I might get hated for this but I hope IG (and the rest of the Imperium of Man) will be the absolute last ones to get added, if ever. The numbers are already favoring Space Marines and Imperial Guards would just make the scale even worse. Plus, while I'm not developer I'm pretty sure the servers will have enough information to handle as it is.
Hmm... maybe when IG comes out, they replace Orks as the free race? Then there will always be a large mob to send in. Of course, not sure people will appreciate being made out of cardboard and firing BB guns
Well IG have never been given an iron-clad alliance with SMs in any game where they have been playable, both in video games and tabletop games. Partially for this very reason, and partially because with the way GW's marketing works, if IG got merged into the Space Marine faction we would get sidelined completely and relegated to the status of "that one sidekick you hear about sometimes who never gets his own game". In the absence of such an alliance, IG would actually split the Imperial player base and help reduce the level of SM overpop, bringing the factions more into balance pop-wise. It is true though that we're not likely to see a blob guard army in this game, with thousands and thousands of conscripts as far as the eye can see. We're more likely to have a mechanized division, so that they can get away with having only a couple hundred tanks, a few hundred APCs, and a dozen or so platoons of well-equipped, hardened Veterans.
Other threads on this subject: http://forum.eternalcrusade.com/threads/imperial-guard.42831/ http://forum.eternalcrusade.com/threads/imperial-guard.23244/ http://forum.eternalcrusade.com/threads/imperial-guard-or-militarum-tempestus.7239/ http://forum.eternalcrusade.com/threads/how-could-imperial-guard-be-implemented.3961/ http://forum.eternalcrusade.com/threads/imperial-guard-faction.2234/ http://forum.eternalcrusade.com/threads/will-the-imperial-guard-be-a-seperate-faction.43704/
You don't need a multibot to include the IG, just like Ork boyz the single guardsman is weaker than the rest of the factions, which is why fully paid up Ork players will be Nobz quite quickly, which puts them on par with marines. IG death world veterans for fully paid up players and standard guardsmen joining Ork boyz as the free to play units in an expansion is the way to go. Then to make up the deficit in toughness and durability the IG get more loadout points so have a larger amount of equipment. It's easy enough to do, you then have; Tactical: Deathworld veterans. Heavy: Mechanized units. Assault: Rough Riders. Healer: Ministerium psycher. Elites: Ogryns for close combat, Sentinels for ranged, Commissars for tactical Heroes: Selection of Assassins Easily done really.
Make no mistake: a veteran, elite Imperial Guardsman with carapace armour and a hellgun is no slouch on the battlefield. Sure they aren't Astartes, but with a few adjustments, and special abilities (comm link + artillery strike, combat drugs, etc) they could be balanced in this game and be lore-adherent, without getting into all sorts of crazy, overly complex game mechanics. Even a plain Imperial Guardsman in just pants and a flak jacket, wielding a Plasma Gun is super dangerous.
Or split them into Sub-Factions. Storm Troopers are the most obvious. Deathworld veteran commandoes for one. Mechanised regiment for another. Drop Troops. Rough Riders on Bikes. Recon for the last. So you can have Scions Tempestus, Catachans, Death Korps Of Krieg, Elysians, ??, and Tanith types of Regiments.
It would def be cool if the sub factions for IG could be broken down into regs I would love to play as one of Guant's ghosts or an Elysian Drop Trooper
srsly, the more i see this kind of thread, the more i think commissars would be proud of all this OPs. keep overwhelming their opponents with the same human waves tactics over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.... i bet that while those commissars are trying to hold their tears, there are tons of guardsmen who are deserting......
