Siege Regiment plus Designation Force: The 11th-Edition Guard Artillery List

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Common questions

Is Siege Regiment plus Designation Force legal?

Yes. Siege Regiment costs 2 DP and Designation Force costs 1 DP, which is exactly the 3 DP budget at a 2,000-point Strike Force game. Siege Regiment carries no Unique Tag in any source, and Designation Force carries RECON, which it shares only with Recon Element, so nothing blocks this pairing. Confirm current Detachment Point costs in the Warhammer 40,000 app.

Doesn't pushing scouts forward break the Siege Regiment bombardment?

It can, and managing that is the skill of the list. Creeping Barrage and Incendiary Bombardment only affect enemy units more than 12 inches from every model in your army on the battlefield, so a forward designator can pull nearby enemies out of your own bombardment. Because Signal Flares also reaches 12 inches, a designator sitting just over that distance can still mark a target without breaking the condition. Close-Range Detection deliberately breaks it, so spend that stratagem on rounds when you have switched to Smoke Shells anyway.

Which bombardment should I choose each round?

Creeping Barrage in the early rounds, when almost everything is more than 12 inches away and shaking multiple units delays the whole enemy advance. Incendiary Bombardment when you have a specific distant target sitting in cover that you intend to kill this turn. Smoke Shells once the board has compressed inside 12 inches, because the other two stop working and army-wide Stealth on your own units is worth more.

Do Armoured Sentinels get Signal Flares?

No. The Designation Force rule names SCOUT SENTINEL and ASTRA MILITARUM INFANTRY SMOKE units. Armoured Sentinels are a different datasheet and do not qualify, even though the same plastic kit builds both. Build Scout Sentinels if you want designators, and note that the SMOKE infantry half of the rule covers a much larger pool of cheap units than most write-ups mention.

How well documented is Siege Regiment?

Less well than most detachments in this set. Faction Pack v1.2 rewrites its Artillery Support rule's Creeping Barrage option by name, which is first-party, but it does not reprint the detachment in full. Four of its six stratagems are described on our detachment page and two are not reproduced at all, because community rules mirrors are the only source for them and we would rather omit than paraphrase loosely. Check the Warhammer 40,000 app for the full list.

Siege Regiment plus Designation Force: The 11th-Edition Guard Artillery List

Why the two rules fit

The tension you have to manage

How to build it

How to play it

What to take instead, and what you cannot take