About my Imperial Guard: Cadian 17th Regiment – Part 1

I have been hard at work over the last week. I finished up Gunnery Sergeant Harker and two platoon command squads (more pictures at the end of this post).

I wanted to talk about my plans for the army going forward. Here is a list of what I have painted so far:

HQ

nothing

Elites

nothing

Troops

First Platoon
   Command squad: Lieutenant with Powerfist, Vox-caster, 3 Meltaguns
   Squad 1: Vox-caster, Plasmagun, Lascannon
   Squad 2: Vox-caster, Flamer, Lascannon
Second Platoon
   Command squad: Lieutenant with Powersword, Vox-caster, 3 Meltaguns
   Squad 1: Vox-caster, Meltagun, Lascannon
   Squad 2: Vox-caster, Meltagun, Lascannon

Fast Attack

nothing

Heavy Support

Tank squadron: 3 Leman Russ tanks, battlecannon, lascannon, no sponsons

As you can see that is not very much. Sure fifty painted infantry models sounds like a lot (fifty space marines would be half a battle company!) but with Imperial Guard it really isn’t much at all. Certainly I need to do an HQ choice before I can even legally field the army.

I am currently working on a squad of Hardened Veterans. Once they are complete I will have three troops choices and one to three heavy support choices depending on how I take the Leman Russes. Then I will move on to Fast Attack, Elites, and HQ. My first Fast Attack choice will be a Valkyrie with missile pods and a multi-laser. It is already assembled and base coated dark gray.

I’m not sure what to do for Elites. In my gaming group nobody has the Sanctioned Psykers squad painted yet and I’d love to do them. But I can not bring myself to make a unit from the current three models, which all look exactly the same. Each individual model is quite nice by itself. But a unit of them on the table would look like nine of the same guy over and over. That is a deal breaker for me. The squad has to look good on the table or I won’t put the time into painting it up. I will wait and see if I can figure out a way to do the Psyker squad with more variety later.

In the short term I will probably end up painting a squad of Ogryns. I love the classic models sculpted by Bob Olley and I think they will perform much better in the game with the new codex.

For the HQ command squad I plan on doing the previous metal version basically straight out of the box: commander with the monocle and powersword, medic, standard barer, vox-caster and plasma gunner. The only change I will make is to substitute the limited edition standard bearer for the one that comes in the box.

Well those are my thoughts about my Imperial guard army for now. Check out the pictures of my new platoon command squads below. . .

Command squad for platoon 1:
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Command squad for platoon 2:
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-the Goat