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I have decided to sell off my 40k and concentrate purely on whfb. This is mainly due to time constraints and cash flow.

At present I'm agonising over which army and have it run down to 3 choices. But first a few factors affecting my decision.

1) Painting. Most of my painting is done in hotels for work, having an limited range of paints is a bonus as well as an easily transportable army.
Everything I use has to be carried with me.

2) Cash flow, although I don't get time to paint, I would like to maximise my points to cash ratio.

3) Time, painting and gaming time is precious to me. Vast ammounts of models will be incredably restictive.

So the options

Bretonnians
All cavalry and cheap infantry may be a pain to transport. The varied and bright colours of the knights would be a pain to paint. But I love the background and have been wanting to do a project of my own family heraldry across the lord and men at arms for a long time.
I own the army book.

Beastmen
Limited Pallet of paints is a great bonus, easily batch painted, but would they be a bit too Hordey for my limited time restraints. I am at heart a chaos nut, and they appeal greatly.

Wood Elves.
Limited pallet of paints, high points to £ ratio as their elves. And seem easily transportable. But background wise they are the least appealing to me. I own the army book.

Any other suggestions? I'm open to all armies, but those 3 grab my interest the most.

One other thing to consider is that I have not played fantasy for about 4 years, and my knowledge of the rules is dire.

Warriors of Chaos or Skaven ofcourse.

However, Brets look really impressive if nicely painted.

Beastmen are pretty nice, 2 battalions and an extra box of bestigor are pretty much all you need to get started. As for vast amount of models you'll need the basics of 40 Gor with AHW and 30-40 Bestigor, 4 units of 5 ungor raiders. This is the solid backbone of the beastmen army, the nice thing is the battalion remains the price it was 2 years ago. After this you can expand by adding single razorgor units, can save on money on these by converting Chaos Spawn bitz and boars from the Orc and Savage Orc Boar Kits 1-3 is all you really need which can be done with the 2 kits or cheaper by buying on eBay. Harpies are also nice, I converted mine with tyranid wings and ghouls but the new finecast 5 pack is a good deal, 1-2 units of 5 is nice. So now you have your backbone and your chaff now lets get started on the herdstone, go outside and grab a big rock and you're done, or make your own with foam and all that stuff, then you'll need 3-4 shaman metal models are cool or grab Malagor, the new GBS kit, Dark Emmisary (will need a 25mm base), and maybe a necromancer and put a beast head on him if you prefer plasic/resin only. Beastlord and BSB you can convert from Bestigor models or buy the metal ones. After that if you want you can get minotaur, chariots, ghogons, jabberslythe, 40-50 man ungor bunker whatever you want. So you are looking at 90ish models which isn't too bad for fantasy, it's not ogres or WoC but it's about average. As for painting them they are a breeze, prime, spray with basecoat wash highight fur and deails and done pretty much. Here is a link to my herd, I suck at painting but I feel they are done to a table top standard and can be done quickly: http://z8.invisionfree.com/herdstone/index.php?showtopic=23168

What Hargus said really.

The beastmen are sweet. I was running Empire and Lizardmen armies and couldn't help myself from buying some pestigors, bestigors, and a chariot.

Well beastmen look cool but with the Brettonian's you can make endless monty python quotes.

OGRES. Very limited palette. Very limited model #'s (least in the game). And they're big fatties, so it's easy to paint in a hotel. Very competitive army. I'd say near one of the top and has numerous strategies.

Daemons. Elite infantry and expensive units all around. And they are all pretty much the same colors. Fairly competitive, but less options than 8th armies. If you use a Greater Daemon (not hugely recommended) you won't have many models at all... Not a lot of tiny detail that is hard in hotel light (not much buckles or jewelry or pictures of girlfriends).

Lizardmen. Elite infantry and expensive heroes. Big dinosaurs. Everyone is the same color palette (if you choose). I mean, they're lizards. A very strong race. Though less strategies than 8th armies. Not a lot of tiny detail that is hard in hotel light (not much buckles or jewelry or pictures of girlfriends).

Lizardmen are an interesting option.

Ogres dont appeal to me, neither Daemons... funny that. Nothing other than background preferences .

Lizardmen are quite easy to do with a limited palette. Off the top of my head 10 paints would be enough to do an entire army unless you wanted diversity among non sentient creatures like stegadons and salamanders. Another nice thing is that you can make LM pretty much any color you want other than neon.

I did mine in a desert scheme with a rather small color selection:








All of those have the same 5 colors for skin and scales with a wash over it all.

Interesting,I want to get into fantasy and those are my top three picks as well! I voted Bretonnia though, since that's what I think I'll go with and they are just so unbelievably cool.

Brets. They sort of suck right now, but who cares! You've got chivalry and unwashed masses of peasants! That and even a small group of knights painted fluffy look awesome.

After careful consideration. I have decided to opt for Brettonians. Iv wanted to do my family heraldry project for a while. Its point heavy knights and bright colours will help prevent me get painting Burnout.

orkybenji wrote:
Interesting,I want to get into fantasy and those are my top three picks as well! I voted Bretonnia though, since that's what I think I'll go with and they are just so unbelievably cool.

Don't suppose you and anyone else is interested in doing a tale of 4 gamers type deal are you? Blog our army growth?

 Eetion wrote:
After careful consideration. I have decided to opt for Brettonians. Iv wanted to do my family heraldry project for a while. Its point heavy knights and bright colours will help prevent me get painting Burnout.

orkybenji wrote:
Interesting,I want to get into fantasy and those are my top three picks as well! I voted Bretonnia though, since that's what I think I'll go with and they are just so unbelievably cool.

Don't suppose you and anyone else is interested in doing a tale of 4 gamers type deal are you? Blog our army growth?

I'd be very interested, but I don't quite follow what you mean.

I've got a ton of archers, and a ton of mounted knights sitting in a box that I just never got around to touching because I have no idea what colors, or how to paint them fluffy, or what symbols to use, etc. etc.

Basicly set up a thread in painting projects, that documents the growth of our armies, no time limits or pledges, just post up pics as you work on the army.

A Tale of knights or whatever.

And basicly post up pics of the army growth and painting as it goes along on that thread.

 Ma55ter_fett wrote:
Well beastmen look cool but with the Brettonian's you can make endless monty python quotes.

Come see the violence inherent in the system!