Imperial Guard Tactica: Infantry Lists

 Hello Everyone!

 I played a doubles game yesterday and I fielded Guard. To try something different i played an infantry list of 40 guards men, I put them in a huge squad. MISTAKE! I really wish i hadn't, we still won the game and i only lost about twelve of them but i could have been more effective if they were in squads of twenty or less because they could have taken more targets and moving 40 guards men is hard a because of the squad size not everyone could shoot.

Blue guard are mine I borrowed the Green ones from my local GW

Deployment in My first 875 point Infantry game

So my advice on playing guard Infantry is to keep squad sizes down. No More than thirty. I have played two games against dark angels and both have been very successful both times i fielded 80 guards men and both time i played against terminators and bikes and all has gone well. (took less than 20 casualties in each game.

Another nice thing to add to squads is a heavy weapon. I personally like heavy bolters or auto cannons because of the amount oh shoots at high strength and medium AP, this can be used as a mower against nids and orks or simply a strong weapon. to really round of this mix is to pop them in a chimera with multi laser and heavy bolter

Guards men under the command of a dark angel librarian approach a tau escort.