Grizzled Company

Warhammer Community, for their Grotmas stuff, has released a new detachment for the Astra Militarum, or the Imperial Guard for those of you who are old-timers like me (though, I'm not really an old-timer, considering I only started reading Ciaphas Cain in, what, 2009?). Introducing the Grizzled Company! 

It's meant to represent the veteran companies of the Imperial Guard who have been fighting on fortress worlds like Cadia, or planets ravaged by incessant war. The closest regiment we have for this is Mordian Iron Guard, and we even have a Stratagem called Mordian Minute. Also, if you remember the Bridgehead Strike Detachment from last year, this is this year's version.

The Detachment rule is that each Astra Militarum Officer in your army can issue 1 additional order, and any unit under an Order reroll hit rolls of 1. If your target is standing on an objective, you can also reroll wound rolls of 1.

The enhancements allow your Commissar to lead Ogryns and Bullgryns and issue them orders (he also gets the Ogryn keyword), allow your Officers to issue new orders to either Target Weak Spot - which essentially means improve the AP of your attacks by -1 - or to Move to the Shadows - giving your dudes Stealth - and increase the range of your Orders from 6" to 12" (not really useful for tanks).

Remember Mordian Minute? That Stratagem increases the Strength of weapons in a squad who's under the First Rank, Fire! Second Rank, Fire! order by 1. Good for plasma guns and lasguns. Nice. We also get Additional Armor, which is basically the Astra Militarum's version of Armor of Contempt, reducing incoming attacks' AP by 1. Makes our tanks tougher!

Speaking of which, even for a tank-heavy army like mine, this rule benefits me heavily because my Tank Commanders get more Orders (3!). And you know my Leman Russ and Rogal Dorn tanks love orders.

I say that, but I haven't actually got the time to play or test this out. Oh, well. And my focus is on Horus Heresy at the moment. Anyway, we'll see. I'll keep an eye out for any additional detachments that might affect Imperial Knight and/or Adeptus Mechanicus, and update then.

Until next time, I guess...

Oh...I don't know how to feel about this, but I think I just got a lowball offer from my current company, which complicates my plans to buy Saturnine next year. God-Emperor of Man, please help...