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Hi, I am making my very first warhammer army and I would like to see your opinions before I start buying the models. I would like to start with 1500, and here we go:

Thane (119 pts)
-Great Weapon
-Master Rune of Gromril (1+ armor save that cannot be improved)
-Rune of Resistance (Reroll failed armor saves)

Runesmith (122 pts)
-Shield
-Rune of Spellbreaking (x2)

10 Quarellers (125 pts)
-Light armor
-Shield
-Crossbow
-Musician

10 Quarellers (125 pts)
-Light armor
-Shield
-Crossbow
-Musician

20 Warriors (215 pts)
-Heavy armor
-Great Weapon
-Standard
-Musician

20 Warriors (215 pts)
-Heavy armor
-Great Weapon
-Standard
-Musician

24 Longbeards (303 pts)
-Heavy armor
-Shield
-Standard
-Musician

Cannon (125 pts)
-Rune of Forging (Reroll Missfires)

Bolt Thrower (90 pts)
-Engineer (+1BS and extra crewman)
-Rune of Penetrating (+1 Strength)
-Rune of Burning (Fire attacks)

Bolt Thrower (60 pts)
-Engineer (+1BS and extra crewman)

Pretty good! You may find the warrior blocks to be a tad small for your tastes, but its worth trying out. If you don't like it, you can always combine them- or make a unit of 30, and a "chaff" unit of 10 (or 10 with shields).

The only change I'd really recommend is dropping that thane's great weapon and making him a BSB, perhaps dropping the rune of penetrating (cool as it is) for the points.

You can get away without just a little courtesy of your longbeards, but you'll find that the re-rolls on swift reforms, combat reforms, break tests, fear, etc, etc, really favor a BSB.

Also, you may want to consider hammerers at some point- though that will bring your list closer to a "netlist" which I'm all for discouraging. They really are great value.

In short, get yourself a BSB and the rest will work itself out provided you're not playing in the most cutthroat of environments.

And welcome to Dwarves!

Overall the list looks fine I'm just offering my advice on what I would change. I'm sure you'd do fairly well with this list.

uriell4ever wrote:
Thane (119 pts)
-Great Weapon
-Master Rune of Gromril (1+ armor save that cannot be improved)
-Rune of Resistance (Reroll failed armor saves)

Runesmith (122 pts)
-Shield
-Rune of Spellbreaking (x2)

I'd make the Thane a BSB. The leadership rerolls are incredibly useful.

10 Quarellers (125 pts)
-Light armor
-Shield
-Crossbow
-Musician

10 Quarellers (125 pts)
-Light armor
-Shield
-Crossbow
-Musician

Looks good, you might be able to save some points by dropping the shields but that is your call. I don't see these units standing up in H2H nor can I see them really getting shot at very much when there are so many warmachines/GW dwarves nearby.

20 Warriors (215 pts)
-Heavy armor
-Great Weapon
-Standard
-Musician

20 Warriors (215 pts)
-Heavy armor
-Great Weapon
-Standard
-Musician

I'd combine these into one unit that you run either 6 wide or in a horde. It would save you points on buying a second set of command and would help you get steadfast/take it away from other units.

24 Longbeards (303 pts)
-Heavy armor
-Shield
-Standard
-Musician

I'd keep this unit in but drop the longbeards upgrade. Use them as a support unit for your big warrior block. Alternatively just throw them into the warrior block to give yourself a huge horde unit of GW dwarves.

Cannon (125 pts)
-Rune of Forging (Reroll Missfires)

Bolt Thrower (90 pts)
-Engineer (+1BS and extra crewman)
-Rune of Penetrating (+1 Strength)
-Rune of Burning (Fire attacks)

Bolt Thrower (60 pts)
-Engineer (+1BS and extra crewman)

Looks good. If you do some of the stuff above you might be able to save enough points to fit a flame cannon in.