously, give them plastic/resin and I would jizz my pants.

...and they capture the inherent creepiness of all arab people. Great for the 41st millenium.

Catachan, because it's basically a constant reenactment of Predator on their planet. With Dwarfs.

I always liked the look of the old cadians, especially in the urban camo they had. Back when they were straight up "shock troops"

the supreme guardsmen regiment is without a doubt 2nd-3rd ed pewter cadians with the ALIENS colonial marine helmet. SO boss.

>>17080566
>>17080565
hivemind

Elysian drop troops. They look right at home fighting Elfdar or Tau and aren't just WW2 soldiers in spaaaaaaaaaaaaace!

I've been seeing a lot of mention of Elysian Drop Troops lately.

Elysian Drop Troops. it used to be a toss up between them and Catachan Devils, but the fucking voice actor for them in retribution has ruined them for me pending the delivery of some brain bleach i ordered. gotta respect the people who base their entire army around jumping into combat and taking the enemy apart as fast as...well, landing an army in the middle of hostile forces sounds.

>>17080565

God, I still remember how excited I was when I thought we'd be getting those in plastic. How wrong I was...

>>17080594
>Implying Space Marines don't do literally the same exact thing

>implying Vostroyans aren't the most awesome

I like the look of all the old pewter, especially the HW teams. If they made a kit with generic greatcoats and a mix of turban/gasmask/furhat heads, IG sales would SKYROCKET i tell you, or at least you would see a little more variation than the cadian clones out there.

>>17080613

>already have a line of russian IG
>gw releases another one

>>17080634

Aren't they just based off of different time-periods, though? One's Communist Russian, the others Aristocratic Russian. Suitably different.

>>17080650
I thought they were old Prussian?

>>17080618
Post the one with the Wolverines from Amerigo Secondus.

>Bushmen of Serica

Now my favorite IG army. Just look at that sexy hat.

Praetorians.
I put my Praetorian command squad on horseback, now they really look like British lords out for a bit of war.

>>17080668
>Wolverines
>Amerigo Secondus
those crafty motherfuckers.....

>>17080656

That works, too. Really, I didn't think they were Russian by the looks of it, I was just responding to the guy calling them the "other" Russians. Don't know enough about them other than their looks.

>>17080701
You got to remember, nearly everything in 40k started as a pop culture reference. If you've watched it long enough you can see the trends.

ATTILANS 4 LYFE! WE CHARGE TANKS ON HORSE BACK AND DON'T GIVE A FUCK!

My Renegades, thats what.

Specifically Vrask Renegade models, but still.

Pic related, its my 4 of 10 done so far (some GS work needed)

>>17080707

Nearly? I can't think of something that isn't.

Started? Past tense does not apply here, everything in 40k still starts as a reference to something.

>>17080715
Not only don't give a fuck. Win.

>>17080716

>>17080565
yo anybody got a picture of the imp guard similar to this? I think it was city fight's cover, not sure though... also any more pics like this would be fuckawesome as these are my favorite. I hate the Imp Guard in Retribution, they looked better in Winter Assault (and more canon correct but still not my favorite).

Sly Marbo is my favorite IG regiment.

>>17080613
I wish they make plastic or resin Vostroyans.

>>17080758
This.

Vostroyans are Cossacks, not Russians.

Me, I love the Steel Legion. Mechanized infantry specializing in rapid deployment.

Kruss, Taymyr, Aquitaine, and Necromunda.

>>17080928

The Jumael I 'Lucky Aces'

>>17080634
>>17080656

God damnit, EVERYTIME. The Vostroyans are COSSACK not Russian.

>>17080978
Aren't they the same thing...? I don't get it.

>>17080978
The Vostroyans, according to John Blanche, who would know, are equal parts cossack and redcoat and generic archaic swashbuckler.

>>17080978
So... they're escaped Russian peasants?

>>17081056
Cossacks are nomadic raiders that live on the steppes. They were almost all supporters of the Tsar in the Russian civil war and hated the communists with a passion.

I wish they had a battalion set for the Steel Legion, or an in-store plastic kit, would buy it in a heart beat.

>>17081056
That's like saying Mongols = Han Chinese or Taureg = Arab.

>>17081079
To most Americans, non english-ethnic = all the same.

>>17081056

It really depends on which Cossacks we are talking about. Don ones were as Russian as it gets. Zaporozhye were more Ukrainian\Polish blend. There was another formation somewhere in Russia, but they were similar to Don Cossaks.

>>17081056

... Yes, being born in Russia means automatically you're a communist.

>>17081153

/sarcasm

FIFTY POSTS IN AND NOBODY HAS SAID MORDIAN?

YOU SORRY LOT ARE GONNA BE POLISHING SO MANY BUTTONS YOUR FINGERS WILL SHINE SILVER! WHO'S GOING TO HOLD THE LINE WHEN THE VERY FORCES OF CHAOS COME BEARING DOWN ON YOU? NOT THOSE DRESS-WEARING NINNIES WITH THEIR HEAD SCARVES. NOT THE BARE-CHESTED MACHO MEN. NOT THOSE BATSHIT-CRAZY GRAV-JUMPERS. WHEN YOU WANT SOMEONE WHO WALKS THROUGH HELL AND COMES OUT THE OTHER SIDE WITH A FLAWLESS UNIFORM, CALL THE MORDIAN IRON GUARD!

HOO-AH!

Chemdogs do it dirty, quick, and steal everything in the process.

>>17080618

Seeing all these regiments got me thinking... What if /tg/ were to make a random IG regiment generator, the way we made a Chaos SM generator by modifying the Rites of Battle tables? Think it would work?

>>17081178
>Another day nearer the battle
>Drink up lads and look brave
>For another day nearer the battle
>Is another day nearer the grave

>>17081178

Mordians are boring. Sorry we weren't joining your US Marine Corps jerk off session.

>>17081249
As a mordian player, I hate people who use that color scheme.

Ratlings are an under-rated aspect of the Imperial Guard imo.

>>17081249
>Sorry we weren't joining your US Marine Corps jerk off session
>Mordians
>US Marines

>>17081178
Praetorians do it better, with the addition of a touch of sophistication.

>>17081199
I think there's already one.
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/17023043
Good hunting.

>>17081266
>Praetorians do okay too, with the addition of either needlessly overt historical reference or steampunk idiocy depending on the character of their owner.

>>17081249
Actually, they're painted like the Royal Irish Constabulary.

Mordians are fucking awesome. They are the definition of discipline and grit. They don't go in for flash in the pan. They don't believe in separate dress and combat uniforms. They go to battle in their dress uniforms, and woe betide the poor sot whose uniform is dirty at the end of a battle. That poor sot had better pray he's dead.

>>17081266
> Praetorians do it with bolt-action rifles

>>17081289
>>17081260
They come in a range of colours, but they were specifically modelled off the Marine Corp.

>>17081339
> they were specifically modeled after late-19th and early-20th century European military uniforms

The USMC hardly invented that style of uniform, and it used to be that those were COMBAT uniforms.

>>17081339
I think you'll find their uniforms are rather generic for a napoleonic/dress uniform, with an element of stereotype Zapp Brannigan style space cadet. That is, a very simplified, futuristic, and archetypal version of an archaic fancy infantryman. They don't have the breast pockets or arm insignia of the US marine dress uniform, but they do have epaulets. They wear high boots instead of long pants. Blah blah. You could paint them, if you wanted, to look like a damn lot of armies from the last couple centuries.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/USMC_uniforms.jpg/350px-USMC_uniforms.jpg

>>17081339
>they were specifically modelled off the Marine Corp
Which is why they have close-order volley fire, just like the Marines do!

>>17081268

It was a very incomplete one-post generator that, frankly, should be thrown out the window in favor of a better one more in the same vein of the other generators.

I had hoped that that thread wouldn't have 404'd on me when I went off to work, and that you or someone else would still be on, because I was actually really hoping to hammer out a gen for them, Tyranids, Tau, or Dark Eldar.

>>17081268

Ah, nice, but that table looks incomplete. I'll repost it (with my changes) in this thread, and expand on it as well.

