40 Facts and Lore on the Astra Militarum in Warhammer 40K Imperial Guard 

As long as I was a plague ridden plague marine, the crim that shanked me would be welcome to take my heavily pus infused boots if he wanted them but he'd get eaten away by all the bacteria that'd be in my boots......... thank you...lol

We're also basically every other line of defense with a sprinkling of inquisitors at the first line and significant quantities of space marines and sob thrown in everywhere else

@@comradeautukov977 correct. The best part is they encounter most evil beings first.

The space marines could never take a planet by themselves, the space marines could never hold a planet for hundreds of years, the guard always get the short end of the stick, they are the only force that can and have held the Imperium floating for over 10 000 years, they are the hammer and the anvil of the Imperium! Long live the guard!!!

@@chringlanthegreat4556 Even now, recruitment agencies are in high demand.

You mean Billions and above

It's mandatory at this level; xenos environment are meant to be ruined, the way everything xeno should be.

ringsaphire just like real life.

Thats mostly true. The one except is macrag and the realm of ultramar.

The Imperium does not care about environment due to so many worlds they own. Economy really, you want to live on a nice world? Better be rich enough to afford it.

You mean like we have done with our own earth?

"Our enemy believes they have god on there side. Let them believe it, for we have tanks on ours" -Unknown krieg commisar

Real talk, day to day life on Krieg would be the greatest hell any of those clone troopers have ever seen, all on its own. Imagine what the Death Korps could do on one of the Star Wars planets where your biggest worry is bad weather or some angry wildlife, and the air doesn't literally kill you.

@@jaysquatchgaming739 not only that but Krieg produces 50 million soldiers every terran year. The republic only produced a million clones in 10 years.

@@davidb3155 Y'know I hadn't even taken sheer numbers into account, but no doubt! I was thinking more that in a battle with equal numbers, the Clone Army would still get stomped out.

The Kriegsman shot first. And again. And again. And some stabbing here and there. Some more shooting. And then all the xenos on Tatooine were purged and it became a happy little imperial world.

@@phreakazoith2237 As always, the Emperor protects.

Yes that s a pelican, no it's not star wars, but from halo. You can tell by Forerunner floating buildings.

@@azrael_the_deplorable9874 Duh. Im poking fun at it XD

Ahh you remember me about Bragg 😞

It's the glorious imperium of man to you, heretic

Without any imperial guard regiment, humanity would have died off.

The Imperial Guard is the Warhammer of the Imperium of Man, as well as the Warhammer Universe as a whole.

Tyranids?

Troll *spezenmarines*

Josh jiodvhiop they are called the tempestus scions grenediers kasrkin’s and gland war veterans

Lord Admiral Spire my apologies lord admiral i read the original comment wrong

You can upgrade adult humans to a form of proto-marine. Lion El Johnson did it to his knightly order after being brought back into the Imperium

What about the Afriel Strain?

There back story looks like the alien 3 setting, crossover would be very cool

They don't get sent home, they get sent back to the planet's prison area

If you're working the moons you WILL die a long and painful death eventually, if you serve you'll PROBABLY die a short and painful death.

@@Dakooties good point

Sounds like WH40k Freeblade

Definetly the Leman Russ

if you Apply real physics to that match the leman russ gets destroyed by most modern mbts and as for helicopters the valkyries do their roles as hovercraft but I can't see why not.

The Imperiums tech LOOKS archaic. Key word LOOKS. A leman russ tank would be close to impervious to most modern weapons, and its ammunition will annihilate whatever modern armor can achieve. Oh, and it's actually an STC tractor, not a tank.....

A Leman Russ is basically an overpowered tractor with WW 1 tank treads, guns taped all over, and metal welded to everything including the fuel. So to answer your question maybe.

