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Alright a buddy and I are starting a couple armies to get a feel for WHFB, what armies in the FB world are horde/swarm armies and which ones aren't? Which ones are beginner friendly?

Synister_Intent wrote:Alright a buddy and I are starting a couple armies to get a feel for WHFB, what armies in the FB world are horde/swarm armies and which ones aren't? Which ones are beginner friendly?

Horde armies:
Skaven
Orcs and Goblins

Elite armies:
Warriors of Chaos
Any Elves
Ogres(low model count)

Easy to learn the game with armies:
Empire (competitive in all phases of the game, relatively simple tactics)
Dwarves

My 2 copper

I'd say all of them have a cheap unit option, even Ogres have gnoblars though you need a unit of bulls per unit of gnoblars. All elves are kind of pricey though. Pick the one you like the look and back ground of. If you are coming from 40k you'll find that there are not that many power gamers in fantasy it's fairly more mature and friendly.


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aerethan wrote:

Synister_Intent wrote:Alright a buddy and I are starting a couple armies to get a feel for WHFB, what armies in the FB world are horde/swarm armies and which ones aren't? Which ones are beginner friendly?

Horde armies:
Skaven
Orcs and Goblins

Elite armies:
Warriors of Chaos
Any Elves
Ogres(low model count)

Easy to learn the game with armies:
Empire (competitive in all phases of the game, relatively simple tactics)
Dwarves

My 2 copper

THis is pretty accurate although you can field cheap cheap large blocks of marauders and no chaos warriors.

Yeah that is the reason I am coming in from 40k. I play with a couple buddies of mine and they are ruthless and I get my butt kicked all the time. I am looking for something that we don't know how to play to maybe level the playing field a little bit.

The Tomb Kings are not a horde army?

They can be. Skeleton warriors are spectacularly cheap. It just depends how many statues and characters you want to salt in...

Honestly I really like the new look of the Tomb Kings. That's why I asked. I am going to pick up a copy of the Codex and read through it and see if I like it or not.

Note that I didn't list every army. Some armies can swing different ways depending on how you write the list. Warriors of Chaos for example. You can horde marauders if you want or you can choose the elite warriors to make up the bulk of your army.

Tomb Kings are in the gray area. If you like the look of them, by all means go for it!

Tk is great, new models, new book, easy to paint. Probably going to be another 6 months until cookie cutter competitive builds come out so go crazy.

Tk is good times lots of options and can be good.

I like my warriors haha low model count cool models and my core guys are pretty much better than your elite units yay me

Haha that and the models are cool.

Skaven and green skins are hordes no doubt about it no matter how elite you try to make them they will be a horde.

You could run a WoC marauder horde army big blocks of 50 mok gw marauders with fc are only 300 points so that is not bad.

HE more of an elite army since they got some really nice special and rare choices.

But ya go with models you like

I've always been the type of guy to go with what looks good and what fluff catches my eye. I guess i'll be spending quite a bit of time on the GW website learning about each army.

I like the look of warriors and the fluff of tz magic good times.

Ya look at models and fluff

I started doing some research and I noticed that Dwarves are a playable race in WHFB. I play a dwarf in WOW. LOL. What are they like to play in Warhammer?

They can be fighty or shooty better of going with more of one than an equal mix, as in more shooty with cc support when the distance is closed, or more cc with a few cannons.

Most of the time you see dwarf gun line since they do the best job of it as in flaming cannon balls war machines up the hizzel.
Gunners are fun.

For cc hammerers are good times so are long beards (the ones with the armor I think thats them).

The anvil is good times for sure.

Gw on the cc units since they have low initiative so you might as well make em hit hard.

Dwarves: Strong in combat, decent shooting and Warmachines, no actual magic but ok "antimagic", slow moving but can ambush with miners and/or rangers. Fun and competative

True they are pretty good tho the lack of magic is kind of a disadvantage still they do well.

Dwaf anti magic is some of the best in the game, the can have up to 12 dispel scrolls (6 spell breakers, 6 spell eaters) and get automatic dispell dice for having certain lords and heros in your army. Their are naturally resilient and have high leadership. Their heros are very hard to kill and they have a near unlimited combination of magic weapons and armor. But unfortunatly we are expensive, but unlike other armys our warmachines allmost never break and have high quality missile troops.

(im a dwarf player)

I agree with that last post.

Also I have seen 6 of your war machines explode in 1 turn very sad to see.

But ya hesummed em up.

cowpow16 wrote:I agree with that last post.

Also I have seen 6 of your war machines explode in 1 turn very sad to see.

But ya hesummed em up.

Yeah i had a organ gun never fire i a 6 turn game and blow its self up turn 5.

Thats not that bad I mean this game was the slaan exploded killed 30 some odd temple guard got smoked by a dwarf cannon.

Then 3 cannons and 2 organ guns I think it was explode and killed their crew.


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The war machines all exploded in the same turn.