Horus Heresy IMPERIALIS MILITIA Army Guide - Every Unit & Where to Find Them! 

The Voidjumpers are a reference to the old Jump Trooper models from Citadel. Veeery old and obscure to let people field those classic models!

I really like this army. Just playing militia vs militia could be a game of its own. It's also a really good way of 3rd party minis.

I really do love that this list is basically the "Tired of winning? Try this trash"

The best part is that since this army will only be used in casual play anyway, you can get really nuts with it. Use stormtroopers as infantry and run AT-STs as sentinels. Take Endless Horde and use orks. I hope we get another PDF like this for xenos, a build-your-own-minor-xenos-empire army.

Glory to the one who wins a tournament with this army!

I'm using the hobbit minis from the lotr game to make my militia. Hobbits with lasguns, rapier batteries in wooden carts pulled by ponies, and old rusted tanks with farming equipment strapped to them

One of my 2nd Ed armies was spiritually similar to this. A Frateris Militia army made up of scores of Necromunda gang models with autoguns and heavy stubbers, with the minimum Sororitas models to make it legal. I used it in a LGS campaign that took place over several weeks. Marine players would put twelve models on the table and I'd put on 120. They could barely hit, and had no penetration but the sheer weight of dice rolled, my word. Nothing could face that.

"Every unit in the Army is worst" sign me up sounds brilliant

I love this list in general but one of the funniest parts is that the force commander can get one of the few 3+ invulnerable saves in the game via iron halo plus cyber familiar, something most SM preators can't do.

Using this list for both sides of a PDF versus Chaos Cultists civil war could be fun.

This feels more like something you'd find on Necromunda, for a whole army, I love it.

That list is so versatile you could easily make multiple armies and just play them against each other for balanced games if you wanted. Pretty cool to just see how well you can do against a Legion though!

Ian, so often I stumble on one of your videos and suddenly feel like I have spent my 40k time living under a rock. Mate, thank you for finding a way for my Imperial Warhammer Pistoliers to have a life as cavalry in a Horus Heresy setting. Love your work mate.

I always have a soft spot for the normal person faction in Warhammer. When everyone else is a super badass or a frightening monster, running your average Joe or Jane (albeit possibly deranged from Chaos and/or high on Meth, Whermacht style) makes what you do more impressive by comparison. It's the underdog principle. On the subject of models, 3rd party is a great place to go. I always give a shoutout to Wargames Atlantic. And at time of writing, there's about 3 hours left in their "The Damned" (of "The Lost &" variety") crowdfunding campaign. They've unlocked tons of kits for their renegade or war-torn model range, from Infantry (male and female) to Ogryn to Cavalry to Hounds (+ Handlers) to Heavy Weapon Teams to Artillery (read: Field Ordinance Batteries) to Command to even Heavy Infantry (read: stormtroopers, Kasrkin, Scions, etc). People who pledge multiple boxes get a TON of extra sprues as backer rewards. Like, I have the equivalent to two whole boxes of infantry in sprues, and that's just from the dedicated infantry kits. I did dirty math, and I've got about 1455 pts in 10e Guard models, at least, for only $154 American. (I'm making an extra Cavalry model into a Traitor!Lord Solar). Come on over, while there's still time.

I wish there was something like this for regular 40k would make a nice way of using my old and outdated mines

I'm so happy the militia army list finally came out. I've been listening to the Remebrancer's Retreat a ton recently (really awesome 30k podcast btw), and it got me super excited for this army. I'm going to pick up a ton of Wargames Atlantic minis to make my 150 infantrymen and it will be glorious.

Sounds like we need a "Tale of Four Gamers: IMPERIALIS MILITIA" a building and painting then round robin competition.

I have some winning games with milita. The best way to play them is with a bunch of tanks and infantry. Also the laser rapier battery's hit hard! Use shotgun and laz gun infantry as well.alchem jackers and industrial strong hold. Lemon russ vanisher's and demolishers all the way! Put a bunch of discipline masters out there with a power sword and las pistol. And watch them go. Yes they will die but man the glass cannon and I love it. They just are a big wall to stop them from getting on your tanks. My force commander is in power armor has a plama pistol and power fist with a cyber familiar and iorn Halo. Fun little model.

I firmly believe we need some of this insane list stuff in 40k. I eould personally like an allied "imperial cultist" unit to represent the crazy guys who come along with and run in front of any army

Would love to see an army showcase video for your entire militia army, it looks amazing.

Arvus is "no longer available", so some substitute would be needed - I would love to hear conversion suggestions

HOOORAH knew you would do this! Looking forward to this!

