Did Imperial Guard get nerfed?

[The_Pastmaster]

Playing the Orks for the first game in many months, having previously played Space Marines and tried/failed hard as Imperial Guard. I was kind of dreading going against the Guard main battle line, but after the first initial salvo of Hunter Killers and Basilisk artillery, I have kept picking off their units one by one and have been pushing them back fairly well.
When I played Marines I had a large army but it was almost wiped out when I ran into them.

[Someguyinhere]

The IG have to be used much the same way they are in all Warhammer 40k mediums. If they're not sending wave after wave of their own men into the meat grinder, they'll be overrun.

[J.A.M.]

Played as SM on normal, yeeted the other SM faction out, and had 1 or 2 minor skirmishes with IG, minor things with at most 2 units lost on both sides. When my main army came in, i overran them all what with their unsupported swarms of bullgryns and basic guardsmen causing minor trouble.

[The_Pastmaster]

Originally posted by Bunny Tamer:

Played as SM on normal, yeeted the other SM faction out, and had 1 or 2 minor skirmishes with IG, minor things with at most 2 units lost on both sides. When my main army came in, i overran them all what with their unsupported swarms of bullgryns and basic guardsmen causing minor trouble.

I was playing on normal and ran into them around turn 150. It's 180 now and I'm chewing through their Baneblades. :3

[BLACKcOPstRIPPa]

This post makes me feel a little better.

I like the way IG play but have felt so underpowered, I'll have an army and think I'm boss ♥♥♥♥. Fighting AI left and right no issues than for some reason the decline comes, always when bladebane tanks come into play and their counter parts. I can lose 3 to 4 citites and be toppled and I'm always like damn. I can play any race on hard and win but IG I get own for some reason late game.

I also like playing 2v2v2etc where ever race has 2 teams on the map but then I play solo.
So it can get very hard if 2 necrons survive or 2 am having to try to toe to toe against two of their armies at once.

If one of them dies to another I have a fair chance for victory if it turns into a 1v1v1v1v1
Which can happen but it's rare that 1 faction doesn't take control of half the map before I meet them

[Someguyinhere]

I think the AI needs to be made better at cranking out huge armies, tbh. It's a 4X that's entirely about war. Building big ass armies should be the computer's primary concern.

[Martialis]

Originally posted by Someguyinhere:

I think the AI needs to be made better at cranking out huge armies, tbh. It's a 4X that's entirely about war. Building big ass armies should be the computer's primary concern.

Maybe it depends on the difficulty. When playing as IG on normal, the orks wiped out their two opponents on their side of the map, and I took care of my two. By the time I made it over there with a tank commander, a bunch of Leemans and basilisks and a couple of baneblades, they had a sizable army guarding their main two cities, but they were all low tier units - a boatload of mekguns, with a few battlewagons was almost all of it. I think I saw one squig, and no Gorkanauts. I won easily.

On the other hand, playing as Orks, also on normal, I was cruising along with a big army of late tier units, and then I came upon an even huger army of Necrons with powerful units, who promptly ate me for lunch and I lost the game.