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I am starting WHFB soon and want to pick up an playable army in one go. I am thinking the Orc battlebox with skarsnik and gobbla. Is this a workable army?

I literally have no experience in the game but want to get everything I need in one trip, so army book/BGB/army to get started, so sorry about not knowing the specifics.

-cgmckenzie

Well rule of thumb with OnG is they are a horde army, tons n tons of bodies on the table. I personally like purest army style w OnG , I run zero goblins w the exception of 3 lvl. 2 night gobbies to run as scroll caddies and augmenters (little waagh is almost all augment) then just a flavourful sea of boys lol, some savage big uns a horde of black orcs n 3 blocks of just regs.

That's just my take on orcs though! The wonderful thing about greenskins is their variety!!

Cheers
Mike

Haha i started 3 years ago.. When i was 12..
Nobody i knew played warhammer so i had to learn it myself.
Now my first army ever was orcs n goblins.. I built an 1000pts night goblin army.. Spear chuckas.. Fanatics and that doom thing were really good togheter with the night gob shamans. I became 2nd in a local stores tournament.

Ive been interested in making a night goblin list, but looking at the book, i dont see any way to make it work. A night goblin list doesnt really have any heavy hitters, anything to take out warmachines, VERY low leadership, so on so forth.

Makes you wonder how they beat dwarven armies all the time.

Question wrote:Ive been interested in making a night goblin list, but looking at the book, i dont see any way to make it work. A night goblin list doesnt really have any heavy hitters, anything to take out warmachines, VERY low leadership, so on so forth.

Makes you wonder how they beat dwarven armies all the time.[/quote
its possible... Doomthrowers.. A giant..a good sttrategy is to build a cheap bow night goblin regiment.
Give it 2 fanatics. Here you have a cheap fanatic launch unit

Question haven't you forgot about the squigs? lots n lots of squigs!!! They have ws4 s5 i3 and a2. Better stat line then a black orc and 4points cheaper. then of course the evil oh so ever evil mangler squigs (shudders as i think of the destruction and fear it caused to my friend a WoC player)

Well s5 t3 a2 i3 with no save isnt that impressive IMHO....elves can wipe most of them out before they get a chance to deal any damage.

And still, leadership problems. Im not sure what the point of a night goblin boss or warboss is because their leadership and melee capabilities are next to nil....

Question wrote:Well s5 t3 a2 i3 with no save isnt that impressive IMHO....elves can wipe most of them out before they get a chance to deal any damage.

And still, leadership problems. Im not sure what the point of a night goblin boss or warboss is because their leadership and melee capabilities are next to nil....

goblin fanatics can work out fine

Thing with night goblins or any goblin army is their ability to stay steadfast, there are so many you won't have negative modifiers (most of the time) there lords have ld 8-9 I think and they are cheap as dirt, plus at ate 4 w a great weapon you can just throw a dozen into the list for extra hitty in your you it's

Also the little waaagh is an amazing lire for augmenting (poison attack, Armour piercing, lowering initiative etc etc)

Fanatics are awesome and mangler squigs are devastating to anyone and that's putting it lightly! Lol

And of course no goblin army shud march without a bsb but that's just common knowledge

And with the OnG book the ability to field decent monsters for pretty cheap (ie trolls) and the low point value of your gobbo army you can put tons of these guys and warmachines on the field which are also extremely in expensive


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