Imperial guard (Warhammer 40,000)

The imperial Garde is the main force armed with the Imperium in the Univers of fiction of Warhammer 40,000. In this extremely dark universe, humanity is directed by a dictatorial and fanatic organization, Imperium.

In this article certain quotations or processes can perhaps shock an not-informed public, then do not forget that all this is only fictitious .

Summary

The imperial Garde is the most diversified organization Warhammer 40,000.

It is composed of billion men ready to fight and die for the Emperor. They venerate the Emperor like a god and those which do not do it are guilty of heresy.

The imperial Guard is present on million worlds, that they are volcanic planets, deserts of ashes or many worlds technocrats on which technology is the most important thing.

The imperial Guard is recruited on each world of Imperium, whose civilization is sufficiently advanced to provide troops. When the Adeptus Terra makes the request of it, the governor of a world must provide 5 to 15% his troops, the planetary defense forces. However certain worlds are prone to exceptional requests whose troops are levy in masse (of a few thousands to several billion men).

The force of the guard is not in the value of a man but in the courage and the rifle of hundreds of them. A tactic of the commanders sees a line of guard in first line to retain the enemy and the armoured tanks with the back to support the guards and its batteries of heavy weapons to decimate the enemy with long range. But the imperial Guard can count on troops varied like the riders (most famous are the riders of the Attila world) which can carry the combat within the enemy lines to the point of the explosive lance, the ogryns (abhumains giant) can as well oppose an incredible resistance by their physical resistance as by their too slow spirit to be afraid, the snipers ratlings, of the beings similar to hobbits which is too weak to go in a combat direct and thus prefers to be armed with rifle of sniper.

Whereas armies xenos count on psychic capacities, others on a state-of-the-art technology, others still on an incredible capacity to adapt and to multiply or thanks to genetically modified gueriers. The guard it, has to oppose only the number of these laser soldiers, their rifles, their bullet-proof jackets and their faith towards the emperor.

But guard with also accesses to many tank and armored vehicle such as Leman russ, the sentinel or the dream.

These tanks either are assigned to the support of the regiments of infantry, or gathered in frightening armor-plated companies.

Evolution of the imperial Guard during the versions of the play

The guard is present as of Rogue Trader under the designation of Imperial Army, it is then similar in its organization with the Space Marines, same types of sections, same vehicles. The greatest modification takes place with the exit of the codex keeps imperial of V2, where its sections of support lose four members, the guard had gained specific vehicles as of the black codex of V2.

The beginning of the history

The era of the Fights and the Very Holy Emperor of Humanity

Humanity was plunged in despair and servility. After a phase of development without precedent where the machines and science were high with the row of art by the men, the machines were turned over against those, the xenoses attacked and Chaos corrupted many worlds, it was the time which was to be known under the name of Ere of the Fights. The Men did not live any more but in the shade of their glory passed, Humanity disappearing little by little. Then It came and the Men knew that their time had again come. It gathered them under its banner, took by storm the cradle of Humanity and Terra baptized it, in the honor of its last glory. The Emperor had just emerged from darkness and Humanity followed it, or died in its madness to resist to him. First Space Marines held place of army to Him and no one could not be opposed to Him.

Primarques, Spaces Navy and the beginning of the Great Crusade

The Emperor needed large generals to conclude his task of reconquest. He created, with the assistance of many scientists and doctors of the hybrids of human superior to the latter in all, almost these equal actually. However, an unknown force dispersed the primarques ones in space. The Emperor did not discourage himself and starting from the samples of genetic inheritances of primarques, it created the legions Space Marines which it equipped, educated and formed personally. Then they left all to the conquest the space empires lost by the Men. The first steps of Space Marines quickly became steps of giants, the Great Crusade had just begun. However as Space Marines took worlds and subjected them, they could not indefinitely ensure protection of it before setting out again. The Emperor warned the problem and created the Imperial Army.

The Imperial Army

The advised Emperor of the problems encountered by the legions Space Navy to preserve the conquered worlds, of finding a solution emergency. It turned to pacified worlds whose populations allowed to recruit whole legions men and women wishing to fight for the Emperor, but not being able to be recruited in the legions Space Marines. The first regiments were assembled and equipped on Terra, then detached with the legions Space Marines. Then as manpower increased became a body of combat with whole share. Although human, the Imperial Soldiers had of the same material and the same organization as Space Marines. Without however having the same orders of mission and the same priorities of recruitment. Then the million men and women of the Imperial Army accepted their first honors of battle and was pointed out of the Emperor by their courage and their determination.

The commanders could never equalize the victories which Primarques were able to achieve, however they played a crucial role in the good development of the crusade. Where Space Marines did not have time to remain, the Imperial Army stationed and stabilized the situation before taking again the road. There or the Imperial Army in progression was vis-a-vis too powerful enemies, Space Marines intervened. The two organizations then went hand in the hand and nothing could stop them. Manpower of the Imperial Army became increasingly plethoric with measurement of the enlarging of the fields of Humanity, and they well quickly exceeded the number of the legions Space Marines.

The imperial army is made up of kasrkins, ogrins, and tanks like the baneblade.

Heresy of Horus

Horus, the Master of War, wire preferred of the Emperor, elder from primarques, most powerful of them, came to rebel. No one is not explained exactly what occurred, but the Emperor himself could not prevent this treason which was to open a bloody wound in Humanity, a wound which was never closed again completely. Half of the legions Space Marines converted with Chaos, and were turned over against their brothers. Space Marines fought between them worlds were reduced in ashes, the burst Imperial Armies whereas insane demons and gods fought for attacked all at the same time Humanity. The dream of the Emperor flew in glare, the brotherhood of primarques was not any more and Humanity was almost reduced in dust.

The engagements were related until to very Sainte Terra, the renegades faced their brothers loyal supporters until in the palate even of the Emperor. Then the primarques honest ones which had been retained with far by the demons threatened to arrive. Horus Archihérétique let the Emperor then come to face it in duel. It killed initially his Sanguinius brother to venerate by the blood angel. Then the Emperor arrived on the bridge where Horus was held and saw the madness which held last. No combat was épique, nothing nor nobody was not never again able to carry violence on such a level. The Emperor was certainly an alive god, but the four gods of Chaos had used their capacities to reinforce Horus, which had become almost as extremely as his/her father. The Emperor ended up killing Horus at the price of a serious wound. Rogal Dorn was the first to find the Emperor, who in a last breath ordered the construction of the Gold Throne to him since which the Emperor takes care today still on Humanity.

Imperial Guard

The always honest in Imperium, and isolated commanders did all, without exceptions honor with the Emperor. Although some were corrupted by the ideas of the heretics, the majority fought with eagerness to safeguard the fields of Humanity. Of the heroes rose among crowd, from the legends were born, the regiments acquired their noble letters. No one cannot say exactly how nor how much between them escaped the madness which struck the universe, but they did it. After the victory of the Emperor and the reconquest by honest Rouboute Guilliman and its brothers, the Imperial Army was thanked and inherited a new title, and a new nickname, because of monstrous manpower which were raised everywhere in Imperium: Imperial Guard said “the Hammer of the Emperor”.

Today the imperial Guard is with the image of what it was formerly: a plethoric army whose manpower amount of billion billion men and women honest with the Emperor. The equipment of the imperial Guard diversified and adapted to its reputation of mass, its function was redefined and its re-examined organization, Space Marines becoming increasingly distant and rare, working only for the most difficult missions and most crucial. Today the imperial Army consists of three components: the planetary defense forces, remaining on their native world and being an army similar to that which one knows today but variable according to the company of the world on which it is established. These armies of the planetary defense forces leave seldom, even never, their native world.

There is then the imperial Guard, which is raised among the defense forces planet gear to leave their native world to re-examine it never again, going in the zones of conflicts where they are asked until each man of the regiment is not killed or although they gain the honor to conquer a new world and to colonize it to increase the fields of the Emperor, but never a regiment raised on a world will not re-examine the latter. Their regiments usually make of 1000 to 6000 men, although some turn around the 10.000. Specializations of the regiments of the imperial Guard are numerous and go in the direction of the climate, of the civilization of which they are originating. The soldiers of the imperial Guard coming from a world whose technology is limited to the arc and the axe will have crueler doctrines of combat, although moderated by the intensive drive given by Departemento Munitorum, large administrative of the imperial armies of all the galaxy, their principal capacities will not be ignored and will be made profitable on the battle fields or the bodies with body and the attacks of positions will be most numerous, whereas a world where gravity is weak sees perhaps more of the parachuted troops, of the aces of the air, more civilized planet has more traditional regiments soldiers with techniques like those which armies current Earth know. In their enormous diversity, the regiments of the imperial Guard are sometimes composed of simple riders, either just of tanks, or only of the infantry. Certain planets provide armies equipped so well and disciplined and that the soldiers equal are very feared shock troops of Imperium. Other regiments gather several elements according to their type of recruitment on the level of their planet. It is however sure that a certain standard is maintained in the imperial Guard and that never a regiment will not be sent to the combat without a suitable material. If the native world of the regiment is not able to provide one sufficient equipment more, it will provide more men to compensate and Administratum will provide additional drive and arsenal to the honest soldiers of Emperor-God.