>Regiment classification(1d6)
1-4: Imperial Guard
5: Planetary Defence Force
6: Militia

>Regiment core units (1d100)
1-40:Infantry Regiment
40-50:Light Infantry
50-60:Heavy Infantry
70-75:Mechanized Infantry
75-80:Drop
80-85:Armoured
85-90:Artillery
90-99:Siege
100:Abhuman

>Specialization (1d10)

1-Drill & Discipline
2-Counter
3-Stealth Warfare
4-Lightning Strike
5-Trench Warfare
6-Close Combat
7-Ranged Combat
8-Shock & Awe
9-Guerilla Warfare
10-Hive Warfare

Loyalty rating (1d6)

1: Overzealous: need to be actively held back from giving their lives for the Emperor
2-3: Fanatical: No remorse, no retreat, no fear.
4-5: Adherent: Hold fast to the Creed and His will.
6: Unorthodox: Serve the Emperor in ways frowned upon by most in the Administratum.

Gender composition (1d6):

1-3: Mixed
3-4: Male only
4: Female only

rolled 3 = 3

>>17081449
Gonna roll one up here. See what it comes up with.

Vostroyan and Valhallan.
>>17081449
No penal legion? And should add a Shock Trooper in regiment classification. Like the Cadian.
Also add their main enemy since most Guards regiment have their rivals.
Like Chaos or Orks.

rolled 78 = 78

>>17081474
Nice. IG. Rolling for regiment core units.

>>17081449

The homeworld generator from Rites of Battle can be copy pasted for this.
Home World
D100 Roll Result
1-25 Hive World
26-45 Feral World
46-60 Death World
61-70 Medieval World
71-80 Civilised World
81-90 Uninhabited World
91-100 Fleet-Based

Home World Predominant Terrain
1-25 Jungle
26-50 Desert
51-60 Ice
61-65 Ocean
66-75 Wasteland
76-80 Urban
81-85 Dead
86-90 Airless
91-100 Temperate

Okay, not copy/pasted. Something to replace 'uninhabited.'

Fleet-based could work. Entire generations are born and raised on fleets. Maybe that just means the regiment was founded with those people, and are ship-based security forces.

rolled 10 = 10

>>17081480
DROPERS. FUCK YEAH.
Specialization is next.

>>17081479
These are good ideas.

>>17081479

That's a good point, not sure why anon took the penal legion away.

If we made "infantry regiment" 1-35, and knock all of the others down by five, we could have 94-99 be Shock Troopers.

rolled 4, 2 = 6

>>17081488
We drop into hives by the regiment...?
Rolling for loyalty and gender at the same time.

Rites of Battle Friends and Enemies list
Friends
D100 Roll Result
1-5 Administratum
6-15 Adeptus Arbites
16-30 Adeptus Astartes Chapter
31-35 Adeptus Astra Telepathica
36-45 Adeptus Mechanicus
46-50 Adepta Sororitas
51-55 Adeptus Titanicus
56-58 Astropaths
59-60 Chartist Captains
61-65 Ecclesiarchy
66-75 Imperial Guard (specific World)
76-79 Imperial Navy
80-85 Inquisition
86-88 Navigators
89-91 Officio Assassinorum
92-93 PDF (specific World)
94-98 Rogue Trader Dynasty
99 Schola Progenium
100 Scholastica Psykana

Enemies
D100 Roll Result
1-2 Roll On Friends table
3-31 The Orks
32-42 The Eldar
43-51 The Tyranids
52-68 Chaos Space Marines
69-79 Daemon Prince/Daemon/Disciple of Chaos
80-87 Chaos-aligned Group
88-96 Dark Eldar
97-98 The Tau
99-100 Other

>>17081449
The original didn't have a "gender roll" like that. It had a much more varied table for regimental recruitment restrictions, ranging from priesthood to convicts to subhumans to noble-first born to clones, with all-male and all-female on the list too. And with 10 being "roll again three times".

>>17080618
>Fornus Lix

In the 41st millenium, Kane still lives.

rolled 98, 80 = 178

>>17081501
Last roll, unless there's more to be added like preferred enemy and such.

>>17081505
Original is this:
>What Kinda of defence force is the regiment(1d7)
1-3: Imperial Guard
3-4: Planetary Defence Force
5-6: Militia
7: Penal Legion
>What is the type of the Regiment(1d100)
1-40:Infantry Regiment
40-50:Light Infantry
50-60:Heavy Infantry
70-75:Mechanized Infantry
75-80:Drop
80-85:Armoured
85-90:Artillery
90-99:Siege
100:Abhuman
>What is the Specialty of the Regiment
1-Drill & Discipline:
2-Counter
3-Stealth Warfare:
4-Lightning Strike:
5-Trench Warfare:
6-Close Combat:
7-Ranged Combat:
8-Shock & Awe:
>How Loyal they're to the Imperium
1-2:Fanatical:
3-4:Loyal:
5:Divergent: They will not accept quickly some of the Authority, like the Commissars
>The Regiment is mostly composed by:
1-2:Male/Female
3:Female
4:Male

If you have another version or an entirely different generator, please post it.

rolled 75, 61 = 136

>>17081503
Fleet-based, but hailing from an urban world.

Fuck, if I weren't a poorfag I'd have forged several different divisions of these guys by now.

Total badasses who can handle threats even the space marines would have trouble handling, all while cracking jokes and having a beer and burger after the skirmish. They're refreshing in their simplicity.

>>17081514
> all female penal close combat artillery

I like. Bitches driving Medusas.

>>17081520

If you roll Fleet-based, you don't roll a homeworld. For Marines, you can to have multiple recruitment worlds, but if it's a IG regiment founded through those born and raised on ships in the void? No homeworld. You can say the Urban thing is just a descriptor of the ships, though. Almost cities in their own right, which 40k ships actually kind of are.

>>17081514
I don't have it, and it may have been an entirely different one. The thread I contributed to had a much longer generator than that by the time it died.

>>17081525
> Total badasses who can handle threats even the space marines would have trouble handling

They're good for Imperial Guard, but they aren't that good.

rolled 95, 96 = 191

>>17081520
So finally:
>Imperial Guard Regiment
>Drop Troopers
>Specializing in Hive Warfare
>Adherent but adaptive, mixed regiment
>Originally from urban dominated world, now fleet-based
>Have allies from Cadia, gained by fighting CSM

>>17081529
Except those would be Imperial Navy armsmen, an entirely different thing.

>Loyalty rating (1d10)
1: Overzealous: need to be actively held back from giving their lives for the Emperor
2-3: Fanatical: No remorse, no retreat, no fear.
4-5: Adherent: Hold fast to the Creed and His will.
6-7: Undisciplined: Faith in the Emperor is not doubted but don't expect them to bow to authority figures.
8: Indifference: They're not fighting for the Emperor but they serve the Imperium.
9: Unorthodox: Serve the Emperor in ways frowned upon by most in the Administratum.
10: Heretical: This regiment have abandon the truth of the Emperor.

>Recruitment composition (1d6):
1-5: Mixed
5-6: Male only
7: Noble only (BLUE BLOOD)
8: Female only
9: Partisan only (Gaunt Ghost recruit from Verghist)
10: Survivors from Other regiment (Think Gaunt Ghost after Gereon)
----
I redid some of the loyalty rating and change gender to recruitment.

>>17081449

>Homeworld (1d100)

1-25 Hive World
26-40 Feral World
41-50 Death World
51-60 Forge World
61-70 Medieval World
71-80 Civilised World
81-90 Shrine World
91-100 Homeworld Lost

>Home World Predominant Terrain (d100)
1-25 Jungle
26-50 Desert
51-60 Ice
61-65 Ocean
66-75 Wasteland
76-80 Urban
81-85 Dead
86-90 Airless
91-100 Temperate

>Nature of recruitment (1d10)
1 Punishment/redemption/recycling: recruits are gathered from convicts and the dregs of society
2-4: Elite tithe: The best of the best of the planet are sent to the regiment
5-10 Standard conscription: Average or above-average citizens recruited from all levels of society.

