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Extra Militarum

Seeing how Guardsmen squads were still kinda weak even in groups of 3, I decided to increase their soldier numbers from 8 to 12 per squad as a personal preference (and to spite every other race really, I'm honestly biased). By that I mean that now you have 12 lasguns, instead of just 8, firing at any given time.

Since individual guardsmen each have 2 hitpoints (hence 16hp in a full-strenght squad), their hp increases accordingly despite me not touching that specific parametre, so these boys now have a pool of 24hp in their squad. What hasn't been changed (either directly or indirectly) is their armor, this was on purpose since I only want them to inflict just a little bit more damage without making them even a little bit tankier. So now you have a squad of riflemen with a meagre increase in firepower to cause a few more casualties per turn, an increase in sheer manpower to maybe last one more consecutive attack when overrun, but no extra defenses to keep it lore-friendly, not too unbalanced and also sensible.

Everything used here is of course not mine and edited as per the game's EULA and the terms for modding.
The thumbnail is just Dawn Of War: Winter Assault's cover but edited, literally google "warhammer 40k guardsman smiling".
If there's already a mod that does this then sucks to be me, I couldn't find it at least in the Workshop or maybe it's just one of those mods with a metric ton of things including bigger, buffier squads.
Note that this mod does not require any DLC, core game should do fine (made on version 1.6.4).