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Astra Militarum

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[[Image:Astra Militarum Symbol.png|thumb|right|Symbol of the Imperial GuardAstra Militarum]][[Image:IGArtCodex.jpg|thumb|right|420px|The Imperial GuardAstra Militarum]]
The '''Astra Militarum''', commonly known as '''Imperial Guard''', is the primary fighting force of the [[Imperium]], so numerous in size that even the [[Departmento Munitorum]] cannot place a figure on the number of [[Guardsmen]] under arms at any one time; the lists of new recruits and toll of casualties can run into the millions in a single day. It would be unfeasible trying to put any exact number on the strength of the Guard; however, it is believed that there must be many billions of Guardsmen, divided into millions of [[regiment]]s. This absolute numeracy provides the Guard with its main power; their ability to deploy in numbers that, eventually, result in victory. Attacking in seemingly endless influxes across battle-zones, charging forth under the cover of massive barrages and delivering massed [[lasgun]] volleys, in the Guard the individual [[Human]] soldier may appear a lost thing, almost forgotten. Yet the actions of these anonymous soldiers daily decide the fate of worlds.{{Fn|1}}
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