1 infantry squad box and 2 snap fit Cadians boxes. You can get some cheap snap fit Cadians to fill out the two squads. Don't bother with the flamers, they suck. It should allow you to build 2 sergeants, 2 voxcasters, 2 grenade launchers and 2 flamers. After that pick up an infantry squad box. Build the other guys with special weapons don't waste time on the standard or the medic. You want to have at least 2 company commanders. You're going to need to pick up 2 command squad boxes. As for the turret, different variants require different methods. Just glue the sponsons on and if you don't want to run sponsons, just don't slot anything into place. That’s the order that makes guardsmen actually scary in the shooting phase.įor the hull and sponson weapons, you shouldn't need to magnetize anything. Most of the time you just want to keep guardsmen as cheap as possible as their relative poor weapon skill and cheap cost make them excellent meat shields, and only lasguns (and hotshot lasguns) benefit from the “first row fire, second row fire” order. You can buy packs of 5 model easy-to-build guardsmen that work out cheaper than just buying 10 model guard squads (but these sets allow more customisation and weapon options). Either of these options will give you 5cp. That’s 2 company commanders with 3 squads of guardsmen. You WILL find good use for them.Īs for next step, the cheapest option points wise is 3 vanilla scion squads with 2 tempestors, but the “loyal 32” is probably your best bet.

eBay is a good source for the magnets, and these are worth buying.

This will run through how to magnetise for all variants, including the technique for magnetising the sponsons. I’ve magnetised 3 Leman Russes using this method:

Magnetizing leman russ battle tank