The last component is seen at the imperial shock troops. These men and these women are substitutes of Space Marines, gathered in small regiments seldom not going above the 1500 men. These shock troops are recruited in wire and girls of the imperial nobility, composed of the planetary officers, governors, important characters in diplomacy, policy and trade, whose parents were assassinated. These people are thus recruited in their youth and pass an intensive drive making them able to answer all the requirements of a battle field, energy of the missions of infiltration with strike flashes requiring of the troops more effective than the soldier means. These regiments, although having the discipline and the drive, are not the equal ones nor of the members of Astartes, they are not modified genetically. The regiments of Shock troop are often separate following their formation, like the armor-plated regiments, to be subdivided in other imperial armies in order to give them a support in troops of elites.

Organization

The standard organization of an institution such as the imperial Guard is an impossible task. Also this part of the article is copied on the Cadien model which influences enormously of military formations of Imperium. All the Impériaux strategists agree to say that Cadia is a reference as regards military organization, since these regiments result from the world garrison of the same name.

Lords of Terra

The High Lords of Terra represent the totalitarian will of Emperor-God, the latter, often of old mystics or of the men completely ground with ground, act in the belief which their decisions are guided by the very powerful will of the Emperor. They are thus the only lords of Imperium and have the greatest capacity possible to reach, although this situation is not without fault. The tops placed of Très Holy Enquiry are able to punish any treason or is necessary among these lords of Imperium.

The High Lords are, in a certain manner, the Masters of a large corporation. Each one of them being the Master of the one of the key organizations defining Imperium, like the large priest of the Imperial Church, the lord of Administratum (this last being usually most powerful of the twelve lords). Last nine stations - keys on the twelve are constant whereas three others are temporary and are employed by different people according to the situation. These stations " part-time " are sometimes occupied by a representative of the Enquiry, the largest officer of the imperial Guard, the Master of the armies of Segmentum Solar (division of the galaxy gathering Terra), the chief of Adeptus Custodes, the personal guard of the Emperor, or the chancellor of the files as well as the Master of the Assassins, chief of Ordo Assassinorum.

High command

Masters of war

The Title of Master of war is very only seldom given and to carry it is the greatest prestige which an officer can reach. This station is highest available in the imperial Guard, with share the High Lord responsible for this branch of Imperium. It is given only when the Masters of Terra decide that a crusade must be launched, they place at the head of the hundreds of regiment the officer which of it is worthiest and able.

This last then receives the above mentioned title and, consequently occasion, the command of all the armies of its crusade, directing hundreds of million soldiers for the conquest of several solar systems. These large officers are practically strategists without faults, able of what no other officer would be able, it, moreover, is accompanied by hundreds of strategists, servants, calculators, psykers. Its continuation can resemble an incoherent amalgam of various professions in order to support it in its tasks, although largest of work is carried out by this last.

Those which received the title of Master of War are often recognized like Saints in the History of Imperium, like Large Macharius, which accepted moreover in honor the title of Stellar Lord Commander, an honorary title in addition to its already prestigious row. Is not any doubt that it was the best, if one forgets sadly celebrates Horus.

Another Master of War recognized is Slaydo, which directed the Crusade of the worlds of Sabbath of one comes up of iron, being right and good, he died unfortunately in his bed and its successor brought to reign, Maccaroth, are as well known.

These officers knew to work the history of the Humanity of many manners.

Interstellar Lords

The Interstellar title of Lord is purely honorary. It rewards the strategists, the soldiers, the particularly brilliant planetary governors who were distinguished directly near the High Lords from Terra. They receive a fleet to be ordered, regiments to be raised and a field to be protected. It is very rare that such a role is not taken with serious by the commanders who are in responsibility of carry out more active missions. However the assistance of an Interstellar Lord is very appreciated and sought because they can resolve important means in good less time than could not do it Administratum. They do not have however really an other zone of authority only their assignment of origin.

Councils of war

The Councils of War are the most direct recourse and more used in the event of attack on a precise sector. The commanders of forces involved gather, establish strategies and launch requests as varied as possible so that all the involved armies are well equipped, armed, nourished,… These councils are always provisional and yet it is rare that regiments which fought units and overcame separate at the end from the countryside, they organize reprisals, actions of pacification and many other things still. The effectiveness of one of these councils of war is equalized only by Space Marines. Sometimes certain officers Space Marines come to observe in a temporary way the discussions of a council from war before operating in order not to take for target of the allied troops and sometimes to give some councils or directives.

Enquiry

The Enquiry is one of most powerful and proportionally enigmatic organizations of Imperium.

Acting in the name of Emperor-God in a very religious role, mixing priest, secret agent, investigating, warlike, they are terrifying and incredibly imposing agents. They very charismatic, or conversely very dark and are often contained. No doubts that they are the best in their tasks, excavating in the mysteries of Imperium, tracking the heretics, banishing the demons and updating extraterrestrial conspiracies terrant in Imperium him even.

They are holders of secrecies which could come to end from the spirit from many human not being ready to know these truths. They hide their tasks ardûment and one of their sadly celebrates average to make conceal the witnesses is appalling the exterminatus, complete elimination by means or another, of a whole population.

Humanity should not know the existence of certain creatures such as the demons which, by the simple knowledge of those can corrupt the spirit of a man, which can the heretics whose word can obscure the heart of the pure ones, and the xenoses, for some, to spread itself at the men by parasites. The tasks, so many are, of the Enquiry are these last.

They must purge Imperium of all impuretées which could put it at death.

Planetary Governors

The Planetary Governors are men and women whose statute is to reign on a planet in the name of the Emperor and of Imperium. Their load is before any policy and tax, but they are also charged to raise and order five percent of the population in permanent alarm to protect planet. These regiments are called FDP (Planetary Defense force), this force of combat is very often ridiculously weak. But it is to be taken into account because only the cream of the cream is indicated for such stations. Many rebellions and heresy were avoided only thanks to their zeal, their courage and their determination. The governor orders these men and women directly. A planetary governor must also raise regiments for the imperial Guard, the number of the troops is determined according to the population of planet, his military position and his own means. The lords of Cadia recruit between 80 and 90 percent of the population in the imperial Guard, on the other hand on the Catachan planet, only a tiny part of the population leaves to fight in stars.

Regimental command

The ranks of the men and women of the imperial Guard not being fixed from one regiment to another, it is a question here only of explaining the functions of the men and women in question.

Senior officers

The senior officers are the officers with the direct command of a regiment or a company. They themselves are appointed with a regiment coldly raised of the imperial Guard or resulting from this same unit. They are sometimes respected, other times feared or hate, but they are those which take care of the survival and the victories of their unit.

They carry out the plans necessary to the conquest or the defense of territories in the name of the Emperor. It acts, in the most common terms of colonel for the commander of the regiment and of captain for the commander of company, although that can change according to the companies from which the regiments result.

Certain medieval worlds can see their commanders companies to have the row of knight and that of the regiment being known under the name of paladin. All that varies according to the type of company and world of which the regiment is resulting.

The senior officers are under the command of generals when operations of greater scale have miles.

warrant officers

The warrant officers are the motive fluid of a quota of the imperial Guard. They form the skeleton of very armed with the Guard. In times of peace (what often does not arrive it should be said) under officers the troops involve, take care of recruitment, apply the orders of the officers and check their correct application. They are closest to the men and are thus capable to regulate the majority of different between the men. The majority of under officers are veterans of several battles and are very quite able to lead the men to the combat. They are essential with all the army and yet they remain badly considered, are often badly paids. Under officers many men turned sour in their rows count, of the people who accept their position badly and who tend to show a seldom bearable hardness towards their subordinates. It is necessary however to relativize because much of them are however only good sort resulting from the row who will be able to never go higher and who includes/understands well their men while knowing very well how to behave with respect to their superiors. It often happens that under officers of this type organize the illegal traffics that the regiments produce (flight of local gangsters, traffic of weapons of smuggling, drugs…)

Troops

The men of the imperial Guard are soldiers often as one sees some today in the modern armies, either similar to the soldiers of the colonial wars or American Independence. Others more technological, are involved.