Zapp Brannigan's army of choice

YEEEEESSSS!!!! I’ve been waiting YEARS to see your Militia, you’ve made my day, thanks Ian!

Oh Wow! Just the video I needed! I've been waiting to get my old models into a game for years! This will do it! Great video Arbitor! 💥👍😎

Very entertaining review!

I DO want to field endless hordes of really really useless humans!! This IS the army for me!! Wish they were in 40k too though, seeing as I don't play Horus Heresy 😅

YYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS!!! I was waiting for this! Finally!

honestly it's giving 3rd edition guard. Being exterminated 4 times out of 5 but that 1 in 5 miracle makes it all worth it! all we need back are the blast markers and guessing basilisk ranges.

Ive been working on a list of 'em for a while now, nice video!

Thank you Ian I've been waiting for this one there so helpful

I love your videos Ian i love your video's! They have resparked my interest in table top games and i might even start my own RU-vid chanel to document my progress. Keep up the good work and thank you for the inspiration!

I love this content, Thank you Ian.

Love a thematic low tier army, you just have to play a scenario rather than a standard competitive game. Love this type of video 👍

The idea of fielding a Heresy army composed entirely of Necromunda models makes me giggle more than it should.

I started building a militia army when the pdf dropped as I had a feeling it was going to be a terrible army but I always love a good excuse to kitbash a thematic army

I am so psyched to dust off all my old human minis thanks to this list. Awesome breakdown video, by the way :D

Thank you for the painting guide!

Awesome video. So many units. Thank you for pointing out these armies have no chance of winning. Keep up the good work.

Just backed The Damned on Gamefound by Wargames Atlantic to build my Imperialis Militia (and Siege of Vraks Renegades) :D Great video as always Ian!

You can get a pretty good proxy for an Arvus Lighter by using the Core Space shuttle.. it’s £12 instead of £100!

This video dropping the very evening that Wargames Atlantic's "The Damned" crowdfunder ends on Gamefound feels rather serendipitous....

GW: Guard means alot of humans die Forge World: Hold my recaff!

Gonna create a detachment of Calibanite Jaegers to field with my 1st legion

it would be fun to have militia vs militia battles

Great video. Not enough Militia focused content on RU-vid

Great steer Ian! Looks like my Rogue Trader Imperial Guard will get a new lease of life.

“30k” is a great game, but could definitely incorporate more of the existing 40k players. Publish Great Crusade missions/campaigns. Ullanor for instance will bring the orks in. Eldar has many opportunities as well.

Kinda reminds me of one time, sick of my atrocious dice luck killing off my high cost Bretonnian knights, I made a 2,000pts army of peasants plus one knight on foot... and I absolutely OBLITERATED my mates with it...

I have a lot of necromunda models..and necromunda is dead in my home town so this army is perfect to get them in use once more

Looks like big fun.

Sounds like an Army aimed at someone like me who got the orginal rulebook back in September 1987

I could see these as Household Guard for my Questoris Familia

Gonna be honest your enthusiasm for this army was rather infectious. Its made me look at the Kriegers I'm building right this very second for my traitor guard (shaving off every Aquila I can find) and have unwise ideas...

Tbh I don't play the tabletop just love the watch ppl play games and lore. But this is a nice army and would look to watch someone play with them.

Lehman russ. Grayvis 🤔 I did consider this army when I saw the pdf, thought it could be awesome for kitbashing. But my god so expensive! I’m currently waiting to see what that new plastic army might be in winter

Planning on running a horse cavalry force to be allied with my Thunder Warriors

All the pictures of the Imperial army from 87 89 Rogue trader. That's when i started my Necromundan 8th spider's. Because of the box art of the Imperial guard. And the stuff in white dwarf magazine.

This is army makes me so happy, it was my favourite of OG heresy, (I bought liber imperium in the desperate hope it would be included in it and nibody mentioned it bc nobody really talked about the army in 1.0) I'm a little disappointed with the rules, there's a few oversights like not geing able to shoot out of the cargo 8... it's literally a flatbed truck with no sides (I guess the poor militia are holding on for dear life trying not to fall off to be able to shoot). But overall I'm ecstatic that we finally got it. This definitely an army for you to appreciate the lore with and just have fun with. It actively encourages you to convert models and is sure to put a smile on anybodies face when playing and is must have for a casual group (or if your groups very competitive play who can kill the militia fastest!) Now I know I shouldn't be greedy but can we have some proper blackshield, shattered legions and knight errant rules please? Some model recommendations: - Palenite enforcers have carapace and boltguns (plastic) and a really cool leader with cyber familiar (resin) - Ash waste Nomads (plastic) make great recon squads and their rogue doc (resin) makes a perfect medicae to match You're probably going to lose anyway so don't try and build a list to win build one that you like and have fun with it

25:56 wow that is one huge army

I don't win anyway so this is the army for me.