>Special Equipment (d100)

1-10 Traditional Weapon
11-20 War Trophies
21-30 Specialized Lasgun Pattern
31-40 Exotic Mounts
41-50 Rare Heavy Weapon
51-60 Blessed Wargear
61-70 Augumented Troops
71-80 Special Vehicle
81-90 Preferred Fighting Style
91-100 Modified Weaponry

>Regiment Creed
1-40 For The Homeworld: This regiment's mission is to demonstrate the skill and steel of the homeworld to the rest of the Imperium.
41-65 For the Emperor: Fervent belief in the Imperial cult and the righteous mission of the Imperium fuels this regiment.
66-75 Best of the Best: The regiment believes itself to be elite and constantly strives to prove itself.
76-80 Glory In Death: The regiment's mission is to die, and take as many enemies with it as possible.
81-85 We Must Repent: The regiment believes it is on a mission to pay for their homeworld's sins with blood.
86-90 Tribal Faiths: This regiment is beholden to primitive beliefs. If from a civilized world, clannish practices from hive gang cultures or other such traditions predominate.
91-95 Steel Over Flesh: This regiment believes the way to victory is through machine augumentation.
96-100 Esoteric Beliefs

>>17081529
Ah, gotcha.
It'd be cool if they're world was once a very nice, cosmopolitan hiveworld, but CSMs invaded it and fucked it up. Most of the population retreated to their massive fleet, and set to work at rebuilding their ships in the image of their lost homeworld.

>What Kinda of defence force is the regiment(1d10)
1-4: Imperial Guard
5-6: Planetary Defence Force
7-8: Penal Legion
9: Militia
10: Imperial Navy Armsmen

rolled 10, 7 = 17

>>17081546
Nice, more to roll for. Gonna be doing Special Equipment and Regiment Creed

>>17081551

I like that idea, the fleet as fleeing survivors making due.

For the extra grimderp, the Imperium don't give a rat's ass and still demands appropriate tithes and regiment foundings.

>>17081553
One problem is that Naval Armsmen aren't a part of the Imperial Guard, and fall under the authority of the Navy.

>>17081536
Not necessarily. If the men are appended to the Navy, they are Armsmen. If they are appended to the Guard, they are Guardsmen. The two branches are separate, and operate mostly under separate chains of command (except at the very highest echelons, such as a Warmaster and his general staff). Just because they're born on the ship doesn't make them part of the Captain's crew - see, for example, Tanith babbys.

>>17081568

Neither is the PDF or the militia. That's why there's an option for being Imperial Guard.

>>17081537
>Recruitment criteria
1-15: All male
16-25: All female [feel free to adjust the proportion of all-male to all-female as you see fit; it's your canon...]
26-30: Caste-born
31-35: Nobility
36-40: Priesthood
41-45: Subhumans
46-50: Tribespeople
51-55: Lottery
56-60: Space pilgrims
61-65: First-born
66-70: Vat-grown
71-85: Gangers
86-95: Convicts
96-00: Roll D3+1 more times on this chart.

So, if it's been decided, could someone compile the IG rolltable in a string of posts? I'd like to save them as a txt file, just like the other rolltables.

rolled 1 = 1

>>17081562
"Avenge The Homeworld". I like it.
What's a "traditional weapon", though? I'm imagining a bunch of IG dropping into a hive and pulling out longswords.

>>17081585

Workin' on it.

>>17081585

Some of the tables overlap, but I suppose we could hammer out a coherent generator from this.

>>17081578
But I think it's safe to assume that PDFs fall under IG command if an IG officer is around, and that militia would generally need to cooperate with IG or face the wrath of the Commissariat. Guard and Navy are segregated rigorously, and with good reason - so that the Horus Heresy can't happen again.

>>17081585
>Regiment classification(1d6)
1-4: Imperial Guard
5-6: Planetary Defence Force
7-8: Penal Legion
9: Militia
10: Mixed Regiment

>Homeworld (1d100)
1-25 Hive World
26-40 Feral World
41-50 Death World
51-60 Forge World
61-70 Medieval World
71-80 Civilised World
81-90 Shrine World
91-100 Homeworld Lost

>Home World Predominant Terrain (d100)
1-25 Jungle
26-50 Desert
51-60 Ice
61-65 Ocean
66-75 Wasteland
76-80 Urban
81-85 Dead
86-90 Airless
91-100 Temperate

>Regiment core units (1d100)
1-40:Infantry Regiment
40-50:Light Infantry
50-60:Heavy Infantry
70-75:Mechanized Infantry
75-80:Drop
80-85:Armoured
85-90:Artillery
90-99:Siege
100:Abhuman

>Specialization (1d10)

1-Drill & Discipline
2-Counter
3-Stealth Warfare
4-Lightning Strike
5-Trench Warfare
6-Close Combat
7-Ranged Combat
8-Shock & Awe
9-Guerilla Warfare
10-Hive Warfare

>>17081588

An entire regiment of Jack Churchills? My god.

>>17081607
>Loyalty rating (1d10)

1: Overzealous: need to be actively held back from giving their lives for the Emperor
2-3: Fanatical: No remorse, no retreat, no fear.
4-5: Adherent: Hold fast to the Creed and His will.
6-7: Undisciplined: Will follow the Emperor but don't expect them to bow to authority figures.
8-9: Unorthodox: Serve the Emperor in ways frowned upon by most in the Administratum.
10: Heretical: This regiment have abandon the truth of the Emperor.

>Recruitment criteria (1d100)
1-15: All male
16-25: All female [feel free to adjust the proportion of all-male to all-female as you see fit; it's your canon...]
26-30: Caste-born
31-35: Nobility
36-40: Priesthood
41-45: Subhumans
46-50: Tribespeople
51-55: Lottery
56-60: Space pilgrims
61-65: First-born
66-70: Vat-grown
71-85: Gangers
86-95: Convicts
96-100: Roll D3+1 more times on this chart.

>Nature of recruitment (1d10)
1 Punishment/redemption/recycling: recruits are gathered from convicts and the dregs of society
2-4: Elite tithe: The best of the best of the planet are sent to the regiment
5-10 Standard conscription: Average or above-average citizens recruited from all levels of society.

>Special Equipment (d100)
1-10 Traditional Weapon
11-20 War Trophies
21-30 Specialized Lasgun Pattern
31-40 Exotic Mounts
41-50 Rare Heavy Weapon
51-60 Blessed Wargear
61-70 Augumented Troops
71-80 Special Vehicle
81-90 Preferred Fighting Style
91-100 Modified Weaponry

>>17081617
>Regiment Creed
1-40 For The Homeworld: This regiment's mission is to demonstrate the skill and steel of the homeworld to the rest of the Imperium.
41-65 For the Emperor: Fervent belief in the Imperial cult and the righteous mission of the Imperium fuels this regiment.
66-75 Best of the Best: The regiment believes itself to be elite and constantly strives to prove itself.
76-80 Glory In Death: The regiment's mission is to die, and take as many enemies with it as possible.
81-85 We Must Repent: The regiment believes it is on a mission to pay for their homeworld's sins with blood.
86-90 Tribal Faiths: This regiment is beholden to primitive beliefs. If from a civilized world, clannish practices from hive gang cultures or other such traditions predominate.
91-95 Steel Over Flesh: This regiment believes the way to victory is through machine augumentation.
96-100 Esoteric Beliefs

>Friends
1-5 Administratum
6-15 Adeptus Arbites
16-30 Adeptus Astartes Chapter
31-35 Adeptus Astra Telepathica
36-45 Adeptus Mechanicus
46-50 Adepta Sororitas
51-55 Adeptus Titanicus
56-58 Astropaths
59-60 Chartist Captains
61-65 Ecclesiarchy
66-75 Imperial Guard (specific World)
76-79 Imperial Navy
80-85 Inquisition
86-88 Navigators
89-91 Officio Assassinorum
92-93 PDF (specific World)
94-98 Rogue Trader Dynasty
99 Schola Progenium
100 Scholastica Psykana

>Enemies
1-2 Roll On Friends table
3-31 The Orks
32-42 The Eldar
43-51 The Tyranids
52-68 Chaos Space Marines
69-79 Daemon Prince/Daemon/Disciple of Chaos
80-87 Chaos-aligned Group
88-96 Dark Eldar
97-98 The Tau
99-100 Other

rolled 35 = 35

>>17081612
This is now canon for the regiment, then!

>>17081588
Damn. Might reroll this one, it doesn't fit too well with anything else.

>>17081565
For SUPERGRIMDERP, the tithe wasn't just men. Their homeworld had an important resource (wood or something), and the Administratum still demands it despite there not being a homeworld any longer. They've been making due with help from friendly systems, but their time is running out.

Rolling for >>17081581 Improved recruitment criteria, hope I get something better.