Some follow the drives and the tactics of armies of the First World War or the second world war. It does not matter their strategy, the armies of the imperial Guard must count on an effective chain of command, on a solid and established strategy and especially: on their number because the dangers which face them are pitiless and with difficulty arrêtables for privates.

Space Navy

It happens sometimes that of Space Marines take the command of a detachment of the imperial Guard when this one with lost its regimental PC at the time of a battle. Such a situation is always provisional and never lasts more than time to gain the victory or to place a new group of command, which is always fast because Space Marines hate to have to order normal men, because they in general estimate to waste their time and not to use their capacities with their full potential. Space Marines are in all the cases of figure considered as superiors in the military hierarchy of Imperium to any regimental command of the imperial Guard. What causes sometimes sharp tensions between the two institutions. It as should be noted as the law Impériale firmly prohibited in Space Marines to order complete detachments of the imperial Guard for not as the errors of the heresy of Horus do not reproduce.

Tactics of war

The tactics often used by the guard are the “road roller”. It consists of a rain of fire carried out by heavy artillery to weaken the unfavourable lines and to create confusion there. A “preliminary bombardment” carried out since a cruiser located in orbit can also be launched if the enemy has very strengthened positions. Then a massive attack of tanks follows crushing enemy resistance and crushing its lines. Then, the imperial guards advance and invest the places to dislodge the last survivors of them.

Another tactic is also often employed, although more expensive as men. It consists in sending the maximum of men to the battle in a minimum of time to crush the enemy while benefitting from the numerical superiority and while hoping to have less possible losses. This suicidal tactic nevertheless is regarded as perfectly valid by the high command, because the men die for the glory of the Emperor. This argument makes it possible to regard the tactics a “sacrifice for the glory of the Emperor” and not as a monstrous slaughter.

The Assassins can also be used to cut down the elite of the enemy and to destabilize it.

In defense, the guard is buried in kilometers of distinct or strengthened bunkers. It also builds, if the place and time allow it, of the gigantic fortresses which offer a very good refuge and which make it possible to hold durably of the whole areas. It is as interesting to note as the local populations are often used to build these buildings, most of the time against their liking.

These many tactics are indexed in a handbook, the Tactica Imperium , which is a collection of councils and battles lived, intended to help the officer to manage his troops and to make the good decisions in a battle. Of course the councils in which it abounds are not to apply such as they are, because it is rare that several battles resemble each other points by points. It is thus preferable to adapt them according to the circumstances of the battle. The cross of Macharius is a decoration which rewards the officers having gained the victory by using accurately the Tactica Imperium .

Equipment

The soldier of the imperial guard has equipment rather similar to that to employ by the soldiers of today: Grenades, gourds, backpack, helmet, bullet-proof jacket etc He also has a laser rifle, arms traditional easy to produce and solid very, but nevertheless not very powerful compared with the bolters of Adeptus Astarte. He lays out of a uniform with the color of the regiment in heavy mesh

Weapons and armours

Armours

Helmet and bullet-proof jacket

Little expensive and simple to produce the waistcoats Pare Balls and the helmets are protections standards that all the imperial Guard with in equipment. Factories of Imperium by producing astronomical quantities, even compared to plethoric manpower of the imperial Guard.

The standard armor of the guard imperial is made up of composite a steel helmet covered with a fine coat of paint and a coating chechmate. Ornaments are often added on the face to exacerbate the faith of the carrier and to destabilize the heretics. A chin-strap helps to maintain the helmet in place, and the interior is covered with foam which protects cranium from the carrier against the shocks violent one.

The bullet-proof jacket when with him is multi-layer. It includes/understands épaulières and a protection of low belly, sometimes a gorgerin. Realized in kevlar and superimposed of another matters, also decorated to him, the bullet-proof jacket offers a quite relative protection against the majority of the projectiles.

Repulsive shield

The repulsive shield is a defensive weapon exclusively dedicated to the FDP (planetary Defense force), which sometimes stolen or is recovered by Imperial Guards, although that is formally prohibited by the command.

The repulsive shield is composed of a composite protection multi-matter which makes it more resistant than a protection such as a bullet-proof jacket. Slightly bent, the shield comprises handles of maintains which can be reversed according to the direct hand of the carrier. An opening of ten centimetres out of two is practiced in top of the shield to make it possible the carrier to see in front of him. The opening is covered with a composite glazing used to carry out the cockpits of the vessels.

The shield is called repulsive because it has an energy field which, when it is activated projects a shock wave forwards. The wave shock can make it possible to reverse, to see to sound a person during a short amount of time.

Armor carapace

The armours carapaces, so called Kasrkins armours, are complete armours recovering the entirety of the body of the carrier, leaving him however a good mobility. However, it is the weight of the armor which reduces the speed of the considerable carrier of manner. The materials used are always best available, even if the they different one according to the worlds from origins of the regiments. The helmet is integral east always comprises a respirator and a visor splinterproof shield. The visor integrates a molecular mono underlayer allowing the posting of information on the carrier, its environment and posts a reticle of aiming. A mounting foot is laid out on the left side of the helmet and makes it possible to fix a lamp, although it is regularly replaced by material of better quality by the combatants wishing to improve the capacities of the armor. The respirator is able to filter the majority of the poisons and neurotoxic most current. However, there remains very poor vis-a-vis poison gases considered to be very effective, in which case he can be improved. The respirator has of end making it possible to introduce food in liquid form and water. A high speaker and a radio short distance make it possible to communicate between soldiers. Under officers charged with the command with the units and the radios have nevertheless more powerful systems. The right arm-band integrates a microcomputer of class lambda for the assistance into the control of the capacities of the armor, the assistance with the stock management. The touchscreen can be locked and has a avoid-glare not to be involuntarily deteriorated at the time of the engagements. Dorsal parcelling contains a generator of laser cells having an autonomy of 12000 shootings in rate blow by blow. Vents are present in parcelling to avoid all risk of overheating. Moreover the generator can reload itself in hardly ten minutes on any type of generator of Impérial energy. It is connected to the weapon by flexible tubes and armoured tanks. It contains individual rations of combat for three days and two liters and water half. It is useless to specify that these armours are reserved for a carefully selected elite, which is the subject of the jealousy of the majority of the Imperial Guards which make flower number of nickname unpleasant to their opposition!

Energy armor

The energy armor is the principal protection of the space marine. This made armor of adamentium and ceramite is psycho-reactive, with the result that it reacts according to the movements of its carrier and its requests. The weight of the armor is enormous: so that the space marine can carry it without problem the armor is equipped with generators which feed the armor to reduce the load of its carrier.

Fields of force and Rosarius

Rosarius are small amulets provided to the Chaplains Space Marines by Ecclésiarchie de Terra. The religious authorities of Imperium thus mark a bond with Spaces Marines. On the battle field, Rosarius produces a small individual field of force which protects its carrier against the most powerful weapons from the enemy.

Weapons

Weapons of Shooting

Personal armament

After having made a success of a mission the men of the guard (and even officers) traverse the battle fields in the search of " trophés" ; this can be a knife or an automatic pistol… The officers one of the personal weapons of which they are useful sometimes (in the plays of plate is the rule: distinguishing mark).

Laser gun

The laser gun is the most widespread handgun in Imperium, so much so that regiments entirety of rebels are some equipped! Of the general to the sergeant while passing through the followers of the god machine or the gangers, the laser gun is the most used weapon.

Its small size does not affect of anything the power the weapon which is as its model of size higher of a reliability than any test for little than it is maintained. If the power of the laser gun is not decreased, the range of the weapon is quite less (until twice less range). The mode of shooting pre is selected with construction, thus the laser majority of the guns are automatics which draw step by step, a too great quantity of shootings being able to stop the weapon, although that remains extremely rare.

The most beautiful models of guns laser are weapons of a rare elegance dating from the first days of Imperium. No one cannot say with exactitude which was their creator, however work of the craftsman was quasi-divine. Ten thousand years later there remains only one ten of these guns jealously kept by their rich person owners. The majority of people think that these weapons are intended for the exposure but those which saw them with the use know that it of it is nothing.

