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I play warmachine and thinking of starting a hordes force, what would you recommend for beginners?

circle or skorne

and what to put on my army list?

thanks

Difficult question dude. From memory you play Khador and Menoth? if so then circle is going to have the biggest difference in playstyle from those two. In my mind Skorne is big, heavy, hard to kill beatsticks and circle are the alpha striking, hitting and running faction.

As for what to get, if you go Skorne then the battlebox(warpack?) as it contains stuff you can make use of. The circle one, some people will warn you off as it contains 2 Argus and it's rare to see one let alone two on the battlefield. I don't know enough to recommend a different battlebox unfortunately though.

Since you allready play menoth and khador i would definetly say circle. Skorne are pretty close to menoth, but slightly more aggressive. They also got slow, but heavily armored warbeasts, that are pretty close to Khador jacks.

While the Skorne battlebox is ok, since you get a very useful beast and a easy to use warlock ( the cyclops savages are still pretty useless), the circle battlebox is pretty bad.

Kaya the wildborne: Her epic version ( kaya the moonhunter) is better in nearly every aspect. She is still an ok warlock, but seldomly used

Feral Warwpolf: More or less outclassed by the Warpwolf stalker. Still has its uses as a heavy beatstick, but is seldomly seen on the table top since the stalker appeared

Argus: Like the cyclops savages in the skorne battlebox, they are pretty useless. I've never seen one on the table top, let alone 2

Depending on the casters you would like to use, i can give you some advice on alternate starting amies

Vombaticus wrote:Since you allready play menoth and khador i would definetly say circle. Skorne are pretty close to menoth, but slightly more aggressive. They also got slow, but heavily armored warbeasts, that are pretty close to Khador jacks.

While the Skorne battlebox is ok, since you get a very useful beast and a easy to use warlock ( the cyclops savages are still pretty useless), the circle battlebox is pretty bad.

Kaya the wildborne: Her epic version ( kaya the moonhunter) is better in nearly every aspect. She is still an ok warlock, but seldomly used

Feral Warwpolf: More or less outclassed by the Warpwolf stalker. Still has its uses as a heavy beatstick, but is seldomly seen on the table top since the stalker appeared

Argus: Like the cyclops savages in the skorne battlebox, they are pretty useless. I've never seen one on the table top, let alone 2

Depending on the casters you would like to use, i can give you some advice on alternate starting amies

ok thanks, maybe i might just get the circle units i want not the battlebox