An Introduction to my Imperial Guard Army

 

A snap shot of my SM army on a 4'x6' table.

Ok so I figured today I would talk more about my Guard Army I up until 6th edition I have mostly been a marine player sure I had other armies but I always returned to my SM armies mostly vanilla and later blood angels even though I started with Dark Angels.  Enough about my Marine days this is about my Guard future.

As I said yesterday I started painting this army back in May of 2011 at what that means for someone like me is that I spent about a month or so on it and shelved it.  I made a promise to myself that I wouldnt play it until it was painted.  Well even than I knew it would be months before I played the army as I have some were in the neighbor hood of 400-500 models for this beast of an army.

Well everything was going well until I had to leave town in June/July of 2011 I did manage to get the first few coats of paint on the miniatures.  I got the flesh painted, the boots, guns and some other minor details painted to me at that time this was good enough.  Keep in mind we are talking hundreds of guys. 

Well when I got back in town in August of 2011 I had totally lost interest in this army and the shere size of it was daunting to me I tried to pick up were I had left off but to no avail.  It just sat for months and months while I played my Marines and GK. 

Than something amazing happened 6th edition came out and my my Blood Angels army was no longer a functional army it was all jump pack marines and a ton of fun to play so I shelved them for the time being.  Than thought about what I would play now at first I thought about playing my nids but that quickly passed and than it occured to me that an all infantry IG list would probably do pretty will with an Aegis Defence Line.

In that moment a fire began to burn in my soul for my little green men once again.  So I dusted off my IG army and pulled them out.  I took inventory and started to purchase a few models on ebay to fill a couple of gaps that I really didnt have but I'm OCD that way. 

 

So to give you an idea where they where at that time I have a couple of shots of the last few games I played before I got serious about painting them up.

This game was against Natfka he wa splaying his DE list it was a good game.

This game was later that same week against another friend of my he was playing GK.

Well I think tomorrow I will talk about my IG army composition and how I eventually decided to orgainze it.  I thought that it would be simple but has proven to be a much larger challenge than I thought it would be.