Codex: Imperial Guard (3rd Edition... the first one) - Codex Compliant
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Yarrick’s not dead, he just has to roll his 4+
Catastrophically bad dice luck
I like to think Angron is wearing Yarrick's skull as a centerpiece of his skull necklace. :)
Yo what's kraking
Clearly, he's just adorning a certain Necrons museum.
Iron Will.
This is the codex I literally stood and read at my local shop as a seven year old for months. I spent ages reading the small snippets of lore for different regiments and it led me to try and imagine my own regiment during the days of 3rd edition. That spread of different regiments is always going to be a core memory for me.
Still have mine on the shelf
Now GW wants to sell you a sterilised Cadia, Krieg, Catachan thats it.
I'd love to make a mini for each one, but it's far beyond my abilities
New Guardsmen training on the ship on route to a war-zone reminds me of that Futurama episode where Doop goes to war against the brainballs. 'we're sending you into battle which you spent all of yesterday afternoon training for.'
The training on the ship sections in the Gaunts Ghosts books are great
"War were declared".
"If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards. CHECKMATE."
Yeah, that picture of the 95th was two years old at the time of printing this Codex. The regimental was a lot bigger by the time of the book. Which you can see in my building an Imperial Guard army article in the Codex.
And 11 tanks was not enough 😂
A wild Nick Davis appears! I remember drooling over this army in the codex and white dwarf issues! Bring me right back to those glory days!
In one of the 2nd edition groups that asked what image is the most important to young you or something similar.
Can't say I right farm plenty of likes by bringing your photo up from the double page spread from the White Dwarf it featured in not to mention this codex.
I'm re-creating it slowly myself a platoon of each of my favourite regiments and appropriate squadrons of armour support. 🤟
This and the 3.5 book, ESPECIALLY the 3.5 book, captured the essence of the Guard in a way no Codex has since. Nowadays it feels like GW forgot the Guard is a *galaxy-wide* force coming from all walks of (human) life. They don't just come from Krieg or Cadia.
Just an FYI, to anyone with a 3d printer Victoria Miniatures sell STL files of Australian troops, with shorts and Rough Riders
And 'Blue' the medic dog!
I have a theory as to why there existed so many different Guard designs from the start: it was to allow armies made from other games.
Imagine wanting to play a game, but cannot afford a new army, but you have a WW2 soviet army set for another game. Just call it a Valhallan, and you are good to go.
Yeah, back then the game allowed for and encouraged proxies. D&D minis could be easily repurposed for Warhammer Fantasy, and Traveller minis could make for ace 40K games involving the inquisition.
There were barely any WW2 28mm models and kits at the time. It's the other way round, there was a push and passion from those within GW to make and work on stuff they liked (historical/ww2). The Perry's talk about it in various interviews. I worked for FW when everyone was excited about the 40k WW2 rules that were being passed around HQ and people were using guard armies to play it.
@@olithI never knew they had WW2 rules in the works. The WW1 and ECW Warhammer historical books were great. Shame the project was scrapped before Gallipoli campaign book released. Probably the last gw product to feature third party miniatures
@@olith No wonder Rick Priestly was so eager to start 'Bolt Action' when he left GW.
@@DMKA94 I don't think it was an official thing. I feel like we weren't supposed to be sharing it! This was around 99/00. I guess it might have been outside rules shared on forums someone had brought in.
edit: I had a look, I think it was Warhammer Panzer Battles by Phil Yates.
Was a pleasure to do the voice for this even if I did kind of mess up my throat trying to swallow that much gravel!
I got into the hobby during 2nd edition with Imperial Guard. I cant believe Im watching a historical look at something I remember as new and exciting
Welcome to being old my friend, I too started in 2nd edition.
"He haz rizen!" - Typical Orc response after watching Yarrick get up.
He is rizen indeed
"'e's only fookin' up ag'in, i'n' 'e, ladz!"
One design I love about the imperial army designs, is that the helmet… is just the top part of the beakie helmet made famous by the space marines, because in that time- they weren’t gene-altered super soldiers, they were just heavily drugged up lunatics in power armor.