Laser rifle

Laser rifle is the most used weapon universe of Warhammer 40,000, and this for only one and single reason: it is the weapon of equipment of the imperial Guard. Any Guard Imperial whatever it has at least once in its career standard laser rifle models Mars. It is the most reliable weapon, easiest to produce and the least expensive ever created. You can throw it in water, knock with, avoid blows of sword, draw like a demented person, and it will still go. Its charger can reload any manner: with a terminal of energy, in the light of the sun, in fire, all that produces light and/or heat can serve although certain as its sources tend to decrease the lifespan of a charger. Moreover among the thousands of industrial models which exist, and the possible hundreds of variations, there is not of them one which is not personnalisable by the carrier according to its tastes and its technique of combat. In short Laser Rifle is the most general-purpose weapon ever created.

On the following model, which is drawn from the Triplex series, one can indicate a standard design of the design of the weapon. The stick and the handle are treated with coatings in grip which adapt to the hands and the shoulder of the carrier, moreover the stick can be folded up for a more pleasant use in interior medium (a building for example). Certain regiments have alternatives with purely decorative elements (the Prime Minister and Single of Tanith has their metal sticks replaced by a wood alternative of Nal, a gasoline of tree which pushed on their destroyed planet).

Safety is just between the test card and the top of the stick, it however is often withdrawn by the guards because with it tendency to jump and to be locked during a constant shooting.

The mechanism on the level of the inch on the handle makes it possible to carry out four quite distinct actions. First makes fall the charger when this one is empty, the mechanism return then to its starting position as soon as the charger to left his site. The three other positions are used to define the rate of shooting: free gust for shootings at full rate, which largely decreases the precision of the gunner with long range. Rafale by three blows, ideal in the shootings with short range as in a corridor for example. Finally shooting step by step, that requires more energy but the shootings are also more precise and more powerful.

The mechanism meadows of the stick makes it possible the carrier “to see” the power of the shooting which it will carry out thanks to a series of mini phosphorescent tubes, there too the mechanism is regularly withdrawn for two reasons: first is that it seriously misses discretion and the second that the mechanism derives part of the power from the laser, which is very awkward for a weapon with the laser which misses sometimes punch against adversaries very enduring like the orks.

The test card of laser rifle models Triplex (to give him its complete name at least once) comprises a sight tube which improves the precision on averages and long distances. The soldiers particularly gifted withdraw it with the profit of a sight long range and add a laser pointer for the average carried.

The double gun runs with sleeve hiding place flame is characteristic of a weapon intended to be useful in shootings for short range. The weapon is made more handy, even if the power in is slightly reduced. The hiding place flame decreases a little the glare of the laser which, without that, would plug the carrier, it reduces also the strident slapping which the ray on the outlet side of the gun produces.

Laser rifle erasing

Laser rifle erasing is one of the personal weapons most powerful which are at disposal of the largest number in the imperial Guard, and this although it equips only certain units with elite of the imperial Guard. The model of this rifle at very high speed of shooting and strong capacity of penetration is only declined very little contrary to standard laser rifle. Indeed its diagrams of manufacture leaves straight of a very old code the SCS (Diagrams of Construction Standardized) and least the modifications undertaken risk to put in danger the effectiveness of the whole of the mechanism.

Rifle erasing laser Kasrkin model presented above is the standard model available in the whole of Imperium. The stick at summer removed for a greater mobility of the weapon, which remains of a high degree of accuracy thanks to a double mechanism. First is integrated into the armor of the carrier is not anything else of a stabilizer of retreat which reduces considerably the disadvantages due to the shootings. This last is coupled with a sight tube which, if it can be used only projects a reticle of aimed on the visor of the armor of the carrier. Laser Rifle Erasing does not have a selector of shooting mode. On the other hand ten shootings laser of great intensity its delivered with each pressure on the trigger, and this in less than eighty thousandths of second. Such a firepower requires a greater source of energy than a standard laser rifle. This is why the charger makes place with a double system of automatic loading which draws its reserves (approximately two hundred shootings) in the generator placed in the back of the armor of the carrier. When the parcelling of the soldier at reloaded summer it can deliver more than five hundred shootings, which makes it possible the troops to lengthily fight in a shooting without having to reload.

On the weapon presented here one can see a seal of purity and a votive inscription. These markings, although nonregulatory are used by all the Imperial Guards which seek the blessing of the Emperor.

Pump rifle

Pump rifle and one of the rare weapons of the imperial Guard to still functioning with solid ammunition. Indeed only the troops operative regularly behind the enemy lines or in the place confined appreciate the weapons with solid ammunition, such as automatic rifles or machine gunners and the semi and automatic guns, each world having its level of technology, it arrives that the imperial regiments resulting from a less technological moinde leave to the combat with automatic weapons until their reserves of ammunition are emptied and than they go in exchange of the laser weapons and laser rifles.

Pump rifles are entirely manual weapons which are used even in the regiments of the imperial Guard being equipped with laser weapons. The weapon is compact, and this in spite of the stick, which does not draw that ammunition large gauge, and sometimes even of the bolts. The weapon has a manual charger being able to contain to eight balls although that tend to cause stoppings. The armament is done thanks to an armament of the pump towards the carrier. A guard involved perfectly can thus empty its charger in the five seconds space. Pump Rifle is a primitive weapon which remains nevertheless very appreciated on the battle fields.

Rifle of Sniper

The rifle of sniper is, as it is known today, a solid projectile weapon mainly. Being more perforating that the ammunition of automatic weapons or the rays of energy of laser rifles, they are not made all the same to bore armours.

The soldiers using them are selected among the best gunners of the imperial Guard, being noticed in their units for their capacities of shootings. Alternatives of the technique of the rifle of sniper were made with a standard laser rifle on which was added a simple sight tube and systems necessary to its stabilization, such as hangers on the most technological worlds.

The rifle of sniper with projectiles is not appreciated really than that the laser, since that one like the other can use special cartridges of ammunition, like piercing balls for that with solid ammunition or many laser radiant cartridges for Sniper Laser, being emptied in a shooting, two when it is of very good invoice, which more or less have the same kind of effects.

The snipers are soldiers appreciated in the imperial Guard, although certain officers, mainly those in the regiments of seat, see the latter like couards hiding to make fire and not confronting really the enemy. But always, that depends on the opinion of the officers because the situations or only one adjusted shooting of a rifle of sniper could change the court of a battle are numerous.

Being able to disorganize the enemies while plunging them in the constant fear to be abbattut without possibility of defending oneself, sowing panic even at the troops most organized and being able to block units during lapses of times which can be fatal with a strategy. But the situations or the snipers are appreciated are when these marksmen deal with assassinating the enemy chiefs of armies.

Fusor

Fuseur is one of the weapon personal most fatal of the imperial Guard. This weapon delivers a ray of heat so intense that it can dissolve the thickest shielding like butter. However the relatively short range of the weapon indicates it for particularly courageous soldiers, to see suicidal who will not hesitate to sacrifice their life to achieve their duty by tackling armoured tanks or fortified positions while approaching to the maximum.

Fuseur is a compact but thick and heavy weapon because of the materials which compose it in order to contain formidable energy that it generates. The tank east fills of a mixture of plasma and promethium which mixes in contact with a hydrostatic gel. The elements thus put in presence amalgamate (from where the name of the weapon) by producing a very great quantity of light and heat which are expelled by the gun of the weapon on a maximum distance of 25 meters only.

The prehensile parts of the weapon are covered with a anti-flammable matter which stops the heat which varies according to the places of manufacture. However it should be noted that without these installation the hands of the carrier would be immediately calcined. The sleeve of the weapon is short and has multiple vents for not that the weapon in itself does not found.

Launch Plasma

Lance-plasma is more expensive because its technology is difficult to reproduce and unstable. It was a time or this weapon was created to replace the bolters at the legions of Astartes at the time of the end of the Great Crusade.

When the catastrophes which had with overheatings were deferred, Adeptus Mechanicus ceased practically its production, waiting to create a model usable without Indeed risking the life of the best warriors of Imperium., when the weapon overheats, the user is found with a mini-Sun between the hands.

Stocks of these weapons were entrusted to the regiments of the Imperial Army whose death of only one soldier was not really serious.

They are weapons able to dissolve most important protection although the generated force is not sufficient to bore thickest of the shieldings. The weapon delivers, a fraction of a second before plasma, a laser beam which traces a trajectory so that the ionized gas is not spread in the vacuum.

