40K tactics

Posted by General Biakal on Oct 24, 2008; 1:20pm
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/40K-tactics-tp1372017.html

My overview of imperial guard for fellow semi-newbies

never underestimate the power of hyping up a new model weeks before so that when you actually field it he spend three turns trying to blow it to bits while the rest of your army quietly goes about stomping his colon. His surprise is total as he grins at your smoking ruin to realise his shit has been most definatley ruined.

look at every model with a clear head. ignore the MODEL and look at it in the GAME.
people scoff at my salamander and shoot all kinds of stuff at my other tanks while it sits on their flank hitting their rear armour with autocannon hits and their infantry with HB's and storm bolters. Ratling snipers look totally gash but ten of them can give a small squad of terminators a bad day and against crisis suits and avatars and the like they can be a real match winner if used right.

Use each unit in the way its works best, not the way the codex tells you.
I used to lose my sentinel all the time by using it as i suppose, a dreadnaught. keep it well inside your lines or on his/you flanks and use it to snipe enemy transports. I only have onemyself but i imagine three or so would make short work of those rhinos on the left wing...

Your allowed two HQ squads. why not tool one up armed for bear and get assaulting? nobody expects it and with three flamers and a veteran rocking a bolter next to a senior officer with a storm bolter and power fist/sword you might actually kick some ass.

veterans- use em. anyone who pays 80 points for a special weapon squad of the BS3 meltas is a tool. spend a tiny bit more, have veterans and you can also add a storm bolter to the sgt, all BS4.

I have had a lot of sucess with storm bolters.

never give armoured fist squads heavy weapons.

ALWAYS give infantry heavy weapons.

frag gren launcher is rubbish. but dont forget using the krak option is like having a single shot ass-kicker cannon. if it hits, it kills.

ogryns. dont fit in with my army fluff, dont like the models, do an ok job but costs are horrendous (real money AND points)

this is basicly what i have fathomed these last few months. please add your own advice, piss on mine or hi five me.