DON'T FORGET WINTER ASSAULT, IT GOTZ 126% MOAR DAKKA

@LEADER MkII- I already have Winter Assault. I think I mentioned I got the DoW:Gold edition, which includes both the original AND the Winter Assault Xpack.

Baneblades and their variants are the only thing that makes IG cool. And the Macharius.

I was always comfy playing IG. Sure, they have weak infantry, but my talents lie in artillery placement. Once I get that going, three good shots and the Necron are done. Even their home base was easy.

That's what I was going to say, IG win @ defense. Make a line of a few Guardsmen with a commisar to make sure moral stays and then have Bassilisks rain hell down on attackers.

damn lag double post crap

letsee... a few is three, so that's three vehicles, two squads, 2-3 more vehicles, 1-2 ore vehicles and one last for fun. That's 9-11 units. I have 2-3 squads (yes, Ogryn are fun), and an engineer to produce new turrets as I move, with three artillery units. That's 6-7 units. Much less doing the same job, PLUS if I came against that Iron Fist Army, I could always just turtle long enough to make my own Iron Fist AND give them the artillery, or screw it all and get a Baneblade.

Not that your army sucks, but against Necron, I find that letting a single damned unit through is fatal. I'll gladly splash the bastards at a distance. Keep in mind that the basic Necron infantry (which they get for free) has accumulative damage, equally damaging as an Ogryn after they kill about three guys. Screw dealing with that.

mAKE A LINE HEAVY BOTLERS AND HOLD IT..WROKED FOR ME LOTS FO TIMES

With the price of Arty, I rarely have more than 2..even less since my melee squads generally gets killed by arty fire

yeah IG has crappy melee

they are guns, guns, guns, tanks, guns, tanks, guns, more tanks, more guns, a melee, guns, tanks, you get the point

so yeah if you can get inside their lines with melee bye bye IG

I dunno..in DoW, melee IG is a good thing at the start..send oen squad in melee, 2 to fire at everything..at least you won't have morale breaks every 2 seconds

IG is basically just throwing WWII tech into a Starcraft fight. So of course they have a lot of stebacks, but if you use them right, they can hold their own. Btw, our guys in teh field now? guns, guns, guns, tanks, guns, tanks, more guns. Most army guys don't try getting into melee if they can help it. And if you need to shield against melee, Ogryn. I had them hold off three groups of Orks while the squadmen gunned em down. Worked just fine.

Not saying that all other groups suck, just that I'm perfectly comfy with IG. Space Marines give me an easy start and finish (unit cost aside) and Necrons are super-duper easy to use when you know what does what. Even Tau, when I focus on snipers and quick strikes, kick a lot of ass.

So yeah, it's a mixed bag.

bah the guard is the first to run ...or defect

-Exile