Newbie approaching Warhammer - how to start?

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Arondight wrote:
Balance wrote:I'd still strongly recommend looking at the Skirmish games (Mordheim and Necromunda)... If you're worried about cost, the basic cost for these is a bit cheaper and you can have a LOT of fun converting and painting as you're dealing with a pool of individuals instead of looking at big units like you do for the main games.

Thank you for your recommendation of both of those games, but I got hooked by the beauty of the tabletop battles and not the "heroic action" normally found in other miniature games. What attracted me in the first place was that store's Silver Helms. All the silver and the light blue highlights! They just looked really good and I was afraid to touch them -

Pardon me. Anyways, I think I may just use the Warband rules and gradually build up from there. I'm keeping a fairly strict spending limit, so I think maybe in a few years I may have a large enough army to show up and challenge a few of you to a game or two.

Another thing that you can look at is warbands.. I can't seem to find a link, but I believe you can find the rules in the Fantasy rule book.. Basically you can start a small army by way of collecting small bits to form a warband (similar to mardheim, but using the existing units in your army book).. by the time you hit 500 points, you are on your way to building an army.

as for adding to your small army, the battalion boxes are the most cost effective way to do that.