>Sending in an armored assault of Guardsmen to take over the nearby region owned by Tau
>They get droned
>Send another one
>Send one more but without tanks
>...
>Monitorum send in another batch of guardsmen
>Tau have expended all their drones

>>509255035 (OP)
Why is everything GW so slav-coded?
Siege of Terra authors unironically used the russkie
>We have no gunz for you left, so ya'll run after him and take up his when he falls, maggots
trope

>>509255435
because it's cool

>>509255435
>slav-coded?
The IG is literaly reminshent of Soviet officers, focus on artillery tanks and meat waves.
Tau are orientals like japan+chaste with US focus on weapon
Ork are cool british ladz doing soccerball brawling
...
You also habe space dark elf that need torturing captured slaves to keep alive,
Space egyptian older than everyone else whos weapons could beat the shit out of anyone if not for plot

>>509255035 (OP)

>Tau have expended all their drones
>their logistics miraculously broke down ... praise the Omnissiah!!

....

>an entire imperial guard faction of leftist warguilt germans
>humanity itself is just bongland's own embarrassment of an empire

>>509255435
I mean it’s really not.
The guard in general feeling like the absolute worst of the Soviet Union cranked to 20 and some of the marine chapters/legions is kind of it.
It’s just the ones that lean into it lean into it fucking hard.

Like 99% of the guard regiments are just some other historical theme cranked up to 11 while using stereotypical red army tactics

>>509256924
Kreig isn’t war guilt. It’s a cultural of guilt based around betraying the imperium off what seems to in lore have been selfish reasons by the planets ruling class assuming they could somehow last on their own.
>The Krieg Civil War was an uprising against the Imperium on the world of Krieg in 433.M40.
The situation began when the Autocrats who ruled Krieg declared themselves independent from the Imperium and denounced the Emperor as their master

>>509256974

You are thinking of Valhallans and your average press-ganged PDF here. A Cadian would simply not stand down. A Catachan might just ask for more. Vostroyans are pretty much professionals. You send in the Korps for those impossible sounding missions of attrition. The Administratum will invariably fuck the situation up ofc. Not even the Navy can fix retard logistics.

Remember that time when the Tau tried to be diplomatic with Khorne demons and explain the greater good to them, thinking they were jsut another alien species?

>>509255435
I to wanted a SS inspired marine chapter that was led by the wh40k version of Oskar Dirlewanger, but alas i shall be satisfied with space commies

>>509257782
I can imagine how it went.
>Tau losing to Nids
>Necrons show up
>Kill of all the nids
>Tau think they are the good guy
>Wipe out The rest of the meatbags
>Back to sleep

>>509257476
Guard tactics outside of hyper specialized regiments and elite formations will still heavily rely on overwhelming force and being able to win attrition warfare.
Not everyone is fixing bayonets and charging titans obviously, but it will pretty much always be grinding down the enemy by the fact the imperium can easy eat thousands of casualties at a time.

The Russ for example is shipped in batches of 10,000 at a time. They can take loses on the chin

>>509255435
Because slavic wars are always grim dark as fuck just look at Jewkraine

>>509258271
If it's anything like real life, it's less about meat waves and more about meat walls to defend the 6 gorillion artillery pieces while they wipe the enemy lines down to the bedrock.

>>509257476
>press-ganged PDF
The what?

>>509258530
Funny enough that seems often used for the second-hand descriptions like Imperial Armoury splatbooks or early Grand Crusade, but never in the novels, since it is likely too boring.

>>509258803
Planetary defense force.
Basically the imperium equivalent to National Guard. Poorly equipped usually a first wave of defense against uprisings and invasions and also where actual guard regiments first look for potential fresh meat for the larger meat grinder.

When shit gets real bad or if the planet jsut is that way the imperium will take prisoners, gang members, and sometimes mutants and tell them to die to the enemy or the guns behind them.

>>509259064
militarum auxilla deserved to be its own army more than imperial agents does. give us an army of ogryn, ratlings, beastmen and other warp-twisted second-class citizens

>>509259064
Ah, Dirlewanger/Volksturm/McNamara divisions

>>509259290
Kind of, but they are often a standing force and not only a last resort raising

>>509258271

Basic logistics of the Imperium. A hydrocephalous empire. The head is not available. Entirely focused on defensive actions for at least 10k yrs. That should be an intricate lesson. Sheer inertia towards inevitable ...

>>509259064

Thx.

>>509255035 (OP)
that some Greek man

>>509259235
I probably wouldn’t give them a full book, but they would make a great expansion to the actual guard.

When this thing got shown off. It always screamed to me it was a failed heavy tank design the imperium only kept around for propaganda and to shove off on PDF and low value formations. It looks like every bad tank from 1919-45 has a baby.
Looks shit in a guard army. Would look amazing as a bad centerpiece to auxiliary force

>>509259903
>It always screamed to me it was a failed heavy tank design the imperium only kept around for propaganda and to shove off on PDF and low value formations
kek thats my new headcanon for that ww1 ass thing

>>509260050
I was so fucking mad we didn’t get a plastic Malcador instead.
And then we did
And they removed it from 40K to make it a heresy only tank

Fuckers

>>509257858
Rare.

>>509259903
Past 7th edition designs are all soulless trash. Fucking baby carrier mechs, man. Sisters of battle de-sexed and made bulky as fuck. Trash tank designs like this one. Overtly clean and sci-fi looking Primarysue armor, even if the unfucking of the body proportions were much needed. Tacticool attachment rails and shit on all guns which look exactly like 21th century attachemtn rails and even on guns that don't need them, like SM bolters.

>>509261035
I see it as GW was always kind of barely able to hold itself back from making stupid shit. Even a lot of the old models are kind of shitty.
But now that it’s extremely easy to make models GW can kind of just do whatever I feels like easily so A LOT of bad minis get made since nothing really holds GW back from cranking stupid shit out.

Wound up making this meme to poke fun at my friend who has been waiting two editions now for wave two of world eaters only to see even more fucking eightbound

>>509255435
>Why is everything GW so slav-coded?
because GW-fags never had much of their own imagination, buddy. sure it looks all cool and "original" at first, if youre a dumbed down goysumer that is, but even then - after a while - you realize they had ripping of novels (star ship trooper et al.), history (zulu-wars, WW1, vietnam, the crusades etc) and contemporary scifi (80s+90s) all the time. even the "hive fleets" arent original... it was all there already in "alien" and "body snatchers" et al.

GW is a fraud. thank god i never payed them more than a handful of bucks back in the late 90s for some plastic skaven boxes and "lore books".

the literally suck of the "imaginative needs" of nerds by offering them fake historical make-ups.

once you realize that its over. the "cult" dies.

>>509255035 (OP)
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