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Intresting thing happened with my 'Officer-Commisar relationship' recently. I've never needed to have my commanding officer executed for cowardice ever in a game. Except for one recent occasion.

In a game I was playing against the dark eldar (which, by the way, I mucked up right in the begining) had the remains of an infanty platoon in a firerce close combat with an unit of witches.

Now my officer, not to be outdone by a bunch of elves (elven women, no less), decided to take matters into his own hands. a glorious charge insued with all of the command squad being wiped out, save for my officer and his regimental commisar. Being little pissed off at this point, the heroic duo wasted not another second beofore beating the enemy witch lord into paste with their combined attacks.

I was quite proud of myself at this point, my guardsmen were holding their own and my officers even killed an enemy HQ!

Unfortunatly, there were still many witches left and enough dead guardsmen to give them the victory over the combat. For whatever reason, the firey zeal that had been fueling my commander this far into the game decided to extinguish at this very moment, and i failed his leadership test. With the company banner laying in 3 pieces (and it's bearer in many more) , there was no hope for my commander and he was summarily executed by the regimental commisar, even as he was still fighting off a witch in close combat (the crafty b*****d)

The commisar did not last much longer however, and was soon over run by next turn.

This was the only time my commander had ever been executed, but given the circumstances I'd have had it no other way!

very nice, and I saw your post before about loving the red army. you'll probally LOVE this fun fact:

if you wanted to have a regiment of conscripts in one of the new apocolypse 40k games you can get a MINIMUM of about 600 conscripts and 11 indipendent commisars to lead each squad (giving them LD 10, re-rollable if he has a trademark item) in a standard 3000 point game!!

THAT'S AWSOME no matter which way you put it!

Put some tank support in there and you have your self one awsome Red Army.


I suppose the only real problem is having to deploy, move and transport 600+ models. but hey, that's the guard for ya.

Why do you stupid gnats of idiots always assume that the Red Army is made up entirely of conscripts and peasants who never held a rifle before?

Emphasis of the Red Army was No retreat, and snipers are for the win. They also followed Lenin's philosophy of, "Sure, quality is better than quantity, but quantity has a quality of its own." This would in fact lead many people to believe that they mainly took people out of the farms and villages and gave them a rifle and said,"Charge or get shot!". The thing about that, a lot of it was true. In dire circumstance like Stalingrad, many men were taken right of the refugee trains and given a uniform and told to run at the enemy. Think of that opening scene of Enemy at the Gates, that right there is not far from the truth. A huge majority of russian victories came from human waves and just sheer numbers. Granted that the ruskies had amazing units and crack teams, just the amount of basic infantry and conscripts would totally outnumber this, giving the common citizen nowadays to think on the side of, "Russian won by numbers, plain and simple."

*throws in 2 cents*

I never said that was all of them.

If I did make a red army I'd love include hoards of tanks, artillery, snipers, machinegun heavy weapon platoons and planes. (and mabey a few platoons of reguar guardsmen)

I know full well what the red army had that made them damn powerful, why do you have to assume you know more than somone just because they didn't include every minute detail? (sorry to sound cocky there, but I'm tired of having to write a history essay in my posts to avoid being called an idiot, it dosn't happen just here)


But seriously, who DOSN'T want to re-inact the battle of Stalingrad 40k style?

This may be addressed somewhere, but if you create a traitor Guard army (not LATD), may you take Daemons or Chaos Marines or anything of the sort along with them, or does it have to be entirely Guard?

I'VE DONE IT!!!!! i have made converted rough riders so that they are on bikes!!!! (pictures soon perhaps)

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I know how you feel, man. razz