I Will!!! I WIN!!! WEEEE!!!

PS- Thank you for your suggestions on DoW1. I will likely look into purchasing Dark Crusade (the Sisters of Battle+Dark Eldar are really not very cool to me; Space Marines+Tau+Necrons FTW!!!).

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

he got the dow1+WA pack, he just needs to add DC to it

@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.

Pardon?....What about commissars? Or Priests?  Or Ogryns? Or Kahrskin commandos?

You sirrah, see only the flash bitz.

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.

ig = not enough DAKKA

-Exile

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.

and push up your line as they fall back. The best offense is a badass defense.

Thank you!

damn lag double post crap

Artillery?  Pfff...please, a few Chimera filled with squads (1 with ogryns+Priest+ command Squad) 2-3 Sentinels, 1-2 hellhounds, maybe a russ..and you got an Iron Fist Army.

and yeah- damn forusm are crashinge verytime I post

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.

an i thought i was the only one with this problem

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

throw a load of artillery behind that line of bolter and it would work even better

soften them up with arty

then grind them up with bolter

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

bah ig are so girly

there is nothing better like a frontal assault with dreads while deepstriking terminators

-Exile

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

tesb....tsk tsk.

You can't call IG girly. IG holds the line agains Chaos, Orks, Eldar, Tau and more. They're just normal people like you or me givin lasguns and pointed towards the enemy yet through courage...and fear, they hold the line.

It's easy to fight Orks when your in a metal casket and were genetically altered to be a killing machine, try fighting them when your a normal person. IG may be weeker than SM but I'll always say IG are braver than SM.

Anyway, My tay Army still isn't here! Damn USPS, why couldn't the dude ship through UPS or Fed Ex.

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

yep, poor IG has nothing more than a flack jacket and a pew pew gun

though you can get a lot of them and quantity has a quality all its own

plus they get the best and most badass tanks around

they makes things go BOOM! real nice

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.

Yeah, real humans doing a Genetically-engineered Super Human's job.

Suck on those Steel Balls, Space Marysues!

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

-Exile

I think they do that cause they need some wusses to make a comparison with the marines, but if all teh guards constantly ran, why the hell would the emperor keep them around?