1000 Point Astra Militarum Starter List - 10th Edition

I get and respect that many people play Guard because it's a rare army that lets you play almost nothing but tanks, but nothing stirs my heart more than seeing waves and waves of Dudes marching forth into battle.

I like more infantry for astra milltarum, and medium armour like scouts. I don't know why I don't like tanks for anything, for example battlefield games I like destroying them over being inside them.

Great starter list, I'm starting a guard army and was just wondering if it would be worth dropping a Castellan for Creed and a Commissar perhaps? What would your thoughts be?

Hahaha.. Wow.. Great minds think alike. I just got that

Guard players. If you want movement trays that are dirt cheap: buy 1 inch (25/26mm) bottle caps and glue them together with Steel Tough Welbond Universal Adhesive. It’ll take a while for them to be made, but I use them and they’re amazing.

Going to try this list for an upcoming crusade minus the two cadian castellans instead for another field gun team. Think this could be a good try?

Very different than my first list which was 2 baneblades and a commissar

I prefer the Stubbers in the hull and going full Dakka with the Dorn. Thats the only change I would make. But that's a personal choice as well.

Hello! I see you have a big magnifier lamp in the background. Do you know of any that are 15-20x or more?

Great video, nice list thanks.

Cadian Sergeant Steel its Corporal Suga. amazing content!!! could u use the Lord Solar Leontus ? so u can attach it to a command squad for the 24" ? or im a wrong . Cpl Suga Out

Very nice army and well painted. Love the fact that you build a army like we know them from the lore and not not 12-tanks-plus-20-guys kinda list.

I have a 1k game tomorrow and wasn’t sure what to take as its my first game. Bit of proxying and i can field this army. Thank you!

Just so folks know I went and looked on weyland games and priced this up for £200. idk if this helps, never shopped there so your mileage may vary.

Those indirect fire cannons with take aim are no joke!

I haven't played since 4th edition but I have bought a few Cadia Stands boxes. I love the new models. I might have to go try 10th edition and see how it is. Thank you for putting this together.

only problem with the renaforcements strat is that it is effected by battleshock, if battleshock u can't bring them back

This is awesome. Great work. Hope to see more like this.

The one drawback with Krieg is their resin command & troop squad kits don't come with medics, only in the plastic kits are the parts for medics. I got caught building Krieg by building too many plasma gunners & vox, which meant I needed to get more Krieg to not waste those minis. If I want to make other Guard unit types into Krieg will require kitbashing.

I would definitely build 2 of each special weapon for the Cadians and have 1 blob of Flamers/Meltas, and the other have Grenade Launchers and Plasma. Grenade/Plasma combo is a swiss army knife in how you can deal with stuff, plus you can get FRFSRF to work on Plasma if you really want to just throw a ton of Plasma everywhere.

Fantastic paint job

A nice way to get back into the guard with the new models. I do miss my guardsmen.

I think this is a great starter list! 6 units is a nice amount to keep track of whilst also allowing for diversity of units. Also it's quite easy to collect.

Please correct if wrong! I make it 960. Personally I'd drop both castellans and one of the command squads. I'd put in 2 primaris pyskers and creed in instead and give the command squad grand stratagist. 4++ is better than sustained fire. Creed is good. I've a different taste in vehicle and special weapons load outs. I prefer higher strength longer range than yourself but it's horses for courses.

Thank you for sharing this great list!

What a great video. I am just starting a guard army and this is so helpful. Thanks for taking the time to explain and share. 🎉

Personally, I think you have too much anti-light infantry. At a minimum I would switch out all flamers for grenade launchers and missile launchers on the Sentinels. Still gives you the option of anti-light infantry, but gives you much better anti-medium/heavy infantry and even some anti-light/medium armor.

All your own infantry with their lasguns are basically anti-light infantry on their own.

Simple but still informative great

i'm looking at starting astra myself, but also like that leonatus can grant 1cp making it 2 in my turn.

i also love the fact you can get an enhancement to increase opponents strat by 1, and have the callidus assassin to do the same thing and for secondaries.

also in larger battles use corteaz to help out to gain cp in opponents turn easier if they use armies that gain cp from an ability, on a 2+.

astra is insane with cp, great control got it

Nice video and awesome paint job!

Do you find you are using more CP on overwatch since the flamers would auto-hit? Are opponents choosing to not charge the sentinels with that loadout?

Seriously making me want to get back to painting my guard and get in the trenches!

I’m trying to paint 3000 points for the Narrative this year, seeing this many models at only 1k points make me go.

“Shit this is gonna be alot of work.”

Question. What about the Castellans? If you run as 2 bricks of 20 guardsmen, led by the Command Squads, the Castellans can't join.

Thanks for the advice and guidance for all new guardsmen out there! I love videos like this!

Looks solid!! Creed's vengeance

Im gonna give this list a go. Thanks for breaking it all down for us!

You probably should have waited for the Data Slate to drop, but overall I approve. The Dorn is amazing.

Nice starter list and I like the limited number of boxes! Cadian Castellan doesn't come in the combat patrol box as far as I can tell. For folks that want to stick to the 3 boxes could probably kitbash from the spare field ordinance crew and leftover bits, or could drop them and use the points to take the second field ordinance battery?

Squeeze in a Techpriest for the Rogal Dorn if possible as well.

Love the topic! As silly as it sounds, starter list ideas are always interesting to me.

When you run meltas on the dorn, aren’t you worried about getting charged? Their range is so short