Reading back on the old Guard Codexes compared to the stuff we’ve been getting with 8th, 9th and now 10th… I feel sad seeing just how much the guard went from a Galaxy spanning army of hundreds of individual regiments and even people… to but Cadians and Krieg with a acknowledgment of Catachan (oh and the occasional reference that other regiments exist).
But to me. I so feel that if they want to do guard justice again. They HAVE to bring them back to their routes with having them just be guardsmen with the players ability to build upon them in whatever way they want into these unique regiments again would be good.
I.e. someone force the guard codex writers to sit down and read the FFG Only War book and its supplements.
Just a box of random human sized bits like heads weapons and legs would already do so much for making your custom regiments, people laready raid necromunda, Admech, sisters, sigmar and any other game that has 28mm humans for their conversions
It is very sad that GW have said now that every unit in the galaxy now operated like Kreig, Catachans, or Cadians. Flavour removed in favour of "streamlining", presumably for tournament play.
Nobody is forcing you to play those only. With 3d printing and alternative brands, there's more choice than ever. Stop blaming GW for your own shortcomings...
@ oh yes because gw supports 3d printing sooo much, ofc they'll let you play in stores and in tournaments in FLGs with your 3d printed army yes.
Asking gw for more minis is not bad, stop defending gw
@@Pikilloification Yes, you can 3D print or kitbash your own guard, but you can't use 3D printed in anything official, and in the rules your guard have only 3 playstyles - Cadia, Catachan, Kreig. Because those are what GW sells.
Having the 36 plastic Imperial Guard boxset from the Rogue Trader era helped (and still helps) immensely when it comes to fielding Infantry Squads.
It's cool that the platoon structure is basically how Bolt Action armies are built now.
5:36 the Astartes chapter based on Tangar are called the Tangarines. They have orange armour.
Spaghetti, with pappardelle and a good ragu a close second.
This was the codex that got me into 40k- that artwork is stunning- probably the best Guard Codex cover to date!
A fun detail hidden on that page of regiments are the Fists of Lagus, who are stated to have “held out 47 years against invaders from Kroot Empire”. This is one of the earliest references to the Kroot in 40k. Kinda ironic that the Kroot now have a model line, while the Fists of Lagus are long forgotten. 😅
If only the Fists had held out for more than 47 years.
Just you watch, on the 47th anniversary of the codex, a new battle box will be released, featuring Kroots versus the Fist of Lagus!
@@Mioum okay, that’d be kinda fun though. 😅 I know I’d probably buy a box!
The book that destroyed a thousand wallets....
That Dreadnought!Kid will never get old.
Tortellini. First time I had it, I was a picky 6 year old who didn’t like anything new. When I eventually gave it a try, the cheese overload of Tortellini Alfredo made me a lifelong fan of the weird shaped pasta.
I now prefer it with anything but Alfredo, but you never forget your first time. It also sounds like a tiny turtle.
15:13 - Thanks for reading a snippet of this out ... I always loved that particular story. Humour is always the quickest way to my heart, and in the grim-dark world of Warhammer, the bits that make me laugh shine out all the brighter!
I'm curious about British perspective on it: do you genuinely consider naming an ork after a real-world ethnic group funny?
(hopefully, it comes across as non-judgmental as something like this possibly can)
@@SashaS-s2z Personally, I wouldn't consider that funny, no. Learning that a certain Ork character was named after a real-world politician might've got a chuckle out of me, but not the Goffs.
@ what does "politician" has to do with it?
In this case, it is named after a group of people - who have never done anything wrong to the British author of the text. Not even in the metaphorical way, where the author feels deep connection to the Redcoats in Zulu.
Britain never reached the part of the world that is now Uzbekistan.
@@SashaS-s2z We did help the Afghans win a few small wars with Bukhara (a lot of people forget that the UK and Afghanistan spent most of their history as allies), the Malleson mission in the Russian civil war also lapped on the borders of modern Uzbekistan.
Which Ork is named after an ethnic group and a Politician anyway?
@Lancasterlaw1175 there is no ork named after a politician here.
Only "big boss Uzbek".
13:07 um, that is clearly Doug Dimmadome, owner of the Dimmsdale Dimmadome.
