Doctrines - points and guidelines (please assist)

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I don't know if its explained so if it is please say where. I've read the doctrine section but am still not sure about what it all means. the restricted troops, the skills and drills and the other rules.

Could somebody please state in detail what I should do when making an army list including these doctrines and docrtine points?

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*copied from the currently active "help, I'm new" thread you seem to have missed in your mad rush to look, not with your eyes, but with your mouth* (Sorry, it's cold, but come on, a little reading on your part before starting a new thread when there's already one in progress you could have added to?)

Doctrines are not required in order to use an Imperial Guard army. You can use the list right out of the book as it stands and have a perfectly functional Guard army. Doctrines are an optional item added to the Codex in order to permit the creation of more stylized lists to better represent the various Guard regiments that have been described in fiction (Tanith First and Only, Harkoni Warhawks, ect), or that previously had their own special rules (Catachans, Cadians, Armageddon Steel Legion).
If you do decide to go the route of Doctrines, you give up a lot of your flexibility of force choice in order to get some advantages. Certain units (Listed in the "Restricted Troops" box on page 55) are not generally avaliable to a "doctrined" army. What this means is, the instant you decide to deviate from the normal Guard force, you loose access to all of these, and have to spend Doctrines to buy them back.

And now for the new material:
When you're making a Doctrine army, decide what you want the army to be like. Pick a theme to base the army around. Then, start picking Doctrines you think will maximize the effect. Make sure if there's any Restricted Troops you feel you need you get those too. After that, trim the list down so you're only using 5 doctrines; and go build your list.

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thanks, this makes things a lot clearer, and just please keep the comments low key, I know i'm new to this forum but not a total n00b.

[Colonel Grammissar Azalar]

To be honest, Anyone who says "N00b", with two 0 instead of o's, then you are acctully a Noob, your just in Denial, Likes Chavs who deny being a Chav.