Guardsmen, We Need You!

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In conjunction with From The Warp Ron and inspired by Twilights 'Picking up the slack' blog, I'm proud to bring you The Parade Ground, a FTW blog list dedicated to the Guard.

We're not planning to do any group articles or community posts, just simply be a hub for Guard player to promote their blogs and find what other Guard bloggers are upto. I've already built a reasonable list of Guard blogs on my own but if yours isn't there, then send me the link and I'll get you added.

I don't want to be exclusive, but it is a Guard bloglist, and so if your blog isn't dedicated or doesn't have a reasonable amount of Guard related posts, then this list probably isn't for you. The amount of posts you have doesn't matter, you can have 1, as long as it's a Guard one, traitors welcome (That's something I didn't think I'd be saying on my blog!). If you're unsure, drop me a line anyway. The list isn't restricted to just FTW members, it's open to every Guarder but if you've not joined FTW yet, you're really missing out on a great community.

To get your blog added to the list, simply drop me an email to colcorbane@gmail.com with your name and the web address for your blog or alternative, just pop a comment on this post with your blogs address and I'll get you listed.

There is a widget to display the PG logo on your blog and help promote the bloglist if you want, this is in no way mandatory, have a look at the PG column header for the link to get the widget.

CC

571 Infantry Company Command

At the moment, my company command squad is looking a little bare. There's only the commander and his chimera. I'm planning to pad it out with veterans, specialists and advisers.


Long term, I've got quite big plans for the company. I'm planning to build it up to a full infantry company with four platoons. The first will be a veteran platoon made up of 5 veteran squads and a command squad. The second and third will be standard infantry platoons, the 2nd platoon are almost finished already. The fourth final platoon will be a support platoon made up of heavy weapons.

It may seem strange to have such grand plans, but I'm looking at how the army will grow over the next 6 years or so. I figure that's how long it'll take them to redo the codex. This sort of idea may be a bit alien to some of you out there, but I've been in the hobby for over two decades so far. Guard weren't my first army, I have quite a few for both 40k and fantasy as well as quite a bit of specialist stuff. But I do love my guard, and I figure I'm going to be playing with them until I get old, so I figure I've got another three decades at least ahead of me.

I'd better get painting ...

571 Infantry Company - 2nd Platoon

2nd platoon came into being after reading some of the rumoured pre release rules of the new codex. The idea of a whole platoon, over 100 men making up a single troop choice just amazed me so much, I had to do one. I decided that I didn't want conscript, as the Corbanian 1st are a professional army. I've nearly completed the platoon, I only need to do two more heavy weapons squad and another ten man squad. The heavy weapons teams are sitting on my painting station primed and ready as I type this.

Command Squad

Transport

Specialists
Flamer Support Squad
Grenade Launcher Support Squad
1st Sqaud
2nd Squad

3rd Squad

4th Squad

Missile Launcher Squad

Mortar Squad

Heavy Bolter Squad

754 Armoured Support Company

My hellhound squadron. I wanted three because my force is city themed and under the old codex rules, these things rocked in city fight. In the new rules, they're still pretty good. Long term, i'm going to add three more of the new variants and then three salamander scout vehicles building it into a fast support company.

152 Armoured Assault Company

Da Tanks, there's nothing more glorious than a tank formation on the move. Long term plans for this company include adding another 6 variants to fill it out to 9 before adding a modified command tank.

I've already done quite a bit on the next demolisher and I've got the bits from forgeworld to make either an executioner or a vanquisher after that.

621 Sentinel Support Company

My cityfight sentinel tank hunter squadron. These guys are great at sneaking around ruined cities snipping shots at the flanks of enemy armour. Long term goal for this company will be to add another 3 armoured sentinels and then another three sentinels but I'm not sure how to kit them. I don't think I'm going to need to be worrying about it any time soon.