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Are WH Empire outriders good alternatives price wise to IG rough riders? as far as i can tell they can only be purchased 1 at a time 12 buck a pop.

http://www.amazon.com/Games-Workshop-86-19-Outriders-Warhammer/dp/B000MRXJ04/ref=pd_sim_t_7


i haven't been to ebay yet but what are good cost effective alternatives to GW rough riders?

I've heard good things about:

WFB Pistoliers (5 for £15.50)
WFB Marauder Horsemen (ditto)
WFB Dark Elf Coldone Riders

Personally I use the marauders but thats due to using traitor guard instead of the standard imperial kind. You'll have a bit of modification to do to make them look more "uniform" in appearance.

It'll come down to how much conversion you want to do really, apparently its possible (though not easy) to modify SM scout bikers into cadian bikers for rough riders.

There are some nice thrid party riders that fit better.

One of the best rough riders i have ever seen was in a massively converted IG army, all the tanks were gravtanks converted with landspeeders and the rough riders were converted using judge dredd hoverboards (GW made) and notmal catachan guardsmen with spears.

The army got a full four pages in an issue of WD.