GW just revealed a bunch of new Imperial Guard Regimental Doctrines 40k rules for mixing your favorite regiments together!
With the new army box on the way, it’s nice to get an idea of what the models inside can do! These rules previews don’t necessarily pertain to the contents of the Army box, but it will be nice to compare them to the newest rules rumors!
Obviously, they are all about the regiments and how you won’t be stuck to a single regiment anymore. From the looks of it, you just pick what you want your army to do and throw your minis down on the table. Then, the Cadians will be like support on top of your normal regiment.
New Imperial Guard Regimental Doctrines Rules & How to Build Armies Revealed!
These come from Warhammer Community and revealed many new Imperial Guard rules, so let’s jump into it!
Instead of constraining you to a single specific regiment, the new codex has you mix and match tactics to create your favourite flavour of Guardsmen. All you need to do is choose a pair of Regimental Doctrines to dictate how they fight. These doctrines represent traits like superior artillery skills, high-quality armour, impressive discipline amongst the ranks, or experience in guerilla warfare.
This is interesting as they basically took what all the regiments could do and mashed them into a single army. You pick two out of the 15 different doctrines, and you have an army with whatever type of Guard you have.
There are 15 doctrines making 93 different combinations, allowing you to build an iconic regiment from the lore, or cook up a custom force with its own history and home world.
It’s nice to see Steel Legion get a little love, but they won’t be getting any models from the looks of it, but you can still pick this doctrine if you want!
Honestly, for Guard, ignoring all modifiers for combat attrition is nice, as you hopefully won’t lose whole units!
New Imperial Guard Stratagems
Some Regimental Doctrines grant unique keywords, like EXPERT BOMBARDIERS or VETERAN GUERILLAS. These specialists are even better at employing powerful Stratagems that mirror classic fighting styles, such as the trap-setting proclivities of the Catachan Jungle Fighters or the flagrant disregard for subordinate safety displayed by Valhalla’s hard-nosed commanders.
So not only will you gain the initial benefit, but picking the right doctrine will also grant you access to a decent number of specific stratagems as well.
Once you’ve settled on your Regimental Doctrines, there are no restrictions on combining your favourite units and heroes, regardless of where they hail from. The officers of the Astra Militarum are quite comfortable leading any of the Emperor’s loyal servants – the indomitable Ursula Creed wouldn’t let a silly thing like different uniforms stop her from ordering some Death Korps or Atillan Rough Riders into the breach, after all.
Overall, this is pretty cool, but all the regiments of the Imperial Guard were something that made them stand apart. Still, this is better for gamers as you don’t have to spend tons of cash on older models just to play with their regiment.
Regimental Tactics
In fact, ordering your troops around is easier than ever before – if every model in your army has the ASTRA MILITARUM keyword, your OFFICERS can make use of the Regimental Tactics ability to spread their directives around multiple units at once, and keep the massed forces of the Astra Militarum fighting at peak efficiency.
Being able to give two orders for every one issued effectively is really sweet! This should let you really stretch those orders out for maximum efficiency.
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