Historical perspectives on the new imperial guard codex Part two

For the release of the new imperial guard army list, I give three cheers! Hooray for the war! Hooray for Italy's war! Hooray for all wars that ever have been and ever will be, for peace is an absurdity as a permanent state, and only serves our needs as a preparatory stage between wars. Peace referring to the stagnation provided by previous imperial guard lists which would prevent us from asserting Italy's glory on the world stage. With the new revisions, our nation stands astride the world as a colossus! Allows us to display the great power that fascism has brought the nation of Italy!


Some Marxist simpletons will claim that the potential for war -making lies in the vast quantities of troops an imperial guard commander may field. This is utter hogwash! The true potential lies with the armour provided through heavy industrialization and the training of elite, ideologically motivated soldiers! When I led our nation into ethiopia, our army crushed the unwashed masses of ethiopian troops adhearing to the former set of strategic principles! This should be proof enough of the superiority of the Fascist imperial army!

Second line imperial guard infantry squads are both too incompetent and too unzealous to be of any great import to grand strategy. Conscripts, tainted with the twin evils of Marxism and internationalism, are a waste of the time, effort and resources required to convert them into even a second rate battlefield force! The true face of the fascist infantryman lies in the Storm Trooper, the Veteran and the brown shirted penal legionaire! These units have both the practical skill and political conditioning to ensure that they will be a lethal force on the battlefield, needing not the overstuffed petty authority of the political officer. Bolstering the effective strength of these units via the use of armoured transports is paramount to protect the relatively soft units within, and for the purpose of rapid deployment, the seizing of new territory early in a battle, and the optional paralysis forced upon the enemy by the presence of armoured vehicles in a both a support and assault role.

The most important of our forces however, are the iron knights of our empire, the Leman Russ battle tank and its variants! In sufficient quantity, these vehicles can destroy any fighting vehicle or infantry squad that challenge them, Often before the enemy can move his forces into their positions! 6 Battle cannon shots can obliterate the better part of an opponents effective force, leaving them militarily impotent, merely waiting for their total destruction! For my part, I certainly prefer 10 leman russ battle tanks to one thousands votes, or even one thousand men!
Blood alone oils the tracks of history! No force can resist the advance of these tanks, and their strategic value is ensured merely by their sheer quantity. Even if 3 out of 6 Leman russ tanks are destroyed, the opposing army will be so shaken by the firestorm they have thus far endured, that they will be easy pickings for the mounted heavy infantry which they chose to ignore in favor of these engines of destruction.

The petty internationalist army, though it may seem daunting at first, by virtue of its size, will find itself buried under a sea of ordinance templates. The inaccuracy of these units means that they are virtually useless against armour unless they outnumber our forces at least Three to One. Simply put, the battle tank is always superior to the basic infantry unit, and has a greater chance of destroying or routing it, than the infantry squad does of destroying or immobilizing said vehicle.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.