Who prefers SM to Imperial Guard in DoW?

[Space marine]

Well?

[IBBoard]

Not very much of a debate - you can't debate whether someone likes them or not

As for the poll itself, I've not played WA enough to know the Guard, so I won't vote yet. If you can make this a debate, I'll leave it here. Otherwise, this gets moved to Sideline games.

[Space marine]

Actually, could you move it.
Sorry, I just read a debate, then came up with the idea, before going to the sideline games section, I'd pressed new topic, so it appeared in debate, instead of the right area.
My stupidity prevails once more!

[IBBoard]

At least the 'New Topic' buttons are working now - I broke them and had them hidden the other day and didn't realise for a while!

Moved.

[SisterHelios]

I like them both since tecnically one backs up the other,that can be shown in DoW if a Marines play can protect a guard player and then the marine Spear head the attack with the Guards Armour right behind them for heavy and I mean Heavy Support.

[IBBoard]

Showing how little I've played, isn't (or perhaps "wasn't") one of the complaints about the Guard that they were over powered in tier 1? Wouldn't have thought they'd need protecting much if they were But yeah, the general idea works - send in the heavily armoured men with the heavily armoured tanks as support! It'd take the majority of small arms fire quite a while to kill anything.

As for the original question, I don't know if I've played WA at all since then. I run it to mod it or test things, but I don't seem to game much

[Simguinus]

It depends entirely on what mood I'm in. Sometimes, you just want to be able to churn out hordes of unquestioningly loyal servants of the Imperium, armed only with a torch with 'lasgun' written down the side and a T-shirt with 'Armour' printed on the front. The Guard's voices are amusing for the duration of a fight, and having a Vindicare assassin is always fun.

At other times, you just want to play with the 'real deal' - no fake armour for Legiones Astartes....

I like the Guard armour (military terminology here, rather than flak jackets). It's just a shame that the game limits you to only 3 Basilisks, and the vehicle cap means youcan't field a full company of Leman Russ tanks. Kasrkin Squads are also cool - although I've no idea why they're called Kasrkin and not Stormtroopers - possibly because George objected?
The Guard make (nay, demand) a more combined arms approach to DoW tactics - with the Marines you can just turn out tac squads and the odd Dreadnought and still be in with a good run at victory. And once you've got Terminators, there's not a lot of point building anything else . The Guard infantry have to be supported by armour or artillery and Commisars and a Command Squad are vital, rather than just decorative.

[SisterHelios]

Well the Imperial Guard amry featured are the Cadian's and the Kasrkin Squads are their most Elite men and women of Cadia,totally and utterly loyal to Cadia and the Emperor. So calling them Storm Troopers might be just an Insault lol

[IBBoard]

Kasrkin are effectively just the Cadian Stormtroopers though, from what I understood. Stormtroopers are better trained and better equipped elite Guardsmen, Kasrkin are better trained and better equipped elite Cadian Guardsmen. It would have made more sense to call them Stormtroopers, especially since that's more generic and doesn't tie it down to Cadia so much (despite the fact they're all 'generic Cadians' anyway!)

[caelien]

Pah! Space Marines? Imperial Guard? The Lapdogs of the False Emperor pale in insignifigance to the servants of the Dark Gods! Let The Galaxy Burn!

(so to answer your question, space marines take the gold by 1/100s of a second, closely followed by the guard (love the baneblade, though))