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Sometime in late January/ early February I'll be splitting the two-player Hordes starter box and getting the Legion of Everblight models. On the downside, the PP forums aren't particularly all that useful on introductory information (at least not as useful as the intros for Cygnar and Searforge), and BattleCollege is kind of hit and miss. What I'm getting around to asking is whether anyone can offer some advice for how to effectively use the contents of the starter box, how to branch out from that once I've gotten several games with the faction under my belt, and what strategies are effective with the Legion.

Any help would be appreciated.

The general consensus is that the legion box is a fairly good set but the beast loadout is not optimal for the caster included. Thankfully her feat does bring a little more help to the unit included in the two-player set.

Lylyth will be activating early and using the special ability of her bow to hit spells, probably one spell per turn. Against circle bad blood and eruption of spines will be more useful than the normally amazing parasite. Well, until they expand their force and try to bring high armor beasts against you, that is where parasite shines. Managing this warlock's fury will be a great challenge but once you know how to balance her transfers, spells, and boosts she will become fearsome. It takes some finesse.
If you are able to set it up, try to lure the opponent to leave his models within 8" of your shredders so you can utilize rabid to walk into melee and get two fully boosted attacks rather than having to force for the charge. The shredders are efficient little monsters but that much fury can get out of hand fast so be prepared for a frenzy or two.
The carnivean can eat anything he can hit and becomes much more accurate under lyl's feat. don't be afraid to charge him into a two-on-one situation on feat turn and just buy attacks against those squishy circle beasts. particularly if you chose to cast parasite on one of the targets.
The warspears aren't great but lylyth's feat brings the accuracy they need to hit more reliably with their ranged attacks and their assault charges will be effective against anything they hit in the two-player box.
Both of your animi are defensive in nature and spamming tenacity can make a bigger difference than you may realize so if your offensive spells are not very appealing for a turn, don't hesitate to have lyl cast it on herself and a warspear or two, just know that a damage transfer will always be better than tenacity for your warlock, don't run her dey to gain +1 def and +1 armor.

I've used the following to help assassinate casters in battle box games.

Have Lylyth pop her feat, shoot the enemy caster, cast parasite which will automatically hit, and now the caster can be charged for free. Carny charges in with free assault spray which can be boosted and +1 die from the feat. RAT 4 blows, but RAT 4 + 4 dice hits DEF 18 on average rolls! Charge in, boost to hit, boost dmg, usually ends a parasited warcaster, being POW 17, boostable.

Warspears (I believe they are included in the two player box) can also put some pain on a caster, but their rat is aweful. You'll have to KD the caster first or get close enough to where you can aim, but thats not likely to happen. Either way, with Parasite up, they are hitting at POW 16s. Not too bad, and shredders are missles that can be flung around the field also and its ok if they frenzy so fury management is less important for them.

Don't forget Bloodlure on the bow is an amazing tool. You can get beasts to charge for free upping their damage by a significant amount.