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Hullo! I began creating my empire army earlier this year, and with new cash coming in, and coincidentally a new event at my store approaching, I thought I'd participate and help create my army at the same time! The Mini-Wargamer's-Event is for those people that are beginning anew with their fresh armies, or are currently making finishing or just need to play, and they begin with 1,500 points one month, then apply another 500 until they reach 2,500! Here is my list then, with the added 500 for each month, enjoy and critique please!

1,500 Army



First 500 Addition:



And the last 500 Addition!



As you can see, each 500 I decided to add something EXTRA mean to the fray, the first being a stank, and the last being a NASTY cav block, however I may be slightly worried that I'm putting too many eggs into one basket with an AL, GM and a Wizard into a single block of Cav, however it could be a glass cannon, since if it hits...Ohsweetjesusitsoundsbeautiful. I just hope it'd work, and if not, oh well, I had fun making the list! Also, it does fit into the fluff of my army quite well, with the GM being the main leader of this army, though his his right hand and left hand men (Mister WP and Captain) acting as current stand ins and leaders until the GM is needed to really screw up folk! And with a stank, Demis and a Cav bus, I'd say there's plenty for the eneny to pee themselves about!

i like it for the most part. just a few things

1. the bsb NEEDS a ward save. the way i equip my captain is. fullplate, enchanted shield, talisman of preservation and bsb. for 141 points you got 2+ an 4++. hes going to survive longer then yours.

2. I normally (all the time) put my wizards in archer units. a few reasons., hes now a skirmisher so -1 to hit. hes not going to be upfront is combat. and If he miscasts hes not killing 80% of the unit.

3. i would drop the 2 wizards and grab a lvl 4

4. Halberdiers are great, you should try to get a unit champ to eat challenges from killy characters. so it buys the bsb a turn of combat.

5. the IC knights should get the steel standard. i think its better then +1 leadership.

6. not a fan of the Luminark, the hurricanum is 10x better. +1 to hit is better then 6++. if you take the lore of light, cast speed of light on your Halberdiers blam ws 10 they hit on 3+. then with the hurricanum near buy, Blam 2+

7. i would run the warrior priest with the Halberdiers. with the combo i said above you're hitting on 2+ with hatred. then throw in battle prayers. you state troops went from mediocre to amazing in one phase. i run my warrior priest with the armor of meteoric iron and a great weapon for 120 points.

8. and great cannons are special not rare.

1: My BSB wears Armour of Meteoric Iron and wields a Great Weapon. 1+ Armor Save infantry model always causes a surprise.

2: I agree to putting Wizards with Archers.

3: Yep. Level 4 gives you more dispelling power, too.

4: Halberds #1 infantry core choice for the Empire, Second place is swordsman.

5: Agreed.

6: Hurricanum is better, definitely. It also buffs a Helblaster before you get into combat, and combined with the Master Engineer can make for some excellent lawls.

7: My Infantry Warrior Priest is cheap, with Just HA and a GW. In fact, in general, you want cheaper characters, since unless they are a Templar Grand Master with a Runefang, they aren't going to do spectacularly anyways. The exception is my BSB, and my Warrior Priest gets to throw the Infantry Sergeant and BSB in front before things get to him, and ideally the BSB can kill most things that are challenging you. Of course, Vampire Uber Lords will just slaughter any of your characters, as will most Chaos characters... but such is life for a mortal man.

Mhmm, I see these points and they make some damn good sense! I may go for the Talisman and ES combo for the BSB, and sadly can't get archers, got a limit and I already have crossbowmen, so Mister Fireballs goes there, however if I'm lucky I could slice something out for archers....GIVE ME TEN MINUTES FOLKS AND I'LL BE BACK WITH SOMETHING (In other terms, I may update this list so you can check it out!)

EDIT: AND DONE. I took what ya said and made the best of what I got, removed both wizard, made the single lord, kitted the BSB out, though I kept the priest as he is as I already made a sweet model for him and he'd be fun to play Only issue is that for the first month, I'm going to have a bare-bones priest in the halberdiers to try and get the juciy stuff off....HOWEVER, I'm think I should jus through stuff around, have the Heblaster and Engie as the last 500, and have the AoMI and Hurricanum in the second group, with 5 points to spare LET ME KNOW FOLKS.

EDIT 2: Flipped those extra 500 additions a little, so hurricanum and kitted foot priest are together, and the helblaster with the GM and extra knights