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Just a few questions for you in general:

- What kind of army do you want to run? Infantry? Armoured? Mechanized?
- Who or what is your HQ?
- How many points are you gunning for?
- Can you swap the turret of the Executioner with one of the vanilla tanks? (A plasma tank works better with plasma sponsons)

How have you been using Creed until now? He really does his best when you also get Kell, put them both in a Chimera and have him spit out orders at Ld 10. Also, his outflank is superb, especially when given to say, a squadron of Leman Russ tanks. I'd pair this command squad with an Astropath at the very least so you get that +1 to your reserve rolls and the ability to re-roll your outflank result. Anything else is optional really, a Master of Ordnance is always fun and the Officer of the Fleet can make your enemy rolls a wee bit harder, but an Astropath might be the best bet.

A Lord Commissar is good, but expensive and can't hold his own in the current meta sadly. I'm using one myself with carapace, power sword and plasma pistol, but with challenges and whatnot, good luck getting him to survive the inevitable first blows, because almost everybody hits faster and harder than him.

If you want a good, steady army, go for one with say, two infantry platoons, each at least three squads strong, backed by two to three heavy weapon squads with non-mixed composure. Mortars are always good, but don't skimp on autocannons and lascannons either. A conscript platoon of 30+ is also always good fun, makes for a fine tarpit or ablative armour.

Back the platoons with at least one squad of Ratlings, they're always good and cheap enough to fit in, maybe an extra squad when facing armies with monstrous creatures or high toughness opponents. Sentinels might also be a cheap stop-gap weapon, especially when armed with heavy flamers. they will die, but if played right can torch things good before going down.

Heavy support wise, I personally run my Leman Russ tanks either as Exterminators with heavy bolter sponsons, or as vanilla Russ tanks with just a hull-mounted heavy bolter, anything else is sadly wasted as the ordnance makes everything else a snap-fire weapon.

If you want to seriously play infantry, you'll need a lot of bodies to fill the table.

I'm a big fan of going almost all infantry as well, they're dirt cheap and provide lots of opportunity to plant special weapons everywhere so you can be prepared for everything. I'd say Chimeras are good for the command squads, and having those 5 fire-points makes them good mobile bunkers and gun platforms.

I haven't played my Guard in a while, but I will be reusing them shortly.

My typical IG composition is a Elite Inf/Armor set up.

I would always run a strong Command Squad, mostly with Creed and Kell.
Sometimes a Primas Psyker.

I field one Infantry platoon so I can field several Hvy weapons squads. The rest of my troop choices are always Veterans (Some in Chimeras) with Grenadiers and Forward Sentries. I run mixtures of Flamers, Plasmaguns, and Meltaguns, depends what I want to kill.

My Elites come in being Stormtroopers, who I always love running for that awesome AP3 lasgun. Granted its range is cut short, but it is still effective. I usually run them Infiltrators to send in some strong Guardsmen to harass and kill certain targets.
I do field a few Ratlings to assist my Stormtroopers.
I even found running a Psyker Battle Squad can be nice, but you need to run the max squad to be effective.

For my Fast Attack, Flyers is useful, so the Vendettas for Tank killers.
Also running a mixture of Hellhounds would be useful.

Now, my favorite thing to field is my Lemans and Heavy Artillery.
Basilisks are my favorites for heavy artillery support.
My Lemans are all mixed, not one will be the same. I also rarely run normal Battle tanks, so I field everything else.

So after playing a few fast-paced games, I'm a huge fan of Chimeras; the 5 firepoints make the occupants an actual influence on the battle, especially where repelling assaults are concerned. They're perfect for command squads or special weapon squads, where there aren't any wasted shots and a better ratio of special or heavy weapons.

Quite a point sink for a squad that might as well hunker down behind an Aegis.