I would love a refined horus heresey they seem to still be on making codex type army books so it would be surprising for a new edition seems i just got my imperial militia rules

Shame that they can't take (downgraded, perhaps) Land Raiders, Predators, Whirlwinds, Vindicators and Rhinos... they were a thing for the guard, back in the day. (oh... wait... you van get some of those through "Survivor of the Dark Age")

The kill team traitor guard from Nachmund have a medic in them you can use for a medicae.

Any advice on how to learn about Solar Aux and how to paint them?

Arvus hasn’t been available from ForgeWorld since last year, at least here in the US.

Would there be a way to homebrew a rule to put the commander in the baneblade

I feel like they could have just dropped that falling back rule and it'd make the entire army list much more viable

I have a Navy themed loyalist force and traitor penal colony force. Idea is we can do some militia on militia action

I know it wont happen and fills a role no one wants, but i kinda want a true imperial army list. between this and Solar.

I will min/max and drag this army kicking and screaming into competitive play.

now, they should give me imperial guard rules to take the 8-hauler and the ridgerunner

Have they ever made a game around The unification wars on earth? Because I thought it could be cool if one could get Thunder Warrior models.

Thanks for the video! Very excited. There are a lot of folks in the Bristol SW area that are using historicals for their Militia. Since the pdf came out, several folks (including myself) have been dedicated in making Levy and Cavalry heavy armies. It's also the most affordable option

Great spin on "awful balance this edition" :D

A lot of this sounds like 2nd and 3rd Guard codexs

I really want to play HH on hard mode lol

My Imperial Guard won occasionally against Marines. I dont see why the Imperialis Militia armies wouldn't also win occasionally.

What do people think of a turox being a cargo-8?

Shout out to the HH players who said 9e 40k was too complicated 😉

I beat Horus Lupercal with this army.

Its not rules its more like a guide line lol

Perfect timing! I just backed a kickstarter for the new Wargames Atlantic traitor guard models, and they look like they'd be perfect for this. 30k seems more and more like it's where I should direct my attention; I got into the hobby back in the days of 3rd edition and played in a very narrative-driven circle of players, and haven't really managed to find my footing for a similar style when I came back to the hobby at the end of 8th. Horus Heresy players seem to be running much more closely to my speed, with their emphasis on the modeling and collaborative storytelling aspects of the game that made it so attractive to me in the first place, but my commitment to Guard armies always kept me from getting involved. I guess it's time to change that!

Beastmaster Raptors- Large birds or small dinosaurs?

Right. So... I'd only watched Warhammer lore videos prior to this (mostly yours) and I'm pretty sure my brain sprained it's ankle about 8 minutes into this. How.... how do people play this game? Is the rulebook less of a book and more of a "Tome"? Honestly, it feels like the rules to this game must be similar to something the actual Imperium would come up with! XD

Wouldn’t ExoSuits be Ogryn?

They seem stupendously characterful. Shame they’re not even remotely effective, but then, the game is focused on genewrought transhuman supersoldiers fighting each other.

FW '' Lets make a crap army but still charge A LOT of money for it, this way we can make it twice as bad to buy ''

Please go back to "no music during the introduction statement", the way it is now is pretty annoying. Other than that: three thumbs up, as usual!

Heresy, it's Marines vs. Marines! Boo, boring. But it's a proper wargame! Yay, reactions and vehicle rules! But Mechanicum rules are, ah...not great. Boo, why GW why? But you can now make fluffly, flavorful militia forces! Yay...? I swear, this game has me on a roller coaster of emotions, and I haven't even played yet.

Too many adverts ian

Leman Russ Tanks: I don't think you mentioned it, but far as I can tell, there are NONE sponson options for the tank in the list, which is what a lot of people think really is terrible about the tanks. Nobody much builds and fields a Leman Russ without sponsons in normal 40k, and to magnetize or just build a non-sponson tank for what is generally considered a really bad HH list, is problematic. I suppose if you are a die hard, you might just, but then you now have a Leman which is pretty good only for Horus Heresy and, meh.

Tee hee... "penal troops" 🤭

Well this seems very unfun

Please stop speeding up videos!

“30k” is a great game, but could definitely incorporate more of the existing 40k players. Publish Great Crusade missions/campaigns. Ullanor for instance will bring the orks in. Eldar has many opportunities as well.