>>17081607

>Regiment core units (1d100)
1-35:Infantry Regiment
36-45:Light Infantry
46-55:Heavy Infantry
56-70:Mechanized Infantry
71-75:Drop
76-80:Armoured
81-85:Artillery
86-95:Siege
96-99:Shock Troopers
100:Abhuman

There's your shock troopers. Keep going, though, your list is otherwise matching mine.

>>17081606

Okay, and?

>>17081624
> 35: Nobility.
The noble families were given the duty of defending the Homeworld in the name of the Emperor. They failed. Though their people live on, the Homeworld was lost. Now, the nobles have taken it upon themselves to lead the charge against their enemies.

Any ideas for specific legion they hate? I'm thinking a slaneshi warband. Looked at the beauty of their home, and decided they wanted it more.

>>17081624
>like wood or something

Is . . . is this a Tanith survivor regiment?

Keep the Naval Armsmen.

We're doing a generation table for regiments, and it can be used for Naval Armsmen just as easily as it can be used for IG. Without any of the one Anon's perceived problems with it.

Hay, guise, where are you pulling those rules from? What is this rites of battle?

>>17081617

Hmm. A few issues with the tables.

If I roll a 10 on the Loyalty Rating table (Heretical), what do I do if I roll For the Emperor or similar on the Creed table? Is it some kind of Alpha Legion IG?

Also, if I roll a 1 on the Nature of Recruitment table, doesn't that conflict with a lot of rolls on the Recruitment Criteria table? I could get a regiment of convicted nobles. Conversely, if I roll a 2-4 on Nature, and 41-45 on Criteria, that would lead to an elite regiment of subhumans.

>>17081654
Jesus, it would be cool if it were, but this would have to be an EXTREMELY lost regiment. Lexicanum says no women made it off, no civilians, no one outside of the First and Only. If the Administratum is still demanding tithes, they would have to know about this.

>>17081662
A Deathwatch Rule book that have a Space Marine chapter creation rules.
>>17081666
>Alpha Legion IG
Maybe. It's your regiment. You can fluff it as they use the power of Chaos against the enemy of the Emperor or something.
>Convicted Nobles
Well sure. You don't expect those nobles to work with other convicts do you?

>>17081666

No. You can just say that, while your regiment is fanatically for the Emperor, their ways of expressing it, or their vision of the Emperor, would be seen as heretical to others.

>>17081621

Also, for the Enemies table, I think we should modify the probability of Daemons and such appearing as the enemies, because I don't think most IG regiments would fight daemons on a regular basis. I dunno though.

>>17081666
Heretics who don't know they're heretics? Worship Khorne and use heretical tactics, thinking it's Emps' will?

>>17081677
They might face one Daemon that deal a huge damage or them that cause the IG regiment to have HATRED and RAGE for all daemon.

>>17081607
>>17081617
>>17081621
>>17081634
Thanks muchachos, Stalker. Here, have something.

>>17081677

Here:
>Enemies
1-2 Roll On Friends table
3-31 The Orks
32-42 The Eldar
43-51 The Tyranids
52-68 Renegade/Traitor Guard
69-79 Necrons
80-87 Chaos-aligned Group
88-96 Dark Eldar
97-98 The Tau
99-100 Other

All Daemons, Cultists, Traitor Marines, and etc, can be found in Chaos-aligned Group. Roller can choose for himself.

>>17081644
... And that makes PDF and Militia viable as Guard Regiments and Armsmen not so much.

>>17081687
...I was the one that requested that.
Thanks anyway.

>>17081681

That would work, but doesn't it conflict with canon sources that state that IG regiments are mindwiped after fighting daemons? Unless they fight Chaos constantly, like Cadians, that is. Well, I suppose it's no big deal.

>>17081692

And that doesn't hurt the tables we're forming at all.

>>17081672
>A Deathwatch Rule book that have a Space Marine chapter creation rules.
Oh, and I thought it sounded familiar...

So how do you apply it to IG regiment creation?

And what have you got so far?

>>17081666
>Also, if I roll a 1 on the Nature of Recruitment table, doesn't that conflict with a lot of rolls on the Recruitment Criteria table? I could get a regiment of convicted nobles. Conversely, if I roll a 2-4 on Nature, and 41-45 on Criteria, that would lead to an elite regiment of subhumans.

Nobody is above the law. Afriel Strain. Problems solved?
The universe is a big place.

>>17081704

All of the quotes in this >>17081687 post are to the tables we've created so far. There were some modifications after that post, though.

>>17081649

I like your guys. I'm seeing a regiment of diehard valiant knights, the nobles seeing it as their mission to lead from the front of the attack, and all adhering to the principle that "any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed." Some kind of paratrooper Highlanders.

>>17081695
oh yeeeah.
How about this then eh?
More mechanized silliness!

>>17081706

Yeah, you and the others who posted have quelled my doubts. I'm approving of the table. Besides, eccentric results mean awesome fluff. That's how we got the Emperor's Nightmares, after all.

>>17081713
Nice. Feel free to add fluff, ever'one.
>Nobles see it as a matter of sport to reach terminal velocity first. Making landfall first is purely a matter of honor and good leadership, though.

>>17081700
I didn't say it would. I was just making a fluff clarification.

>>17081713

I like.

Okay, so. The homeworld is gone. And the nobility regiment are convicts.

What if the planet got Exterminatus'd? Imperium fried the planet in response to . . . Hey, Alpha Legion. Alpha Legion got in through nobility, but only specific ones. The nobility got rounded up, those guilty are dead. Planet got buzzed. Surviving nobility just so happens to be regiment-sized . . .

>>17081666
Elite subhumans. . . Wasn't there an albino regiment of basically that?

>>17081734

Then this conversation need proceed no further.

>Guardsmen thread

Seriously? Seriously?

Don't make me say it.

>>17081697
>Mindwiped after fighting daemons
Well shit. Uh then maybe they got some sort of special exception?
Maybe they're placed under watch by the Inquisition and they're required to help them at anytime?
>>17081724
Noice. Thank you.

>>17081741
SPITEFUL LAST WORD

>>17081736
Nobles now fight to
>Keep their population alive and well housed within massive city-ships and
>Hunt down the Alpha Legion, and avenge their lost home.

>>17081660
Naval Armsmen are a lot more homogenized than Imperial Guard, both in equipment and customs.

>>17081747

I didn't say it out of spite, and I apologize if it came off that way. I was just trying to end an unnecessary side-conversation while we built and modified a creation table.

>>17081761
no, I meant that to be my spiteful last word. It was supposed to be a joke. But, you know, tone of voice and internet.

Did I mention Mordians are fucking awesome?

>>17081757

This is true, but unless we create an entirely separate Creation table for them I still feel they should have a home in this one.

>>17081756

Are we still saying Cadians are our Allies?

Why not create one more Regiment, and count them as the allies. Consider this new Regiment part of an actual army that the noble regiment is attached too, since it's not large enough to be useful on its own.

For as long as the nobility fights with the fleet its attached to, the Imperium will continue to support it and its surviving citizens, but ONLY as long as they do.

How in the hell do you drop into a hive?

>>17081769

I understand. That's why I tried to be super-polite and formal in answer and hoped it wouldn't come off as sarcastic.

Mordians are fucking awesome.

>>17081786
You blow a hole and drop into them. That or crash your transport ship into the Hive.
Much easier. Although it will be more costly.

>>17081786

Slam the drop pods through the exterior shell high, high up where the enemy command tends to be. Cut off the head as soon as possible, work way down.

>>17081780
Let's do it. The only thing would be that the allies were originally used to support the civilians while the nobility fought for redemption and the administratum made its outrageous demands. As long as that gets sorted out, I'm fine with it.

>>17081794

Oh yeah, drop pods are Astartes things.

Take STALKER's "You blow a hole and drop into them" instead of "slam the drop pod"

>>17081730
>>17081736

Name: Kamakan Sky Reavers
Insignia: a longsword and lasgun crossed, behind them is a white Pegasus on a black starfield

Planet Kamak was a jewel of a world, rolling hills and great plains where huge herds of Grox and native herbivores roamed freely. Noble Kamakan families, known as Sheperds, all originate from cattle-rustling nomad tribes that first settled the world, and even though they long abandoned the traditional lifestyle for city comforts, the Sheperd ideal of a noble leading his "flock" survived. When a Chaos incursion tore the world apart, noble families found themselves embroiled in a bitter civil war wherein age-old grudges between Sheperd clans flared up, fueled by Alpha Legion infiltration and manipulation. As the war raged on, Exterminatus became inevitable. The surviving Loyalist families gathered their flocks of commoners and fought a desperate struggle to the spaceport, holding advancing waves of cultists and traitor Astartes long enough to evacuate on trader barges and bulk haulers. It was from this crucible that the Sky Reavers were born.

