The Imperial Guard is the largest and most diverse fighting force in the entire galaxy, comprised of countless billions of soldiers, armoured battle tanks and powerful artillery pieces. It is the Imperium's ultimate war machine, the Hammer of the Emperor against which aliens, traitors and Warp-spawned horrors alike shall all be crushed. Codex: Imperial Guard is one of a series of supplements for Warhammer 40,000. Each book in the series describes in detail an army, its history and its heroes. "Though our tanks and artillery are mighty, it is the vast ranks of Imperial Guardsmen that shall trample the enemy to dust - let them come." Lord Castellan Ursakar E. Creed