I love the Imperial guard, I have a well painted 2000 point army that I play regularly, but even then I can't say I love the Leman Russ. It makes no sense as a vehicle, let alone one that is meant to endure combat. Let's break it down: Turret - It has no negative gun depression, it can't aim down. It is too small to fit the gun in (Where does the breech go?) and even if it fits, the commander gets torn in half every time the gun fires as his seat is technically INSIDE the gun breech. How does the gun reload? In the books it says there's a loader but he can't fit in the turret. Hull - Vertical armour is bad (exceptions for certain composite armour types like on Leopard 2A4) and is riveted... riveted armour was considered outdated in WW2, the rivets when hit become bullets inside the tank. Riveted armour also requires a constructed frame for the armour to attach to, which limits the internal volume of the fighting compartment. Speaking of which, how are they meant to store ammo for the main gun when the fighting compartment alone is meant to house four men? If you include the rediculous sponson guns that is... Just get rid of those. Running Gear - Firstly, if the engine and transmition are so small that they can fit into that pinched little engine bay, could you not extend it to the sides a bit to fit some actual fuel tanks? Next is the suspension, this is my second biggest problem behind the rediculously tiny turret that kills the commander whenever you fire. THIS TANK HAS NO SUSPENSION. Do you realise how big of a problem this is? It's also a problem for the Chimera as well. With no suspension the road wheels are fixed in place, this vehicle can get stopped by a garden wall if it's built sturdily enough, also it can't absorb recoil fron the gun making the turret ring bear all the stress, if it doesn't have an internal turret basket (which makes sense if the ammo has to be passed up from the hull) this can mean when you fire the commander gets torn in half and then the turret flips backwards off your tank as the turret ring breaks. TL;DR - A badly designed vehicle that wouldn't make sense in any real world situation. As an answer to your question #2, a modern MBT can punch through roughly 600mm of Rolled Hemogenous Armour (RHA) at 2 Kilometers with little to no trouble, a leman russ, by my measurements can have no more than 300mm of armour on the front glasis plate before they have no room to put the driver. 50mm armour tops on the turret, add in the other 50mm mantlet you are looking at 100mm best estimate. A modern MBT can see a target, get gun on target, and then fire at the target in less than 10 seconds. The Leman Russ might have a futuristic gun, but without suspension it's gun stabiliser is going to have a hard time servising a target, it would have to stop and hope to god the enemy is above them on a hill because it can't bring it's gun down to actually hit anything lower than it.

Steel legion couldn't hold their own world. Death korp held their own world against their enemies so good they had left overs. Also can't hate a regiment with cock in their abbreviation DKoK

Should read the books they are great

Except the regiments that are literally trained from birth.

@@AbyssWatcher745 Two of the most notable regiments trained from near birth are Cadians and the Death Korps of Krieg.. The Cadians don't have the population numbers to actually take on the UNSC military. The Death Korps of Krieg have the numbers but their primary tactic is to literally march into enemy fire until they manage to either kill them or get killed to the last man.

@@John2r1 that's not the Krieg's tactic. sounds like you took the memes way too seriously. Krieg is a War World that produces plenty of tanks,artillery and planes. They don't literally march into enemy fire.

@@AbyssWatcher745 That's there infantry tactic. Krieg took a page out of WW1 and ran with it.

@@John2r1 WW1 used copiuos amounts of artillery and fortifications not literally marching to their deaths. Krieg sacrifices men not waste them.

*Happy gas mask noises*

I believe so... IIRC, some of the chapters raised during the cursed founding, where the mechanicus gene-magi tried to fix some of the flaws in the geneseed, had their geneseed spliced with two or more primogenitor chapters

Over a million worlds in the Imperium. Most have to pay the tithe of supplying regiments. That is a LOT of videos.

Think ww2 german panzer grenadiers, the models also look like ww2 germans XD

Hi. I don't know if you read this but I recommend you to use the aquilla instead of the skulls.

Peter Lorenz Thx

@@krieger7510 no problem, emperor protects😁

Peter Lorenz But having a loaded bolter never hurts either

@@krieger7510 true, stay vigilant the enemies of the imperium never sleep

They were in a film called Zulu lol

It is from game called: Inquisitor

@Lord Admiral Spire personally id say the death korps as they just fight till they die and tend to advance to the enemy line while there artillery continuously fire at the enemy but surly there is a regiment that uses fear as a tactic like the night lords

@Lord Admiral Spire ow ye they are a very strong force and very capable for sure but again there not really scary in a scene of the regiment turning up and the enemy shitting them selves the closes id could come too is a tempest regiment but even then there just heavy hitters think im just over thinking it tbh

Just mention to him one day that all the shock and awe caused by the Death Star. The imperium does the same thing often enough they have special ships whose job is to just go to a planet that’s about to be wiped from existence just so they can collect the final death screams and cries of trillions of people. Just to bottle it up into a single tank shell that will tear apart continents with the wailing and screaming of millions of lost souls.

@@micheal5973 thanks for the tip