Bolter gun

The gun bolter is a smaller version of the bolter, being able to be held with a hand. It is a robust weapon which, even in the formats adapted to the size of human normal belonging to the imperial Guard, exceeding by far the size and the weight of an automatic pistol or laser.

Its charger of false type and is made from 6 to 10 blows, which is not a great capacity for the shootings, although at the time of an attack, that is extremely practical. The gun bolter can explode the rib cage of a humanoïde of the eldar type, human or tau of only one shooting, so much the power of the ball is powerful.

Space Marines carry bolters of a slightly higher gauge and whose weapon of course is adapted to the epic size of the warriors.

Bolter

Rifle bolter, or bolter, is superb but capricious deadly weapon designed for the combat with short range.

It projects missiles of small size, making nearly five centimetres length for two or three broad, according to the gauge, which are self-propelled. The weapon being thus practically free from retreat. It is thus ideal for the attack, not making move back its carrier. Although robust, the bolter is not a light weapon and must be carried by a soldier trained with his handling.

To be taken under fire devastator of bolters is an alarming experiment. The specimens intended for Space Marines are manufactured by the best craftsmen with best materials. These bolters worked hand of Master are invaluable artefacts, and are carefully maintained by the chapters Space Marines since hundreds, even of the thousands of years. Because of their seniority, these bolters requires ritual of the maintenance constant ones to be completely operational. There exist many types of bolters. Here are some: Ultima type, standard Crusade, standard Heresy, standard Filienostos, standard Astartes Umbra, standard Nostra, model 482,… Model 998 is provided with a meter of ammunition models Godwyn, and of a mechanism of Sinister/Dexter locking (adapted to the left-handeds person as with the droitiers). The bolter accepts many types of chargers. The standard charger is a charger into false containing 20 to 30 bolts. There exists also a charger drum of greater capacity (40 to 60 bolts) but tending to cause stoppings, and a right charger containing less bolts (12 to 20 only) but easier to engage.

Fulgurating

Fulgurating is a weapon of attack to two guns drawing from the gusts of bolts. It is fed out of standard by a charger Duplus X (basiquement, they are two chargers stuck together). It is one of the most sophisticated bolt weapons from all the points of view. It is indeed equipped with a multidirectional port of ejection reducing the risks of stopping, with a piezoelectric room of ignition and a compensator of impulse. It also embarks many electronic subsystems, of which circuits of autoreparation, a bond of visual autosensor being connected on the armor of the carrier and providing information of aiming (although there is also a rise for the aiming with the naked eye if the gunner would not carry an armor), or a palmar sensor of print with genetic identification placed in the stick. The model Triplex Phall equips the Terminator armours.

Launch Flamme and Lance Flame heavy

According to the oldest legends of the Worship of Mars, the first specimens of Lance Flame would have appeared in m2 on Terra, with the courses of bloodthirsty men confrontations who failed to reverse planet. Many are those which think that this weapon was invented at the time by the Emperor in person, but this is only one rumor and no proof can in no case to be confirmed.

It is on the other hand irrefutable that the Lance Flame, although its design fortunately developed during the millenia, since always accompanied Space Marines in their search by justice and freedom for Humanity. Since the glorious days of the construction of the Palate of the Emperor until the current dark days of corruptions and the crumbling of the imperial size, the Lance Flame accompanied the Juste, releasing his flames purifying on the ignominieuse face of the corruption of the forces of the Ruin.

Since old times and in the totality of the pre-imperial human beliefs like post-imperial, fire always aroused a strong interest as well as a great interpretation symbolic system, often allotted to a kind of purification of the body and heart. The Chapter Space Marine of Salamanders, known of all for its bravery, like its complete devotion towards humanity, makes an almost systematic use of this blessed weapon, and this at a point such as the use of Bolter Rifles is there, in certain sections, marginal.

Structurally the composition of the Lance Flame, some is its type and its model of origin, is extremely simple, and it is produced of constant number and in a way more than sufficient by the imperial arms factories. Never an imperial army missed some, and it would seem not very probable that the case arises one day (the majority of modern imperial planets by having several manufacturing planies, the stock of Imperium as regards Lance Flame can face years of absence of production without concern for the replacement of the weapons lost and except service). A compressed-air engine propels a liquid ignited by the gun, liquidates burning all on its passage and at very strong temperature.

Launch Flamme Leger Image: Also known Avertissement.JPG under the name of “gun with flames” or “burner”, this weapon is a reduced version of the traditional flame thrower. Its range is shorter but its effects also mortals. Its reduced size makes it possible to use it during a body with body. It equips sometimes the scout, but more often the top graded and the sections of attack of certain chapters (Blood Angel) or of Adepta Sororitas.

Launch Flamme Heavy The lance flame heavy functions according to the same principles as the flame thrower, it wraps its target of flames and transforms it into human torch. This heavy model is in fact the twinned equivalent of a lance flame but also has a greater autonomy with the use of dorsal demi-johns and a higher range because of a system of propulsion of amplified flammable product, being worth to him the affectionate nickname of “Large Flambeur”…

Grenade thrower and Gun Ripper

The grenade thrower is also cheap but more general-purpose in terms of use than the flame thrower. Able to fire from the grenades either with fragmentation or anti-tank devices, it combines anti-personnel and anti-tank capacities (light) in only one weapon. It has a good range, being able to draw up to 24 PS without penalty from movement. The lance-grenade remains an exceptional weapon that it is for a unit of Shock troops positioned defensively or for a more mobile unit.

Heavy armament

Autocanons and Canons of attack

First ancestor of very fears Canon of attack carried by the tactical armours dreadnought, the gun of attack is an heavy weapon drawing from short gust from one to three shells of low gauge. These shells, not having a great value of penetration nor of explosion, are made to fight the heavy infantry and the light tanks which are usually seen on the battle fields of Imperium.

It is an ideal weapon for the infantry, able to put at ground robust xenoses or many light tanks, it is perfect for the shootings of cover and is appreciated for its versatility.

The direct descendant of Autocanon is mowing Autocanon, equipped with two guns and a hanger enabling him to be used moving by Space Marines. Mowing Autocanon has a rate of shootings much higher than Autocanon.

However, the only armies still using Autocanon Faucheur are infamous Space Marines of chaos, the weapon being well too complicated to manufacture for a hardly higher effect. On their side, Space Marines imperial developed shells moreover small size, corresponding to a mixture between the bolt and the miniature shell. Although of a less force, the rate of shooting permitted by the gun of attack is quite higher (nearly two hundred blows at the minute) and has a quite higher factor of penetration of armor.

Heavy Bolter

It is a terrible weapon and very door. She is entrusted to the group of support for the infantry and is subjected to the direct orders of the section of command. The heavy bolter is very emcombrant but its weight is compensated by its redoubles rate of shooting and the large gauges drawn by the machine. Simple a bolter heavy can be enough has to even push back to exterminate an enemy in the small battles which regularly make victims at the guards. A simple bunker with a bolter heavy good placed can quickly be transformed into impregnable fortress and this weapon is enough powerful to damage a vehicle. But because of its weight it mobilizes two soldiers to transport the weapon, the other the ammunition. Moreover, they are seldom used in attack owing to the fact that time to install the weapon the frontline it is already distant making the weapon useless. A line of defense made up of bolters heavy in top of a hill and lines of guards behind barricades are enough to push back boldest (or insane) of the attackers. It should be noted that Space Marines of Chaos often use the heavy bolter. Indeed, a member of the section can easily carry one of them.

Mortar

Heavy weapon of stopping drawing from the floods of high-explosive shells out of bell on distant targets.

Launch Roquettes

Heavy weapon being able to draw from the missiles with fragmentation bursting with the impact or from the perforating missiles anti-tank.

Canon Laser

This weapon, very current in the regiments of the imperial Guard, often equips the hulls with Leman rus. Based on the technology of laser rifle, its batteries is however surpuissantes and uses all the force of this one of only one blow, being able to bore most important of the shieldings, to make heat the fuel and to pulverize the engines, causing a powerful explosion.

No alive creature can be held in the ray of shooting of a laser gun without undergoing serious wounds.

Weapons of Body with Body

Dagger of combat

The dagger of combat is often one of the characteristics of a regiment. Each one of them having a model more or less different from the others. The knives being weapons not needing a reality maintains, are often the last with being replaced in the imperial equipment of the guard, with the result that the soldiers tend to stick to these objects which are symbols of their native planet.

