From the Chimera transport tanks all the way up to super heavy, multi-barrelled monsters like the Baneblade and Stormhammer.
The Imperial Guard boasts some of the best and varied armour in Dawn of War that allow the Imperial Guard to meet any foe with an iron fist. Furthermore, they boast some of the longest range artillery in the mod such as the Earth shaker platform. However, what the Guard lacks in brute strength, they make up for in sheer numbers and overwhelming firepower, able to field hundreds of infantry as well as the unique ability to deep-strike super-heavy tanks onto any visible location on the battlefield. Whereas the Space Marines are made up of genetically engineered super soldiers, the IG mostly consists of the average human soldier. The Imperial Guard is one of many militant arms of the Imperium of Man. 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.
The Guard forms the very backbone of the Imperium for without them, Mankind would surely perish. Yet the actions of these anonymous soldiers daily decide the fate of worlds. 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. This absolute numeracy provides the Guard with its main power their ability to deploy in numbers that, eventually, results in victory. It would be unfeasible 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. The Imperial Guard, also known as the Astra Militarum, 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 lists of new recruits and toll of casualties can run into the millions in a single day.
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