Played my first IG game yesterday...not too good

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Played against my mates Space marines yesterday in a 700 point battle I had a Leman Russ a chimera with an armoured fist squad a platoon with 2 squads and a command HQ with a support squad (the one with heavy bolters in it) and he just basically had infantery and some terminators or sumin...
It turned out that i got massacred. To imagine the battle just think Terminators+guardsmen+close combat+badly aimed missile...not pretty at all! Now i think theres a reason that happened-I'm a very defensive player i hardly ever assault (because when i played fantasy warhammer i played dwarves a very defensive army) and shock troopers are hardly good at defense. Now i wanna try and play assault. But i dont really know how to i mean what do i send in first my tanks then my troops or? But if i send in my troops first wont my tanks massacre my own guardsmen?!? I really wanna beat my mate cus he thinks IG are bad...really bad.
Regards Morin

[sammy1979]

kill the god damn termies asap rattling snipers are good for this. then draw the bloody smurfs into the open and kill them with your russ. then whatevers left hurl your inf, at the survivors remeber you can afford to take some casualties good luck

[thefishki345]

yeh
and just incase you dont know
smurfs-space marines
lol it took me awhile to work that out

[Woz]

The IG work best in games over 1000 pts by using only 700 pts your just making things harder for yourself.

If your going to play small games then you need to use the 40k in 40 min rules from GWuk.games-workshop.com/warhammer40000/combat%2Dpatrol/1/

I use these rules for playing 500pt games. I've had loads of fun and for a beginner it's a good way of learning how to make the best of your IG.

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take out the termies ferst.....does he deep strike them? try using the chimera as well as the tank as a support down one flank of the space marines....use ure platoon to absorb some fire...then using ure lemun russ u can soften them up...up to the stage where ure guys can fire...mebe even rapid fire onto his troops....u wont take too much of a beating from bolter fire untill u get within rapid fire range...but terminators are priority

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For small point games in my experience to take grenadiers in chimeras with plasma guns. Take a heavy weapon platoon of all missle launchers, with a missle launcher in the command squad or you could do a similar thing with your Command HQ with 2 anti tank squads and 2 fire support with a missle launcher which may be a better option.