Imperial Guard

Welcome to Armies on Parade, where I display (in hopefully good detail) some great looking armies from major tournaments all across the United States. If you click on the Armies on Parade label you’ll be able to scroll through some great looking armies, all at once. It’s like you were at a major event yourself, all from […]

I got a ton of response lately about the Looted Guard. Everyone seems to want to know how I did the chipped paint. Guess I’ve procrastinated long enough right? Time to get an article together on it. So without any further fuss, here’s your how to article on the Chipped Paint Effect! To start out I just painted […]

Welcome to the new segment here on Spikey Bits called Armies on Parade, where I display (in hopefully good detail) some great looking armies from major tournaments all across the United States. If you click on the Armies on Parade label you’ll be able to scroll through some great looking armies, all at once. It’s like you […]

Recently I had a chance to bust out my Looted Guard and get some quality pictures (and video) of the army. I have no clue why it took so long to record them in a glorious fashion, but hey sometimes things are just worth the wait I suppose.You can click on the Looted Guard or […]

Recently I went a little crazy with some more Imperial Guard Conversions. I was inspired by the new Wargames Factory Shock Troopers to make some more Renegades / Greatcoats. My buddy Mike made this great renegade Stormtrooper drop trooper  out of the normal Forgeworld renegade commander, some M.A.S. Wings, and a M.A.S. Base. If you […]

This is part 2 of an interview that was started over on BOLS. If you came here from there thanks a lot for following along. We pick up with Nick starting to theorize about list design after coming back from competing in the European Team Championships. Nicholas says: Coming back from the ETC I want […]

Here is the list (more or less I think I edited it some towards the end) I took at War Games Con.  It served me well! I had 4 wins and going into day 2 I was on Table 11.  That would have probably gone well for me, if I had shown up to play […]

TPM Paul Murphy asks, where does guard stack in the current and evolving meta game? Over the years Games Workshop has struggled trying to make the Imperial Guard actually competitive. Every past guard player I have ever known thought that the secret to winning with them was more troops. If they lost a game they […]

It’s been a few weeks since the Blood Angels codex came out, and well I’m still reeling with how to deal with them. The main problems are that they close way to quick with my battle line, whether its 18″ rhinos or podding/ deep striking, and I cant shake them off quick enough.  So in […]

Here’s a look at what we took to Adepticon.  It’s a brief video of our team tournament army and display board from Adepticon 2010. We took 13th overall, and had a blast.

With the release of Blood Angels I’m trying to tune up my Looted Guard Army. So I’ve added a few more units with the hopes of dashing the advance of the ReD SpAze MaRinZe. I’ve noticed the a big problem with this army in popping masses of Power Armor. I think with the addition of […]

MBG back again with an interesting debate, which Inquisitor ally do you take?  It seems like more and more players take an Inquisitor ally with Mystics to protect against deep strike threats like Daemons, Drop Marines, and shortly Decent of Angels. Now we’re all adding in a Psychic Hood for threats like Tyranids, Space Wolves, […]

Just two days to go till the Gladiator Tourney at Adepticon for some fun times and good battles. I just finalized my list and I have to say I’m pretty happy with it.  I’m not taking any Super-Heavies, but I think I have plenty of firepower to deal with them- ten Lascannons, and 2 Maticores […]

I played in a 2500 ‘Ard Boyz Tourney over the weekend at Groovy Geckos Comic and Games in Williamsburg, VA.  It’s a pretty cool store, and has a new owner now who is very motivated and cool to be around.  If you are ever on vacation in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia (Yorktown, Norfolk, […]

Here is my current 1850 Imperial Guard Army List. This is a pretty competitive list and won’t make you a lot of friends in casual play. I took the Pysker Battle Squad out because I feel the Psyhic Hood is a better buy for the rise of Tyranid powers and proof against the standard threats […]

Hope everyone had a happy holiday!  Well I’m back with a full belly and some new conversions for everyone to checkout. Here are some Imperial Guard Greatcoat / Traitor Guard conversions that are easy to convert and will  really make your foot troops stand out. You can really have some fun with these conversions because […]

One of the coolest conversions I’ve ever done is the Imperial Guard Valkyrie Jet. The best part about this model is that can represent almost any flying vehicle in the Warhammer 40k universe.Just add some Lascannons on the wingtips and you have a Lightning, or model both engines, one each wing, and you have a […]

Okay so it’s been a few weeks since this happened, but here it is the battle report from my victory at Mechanicon ’09. I was running the Rebel Ork Guard list from last post and pictured here. It appears that some Death Skullz went a little wild looting guard vehicles- they even followed their army […]