I dimma-don't suffer the heretic to live
*Douglas Dimmadomeic VI
10:01, As a former guard player I can tell you the plasma variant 'Russ was known as the Executioner as firing off five plasma cannon rounds would literally blow holes in enemy lines if you didn't roll a one when you fired it.
To this day, that few pages showing all the imagined regiments is one of my favourite (and most inspiring) parts of 40k world building, as it really gives a sense that the galaxy is a big place, with so many different varieties of human worlds. Also, Cavatappi is my favourite pasta, Cheers!
'Fingers' Vagin is the best name ever given to a character in WH40K history
I read through the names, and only now did I realize that that was in there x'D
I wasn't expecting a Clan of Xymox reference in a Codex honestly, and as a Dutch Dark Wave fan, I have no clue why it's there
Me neither but I'm glad it's there
There was a great custom army in the Friar Lane Nottingham store of Cold Stream guards all marching in lock step.
I remember getting the codex when the Catachans came out, it certainly set the tone of the Guard, but the next IG codex fleshed it out. I had an ALL infantry guard army, with the Light Infantry Doctrine. It really confused people when you didn't play any tanks, then set up everything with Infiltrate. Did get some tanks, but I was painting up Tallarn to make them Mechanised Infantry
The spread of different regiments is awesome.
Farfalle is so convenient. Pennes work well with thick sauce.
Penne is a horrible pasta, I literally judge anyone who buys it as an objectively worse person. It miserable fails to absorb sauce properly, no matter how much you plead and beg. It is really easy to over or undercook, and tastes terrible if you do either.
Also, Spaghetti is overrated, Linguine or Tagliatelle are so much better.
@@Lancasterlaw1175 Over or undercooking are either personal choice or your failure at culinary control. Most pasta made from durum wheats is about the same until you begin wrapping stuff in it provided it is at least some interesting 3D shape so it catches the sauce.
Spaghetti is crap. It only exists so people can show their fork control. Tagliatelle is worse because that is just Spaghetti for people who can not work out how to cut the vertical pasta strips.
Pasta is just a wheat product which gives bulk and optimally sauce support to the surrounding food. If you want something more creative brew beer.
@@kassy6373 Noo! Stop with these truth bombs you fiend! It's the pasta's fault if its wrongly cooked, not mine for failing to set a timer!
I like the increased surface area of Tagliatelle, it generally has more strength before it snaps too, also you can put a whole nest in and have it cook evenly, rather than having half sticking out the saucepan.
I've wanted to make cannelloni for some time, but I lack a good dish for it, and it is actually pretty hard to come by.
@@Lancasterlaw1175 Its just giant penne with the sauce preshoved and then done as an oven dish so basically cheating. I like pastas that are cooked short so they have a bite but their form should allow the maximum pick up on the sauce.
Anyway it´s better then the utterly pointless Lasagna.
@@kassy6373 You can get preprepared Cannelloni? Seems sort of pointless to me, half the fun is making your own filling. Same with Lasagna, some of the preprepared stuff is truly dire.
Yet another banger. Have you ever considered doing a video battle report on the "Battle At The Farm" scenario in the Rogue Trader rulebook? It could be a cool way show what the gameplay of first edition was like, you know assuming you can pressgang someone to be a games master for it.
Besides I really want to see Wib's RT Beaky Lamentors in action.
I like Snipe's top.
Also, I don't have anything to do with 40k anymore, I don't play, paint, or even read any of the lore anymore, but I will always drop what I'm doing to watch a new S&W video about silly nonsense in the 41st Millennium.
Man this codex sounds like so much fun! Honestly, I love modern 40k, but the encouragement of creativity and personalisation in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th edition codices is just great.
My first codex was the 3rd edition Tyranids codex which i still have and it's still a joy to look through the conversion suggestions and alternate paint schemes the team came up with. The modern codices just don't have that "you can absolutely do this too!" feeling that the older ones do.
I started watching you two 5+ years ago during the last run of Really Bad Times™, I stayed with through the relatively better years after, and I fully intend to stick around for this batch of Really Bad Years.
A new Squire as well as Snipe and Wib Video? Today is a good one.
The Emperor protects. ^^
To the very important question about rotation of the world of Mordia, it's a it depends of your frame of reference question. Within its solar system, yes double rotating. As a person on Mordia, sort of.
