>>31171764First off, >steel legion
Secondly, play Dark Crusade on a map like Pavonis, where there's clear chokepoints for you to fortify. I played a 4 player FFA against an Eldar and two Necrons and ended up coming in second place, not making first because the Eldar player had to go so we just had a battle royale to finish the game off once the Necrons were dead. So it's very possible to successfully turtle as Imperial Guard, you just can't try doing it in the middle of the map.
And thirdly, I never got around to playing the tabletop until after I played the RTSs. And I found that after playing them, I was a lot more interested in the tabletop than before. I got to see, sort of, how each faction plays in the tabletop based on their weaknesses and strongpoints in the RTS which ultimately helped me build my tabletop list. They also made the tabletop game more popular because people would play the RTS and think "Wow, this is pretty fun. I like all of the different factions in it, I wonder if they made more games" and then they'd look it up and find the tabletop. Is more attention a bad thing? It can be, but in a game where you can choose whether or not you wanna play with someone, I think the tabletop was able to take it in stride.