>>17081796

Think Sabbat Crusade. Planet gets overrun with Alpha Legion and its supporters in a sector gone mad. Imperium's crusade to get it back strikes our homeworld. Fails to save it, decides to exterminatus. Nobility is taken away, becomes the rolled regiment. The forces that were stationed on the planet pre-Exterminatus are the forces the rolled regiment tags along with and fights alongside. Therefore, they fight by the side of those who fought and died to save our homeworld. That they failed does nothing to lessen that bond.

>>17081803
>Planet Kamak
I'm not sure about that name... Otherwise, GO ON.

>>17081803

Kamakan needs some work. Just doesn't sound right. Rest is good.

>>17081803

Considering the Shepherd thing, I think Sky Shepherds sounds better than Reavers.

But Kamak is a palidromemordilap!

>>17081815
So the planet was largely evacuated pre-exterminatus? Nice. Roll it up. Some stuff will already be set because of the association, though.

>>17081824
>>17081819
How about Karmak? Kinda ties in with Egyptian/Israeli/Shepherd. Biblical.

>>17081832
Just hit up thesaurs. Found the word "chasers".
I like he sound of "Sky Chasers".

>>17081838

But remember, we're also Highlanders. But Highlanders also refers to Irish, and my second favorite historical Irish figures is Cormac MacAirt.

Cormac
Karmac

Karmac is good to me.

>>17081846

Ehhh.

New regiment!

rolled 2 = 2

>>17081861
Fail

>>17081803 here, adapting fluff after your suggestions guys. I got the name "Kamakan" from captcha and decided to roll with it.

>>17081838 nice suggestion, will change to Karmakan. I also like the "Space Moses leading his people" vibe. Mix it with the highlander theme we already have and it's great.

>>17081832 this goes in too.

>>17081835 I wouldn't say "largely" evacuated. It was a desperate scramble to get as many people off the world as possible.

Combining the traditional duelist mentality of Sheperd nobles with the space-borne nature of the regiment, Karmacans specialize in daring airdrop tactics where Valkyries swoop in from orbit to deliver Karmacan troops behind enemy lines or into the thick of battle. Sky Sheperd commanders lead from the front, wielding heirloom longswords passed down from the first Sheperd patriarch lines, often fitted with powerfield upgrades to make them effective against enemy armor.

rolled 60, 62, 72 = 194

>>17081865

Imperial Guard!

I normally run Elysians, and then Vassals dice generator gives me this:
Regimental Classification: Imperial Guard
Regimental Core Units: Heavy Infantry
Regimental Specialization: Guerrilla warfare
Loyalty Rating: Indifference- They're not fighting for the Emperor but they serve the Imperium.
Composition: Mixed Sex
Home World: Civilized
Home World Predominant Terrain: Wasteland
Recruitment: Survivors from Other regiment
Special Equipment: Modified Weaponry
Regimental Creed: Best of the Best: The regiment believes itself to be elite and constantly strives to prove itself.
Friends: Adeptus Astartes Chapter
Hated Enemy: Tau

rolled 4, 3 = 7

>>17081870

Ocean Forge Homeworld, ALSO DROP oriented. So they drop together. Maybe the competition is between them who will land first and kill the head first?

I am a big fan of the Drookian Fen Guard

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Drookian_Fen_Guard#.TtibMdX3rls

http://www.victorialamb.com/wugs/drookian%20gallery/index.htm

rolled 8 = 8

>>17081877

Lightning Strike, makes sense for Drops and Fanatical. Could be fun!

>>17081877
>Ocean Forge Homeworld
RAPTURE HO
>who will land first and kill the head first?
I kind of read that as who will land head first. I imagine the surviving rate of this regiment is very low in combat and high in deployment.

rolled 6 = 6

>>17081881

All male. So a catch-all recruitment, so long as male.

>>17081866
Really liking this. Are the massive city-ships gonna make an entrance at any point?

rolled 6, 89, 50 = 145

>>17081888

Standard conscription, fits with the all-male.

rolled 31, 90, 31 = 152

>>17081893

For the Homeworld! Creed.

Fucking love those Assassinorum guys, and fucking hate them 'nids.

I realize they're already allied with Karmakian Sky Shepherds, the extra roll is just to see who was their ally before this and after.

>>17081901

That's it, by the way.

>>17080581
jesus fuck that inspired me to start painting my models again!


also I wish I could have guardsmen fighting alongside my csm

Since we've already brought up Tanith parallels, why not do the Guant's Ghosts, Gereon, Vervunhiver mixture.

During the war, new rolled regiment got decimated and recruited the nobles to fill the numbers.

>>17081891

A traditionally free-roaming people that idealized a nomadic lifestyle, Karmacans found it difficult to adapt to life in the cramped confinements of the modified barges and container ships they now call home. Most of the interior of the city-vessels have been painted with scenes of the lost homeworld, and shrines to the Emperor always include a small volume of soil from Karmac as a reminder of what the people has lost and what they are fighting for.

I enjoy the regiment from this commissar world, they all wear the traditional commissar suit.

>>17081901
In the dying days of the Karmakian homeworld, a handful of military commanders received an urgent message from the most unlikely of sources. The Officio Assassinorium would be sending teams of assassins to "assist" in the evacuation of Karmak. Suddenly, bands of Alpha Legionnaires would disappear from auspexes. Spaceports would be cleared of any enemies. It seemed as if the very will of the Emperor demanded that Karmak be saved, in one form or another...

These days, it isn't unusual for the Officio to "assist" with difficult operations, usually clearing a path for the more direct tactics of the Rapture drop troopers. It also isn't unusual for the officio to "borrow" troopers and for them to return telling tales of fighting tyranids...

>not my best work, feel free to change whatever.

>>17081918
An entire regiment of Commissar.
Meet an entire regiment of Catachan.
So much anger and hatred from both side.
>>17081922
Why would the Assassinorium be interested in the Karmak? Also
>"borrow" troopers and for them to return telling tales of fighting tyranids...
>"borrow"
I'm kind of getting the feeling that this isn't the Assassinorium and more of the Blood Raven.

>>17081917
Soil is almost holy for the Karmakians. Most of it was ironically brought onto the ships by a would-be entrepreneur, who schemed to restart the agriculture of their homeworld in the holds of the ship. Nowadays, the soil is considered something of a relic. It isn't unheard of for troopers to wear small vials around their necks when they drop. "Don't lose your ground" is considered something of a blessing.

>>17081930
Don't know. Figured it would make a decent plothook. Probably thought this due to lack of sleep.

>>17081901

Name: Hansa Mobile Infantry
The busy Forge World of Hansa III houses its citizens in vast mobile dredge-manufactorums, continent-sized mining platforms that tirelessly traverse the planet's endless ocean, gathering minerals and petroleum from the ocean floor, and building the great macro cannon batteries that adorn Navy ships in this subsector. During the conflict that tore through the neighboring Karmac system, Hansa also became a battleground. Several of the great wake-cities were invaded and befouled by Chaos incursion, but because of the great strategic value of Hansa to the Imperium, Exterminatus was not an option. The manufactorums were reclaimed, inch by inch, every victory bought with blood. Still, the retaken wake-cities are now seen as haunted places, civilians reluctant to settle the deepest levels, whispers of monstrous creatures preying on miners abound.

Following the evacuation of Karmac, the survivor fleet made a stop at Hansa to resupply. At that point, a lare detachment of Sky Sheperds was seconded to the Hansan Mobile 'infantry to recoup the losses they sustained in the fight to retake their homes.

rolled 8 = 8

Rolling one, let's see what we get...

rolled 64, 33, 39 = 136

>>17082045

Penal Legion

rolled 10 = 10

>>17082051

Penal Legion

Light infantry, desert medieval world

rolled 4 = 4

Penal Legion

Light infantry, desert medieval world

Hive warfare specialization (wtf?!)

rolled 50, 27, 82, 52, 8, 43, 73 = 335

Rolling remaining d10s as d100s to save posts...

