Commissar Gaunt, entrusted with the command of the emergent Tanith regiments, was forced to make a decision that shaped his own destiny and that of the surviving troops. Evacuating as many of the soldiers as he could during the Chaos attack, Gaunt robbed the Tanith of a chance to fight and die with their homeworld. Two whole regiments were lost. The remaining men, alone and without a planet to call home, now call themselves "Gaunt's Ghosts".

Since that point and his subsequent promotion to Colonel-Commissar, Gaunt has slowly won the devotion and respect of the one surviving regiment, leading them through hellish theatres of war to glorious victory time and time again.

Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt may be included in your Imperial Guard army of 1,500 points or more as an HQ choice.