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Individual guardsmen are weak and have low point-costs, thus Imperial Guard armies are usually rather large ( a full guard platoon can boast up to 132 models, not counting independent characters, per troops choice ).

In addition, they have access to various vehicles, such as the Leman Russ main battle tank, Basilisk mobile artillery, Chimera armoured troop transport and the Sentinel walker.

Because they require so many units, an Imperial Guard army can be expensive and time-consuming to assemble and paint.

In regards to their weak willed infantry the guardsmen rellie on their unique sources of tanks and fire support.

These mechanized vechiles vary from light armored transportation to heavily fortified tanks and artillery machines.

All vechiles are designed and built by the imperial guard engineers.

These engineers were the original builders of the manufactorium, this means they were given the advantage to build stuctures faster and to also design effective vechiles.

Without the extra support of tanks and war machines the guardsmen are not able to win a fight.