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In many regiments, he is a well-connected noble or friend of a noble. Almost across the board they are managed by a colonel, but how he is selected also varies. In terms of management, the regiments are equally varied. In any of the other variations, whether as line infantry, penal troops, artillerymen, horsemen, guerilla fighters, or scouts, the Guard come in every possible flavor and doctrine. In still other regiments, the guard are highly specialized Airborne troops, dropping in on grav-chutes behind enemy lines. In others, the Guard ride mechanized Chimera transports into battle with high-tech plasma weaponry. In some, they are roughly organized like their primitive soldiers - as war-clans of melee warriors which love to hurl themselves headlong into the enemy. The wild variations in doctrine result in guard regiments of nearly any thinkable stripe being recruited. Due to these differences, inevitably their views on how warfare is properly conducted will vary as well. The Imperial Guard is drawn from the thousands of planets that belong to the Imperium of Man, each of these planets having a differing culture, society, and political system. Each regiment is dedicated to one arm of the ground forces, to prevent any one regiment from becoming too dangerous in case of another great rebellion. The Imperial Guard is organized into Regiments, groups of soldiers which vary in size from a thousand men to tens of thousands. Over time, it grew from numbering only a few million to countless billions of soldiers, and by the time the Emperor reached the Eastern Fringe, the Imperial Army fought alongside the Astartes at the forefront of the crusades.Īfter the Horus Heresy, the Imperial Army was split into the Imperial Guard and Imperial Navy, forever cleaving the ties between spaceship and ground troop. The Imperial Army was an integral part of the expedition fleets sent to reconquer the galaxy in the Emperor's name. To a single entity called the Imperial Army, which contained both space and ground forces. The origins of the Imperial Guard can be dated back to when the Emperor set out in his silver fleets in the Great Crusade.