This weapon is often adapted to be placed in bayonet at the end of the laser rifle of a guard imperial, which, when tended forwards, can form a line impenetrable and sharp in which only boldest of the enemies will dare to throw itself.

swords and axes

The swords and the axes form the commun run of the weapons of body with body of all the history of humanity. Often light, they are used as weapons of body with body to the officers not being encumbered rifle laser and preferring to carry a simple laser gun or bolter, some times plasma. To put a baîonnette on such a weapon would be ridiculous and useless, the preferring officers to point the enemy in a way defying with their sword, energetics or not.

Certain officers, being bolder, will test themselves in the handling of the Sword slicer, arms rather heavy and difficult to handle, not easily usable to avoid and feinter, it is however fatal as of the contact, making wounds disfiguring with those which are touched.

launch

The lances of the imperial guard are weapons energetics capablent of transperser any armor or shielding. They are used by the imperial riders.

Weapon energy

The energy weapons are among the most fatal weapons of body-with-body. They are wrapped of a blue field of force crépitant. This field is largely destroying: when a blow is carried by such a weapon, a powerful discharge of energy strikes the target, tearing armor, flesh and bone with an equal facility. The energy weapons are thus able to pulverize the armours and to crush the plastacier in a beat of lash, penetrating even through the thickest armours as in paper. An energy weapon generally takes the shape of a sword or an axe, more rarely of a halberd, a sword or a mass, even of a bludgeon.

Vehicles

Sentinel: The Sentinel is a single-seat walker slightly armor-plated and discovered, mainly used by the imperial Guard. Its speed and its agility make of it an excellent vehicle of recognition, exploration and surprised attack. The Sentinel is also very useful in dense ground, where it constitutes a platform mobile of shootings of support, able to produce a curtain of fire to support the infantry and the tanks or to mask the progression of a allied column. The majority of planets producing the Sentinel make modifications to the basic model, in particular on the level of the armament. Thus, the model Mars, which is the basic model, is armed with a multilaser, while the Catachan model has a heavy flame thrower. The Sentinels produced on Cadia are equipped with a autocanon and are equipped with a reinforced shielding, where the Sentinel of Armageddon is equipped with a laser gun and an armor-plated compartment. Lastly, the Elysia model is armed with a multi-fusor. The imperial Guard uses the Sentinels in squadrons from 1 to 3 machines. These machines remain nevertheless rather rare on the battle fields.

Dream: The Dream is a vehicle of support of infantry and armor-plated transport of troops. It is most current of the freight vehicles in the imperial Guard. Equipped with a correct shielding and of capacities amphibians, it can transport a whole section (up to 12 men or 6 Ogryns) as well as a passenger (often an officer) and his crew at good speed and at very long distances. Once the unloaded infantry, the Dream provides a shooting of support with her bolter heavy of hull (sometimes replaced by a heavy flame thrower) and her multi-laser of turret. She is also equipped with three rifles laser on each side, that the Guards can use during their transport, and has a higher trap door from where the heavy weapons of the embarked section can make fire. A Dream is thus able to decimate the unfavourable troops and to transform the lightest armoured tanks into smoking wrecks. The Mk.XIII model is produced inter alia on Armageddon.

Hellhound: The tank Hellhound flame thrower is an example of alternative ultra-specialized in the Dream. This machine is designed to dislodge the enemy infantry of the dense grounds thanks to its Inferno gun. Hellhound has a terrible reputation: this monstrous machine can incinerate infantrymen per tens under the floods of flames which it projects. The only sight of this horrible spectacle is enough to cause the escape of the enemy, while the cries of anguish of the latecomers resound. Many crews modify the mass fuel rate of flow of the weapon in order to increase the firepower further by it, but this practice is badly seen by the command because it tends to involve internal explosions on board these travelling tanks. Moreover, the enormous promethium tanks, fixed directly on the shielding of the tank, make this last very vulnerable to the enemy shootings. Hellhound is also equipped with a heavy bolter of hull.

Basilisk: Basilisk is heavy autotractée an artillery platform based on the frame of the Dream. It is besides the most current piece of artillery and most known within the armies of Imperium. The shielding of the compartment postpones is removed there in order to improve ventilation of the cylinder head and to give sufficient space to being useful to charge the enormous Séisme gun. Thanks to this gun, Basilisk is able to send projectiles to an incredible distance, devastating infantrymen and enemy structures by its shootings of stopping. It thus shows all its effectiveness deployed masses in a battery including/understanding of many parts, but is also effective in direct shooting. Relatively mobile, Basilisk can follow the advance of the infantry and be ready to draw in little time. Basilisk is also armed with a heavy bolter of hull

Griffon: Griffon is one of the most current alternatives of the Dream. It is conceived to provide a shooting of support to short and average range. It for that is equipped with a heavy mortar Griffon installed on a discovered platform, as well as heavy bolter of hull. Griffon is less required than Basilisk, but remains as much employed against the fortifications.

Medusa: Built same manner as Basilisk, this tank specialized in the seats is equipped with a mortar of seat which can reduce in dust the most resistant bunkers. Far from widespread among the rows of the Guard Imperial, Medusa however has a strong potential, in spite of its weak range and the common brittleness of all the gun platforms based on the frame of the Dream

Hydra: This vehicle, always based on the frame of the Dream, is specialized in the anti-aircraft defense. Nevertheless, he is also seen with the face, in a role of support of infantry. Indeed, the four let us autocanons long of Hydra, tie of the projectiles with fragmentation, are perfectly able to cause devastations in the enemy rows.

Manticore: Tank of support like Basilisk, Manticore is equipped with four heavy missiles. Although its range and its firepower are increased compared to those of Basilisk, the scarcity of the ammunition of Manticore makes that one often prefers the Séisme gun to him of his counterpart.

Deathstrike: Very heavy version of Manticore, Deathstrike is a launcher of intercontinental missiles. Very rare and asking for a very heavy logistics, one finds them with the shelter, very far behind the frontlines. For example, during the Third War of Armageddon, they were based in Helsreach where they supported the combat of the Volcanus Hive, however located other with dimensions of planet. Each Deathstrike can embark one missile, but this one can be equipped with any type of head.

Salamander: Salamander is a light tank of recognition and command. Its armament is tiny room to the maximum in order to gain weight, and it is thus equipped only with a autocanon and a heavy bolter of hull. Salamander is often employed to cover the sides of the armor-plated Companies. Having only one reduced armament and a light shielding, the crews do not hesitate to arrange the engines in order to obtain a profit speed which could save the life to them.

Leman Russ: Easy to build and maintain and tested design, the enormous one and heavy Leman Russ resisted the time proof better than the majority of the other armoured tanks, so that it is today the tank more used by the imperial Guard. Always in the middle of the attack, robust Leman Russ can fight virtually anywhere, whatever the conditions. Nothing stops them, neither hostile environments, neither the shells, nor the discharges of energy of the enemy. Leman Russ thus constitutes a vehicle of ideal heavy support on the frontline. The armament of Leman Russ can vary considerably, but its howitzer out of turret is standard. The alternatives in which this weapon is replaced generally bear another name. In addition to the principal weapon, Leman Russ is armed with a laser gun or a heavy bolter integrated in the hull. Lastly, it can be seen equipping with side casemates, which accommodate various heavy weapons (bolters heavy or flame thrower) in order to provide a support brought closer to the infantry and to maintain remotely the troops enemy. Leman Russ often have names, such as for example “Bonepounder”.

Model known: - Mk. XII: The armament of Mk. XII includes/understands side supports of weapons, chargers of energy and standard ammunition in option. - Mk. XIII: Shielding and armament similar to Mk. XII. Mk.XIII is produced inter alia on Phaeton. Those produced on this planet have moreover of an additional blade of bulldozer and an improved thermal generator. - Mk. XIV “Damocles”: Withdrawn of the active service because of dysfunctions of the unit of filtering. - Mk. XV “Phaethon”: Shielding and armament similar to Mk. XIII. Nevertheless, contrary to the preceding models, Mk. XV uses one crystalline battery generator. This battery meets only the auxiliary energy needs, the main part of the operational needs being always ensured by the thermal combuster engine.

Leman Russ Demolition contracter: This tank is a current alternative of Leman rus. As its name indicates it, it is armed in the place with the howitzer with a Démolisseur gun. Its other options of armament remain the same ones as those of traditional Leman Russ, if it is not that its side turrets can accommodate multi-fuseurs or lance-plasma heavy. It also has a better shielding than traditional Leman Russ, which makes it still harder to destroy. The Demolition contracter is devastator in urban environment and in the attacks against the buildings and the fortifications. For this reason he is often regarded as a tank of seat.