>>17081986

While initially tension between the regiments was high, Hanseans viewing the Karmacans as primitive, stuck-up savages and the Karmacans looking down at the taciturn, individualistic Hanseans, combat operations quickly showed the two regiments complemented each other well, the Karmacans providing leadership and exemplary bravery, and the Hanseans offering their well-maintained and masterfully crafted weapons as well as their experience in cityfighting. It was also found that several Karnacans greatly enjoyed the Hansean national pastime: surfing.

Hunh. This is kind of a WTF.

Classification: Penal Legion
Homeworld: Medieval World
Homeworld Terrain: Desert
Core Units: Light Infantry
Specializations: Hive Warfare
Loyalty: Adherent
Recruitment: Caste-born, Standard Conscription
Special Equipment: Blessed Wargear
Creed: For the Homeworld
Friends: Adeptus Mechanicus
Enemies: Daemon Prince/Daemons/etc.

Let's see what I can come up with...

>>17082112
So wait, you're telling me your regiment is bred and raised for combat by hardened convicts? From a inhospitablly hot desert world? And years of life in underground prison settlements and gladitoral combat has given them a lethal aptitude for close quarters combat?

Fucking awesome,

Oh and now they're all Australian. I like it.

>>17082144
From a planet that's barely in the life zone of the ever present red giant star, the orginal inhabitants were dumped in the slim line of liveable area on the horizon of the tidaly locked star. Left with only basic agriculture and yearly drops the planet has indefinitely and sometimes forcefully kept at a rudimentry tech level.
The roles that were adopted by ability have evolved distinct racial lineage in the millennia long use of the planet. With new drop offs being sorted into these groups. The biggest and meanest are the scrappers, who make ends meet in pit fights throughout the settlements. The regiment thithe is almostly entirely scrapper born or raised, as much because of the fame and money to made if they return as it is the attempt to limit they're numbers

>>17082227
As a result of their forced technological disability, owning any kind of fire arm is seen as a badge honor. As being able to own a firearm of a privileged few, and as a result the culture is reverent of them. Despite being a poor world, they are one of the galaxys leading gun modification import locations. Being a penal colony these orders are very closely regulated by the imperium, and thus handled (very lucrativly) by the adeptus mechanis. Which have a close relationship with the leaders of the world at any given time.

>>17082227
>>17082144

Name: Perfidious' Finest (colloquial: Perfidious Desert Scrappers)
Left to fend for themselves with scarcely any technology, the residents of the prison colony of Perfidious VI established a feudal order. In time, the warbands of the endless deserts of Perfidious and the enormous gladiatorial games that were held annually to establish patterns of dominance among the warlords (the prize being control of the few sources of potable water on the planet), came to the attention of the Adeptus Mechanicus. More specifically, the Adeptus Mechanicus personnel who maintain and reside on the orbital station that circles Perfidious IV. Magos Victor Alchenon proposed to the Administratum that the tithe of warriors that was taken from Perfidious could be greatly improved in quality with a few simple bionic modifications. Now, the winners of the gladiatorial tournaments are taken away to the Dragon's Eye (as the penal worlders call the station), augumented with bionic limbs and given fine-quality weapons, and formed into a regiment famous for brutality and close-quarters violence. The regiment has seen use in extensive hive-fighting campaigns, leading to a high number of hive-combat experienced veterans.

>>17082275
TL:DR

Gun nut third world penal colony Australian urban gladiators.

It just might work...

Karuchan Penal Legion, "Untouchables"

Karucha is an arid world, home to rugged mountain ranges rising above vast wastelands of scrub plants and shifting dunes. Most of the planet is inhabited only by primitive nomads who raid one other with sword and musket, carrying out ancient blood-feuds. Mining facilities dot the planet, each surrounded by dense, ramshackle settlements.

Several Karuchan regiments have been raised over the centuries, but the Untouchables stand apart. The rigid clan systems of the great waste carry on in the mining cities, with extensive filial obligations and blood-debts. Mine employment is doled otu based on clan affiliation, with the most prestigious lines claiming the most lucrative positions. The lowest of the low are Untouchables: individuals cast out by their families for violating some taboo, or shattered clans too weak to to claim any but the worst and most dangerous jobs. Conscripts to the regular Karuchan regiments refuse to serve alongside these Untouchables, and so the Penal Legion was created. For many Untouchables, the offworld dangers of the Imperial Guard are preferable to the slow death of the mines: digging radioactive ore by hand, rigging explosives in unstable tunnels, or worse.

>>17082320
The Karuchan Untouchables, while technically a penal legion, have their pride; they are hardy and vicious fighters, seeking an glorious death which will redeem them in their forefathers' eyes. Many are equipped only with primitive stub weapons, scimitars and knives. Notoriously adept at close-quarters fighting in tunnels and underhive warrens, they hurl explosives recklessly and fall upon their stunned and disorganized foes with bare steel in hand.

The Untouchables gained particular note in the purging of Tempest Hive VII, a Forgeworld complex wracked with unchecked daemonic infestation. In an 800-day campaign, the Untouchables led the systematic assault and slaughter of Tempest Hive's heretical underhive population, saving the foundries and refineries that lay above from destruction by orbital bombardment. The mutated creatures they faced are the subject only of whispered rumors; but the few Untouchables that survived Tempest Hive emerged carrying the blades of their brothers-in-arms, jealously-hoarded artifacts sanctified by the blood of comrades and enemies alike. Some claim that the grateful Adeptus Mechanicus gifted select heroes of the Untouchables with certain artifact weapons, but these rumors remain unverified.

>>17080499
None are "still" alive, as the Sabbath Worlds Crusade was sometime in M38 or M39.

>>17082291
Wait wait,

And the culture as a whole knows through the imperial cult that chaos daemons are the root of all the behavior that landed them in the penal system. This rooted belief has become so deep seated in third society that they violently oppose daemons in all forms. From an purposefully comfort deprived life style or gutting (another) slannesi cultist plant in their block, the scrappers have a hatred of chaos that far outweighs their love of the emperor.

>>17082285 guy here.

>>17082327
>>17082320

I like your guys more than mine, seriously. Brings to mind a kind of raggedy dieselpunk army in technicals, with grimy RPGs alongside muskets and sabres. Kudos.

>>17082320
I like both our ideas :)

Bumpin'

Rolling for the Motherland!

i have a soft spot for valhallans

pic most definately related

Glad the thread continued after my computer crashed right after I created the Rapture regiment.

I archived the thread so that the creation rules will be saved. One of these days we'll need to make another one for the Tyranids, Tau, and Dark Eldar to round off all of the playable factions.

>>17080546

Tallarn ... Arab ...

lol no.

>>17084029
Except in recent renditions they are so.... yes.

>>17080546

Arab here

This white boy is jealous of our facial hair and female slaves

I'd have to go with a three way tie between Tallarn, Elysian and Steel Legion. None of the others really do it for me.

Cadian Shock

Why? Why not? I like making my own fluff anyways, and the idea that the planet pumps out soldiers to die as the most vanilla regiment out there is intriguing.

I like Valhallans.

>>17084029
original tallarn you would be right.

new tallarn which is pretty much "durka durka emprah jihad!" you are sadly wrong

>>17084652

like anything "new" from GW is good.

Hi, brand new to /tg/

What are IG? Where's a good start to learn?

>>17084768

IG stands for Irate Grizzly.

First you need to pick up Bear:The Mauling.

Polar represent!

>>17084768
Imperial Guard.

Where to start?

Buy about 200 Guardsmen.

>>17084817
My bad, pretty obvious I guess.

I'm new to what Warhammer really is. How do I get involved? Is there a way to find places to play near me? What are the main factions?

>>17084833
>How do I get involved

Find a hobby store near you that caters to the 40k community, dive in.

Major factions

Eldar - Space Elves

Imperium of Man - Catholic Space Nazis

Space Marines - Starship Troopers (book) with lots of religious inferences

Chaos - angsty whiny bitches who split off from the Imperium out of lust for power

Orks - Psychopathic fungus-aliens who get bigger and stronger the more they fight. Green.

>>17084854
HEY!

You left out the Tau and Necrons.

