Thread: Dawn of War 2 Chaos Rising

Originally Posted by AdeptAbyss

Actually the guard are very versatile, the whole meatsheild men infront of lots of tanks is more rare than you would think, although tanks still play a large part they are not required, I use an imperial guard army made up of small groups of elite soldiers and only sentinels for armor.

but for some reason dawn of war and imperial guard mens loads of crappy men and lots of tanks then they get nerfed to have lots of crappy men, and very few tanks -_-

This is because the IG vary so much. Iron Company IG is going to be armor-heavy, while the Cadians can essentially be equated to the modern US Army in space. Compared to every other threat out there, yes, a guardsman is going to be little more than ablative armor for tanks. Someone like the Krieg Death Korps, Catachans, Elysian drop troops (are you using these?) or Tanith units, on the other hand, who've been fighting for most of their life, are going to be absurdly good at what they do, and thus receive better equipment. If the IG faction in the DoW games were the elite of the IG, it'd make more sense for them to be better and less armor-heavy. They're not. They're the Cadians.

Originally Posted by Axis_Sniper

Maybe the Imperial Guardsmen will be on par with Guardian, or Shoota Boy squads.

Maybe, but it'd be a bit weird. After all, the Guardians are immortal soldiers who haven't had much to do but train how to shoot things for millenia, while the Orks were created to, iirc, be the counter to supposedly unstoppable Necrons. Throwing a man who's, again, not that different from a modern Marine into that mix and expecting good results is a bit optimistic.