
Warhammer 40k - Imperial Guard
- The human home-world is Earth, but Imperial Guards are drawn from million inhabited worlds.
- The Imperial Guard contains billions of men supported by armoured vehicles such as tanks and troop transports.
- The Imperial Guard are the basic troops, under control of the Departmento Munitiorum.
- Weapons - Units - War Machines - Organization
- Close Combat - Flamer.
- Close Combat - Grenade - krak and frag grenades.
- Close Combat - Knife.
- Long Range - Lasgun - standard gun.
- Long Range - Hellgun - compact form of Melta weapon for Storm Troopers.
- Heavy Support - Battle Cannon.
- Heavy Support - Demolisher Cannon - short ranged, lobbing a huge shell.
- Super Heavy Support - (Heavy) Barrage.
- Super Heavy Support - Death Ray.
- Super Heavy Support - Distortion Cannon - ignores shields.
- Super Heavy Support - Mega Cannon.
- HQ - Commander, high commander.
- HQ - Colonel/Captain and other officers, regiment or company leader.
- HQ - Commissar, advisor, wears a black greatcoat, ensures order and discipline.
- HQ - Lieutenant and other junior officers, platoon leader.
- HQ - Medic, medic.
- HQ - Psyker, psyker, advisor.
- HQ - Regimental Standard Bearer, with the regimental banner.
- HQ - Techpriest Enginseer, maintains and repairs everything, aided by Servitors.
- HQ - Command Squad/Command Platoon, nerve centre for communication and command.
- HQ - Salamander Command Vehicle, Chimera chassis, command of Armoured Fist company.
- Elite - Ogryn, to high gravity adapted human, big an tough but dull witted.
- Elite - Sniper, armed with Sniper Needle Rifle, up to 3 units in squad.
- Elite - Storm Trooper Sergeant, leader of Storm Trooper squad.
- Elite - Storm Trooper, flexible trooper with carapace armour, armed with Hellgun and special weapons.
- Troop - Armoured Fist Squad, consists of a Chimera transport vehicle and up to ten men.
- Troop - (Veteran) Sergeant, veteran and squad leader.
- Troop - Assault Team, assault infantry armed with assault weapons and flamers.
- Troop - Infantry Squad, backbone of an Imperial Guard army, armed with Lasgun.
- Troop - Casualty, a fallen trooper.
- Troop/Transport - Chimera Transport, carries up to ten men.
- Fast Attack - Hellhound, fast tank, armed with Inferno Cannon.
- Fast Attack - Rough Rider (Veteran) Sergeant, leader of a rider squad.
- Fast Attack - Rough Rider, fast moving support with horse, specialised in desert combat.
- Fast Attack - Salamander Scout Vehicle, variant of Salamander, Chimera chassis, with faster engines.
- Fast Attack - Sentinel, war-walker, scout unit, armed with Heavy Flamer, Multi-Laser or Lascannon.
- Heavy Support - Heavy Weapon Team, up to 3 heavy weapon teams grouped together.
- Heavy Support - Auto Cannon, Heavy Weapon Team.
- Heavy Support - Heavy Bolter, Heavy Weapon Team.
- Heavy Support - Lascannon, Heavy Weapon Team.
- Heavy Support - Missile Launcher, Heavy Weapon Team.
- Heavy Support - Mortar, Heavy Weapon Team.
- Heavy Support - Basilisk, self propelled gun, Chimera chassis, long range artillery support, armed with Earthshaker Cannon.
- Heavy Support - Destroyer Tank Hunter, tank destroyer variant of Leman Russ, armed with Laser Destroyer.
- Heavy Support - Griffon, siege tank, armed with a heavy mortar.
- Heavy Support - Hydra, flak tank, Chimera chassis, armed with four long barrelled Auto Cannons.
- Heavy Support - Leman Russ, main battle tank, armed with Battle Cannon and with either anti tank or anti infantry secondary weapons.
- Heavy Support - Leman Russ Conqueror, lighter and faster non-standard variant of Leman Russ.
- Heavy Support - Leman Russ Demolisher/Imperial Siege Tank, siege tank variant of Leman Russ, armed with Demolisher Cannon and Heavy Bolter.
- Heavy Support - Leman Russ Executioner, old variant of Leman Russ, armed with Plasma Destroyer.
- Heavy Support - Leman Russ Exterminator, old variant of Leman Russ.
- Heavy Support - Leman Russ Vanquisher, tank destroyer variant of Leman Russ, armed with Vanquisher Battle Cannon and special anti-tank ammunition.
- Heavy Support - Manticore, missile tank, Chimera chassis, armed with multiple rocket launcher.
- Heavy Support - Medusa, self propelled heavy mortar, Chimera chassis, armed with a siege gun.
- Heavy Support - Rapier Laser Destroyer, self propelled anti tank gun, armed with multi-barrelled laser.
- Heavy Support - Thunderer, siege tank variant of Destroyer Tank Hunter, armed with Demolisher Cannon.
- Super Heavy Support - Baneblade, super heavy tank, armed with Mega Battle Cannon, Demolisher Cannon, twin-linked Heavy Bolter, Lascannon.
- Super Heavy Support - Hades Breaching Drill, to drill trenches and break open fortresses.
- Super Heavy Support - Leviathan Command Centre, armed with Doomsday Cannon, Battle Cannon, Heavy Bolter, Lascannon.
- Super Heavy Support - Shadowsword, long range variant of Baneblade, Titan-Killer and war machine hunter, armed with a single Titan weapon like Volcano Cannon or Plasma Blastgun, Heavy Bolter, Lascannon.
- Super Heavy Support - Stormblade, variant of Shadowsword, armed with massive Plasma Blastgun.
- Super Heavy Support - Stormsword, close quarter variant of Baneblade, for sieges and street fighting.
- The small groups of units are called squads, squads consists of 10 men.
- Larger infantry units are called platoons, made up of several squads of guardsmen.
- The Command Platoon has direct control over up to six separate infantry platoons and heavy weapons squads.
- A complete force is called a battalion or regiment, even more of them form a campaign.
- Tank squads and heavy weapons support teams contain 1-3 vehicles.
- Super heavy tank squads contain 1-4 vehicles.
- Cadian Shook Troops - disciplined elite troops, often used to hunt down Chaos incursions.
Cadia in the galactic south of the Eye of Terror guards the entrance known as the Cadian Gate.
Cadian Kasrkin are the elite of the elite.
- Catachan Jungle Fighters - elite jungle fighters, also known as Deathworld Veterans and Catachan Devil. Catachan is a "Deathworld".
- Ice Warriors of Valhalla - can protect themselves against even the coldest climate.
- Last Chancer's Penal Legion - The Thirteenth Penal Legion is better known as Schaeffer's Last Chancer's.
- Mordian Iron Guard - army with a strict chain of command, believing that discipline is very important.
- Praetorian - very disciplined troops, believe in spit and polish, doing it by the book.
- Steel Legion - fought on the wastes of Armageddon, all equipped with Chimera Troop transports.
- Tallarn Desert Raider - rough riders, experts at surviving in hot conditions.
- Tanith First & Only (Gaunt's Ghosts) - first and only Imperial Guard regiment recruited from the planet Tanith.