New Imperial Guard Background Book

Long-time readers may remember last year's Background Book - a book of homemade fluff on my Imperial Guard army.  Well, I've been chipping away at rewrites for almost a year now, and I'm very pleased to announce Edition 2.0.

The 'change log', if you like:

• A toning-down of the zealous, futuristic tone of the text to a slightly more neutral style - for ease of comprehension.
• Added several diagrams and summary charts, especially on Recruitment, to clarify some of the tings which were laboriously described in blocks of prose.
• Addition of a section on rank insignia and some uniform pictures.
• A complete Order of Battle, with strengths and ammunition/equipment holdings.
• Some correction of errors, omissions and continuity bloopers.

This is a constantly evolving document - indeed, reading it as soon as I opened the packet from the printers I spotted an error which has been corrected for the next edition.  But I think it's a big improvement on the last one - it's nearly twice as along and (hopefully) a bit more easy on the reader.  It's not intended to be read as one document, rather you can look up topics of interest in the index then just read a page or two at a time.  Let me know if you have any comments or criticisms about it; I'd love to hear them.

Oh, I forgot to mention.  It's free to anyone who wants it!  If you're interested, drop me an email (colonelscipio@yahoo.co.uk) and I'll send you a digital copy.  Feel free to use it for personal enjoyment - all I ask is that you don't copy it wholesale for your own fluff, use it as a starting point - and if you share it with your mates and they like it, credit would be appreciated.  But I hope you'll use and get some enjoyment out of it, anyway.  Our distribution team are standing by to take your order.  Don't delay - act now, soldier!

As an aside, I've embarked on an ambitious plan to rephotograph all my army, since the earlier stuff on this blog was just done on a camera phone.  I'll try and let you know as I do updates but the Imperial Guard page is the first to get this treatment - make sure you check it out!

By the way - anyone interested in creating their own fluff, especially for Space Marine Chapters, is strongly advised to visit Headologist's blog as he's written a guide on that very subject.  See below for some sneak preview pics ...