Leman Russ Hunter: Sophisticated version of Leman Russ standard, the Hunter is alas in the process of disappearance because the manufactoring processes of its principal gun were lost during the fall of the world forges Tigrus. Very rare but very general-purpose, it is allotted only to the crews veterans which can use it as well as possible and to preserve it enemies and time. One finds of them often at the head armor-plated Companies of the imperial Guard. Leman Russ Chasseur can receive the same weapons out of side turrets as Leman Russ standard.

Leman Russ Exterminating: This alternative of Leman Russ is almost as common as the Demolition contracter, even if it only is little mentioned in the accounts of wars. It draws its name from the “Exterminating” autocanon with which its turret is equipped. Leman Russ Chasseurs whose principal gun was irremediably lost are often converted into Exterminators. Leman Russ Exterminateurs can receive the same weapons out of side turrets as Leman Russ standard.

Leman Russ Conqueror: This version of Leman Russ, built exclusively on the world forges Gryphonne IV, uses a secret technology of Adeptus Mechanicus. It is deployed in avant-garde of the Titanic Legions, and one rather regularly finds it in the regiments of Skitarii. Conqueror is nevertheless extremely rare within the regiments of the imperial Guard because the generals of it are far from petitioning, preferring by far Leman Russ standard.

Leman Russ Executor: This Leman Russ is an extremely old alternative of the standard model, armed with an Exécuteur gun. It was formerly very current, and the files even show that certain armor-plated Companies of the Imperial Army were equipped only with this type of tank during the Great Crusade. However, one produces it today only on the world forges of Ryza.

Hunter of tanks Destroyer: The Destroyer is a tank destroyer based on the frame of Leman rus. It is equipped with a heavy laser gun “Destroyer”, whose technology is forgotten today. Its value and its scarcity make that one uses it only for tightening ambushes, whose it is withdrawn then very quickly to avoid being destroyed

Tank of Thunderer head office: The Hunters of Destroyers tanks whose gun was destroyed or too damaged to be repaired are usually converted into Thunderers. The heavy laser gun “Destroyer” is replaced there by a Démolisseur gun. The squat form of Thunderer still makes it better in a seat than its counterpart, Leman Russ Démolisseur, which is however a quite small comfort when one knows what the loss of a Hunter of Destroyer tanks costs.

Baneblade: Baneblade and its alternatives count among the oldest tanks with being still of service in the imperial Guard. Created on the basis of technology of the Technological Middle Ages, Baneblade is the most built superheavy tanks, and largely proved its value with the combat. It is equipped with a shielding almost inpénétrable, a varied armament and a colossal firepower, able to come to end of whole armies. Baneblade is equipped with an méga-howitzer and a autocanon on its principal turret, with a Démolisseur gun of hull, as well as two guns laser and three heavy pairs of bolters twinned out of secondary turrets. Baneblade and its alternatives are venerated like the relics of a completed time. The loss of Baneblade is so important that an imperial commander will put all works about it to recover the carcass.

Hellhammer: It is a modified version of Baneblade used mainly against the infantry. She has a gun of attack of a power and a range lower than Baneblade. N the other hand, the three twinned pairs of bolters are replaced by twinned heavy flame throwers.

Shadowsword: Resulting from a technology quite as old and complex, Shadowsword is the twin of Baneblade. Nevertheless, its task is specialized much than that of his/her cousin, since the Volcano gun which equips Shadowsword makes a perfect hunter of Titans of it.

Stormsword: When Shadowsword is too seriously damaged to return to the combat in its form first, he is reconverted in Stormsword. This one is equipped with a Stormsword gun, as well as two heavy flame throwers and of two heavy pairs of bolters out of side turrets. Stormsword is gift specialized in the urban combat and the seats

Stormblade: Stormblade is an alternative of Shadowsword equipped with a powerful plasma gun, inherited very old technologies whose secrecy is lost today. There remains quite as effective as his cousin.

the Titans Exits of the volcanic foundries of Mars, the Titans are of gigantic biped machines of war, if powerful that they can shave whole cities alone. Even their many secondary weapons of defense of hull are able to come to end of the heaviest armoured tanks. Each Titan is controlled by Princeps, assisted of several Moderati.

Titan Reaver: Titan of intermediate size.

Titan Imperator: This gigantic Titan, high one hundred forty meters, can be armed with a large Fournaise gun, arms with an incredible power. These machines of war of an incredible power were already used during the Great Crusade.

Some famous regiments

The imperial Guard counts billion billion soldiers and thus the million different regiments. However some became so famous that their names are known in all Imperium for what they incarnate. It is not made state here that cream of the cream bus of the hundreds of regiments would deserve to find their name here.

The regiments cadiens

The troops of attack cadiennes result from Cadia, a world in the south of the Eye of terror, very exposed with the fury of the forces of Chaos when those launch out in a Black Crusade, such that of 142-160 M41 carried out by Abaddon the Plague. Cadians form one of the armies of the imperial Guard best equipped, and it is one of the imperial force most present in the galaxy to ensure the defense of Imperium.

Raising the badges with head of imperial eagle on their uniforms with the colors camouflages variegated, Cadiens are recognizable with their provided and complete equipment: lattice, shoulder pads of protection, heavy helmet, regulatory and manual parcelling of the combatant in the pocket. This abundance of material is partly due to a perfectly oiled intendance, but especially to the fact that Cadian has many various manufactures. The provided planet moreover one impressive quantity of weapons, and its assembly lines of armored vehicles count among vastest of all Imperium. Certain areas of Cadian besides are exclusively dedicated to the manufacture of material. Cadian was also made a speciality of construction in prefabricated strengthened bunkers and other buildings. More of the 3/4 of the 250 million inhabitants are more or less directly implied in the military effort, and as of more the young age Cadiens can handle and dismount a weapon, and know the military rudiments of tactics in the event of urban combat.

The planet is a dull place swept by strong winds. Of immense pillars of unknown origins rise with regular intervals on the surface of Cadia, and one is unaware of their utility although scholars have advanced the assumption that they would be a kind of barrier to maintain the sector out of reach of the meanders of Chaos, bubbling very close, in the Eye of Terror, or to contain this one in this zone. But nothing is less sure.

This world lives almost only for its military industries, all the exploitable resources being directed more or less directly towards the effort of war. Because of are paramount strategic importance, the Cadien sector being the single navigable access road known in direction of the Eye of Terror, Cadian is protected from the aggressions external by a series of orbital bases and defenses on the ground, which will make think of the traveller come to visit this military world that it will land on a world of garrisons. It is partly true since a great majority of the regiments cadiens are confined well far from cadian. Certain detachments are even affected with exploration, in collaboration generally with a Chapter Space Marines. But the crucial role of the Troops of Attack remains obviously the combat. Besides Cadiens balk to carry out joint operations with other regiments resulting from the armies of the imperial Guard, estimating to be sufficiently qualified to conclude the mission which was assigned to them.

The Troops of Cadiennes Attack form a particularly powerful army corps, specialized in the urban combat, the operations of unloading since space or the campaigns of seats. Disciplined and knowing as of childhood to handle the weapons, Cadiens are the prototype of the troops of the imperial Guard. It is not rare that other bodies of the Guard are formed by Cadiens officers, in particular with regard to the organization and the management of the material. A soldier on ten is integrated in the Interior Guard, a regiment especially dedicated to the defense of Cadia, named Kasrkrin. It is an equivalent with the shock troops commonly called thus. Engagement in this guard is with life, also that is a badge honor to be selected to form part of it.

Note: Cadia was the principal theater of action of the worldwide campaign 2003, “the eye of Terror”, having for framework the 13th Black Crusade of Abaddon the Plague.

“The Devils” Catachans

In the jungle, it there with the enemy whom one seldom sees and that which one never sees. Sniper can by its only presence, or even only by the rumor of this one, to delay or mislay a whole regiment.