I'M GOING TO TAKE MY SWORD... AND STAB A GREYSKIN WITH IT

>>17084871
He said MAJOR.

Space Mummies and Blue Communist Cow People don't qualify.

>>17084878
Blue Communist Cow People?

For some reason they sound interesting. What's their story? Human or alien?

>>17084878
And the Tyranids too!

THEY DON't GET MORE MAJOR THAN THAT!

>>17084924
Alien.

I consider them kind of the United States Air Force of Warhammer 40k. Huge emphasis on overwhelming firepower and mobility, gameplay wise.

Fluff wise, they're a collection of castes and subjugated alien races under one banner "The Greater Good". Governed by a more intelligent nobility group called Ethereals, they are the only faction in 40k that is actively evolving, adapting and upgrading their technology.

>>17084948
>they are the only faction in 40k that is actively evolving, adapting and upgrading their technology.
At a meaningful pace, anyway. The Dark Mechanicus is always researching new biological weapons, and fuck only knows what the more SCIENCE Newcrons are up to.

>>17084959
>>17084948
>actively evolving, adapting and upgrading

You guys are forgetting about the nids.

>>17084810
HOW DO *THEY* WORK?!

>>17084924
And they have multiple loyal races serving as troops.

Even humans.

i roll with the korps.

>>17084998
Polar ones are still pretty easy to understand.
Now bi-polar bears, on the other side...

>>17084877
>Dead memes

Can we get some Tau pics going? I'm suddenly interested in them.

>>17085231
considering this is a IG thread...

>>17085231
>>17085284
here's more.
animooted

>>17085284
It was, then seemed to die.

>>17085298
feel free to make a fresh "i'm new to fordykay plz show me the ropes" thread.

>>17085284
I don't get whats happening here. Is the fire warrior dodging blow's? Getting hit?

Also is there a website that makes these kind of models/sculptures?

>implying Tau Fire Warriors aren't the best fighting force the galaxy ever seen

Holy shit. How is this still up?

I want to see GW make renegade IG. Fingers crossed for a plastic set when codex: renegades is released next year.

>>17085329
Necrons beg to differ

>>17085342
>>17085342

Renegade IG who have a choice of falling into chaos or not.

>>17085346
>>17085329
>laughingdarkeldar.jpg

>>17085321
>not sure if troll, or just ignorant

>>17085346
Though false we respect the opinions of the ancient ones.

>>17085409
>See's pic
>thinks that there is actually a good faction in 40k

>>17085329

Tau are very far from "good"

>ONE mention of the Armageddon Steel Legion
/tg/ I am disappoint.

>>17085454
i'm with you. FOR YARRICK! FOR HADES HIVE! FOR THE EMPEROR!

>>17085409
>Kosh_Vs_General_Grevious.jpeg

>>17085425
One side will keep you safe and the other side will skin you alive.

For the poor peasants of Kronus, one of them represents good and the other is evil.

Valhallans all the way

GW really needs to stop making blue/red/orange marines and make more bloody Guardsmen

>captcha agrees - ntacket companies

>>17085457
The one side that will protect you will sterilize you and sideline you because you were fearful of what the Imperium

CADIANS FUCK YEAH

I'm not talking Cadian world Knockoff, or that fucking Dacian mis brand. CADIANS. People whose entire culture is a genderless homogenized machine of war!
Cadians are taught basic principles of acedemics and technical skills from an early ages, and begin to utilize them in early stages of their development in adolecense. Their form of "training" is similar to Space Marines. When they white-shields go out for an exercise they put the recruits in harms way. when they graduate They become part of the real Army. Some are pressed into deploy able regiments. They are centered around war. A Culture where patterns of cammo are common fashions. You don't comment on the girls nice tight jeans, you look at her and go " That bitch is wearing Flectarn, she's got some class!"

Not only all this but they are DAMN good at their jobs too. They are the only force in the Imperium that spends so much time killing chaos daemons second only to Daemon Hunters. They are experts at urban warfare, masters of entrenching. Their cities are laid out in a diamond layout so they are harder to advance in. Their tactics may be agressive, but not suicidal like commonly portrayed. Elysians get a good reputation for having Modern tactics, but they do what Cadians do on a smaller scale and with more time and money.

The kicker to all of this? After 13 BLACK CRUSADES Cadia is still self sufficient! Their industry pumps out the best warmachines barring Mars, they have a respectable agriculture, they have refused Space Marines to use their worlds for recruiting multiple times! AND they STILL hold the line!

CADIA FUCK YEAH

>>17085520
agreed

Cadians?...CADIAAAAANS......CADIAAAAAAAAAAAAANS!

Moordians Forever!

>>17081607
>>17081617
>>17081621

So, using this chart and rolling with it, I got the following:

>Regiment classification
Penal Legion

>Homeworld
Forge World

>Home World Predominant Terrain
Airless

>Regiment core units
Infantry Regiment

>Specialization
Ranged Combat

>Loyalty rating
Undisciplined: Will follow the Emperor but don't expect them to bow to authority figures.

>Recruitment criteria
All female.

>Nature of recruitment
Elite tithe: The best of the best of the planet are sent to the regiment

>Special Equipment
Modified Weaponry

>Regiment Creed
Steel Over Flesh: This regiment believes the way to victory is through machine augumentation.

>Friends
Adepta Sororitas

>Enemies
The Tau

So, apparently it's a penal regiment of elite female cyborg soldiers from an airless Forgeworld that dislike authorities, is armed with modified weaponry and has a focus on ranged warfare.
They are also Best Friends Forever with the SoB and their preferred enemies are the Tau...
I don't even know what to say about it...

>>17085607Sounds like something only the Dice Gods could really create.

>CTRL+F
>Savlar
>No matches

What the hell!?

The baddest motherfucking regiment in the galaxy BABY!

Catachans. If you want to survive in 40k then really you need to rambo it up

>>17085687
>Recruit a Catchan squad in Dow : Ret
>They run across an enemy Commissar
>Random Catachan yells : You're not the first Commissar I killed today!
>mfw

>>17085687
I love the lore behinf catachans but all the models look like they hove down syndrome

>>17085607

So they're from an airless forge world...maybe they tend to have cybernetics that make them resistant to vacuum or toxic atmospheres? Like a breathing apparatus, and maybe the sergeants get void-hardened skin or whatever. Of course, this is an IG penal legion, so their artificial lungs are probably third-hand or worse; they probably have to remove them from their own dead and crippled just to implant them into new recruits.

Maybe their homeworld makes flamers or refines promethium or somesuch for the Sororitas. (The unbreathable atmosphere makes industrial accidents with flammable materials less catastrophic--for the facilities, anyway.) Maybe the penal legion itself is modeled somehow after Repentias, which is why they're all female. Or maybe they're all rejects from SoB training.

Name? The Last Breaths. Or Last Gaspers.

>>17085714
Catachan Gorilla Man reporting.

>>17081744
I don't get this meme. Avitus hate guardsmen or something?

>>17085836
''All guardsmen are traitors and weaklings''

>>17085842
dot dot dot
o.

>>17085836
Yep. he hates guardsmen because they abused him as a kid and bullied his village.

Also in the war of Kronus he lost two of his battle brother to an IG ambush and his chin too. This enraged him so much he went on a killing rampage and killed tons of guardsmen. He killed so much they nicknamed him the ''Devastator of Victory Bay''.

>>17085729

How about Breath Takers?

The Caulex Breath Takers. An elite regiment based off the crater-ridden planetoids of Caulex III, IV and X, the Breath Takers are recruited
from the ranks of female convicts from Forge Worlds around the subsector. The most battle-hardened of these criminals, tech-heretics and smugglers sent to mine the airless rocks of Caulex as punishment are further augumented with arcane void-adapters, gas filters and
implanted oxy-tanks that allow for extended action in void and toxic environments.

Wearing black skinsuits and helmets decorated with white skulls, the Breath Takers are frequently called upon by a nearby convent of Battle Sisters to augument their ranks. While the Sisters view the convicts with disdain, a certain form of respect for the Breath Takers' combat prowess and skill with melta weaponry has been grudgingly awarded to them.

>>17085890
Then years later his chapters loses five companies because some guardsmen fuck up and Vance Stubbs shenanigans.

After that he gets ambushed again on the Icy world of Aurillia by traitor guardsmen and gets artillery dropped on him and his crew.

