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Battleship Captain





Perth

So, due to a confluence of events, I may be in a position in the not-to-distant future where I'll have a greater opportunity to play WHFB than WH40k. Consequently, I'm looking at getting back into Fantasy and I'm looking for some input on what the solid armies are these days. I started playing WHFB back in 5th Ed and played a wide variety of armies between 5th and 6th editions. Here's what I played, and my thoughts on my likes and dislike of them:

- Chaos - back before it got split up into various books, this was my first army. Very tough, generally pretty slow, but hard hitting. I missed the ranged attacks, but the magic was good.
- Bretonnians - my second army - very fast and hard hitting with good maneuverability. I missed having war machines.
- Skaven - my third and favorite army - I played Skaven for the longest among all my armies, loving the Plague Monks, Poison Wind Globadiers, Warpfire Throwers, and Jezzails. I quit playing shortly after the most recent army book came out, so never got to try all the "broken" toys in it.
- Dwarfs - I'd occasionally borrow a Dwarf army to play - too defensive for my tastes, nice war machines, though.
- Empire - Another borrowed army - aside from the war machines - yawn.
- Lizardmen - A solid army - tough little buggers that were cheap and maneuverable - never got to try the latest army book for them, though.
- O&G - Fun, but way too random. Not to mention all the frickin' goblins to paint - I'd had enough of that with Skaven.

So, here's my question - how have these things changed with the new rules and army books?

I'd love to start a Skaven army again, but with my time being limited, I want to go with fairly low model count army and frankly, the easier it is to paint, the better. Consequently, I'm leaning toward another Chaos army. I love the Chaos Warrior plastics and I know how easy they can be to paint and have look decent, but what's their list like these days? Is the get-you-by list any good? When does the new Warriors of Chaos book come out? What recommendations can folks make for me?

Thanks!

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Dusty Skeleton





Emmaus PA

Lizardmen dude, you can make up a fairly low model army that will, without doubt, pack some punch in it. On top of that its a colorful and interesting army, that not alot of people play for some reason.

"Sometimes.... dead is better..."  
   
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Battleship Captain





Perth

Hm. There's a lot to love about Lizardmen - can you point me to some low model count lists for them I can take a look at?

I was also perusing the WHFB Army List forums and seems to me like Chaos Demons can run a pretty low number of models as well.

Man, I wish there was a real Black Library where I could get a Black Library Card and take out Black Library Books without having to buy them. Of course, late fees would be your soul. But it would be worth it. - InquisitorMack 
   
 
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