Few Competitive Units: Unfortunately, this faction is pretty overcosted right now.All of these units are relatively fragile and will absolutely fold if you expose them. Fragile Damage Dealers: The damage dealers in this army come in the forms of special weapons toting Guardsmen or Scions, Manticores, and Tank Commanders.For a fun thought exercise, roll a full Bullgryn squad into a Blade Guard Veteran squad with Transhuman, Dark Angels Terminators with Storm Shields, or Death Guard Terminators. They’re pretty dang tanky if you have the right buffs on them but really can’t go toe to toe with a dedicated melee threat. Mediocre Melee: The best melee unit Astra Militarum can bring to the table is Bullgryn.This army definitely struggles with picking secondary objectives and it’s virtually impossible to build an army that doesn’t easily give up either No Prisoners, Bring It Down, or Assassinate. Extremely Vulnerable to Secondaries: The Grand Tournament Mission Packet has not been kind to Astra Militarum.12″ + 2d6″ movement per turn with 10 Objective Secured idiots still goes a long way even 4 years after the codex has been released. Mobile Objective Secured Infantry: Guardsmen with Move, Move, Move are still fantastic.This doesn’t mean you’re able to sacrifice units willy-nilly, but you have the capability to suffer some bad dice on one unit because you often have a backup. You’re almost always able to take redundancy in some capacity. Cheap: Redundancy is relatively easy to build in with this army.Whether or not they can address the meta is a separate question, but at least the datasheets are there! Wide Array of Specialized Units: With over 90 datasheets to pick from, the Astra Militarum is likely going to have a dedicated unit to kill most things that might be present in the meta.Good Shooting: The Guard doesn’t have much in the way of combat, but even with one of the oldest books in the game, a fully-intact Guard army might take the cake for the most powerful shooting in the game (beside Admech, anyways).Scott Horras “Heresy”‘s Astra Militarium List.Adam Green’s Imperium List (Astra Militarium + Knights).Malcador (FW)/Malcador Annihilator (FW)/Malcador Defender (FW)/Malcador Infernus (FW).Armageddon-pattern Medusas (FW)/Medusa Carriage Battery (FW).Basilisks/Armageddon-pattern Basilisks (FW)/Earthshaker Carriage Battery (FW).Command Squad/Militarum Tempestus Command Squad.Gaunt’s Ghosts (NC, Tanith, Officio Prefectus).Aradia Madellan (NC, Auxilia, Blackstone).Commissar Yarrick (NC, Officio Prefectus).Colonel ‘Iron Hand’ Straken (NC, Catachan).Keywords: Regiment and Tempestus Regiment.We thought it might be about time to take this one off the shelf and update it for all of our valorous defenders of the Imperium out there! Most notably, the addition of Psychic Awakening: The Greater Good. The Astra Militarum Codex was one of the earlier releases of 8th edition, but a lot has changed since this book has come out. So long as the Imperium stands, the Astra Militarum will stand to defend it. Such is the will and dedication required amongst mortals to stand in the face of the ancient evils and inhuman terrors assailing the Imperium. Astra Militarum Commanders, Inquisitors, and Planetary Governors must regularly send droves of a civilization’s finest soldiers to die upon nameless hills in defense of a single planet amongst millions. No equipment or personnel are above sacrificing in the pursuit of your objective. The Astra Militarum can only accomplish its mission of defending the Imperium of Man through disciplined volleys of massed lasgun fire, deftly-crewed columns of armored fighting vehicles, and proper application of fierce bayonet charges. While the Guard is rife with heroes and filled to the brim with some of the most valorous people in the setting, it brings with it a constant reminder that human life is worth very little in the grim darkness of the far future. With massed ranks of tanks and infantry, the Astra Militarum conveys some of the grimmest and darkest imagery in the entire 41st millennium. If you’ve just been introduced to a galaxy filled with near-immortal super-soldiers, intergalactic alien invaders, and actual demons and your first thought was, “Well what if I just wanted to play normal people?,” then Astra Militarum is the faction for you.
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