The Imperial Guard is also famous for their tanks, unsophisticated and unsubtle metal monsters deployed in numbers bordering on the absurd, and capable of reducing any target to a smoking crater. On the other hand, few armies can bring as many weapons to bear in a single Shooting phase as the Guard, so while one lasgun is unlikely to get results, fifty or sixty firing in salvos will. On the tabletop, few armies can field as many soldiers as the Imperial Guard, which is fortunate, as they are comparatively lightly-armed and -armored, and have morale that's highly contingent on their proximity to a commanding officer or commissar. A Guardsman's individual odds aren't good, but if the Imperium has any resource in abundance, it's manpower. His training is filled with propaganda and misinformation, his commanders are willing to expend millions of men and machines in a conflict like he himself will expend ammunition, and if he harbors any doubts there are commissars ready to summarily execute cowards and deserters.
Each Guardsman is equipped with a lasgun that while capable of blowing off limbs is among the weakest weapons in the setting, as well as flak armor that most other armies' standard weaponry can punch right through. The worlds of the Imperium are required to pay a regular tithe in support of its endless conflicts, and part is paid in regiments for the Imperial Guard. In Warhammer 40,000, the superhuman Space Marines may be among the Imperium's most exalted warriors, but the overwhelming majority of its battles and wars are fought by the untold trillions in the Astra Militarum, more commonly known as the Imperial Guard, the vast majority of its members consists of ordinary men and women who hold the line in defense of humanity. General Sturnn, Officer Commanding, Cadian 412th
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