Snipe's suppressed smile during Wib's double salute was equally sweet and hilarious 😂
I love the codecies from 3rd, I also remember looking at the platoon/alternate army construction rules and it blowing my mind when I was young.
I Cannot expresses how excited I get when I see a new snipe and wib vid
SCP 974-2: This video, but the camera continues to zoom out indefinitely from 13:10 , silently revealing more and more of Lt. Montgommery's infinitely tall hat.
Amazing work as always. I know it's a chaotic time, but I truly appreciate you taking the time to create such a high quality video for me to enjoy.
I quite like the "Red Dawn" reference in the "Amerigo Secundus" regiment that looks like an 18th century gentleman (a Thomas Jefferson type) with a lasgun, "The Wolverines Regiment"
Having read the 5th and 7th edition Guard codexs (I started in 8th but love picking up the older books too) it's always a fun read between the down to Earth (All Quiet of the Western Front style) prose of mortal men at war in this setting, and those cool older metal models, slowly been picking some up for myself.
Glory to the 195th Solomus Mechanized Grenadiers!
I like Macaroni.
Great episode of codex compliant, my favourite UA-cam series ❤
When this codex was out 25 years ago it was the only time I ever saw an all infantry 2000 point Imperial Guard army. It took forever for the guy to pull out all his miniatures. I'm also pretty sure when it came to a miniatures count it was the biggest 2000 point 40k army I had ever seen fully painted.
Nothing better to distract from these dark times than diving into the grimdark future. Thank you for this new video!
I loved the 2 page spread with the art for all the different regiments! It really stuck out to me at the time and made the universe feal so big!
Also farfalle. I like to pretend they are little bow-ties.
The next version had the supplementary rules for building you own regiment, not just visually, but rules-ually. It was peak.
Yes the old regimental doctrines
It was amazing.
You were saying the bit about going crazy with the army with Miguel O’Hara next to you, and now I think I’ve cracked the code. Spiderverse guard army
Really a big fan of spiralli and macaroni tbh.
Thanks for the video! I started by collecting Fuard and, while I've switched to Sisters now, I did at one point own slightly more than 11 tanks XD
Your videos always feel like something special, and I appreciate what you do
OMG yes! Last time I was this early, the Emperor had twenty sons 😮
"Last time I was this early, I decided to take on Horus instead of waiting for the Emperor and Rogal Dorn..."
-Sanguinius
@apocrypha5363 "Last time I was this early, I hadn't strangled the only person that I truly loved amidst my burning home planet yet"
- Perturabo
8:36 The Arnold looking officer sure knows how to rock a power fist and suspenders
The Last Chancers are quite literally a TF2/Dirty Dozen reference. Though considering what I've dug up about a few of them already, I think it may as well be more of a nod to TF2.
The Demolition Man was caught drinking the colonels personal drinks. The DEMOMAN was caught drinking.
Brains and Ox are best buddies in the team. Pretty much like Medic and Heavy in TF2.
Animal is a schizophrenic psychopath with a Meltagun. So, that sums him up as The Pyro.
Looking at Scope's artwork in the 40k wiki as well as seeing he is an assassin and trained marksman, he's kinda looks like The Sniper.
In fact, looking at a few of these guys' mugshots in the wiki, they kinda look like 40k variants of the TF2 classes.
They predate TF2 by quite a bit, but it's a nice parallel thought
I did always love that old Klaw on Yarrick, as it looks funkily awkward with when you try to imagine clenching something between forefinger and thumb in an almost graceful or more likely awkward manner~
Bring back the crab claw!
THE SPECIAL PASTA RULE. The SPI board game "The Campaign For North Africa" had a special rule for supply of Italian troops that had them consume more water for boiling their pasta.
I remember having the later 3rd Edition Book & the Cadian Army models reminded me of the Colonial Marines from Aliens, that's why I bought the models. I was really obsessed with the film as a teen.
Ferro, "On my mark... 5... 4...
Hudson, "We've on an express elevator to hell; goin' down!"
Ferro, "2... Mark!"
Oh, yay, that my army! I’ve been waiting for this one!!!
We actually have a really nice casserole we make a lot currently.
