[Epic] Imperial Guard Motor Rifle Battalion

From: J. Michael Looney <mlooney_at_...>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 22:14:33 -0500

The Imperial Guard Motor Rifle Battalion

This is the second TO&E in my conversion of the Soviet Motor Rifle
Division to Imperial Guard stats. This builds on the Motor Rifle
Company that I posted a few days ago.

Battalion command section "detachment"
Supreme Commander Army List

Commander
Imperial Guard Colonel 40pts
Psyker 10pts
Chimera 14pts

Body Guard
Imperial Guard Squad 14pts
Chimera 14pts

Total Points 92pts

Notes: The "real" BN HQ section has 13 men and 2 APC. This version has
15 and 2 APC. Close enough. Also in the real unit there is a SA-7 man
pack anti-aircraft missile per company, for a total of 3 per BN, that
may be gathered together to act as a unit under the Colonel's direct
command. I have opted to ignore these for a couple of reasons, chief
among them being there being no such thing in Epic 40,000 and that all
units have snap fire against flyers, which fills the self defense role
of the man pack missiles quite nicely.

Imperial Guard Motor Rifle Battalion Mortar Battery
Imperial Guard Artillery Army List
Command Unit 25pts
2 Griffin "Squadrons" 114pts (each 3 Griffin, total of
6)
1 Imperial Guard Squad 14pts
Chimera 14pts

Total Points 167pts

Notes: <rant> For starters why does GW call a unit of ANY kind of
artillery a squadron? Not even British Horse Artillery called them
that. The correct wording would be "Platoon", "Troop" or "Battery".
Squadrons is for horses, tanks or airplanes (also some thing that
float, but we will ignore sea going navy units for the time being)
Also, command elements are, in the case of artillery, NOT gun units.
The unit above is accurate, however by the rules, the unit that is the
combined Command and fire control section, the Imperial Guard Squad, is
in fact, the LOWEST ranking unit in the detachment. </rant>

 Imperial Guard Motor Rifle Battalion Anti-Tank Platoon

Command Unit
Command Squad 32pts
Chimera 14pts

Troop units
2 Heavy Weapon Squads 28pts
2 Chimera 28pts
Support Weapon Battery 26pts (total of 2 units)

Total Points 128pts

Notes: This one works out rather well because the "real" unit has 2
mutant recoilless rifles (SPG-9), and two ATGM systems. The SPG-9s can
fire HE as well as AT rounds which means a "normal" firepower unit is
correct for it, but the ATGM (Saggers) are A/T only.
 

3 Imperial Guard Motor Rifle Companies
 <See my first post for this unit>

Each 499pts

Total Points 1497
  
Total Points for the Imperial Guard Motor Rifle Battalion: 1884pts

Up next: The non-Tank Reqimental Support units.
Received on Wed Apr 16 1997 - 03:14:33 UTC