Guardsmen have been Avitus bane ever since his childhood and are the main reason he turned to chaos.

I just used my dice at home rather than the /tg/ one, and this is what I got:

rolled 4: Imperial Guard
rolled 35: Infantry Regiment
rolled 10: Hive Warfare specialists
rolled 1: Overzealous
rolled 6: All-female.


Holy shit, did I just roll up hive fighting wanna-be-Sorroritas? Because that is what it fucking looks like.

Oh, wait, looks like there are more charts to roll on! Wheee!

roll 44: Feral World. Okay, this can still work. They are just crazy barbarian hive fighters who die by the billions for big E...
roll 89: :| <---mfw I realize that my dice are now trolling me. An airless feral world of hive fighting specialists. WTF!?!

Rolling on allies and enemies chart...

roll 47: Adepta Sororitas. Okay, this is the first roll to show internal consistancy with the themes of the others.
roll 26: KRUMP DEM HUMIEZ!! (enemy is orks)

Seeing as how I already rolled, I am going to ignore modified charts.....
Nature of recruitment
roll 7: Standard tithe.
roll 93: Modified weaponry
roll 41: We fight for the Emperor. (good. another internally consistent one.)

So I have an infantry army of suicidally devout barbarian chicks from an airless rock that fight orks in hive worlds alongside the Sisters of Battle with their own customized guns.

Death Korps of Krieg

>>17085968
>Airless feral world
Abandonned mining world? People live in "vacuum" tents? I like this.
>Modified weapons
Lasguns and plasmas modded to work in vacuum. I can dig it.

>>17085968

>An airless feral world of hive fighting specialists. WTF!?!

They come from a long-abandoned mining world. All valuable resources were strip-mined from the planet millennia ago, leaving the atmosphere thin and toxic. The planetary government picked up sticks and abandoned the planet, stripping everything valuable they could on the way out. This did not include hundreds of thousands of serf laborers left in the hab-blocks and tunnels.

The descendants of these workers still live there today, in savage, feral tribes that fight over the scarce resources in the tunnels. Ancient, jury-rigged atmo scrubbers are barely kept in operation by hereditary shamans; and these pockets of breathable atmo are the subject of brutal wars of survival. Tribals grow to adulthood eating the vermin-like local scavengers, and sometimes the flesh of their enemies.

More than one regimental recruiter has made this world a waystation on their conscription tours, its bestial inhabitants being its last valuable resource.

>>17086023


Wow. you made my crazy-nonsensical rolls have a cool and slightly rational backstory. thank you. The 6 for "overly zealous" and the reason to fight roll giving "For the Emperor" need representation somehow, so we need a fanatical Imperial Cult in there somewhere as the last vestiges of society. Maybe a Sororitas convent is the sole Imperial presence on the planet. Explains their allies and devotion to Imperial Creed.

Also, deep in the under-tunnels and abandoned mineshafts from long ago lurk ork colonies, the last vestigial remnants from a forgotten invasion from ages past. That gives us our source of anti-orkyness.

>>17086023

and

>>17085897

are strikingly similar, only the former are the elite and the latter are the rest. I think we can have them as different regiments from the same planet or something.

>>17085686
Same thing. Let's face it. The IG is a meatgrinder, might as well send someone who deserves it.

Wow, those generators are fun.
>Planetary Defence Force

>Death World

>Ice

>Siege Regiment

>Tactics: Shock & Awe

>Adherent

>Vat Grown

>Elite Tithe

>Preffered Fighting Style

>Regimental creed: Best of the Best

> Friends with: Adeptus Astartes chapter (Space Wolves?)

> Enemies:The Eldar

A vat-grown siege regiment protecting a Death World from Eldar raids. I'm okay with this.

>>17085607
So... All female captive Skitarii snipers (Forge world, cyberized, modified weaponry, long range) rebels (against Omnissiah, perhaps? Or just against AdMech?) who had to put on explosive collars because their crimes are simply too heavy just to warrant an execution.

The SoBs like them because they are an all female group (soul sistah), that once helped a free a besieged relic recovery Sororita team carrying out a Sainted SoB body out of a Tau-conquered Imperial world. Their modified ranged weapons helped against Tau's superior ranged weapons. Their willingness to peel off the explosive seal on their collar voluntarily, just to gain tactical advantage (elite pride), endeared them to the fanatic SoBs.

Not to mention their hate against Omnissiah (it's an Ecclesiarchy sanctioned heresy, but that doesn't mean the SoBs liked it).

Adeptus Mechanicus SKitarii legions, when they're just bionically enhanced guard and not weapon-crazed techpriests on tank treads beefed up by Forge Knights.


... though Forge Knights are pretty kickass too. Titans as troop choices, ftw.

>>17081259
I love you. I have not played a game in the last 8 years without my Ratlings that was above 1250 points. I know there are better ways to spend points by looking at the mathhammer and whatnot but I love their fluff entirely.
Also, they were the first unit I ever completely painted.

MMMMMMAGGOTS

>>17086458

just another average Tuesday

>>17085897

>>17086660
Very nice. I like.

Behold: /tg/ getting shit done.

>>17086660

writefag of >>17085897 here, I love the drawfaggotry! Thanks a lot, it's awesome!

>>17086223

>The 6 for "overly zealous" and the reason to fight roll giving "For the Emperor" need representation somehow, so we need a fanatical Imperial Cult in there somewhere as the last vestiges of society. Maybe a Sororitas convent is the sole Imperial presence on the planet. Explains their allies and devotion to Imperial Creed.

That can always come about after conscription, too. Being in the IG might be enough of an improvement over their shithole of a home world that they're easily indoctrinated to fanatical loyalty. Allies can come from the regiment's past exploits rather than the nature of the homeworld, too.

>>17086660

You know, it wouldn't be very hard to convert a few Death Cult Assassins to this...

>>17086660

Hello, my next Arch-Militant.

1-4: Imperial Guard
41-50 Death World
1-25 Jungle
56-70:Mechanized Infantry
5-Trench Warfare
6-7: Undisciplined: Will follow the Emperor but don't expect them to bow to authority figures.
46-50: Tribespeople
5-10 Standard conscription: Average or above-average citizens recruited from all levels of society.
81-90 Preferred Fighting Style
66-75 Best of the Best: The regiment believes itself to be elite and constantly strives to prove itself.
89-91 Officio Assassinorum
80-87 Chaos-aligned Group

Gentlemen...I have rolled the Vietnam Guard Regiment.

>>17086660

The guy that rolled up this >>17085607 here.
This is awesome and you should feel awesome.

rolled 3 = 3

Never rolled dice, hopefully this works.

well crap.

rolled 58, 7 = 65

>>17089720
Only the first roll counts. If you want to roll multiple dice, you have to do it like so. They must all be the same value, too.

>>17089821
So I'd have to make a bunch of posts then?

>>17089841
Well, it'd be better if you just used one or two values of variable for everything. That way you can just roll for multiples of the same number instead of a lot of individual numbers. Deathwatch uses that system.

>>17089976

Type
> Planetary Defense Force

So they're a PDF from an icy hive world, utilize heavy close quarters infantry with specialized lasguns, are gangers with connections to rougue trader dynasties. they are undisciplined and are fighting for their homeworld. They are normally drafted against the powers of chaos.

Interesting.

Awesome, not only is the thread still going but anons are using the creation rules I helped create.

Earlier I mentioned that we still need Tyranids, Dark Eldar, and Tau creation rules. Does anyone want to pick one and start building it up?

>>17090035
bump

>>17090165

Don't just bump me, offer to help!

I don't know the fluff well enough for any of those to want to start it off on my own. Rather have a communal discussion to build it up until finished, much like we did with the IG creation table.

So how are the IG as an army? I'm looking to start and I'm interested in this force.

Gonna roll up a regiment of my own, might need help with the fluff.

Here are my results
It is an IG regiment
From a Desert Civilized world
They are Heavy Infantry, Specializing in CQC useing unorthodox tactics and Modified weaponry

the are recruited from their world by a lottery of the elites of the world, thus they believe they are the best of the best and strive to prove it

they are friends of the Astropaths and sworn enemies of the Dark Eldar. I'm thinking they defended a Astropath station from a Dark Eldar raid with their lives

>>17090366
oops, i messed up, they are supposed to have unorthodox beliefs, but i think i like the tactics.