Catachan is most famous of the Hostile Worlds of the galaxy and its warriors are the most frightening combatants of jungle of the Emperor. To fight against Catachans, it is like facing the Krivonor General - Crusade of Trojan This luxuriant jungle extends on more than eight million square kilometers, grouille of giant leeches, poisonous brambles, wolves of the forests and sufficient miasmas and of virus to make rot a man on foot in a few hours. If you want that we came to end from the skin-green rabble which occupies the forests of the highlands, there is only one force which can ensure us the victory. We need the best combatants of bush of Imperium, it is necessary for us Guards of the Jungle of Catachan. Catachan is a Hostile World, if inhospitable that to survive it is a fight of each moment. The hard inhabitants of Catachan are the descendants of the very first human which colonized planet of the generations earlier. The need made them people endowed for survival in the middle of jungles covering with whole planets, grouillantes the predatory voracious ones, plants carnivores, poisonous insects and virulent diseases and mortals. to be able of nature itself. The inhabitants of Catachan have only one resource of value for Imperium, their regiments of guards of the jungle. Once recruited, they are deployed in all the galaxy, where them affinity with the bush can make the difference. The warriors of Catachan readily agree to engage and, in exchange of their honesty, their families and their colonies receive technology and the drugs which they could not obtain differently.

Catachan is most famous Hostile Monde of the galaxy, but it is not only. Cthelle, Luther McIntyre, Canak, Lost Hope, Miral and many other hells (green or not) also provide troops. This list of army is thus also that of the veterans of the Hostile Worlds, so that the players can invent their own inhospitable planets, with the diagrams of colors and histories of their particular regiments. You can also adapt the rules of combat in dense forest medium of this book to create a type different of Hostile World for your regiment, like the polar deserts of Luther McIntyre or the marshes of methane of Miral Even if jungle keeps it is better than imperial means keeps it, its greater force lies in its capacity to move in the jungle and there tender traps and ambushes. It is able to use the cover provided by the bush to strike and disappear before the enemy cannot counteract.

“Iron Guards” Mordians

The Mordia planet is a particular planet, in the direction where the night is eternal there, the only source of light thus comes from the human concentrations of this world. Moreover, this planet with often be the target of chaotic attack, which following the example Cadia, hardened the population.

The soldiers of this world are very well involved and especially very disciplined: they are indeed drilled to fight in tight formation (a little like the armies the Napoleonean time), which enables them to form a wall of shooting of laser and bayonets with the engagements.

The iron guards of Mordian are also of very fine gunners, whose address can without problem being compared with that of the cadians. However, they have a uniform similar to a uniform of ceremony. This often misled besides the enemy who believed to face simple guards of ceremony and one have time to include/understand!

“Guards of the Desert” of Tallarn

Tallarn is a desert world, the natives of this planet are nomads crafty ones which can make use of basic and technological armament. These “guards of the desert” use discretion, the ambushes which they tighten are frightening.

Death Korps de Krieg

This regiment is resulting from Krieg, a planet of Segmentum Tempestus, after the war against the rebels which had settled the death korps there tries to be done forgiven of the fault that populates to them made. They are fanatics who are not any afraid of death, and so they are extremely feared. They are almost insane, but excellent in the wars of position, where they use with excess distinct and barbed wire.

Hunters of Orks d' Armaggedon (Steel Legion)

This regiment took form during the crusade of Armaggedon, which opposed the imperial Guard to Orks. Later it took the name of “steel Legion” ordered by the Yarrick police chief. The combatants of the steel legion are of the combatant originating in the polluted world ultra hive of Armageddon. These soldiers are easily recognizable with their gas mask (object necessary to survive the polluted climate). They are extremely mobile soldiers. Indeed Armageddon produces legions of military vehicles for the armies of impérium. The steel legions thus have an access quasi-unlimited to the vehicles. They are very tested soldiers. They are in perpetual war against the bigboss Ork Gazhskull Mag Uruk Thraka. Their average lifespan is only few days. However they are indifferent there. Thanks to their experiment of the combat and their mobility, they are very requested to fight on other world. They are in particular experts of the urban war.

Chem Dogs de Savlar

They are regiments made up of former criminals living in the city-hive of the Armageddon planet. They are famous as excellent troops of guerilla but are not very appreciated other imperial guards because of their doubtful past. Their alleged courage being in party of with their chemical inhalers of which they breathe of the " drugs of combat".

The Prime Minister and Single of Tanith, “Phantoms”

The Prime Minister and Single of Tanith, also called the “Phantoms” or the “Phantoms of Gaunt” is a regiment of the imperial Guard. They are the only survivors of the Tanith planet, destroyed by Chaos at the time of the First Foundation. A fleet of Chaos slipped through the meshs of the device of crusade of the Worlds of Sabbath and melted on planet. Their commander is celebrates it Colonel-Police chief Ibram Gaunt, who accepted the right to order a regiment by fire Slaydo, the former Master of War of the crusade, replaced by Macaroth.

Colonel Colm Corbec is the second higher graded regiment, follow-up of major Elim Rawne which dedicates a wild hatred with Gaunt to have not to have let them fight for Tanith. Their amulet, now young soldier is only the civil survivor, Brin Milo, former musician of the Voter, governor of Tantih. Their head doctor is Dorden, assisted since the Battle of Vervun by Chirurgienne Anna Curth. Their best scout is Mkoll, a very unobtrusive man and magic scout. And their best sniper is Larkin, a virtuoso of the shooting of precision suffering from a rare cerebral affection.

The Phantoms are famous for their furtivity and their prowesses in infiltration, in particular thanks to their famous capes of camouflage. It is a regiment of light infantry which recruits on the worlds where it fights (Verghast, Hagia…). They are pale, thin men and with the dark hair, adapted well to the urban combat and the dropping in enemy territory via modules of dropping. They are wonders when supported by regiments in heavier armor like Volponiens or Kaskrins Cadiens, which provide a shooting of more important support because of their advanced armament.

Finally the Phantoms of Gaunt are excellent trackers and set up very good ambushes. They however feel reluctant to use heavy weapons and often Bragg (the only colossus of Tanith) is the only one to carry some. They have fine gunners and excellent in the urban combat or places where their famous capes enable them to infiltrate and to engage the enemy in shootings with short range to complete them with the body with body.

See the series of the “Phantoms of Gaunt” of daN Abnett, published by the Prohibited Library.

Shock troops of the Enquiry

The Shock troops of the Enquiry are charged to ensure the safety of the fortresses maintained by the Enquiry, as well as the protection of the Black Vessels during their missions through the galaxy. These soldiers are recruited mainly in Scholam Progenium (an orphanage where are formed, inter alia, police chiefs of the Guard) and also in certain former families entirely devoted to the Enquiry. These infantrymen of elite are trained and perceive the same equipment in material as the Shock troops of the Guard. Before reaching under soldier of elite of the enquiry and carrying the blazon of it, the candidates are subjected has a thorough and very meticulous examination of their faith towards the Emperor and their incorruptibility. Apart from their permanent mission of safety of the places of the Enquiry, the soldiers of Shock can take share has conflicts, most of the time in reinforcement of a purging inquisitorial or coming in support for the militant room from Ordo Hereticus, Adepta Sororitas.

The Prime Ministers Born Vostroyens

Vostroya is an industrial world located at the North of the Eye of Terror. Its population is savagely honest with the Emperor and Adeptus Mechanicus, however its honor is sullied by an act made at the time of the Heresy of Horus, and the vostroyens must pay the price of them still today. Indeed at the time of the Heresy of horus, the Emperor ordered with the techriarches (the leader of Vostroya) to mobilize soldiers to help the forces loyal supporters. the latter, judging that a recruitment would cause a drop in the production rates of weapons and vehicles, and considering that these supplies were better than soldiers as an assistance, rejected the request of the Very Holy Emperor.

At the end of the Heresy, Roboute Guilliman, primarque from the Ultramarines, came on Vostroya to require accounts of the leaders. the latter concluded then a pact, always into force at present: Vostroya would be saved for their “treason”; in return each family should make gift of their first wire to the imperial Guard. Thus were creates the Regiment of the Prime Ministers Born Vostroyens

The regiments of the first born vostroyens make party of the elite of the imperial Guard. This is with two things. Firstly their drive: Vostroya is a planet frozen whose industrial complexes are only the sources of heat, moreover one can easily find many factories are unused. All this made of Vostroya a place of ideal drive, because the recruits can be involved with the string of success and the body with body, like with the urban combat, the whole under very hard climatic conditions. Thus those which survive their drive make parties of the combatants more coriaces of Imperium.

The other reason is their equipment. indeed Vostroyens have a deep respect for the first born because they regard them as the refunding of their debt towards the Emperor. Thus these soldiers have access to equipment of large qualities (stick out of worked wooden, rifle forged with precision, armours), by far higher than the standards of the Guard.

References

• Andy Chambers, Pete Hatreds, Andy Hoare, Phil Kelly and Graham McNeill (2003), Codex Keeps imperial , Games Workshop, ISBN 1-84154-411-6

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