The Imperial Guard, Unsung Heroes

In Tribute to the Imperial Guard, Hammer of the Emperor, Unsung Heroes.
Credit to all the artists who made these great pictures!

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CrisM1
MrPeahc


-The Imperial Guard-

Overview:
The Imperial Guard is the primary fighting force of the Imperium, so numerous in size that even the Departmento Munitorum cannot place a figure on the number of Guardsmen under arms at any one time; the daily lists of new recruits and toll of casualties can run into the millions in a single day. It would be infeasible trying to put any exact number on the strength of the Guard; however, it is believed that there must be many billions of Imperial Guardsmen, divided into millions of regiments. This absolute numeracy provides the Guard with its main power; their ability to deploy in numbers that, eventually, result in victory. Attacking in seemingly endless influxes across battle-zones, charging forth under the cover of massive barrages and delivering massed lasgun volleys, in the Guard the individual Human soldier may appear a lost thing, almost forgotten. Yet the actions of these anonymous soldiers daily decide the fate of worlds.
The Guard forms the very backbone of the Imperium; without it, Mankind would surely perish. Whilst Guardsmen are hardly the equals of Space Marines, fighting neither with the advantages of genetic enhancement or the most powerful personal weaponry, the Guard possesses the courage and the manpower to face and annihilate the enemies of the Emperor across the galaxy

Category:

Gaming

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• Imperial
• Guard
• warhammer
• 40k
• emperor
• imperium
• commissar
• guardsman
• army
• warfare
• gaunt
• ghosts
• tanith
• death
• korps
• of
• krieg
• valhallan
• vostroyan
• catachan
• cadian
• lasgun
• melta
• tank

[MrKazaddum]

@subject431 Indeed: The Marines win battles (just too few and expensive for more) - the Guard wins wars (let them be offensive or defensive)

[GamingandSocialfun]

I feel like the imperial guard represent humanity more then anything else. Humans fighting within their human limits but fighting non the less.

[IGfunGR]

It's a Honor to serve the Emperor

Billions of us Guardsmen die daily for Him....  AND WE WILL CONTINUE DIYING FOR HIM UNTIL THERE IS NO

TRACE OF THOSE XENOS, HERETICS AND MUNTANS IN THE GALAXY

WE ARE HIS HAMMER AND WE WILL CRUSH THEM BEFORE US! THIS IS THE 597TH VALHALAN REGIMENT REPORTING IN THE NAME OF THE EMPEROR

[DrMabuse2008]

@SgtMayIRun

Do we get payed holidays? Will you aid us in moving from whatever world we come from to the Eye of Fun? How's your dental plan?

[OneAckJack0]

FIRST AND ONLY! FIRST AND FETHIN ONLY!!!

[OrkSlayer156]

101st Elysian Drop Troops Regiment, ready for the drop and deployment.

[scorchdestroya]

baneblade: when space marines fail to show up

[ig368]

it is the DUTY OF THE GUARD to HOLD THE LINE AND DIE DOING SO, so that the ASTARTAS can come and take all the credit and go forth and die guardsmen

[SgtMayIRun]

@GamingandSocialfun

They are representing a loosing force of oppression due to a rotting corpse sitting on a malfunctioning piece of history.

This is the drama in each and every soldier of human kind.

Join the change, join the future, fight the monsters of the past!

We' ve got enough crap to kill for humanity for everyone.

We will do this on our own but we surley could use every hand.

Join chaos the undivided now and we will build humanity without bonds.

The human future.

[lordbirkyful]

the spaces marines are only called to battle if the imperial guard cant get the task done and the space marines were supposed to be peacekeeper if the horus heresy didnt happen and also many space marines died and their gene send stolen by chaos

[vqqqq1]

The space marines are the Emperors scalpel. The Imperial guard his unfelled hammer. both work miracles. 

[SargentDaleV]

The pic at 4:24 proved us all that a Guardsman can have more balls than a Space Marine.Facing a boss like that whit human limits needs some great courage and determination.