You boil a 500g pack of Fusilli Tricolore. While that is happening you make a sauce from onions, garlic, some spices of your choice, sliced tomato and some cream. You then mix the fusilli with the sauce in a casserole dish and cover it with two sliced packs of mozzarella.
15 minutes in 180° with circulating air and it's perfect. Even better if you reheat the rest on the second day, because then there's a nice crunch to them
It's got to be the little tiny dinosaurs.
A proper spaghetti carbonara, with guanciale, not pancetta, and pecorino romano, and definitely no cream!
The guard are one of those armies I'm not personally invested in (eldar 4eva) but I'm really glad they're around and I wish they had a position commensurate to their supposed ubiquity in the setting. Instead it really feels like space marines are effectively the guard in terms of just how damn many there seem to be. Also I miss the days when GW encouraged you know... hobbying. Converting your own minis for a squad, and they outright tell you to!
That was the codex I used to make El Marakesh's Mercenary Company, an all-Tallarn IG army. Very fond memories, indeed. Including a 5-table mega game where my Basilisks were dropping ordnance tables away.
Always nice when you can feel how much a writer likes a faction in the text. I think that's the secret to the success of Christ Wraight's White Scars books. That being said, I now want a Guard army and that's the problem.
What a lovelly walk down memory lane! great video! there is also one of the Chapter approved where rules for obscure guard regiments was expanded a bit, introducing death Korps of Krieg, cadia, elysians and the scavangers regiment (?), i can't recall the name, would love to see a follow up on this video talking about the flavours presented there
I think my favourite bit of lore from this codex is the ToE of a garrison regiment, I think at the back of the book. It is the remains of a mauled regiment plus additional bits of other decimated regiments forming something roughly a reinforced battalion in strength, though *very* short in some heavier weapons (and only one platoon strength unit has any plasma guns). However, this is a garrison *for an entire star system*. Like, obviously it seems like was meant to be a relatively sparsely populated system, but it also hints at the whole fact that the modern presentation of 40k, which often focusses on vast armies fighting on hive worlds and the like, back in 3rd edition that was kind of meant to be the *exception*. Armageddon, for example, was meant to be an unusually large conflict. Most conflicts in 40k were meant to on a much smaller scale, which gels with the earlier presentation in 1st edition as well.
This was one of the first books I owned and I still have this one! So many fond memories.
Fun fact, a lot of the cool customization options and such still continue on in Horus Heresy! The Solar Auxilia and even more so the Imperialis Militia and Cults allow for insane levels of customization, encouraging you to convert and custom build to your heart's content. They even have rules that more or less let you take platoons.
excellent vid, interactions for the algorithm gods
Another great video, as a fan of the Imperial Guard I love learning about their real world influence from historical armies.
My favorite pasta is spaghetti with cheese and Italian Sausage. Delicious.
Loved this codex as a kid. The command squads equipped entirely with grenade launchers (4x) and a storm bolter for the officer (1x) made for a shocking amount of 24" range mobile firepower...!
Man I loved that codex!
Still have all my 3rd edition codex's
That Search & Destroy reference has made my day. :)
Somehow I’m unsurprised to find a Xymox reference in 40K, and on your channel! Dinosaur goth here, been a fan of theirs since the late 80s, and I’ve been introducing them to my stepdaughter recently when I drive her back and forth to work . They’re still awesome!💀
By the way, I believe that the colour photo section in all old Codices should be referred to as “The Bolour Supplements”.
Thanks for the great video 👍🏻
This was the codex that first got me into the Guard. Dug it out and flipped through it as I watched.
Dell'Ugo's Slow Braised Beef Ragu Raviolo is still my favourite. A shame it's so expensive...
Lovely video though, it's always a treat having a Codex Compliant come up in my notifications.
Very nice video, enjoyable as always!
21:00 …reGUARDless…
Well now I'm just convinced that you deliberately release these videos just to show us how good the game used to be back in your day and compare it to how much the game us newer players are stuck with. I started off liking 10th when it first arrived, but as time as gone on, and the new rulebooks come out, it just feels more and more dull and lifeless. :C
I'm not mad that you guys have these books in your collection that you can still play with, I'm just sad that I don't have, nor can have, a more fun game that's available in the shops.
We're in the same boat. 10th just doesn't have the same charm.
