文档介绍：IMPERIAL GUARD The Imperial Guard is recruited from these independent
ary forces from worlds throughout the Imperium.
“For every battle honour, a thousand heroes die alone,
According to an ancient law, manders must
unsung, and unremembered.”
provide a portion of their best troops for Imperial service.
The Imperial Guard is the largest and most important fighting
The Departmento Munitorium supervises the recruitment of
force of the Imperium. It is divided into innumerable armies
new Imperial Guard regiments. Each regiment numbers
and scattered throughout the galaxy across hundreds of war
between 2,000 and 6,000 men, and is named after the
zones. Its administration and provisioning occupies the
where it was recruited. Troops regard themselves as
entire efforts of the Departmento Munitorium, the munitions
belonging first and foremost to their regiment, which consists
and supply department of the Administratum. Even this
of rades from the same world, who speak the same
anisation has no real idea of exactly how many
dialect, and practise the same social customs.
troops are under arms, as the continuous toll of casualties
and influx of recruits may run to millions in a single day. Many Imperial Guard regiments are recruited from the savage
urban environments of hive worlds, s where family or
The vast size of the Imperial Guard is some indication of the
corporate-based warfare is more or less endemic. Such
scale of humanity’s struggle. Aliens are everywhere,
troops are battle-hardened long before they are recruited
rebellious humans await their chance to strike at vulnerable
into the Imperial Guard, and are regarded as the best raw
worlds, even supposedly loyal manders may be
material for a fighting regiment. Other favourite recruiting
prepared to risk war in order to further their personal
grounds are the feral and medieval s as these tend to
fortunes and ambitions.
have a natural warrior caste. These primitive warri