I'm an old IG collector, have a large kitbashed army built up from different regiments. (each one a specialist in one area). I'm not even going to buy the 10th codex which is a shame after how good the 9th one was.
I have a fond memory of attempting to run a all infantry (and yes I had enough mini's to pull that off! ) based guard army in a local tournament during 3rd ed , lets just say they all sacrificed themselves for the golden throne valiantly in service after 1-2 turns every time (once the opponents armies touched bases it was over)
Ooo I had squid ink pasta for the first time recently. It was thrilling. Managed to get some on my pants, which was the one article of clothing I was wearing that wasn’t black! Fun times, teeth were black for a week!
I can´t wait for the video on the other 3rd Ed Imperial Guard codex. Now THAT was a true Imperial Guard codex! Imagine if they brought back that doctrines system...
Man I wish there was someone at GW who still liked the Guard
i mean, clearly someone does. their new book’s pretty strong and the cadian and krieg (and also solar auxillia) kits have been lovely. yes, it would be amazing if gw put out a new release of steel legion, catachans, valhallans, mordians, all that. but that’s just not realistic on a resource level.
@queencyrys6309 if someone cared they would've make them fun to play and make models that doesn't look awful
The problem isn't that there isn't someone in charge who likes Guard, it's that the someone in question only likes one type of Guard army. At least until recently, the lead designer was Robin Cruddace, an Imperial Guard tread head
I'd say whoever wrote the 9th ed codex, got the guard. 10th index not so much.
@@Yurt_enthusiast7what Are you talking about. the new rules are fun and fluffy, Orders is one of the best abilities in the game, and the new models look so good. every guardsman has so much personality
As a long time Guard player, I miss my platoons. They helped to sell the Guard as throwing large armies at the enemy instead of a few small forces.
The 3rd Ed Imperial Guard Codex was a big part of why I was willing to try 40K in the first place. Alas, I soon discovered that most of the setting was far less plausible. But I still love how well the book would let you mimic an actual infantry company from pretty much any major army from as far back as the Boer War all the way up to the Falklands campaign.
The two things I most liked: Commissars got a FREE upgrade to a horse if you attached him to a Rough Rider squad. Also, Ogryn with no gun and two CCWs.
This codex may be responsible for my hopeless addiction to painting camo cloaks and even camo marine armor
I always wanted to own the last chancers, such a cool idea, and the battle report they did of their Dirty Dozen heist mission was so cool!
Also, The Steel Legion was such a cool Regiment, and the fact they’ve just been subsumed by Krieg is a shame, when Krieg started off as an alternate paint job for the Steel Legion minis.
One more thing. They actually did make Tank Crew models you could buy in order to make that rule work.
Aglio e olio has saved me from actual starvation. I will always praise the simple stuff
I did a whole year of learning and trying out all the regional pastas of Italy. Caccio e Pepe is a quick one for a work night but it's tough to get right, but al Nero di Seppie became the sleeper hit.
The Zena Warrior Princess reference in the bottom left-hand corner of the doodle armies page.
Mention of the Trademark Item took me back to one of my first kitbashes... Captain Sir Lucius Fotheringale III, who went into battle with a feathered hat and a slightly unhinged grin (both courtesy of a headswap from a WHFB Empire musketeer)
The Perry Brothers do make some absolutely beautiful models.
The imperial army, imperial guard, astral militarum, THE WALL OF GUNS!
Happy to see Australia get's some repersentation at 5:13 (2 right from the Krieg, the ones with the hats)
A friend owned this codex in the past and those pictures of different kind of imperial soldiers was one of the most interesting stuff in the whole codex. Was really tempted to buy an army of catachans (Death Corps came 2nd) with tanks and stuff but it was so damn expensive so I stayed with my Eldar army which was also expensive enough. xD
Big mortar strapped to chimera chassis🤤. Griffons were awesome 😎.
Looking at that picture at 1730 and just at the painted portion of my collection (made up of 7 different regiments so far) and im thinking "those are rookie numbers, you need to pump those up!"
Can't wait to get off work and watch this.
5:28 I love how vaguely Moebius-esque some of these are.
A lovely Rigatoni in a rich tomato and beef sauce ❤😂