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She wants an army that has an art direction heavily influenced by current steampunk trends and one that has a good steampunky female warcaster (Goggles/tophat/etc..)
I'm new to the game myself so I really don't even know where to start.
Any suggestions?


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Oh, and plastic is preferred, obviously.

Cygnar





Closest you're going to get I think.

Top Hats? Fashionable Steampunk? Sounds more like Malifaux than Warmachine to me. Either way, it's not gonna be plastic.

Definitely Cygnar

Great. Thanks. I'll show her and see what happens.

Chongara wrote:
Top Hats? Fashionable Steampunk? Sounds more like Malifaux than Warmachine to me.

true. Rasputina first comes to mind

You won't be able to avoid metal in Warmachine unless you severly limit your model range. Only the Casters that come in the Battleboxes and Starter sets are in plastic. That's the biggest limiting factor, you won't have much caster variety.

All the factions have at least 1 plastic warjack/warbeast kit that does a couple different varients off the same body. Magnets are a good idea here.

And there is more and more plastic infantry, but it will be tough to do an all plastic army.


Metal isn't that scary, the PP models are relativly simple to put together. Not like some older GW metals that were a nightmare without advanced pinning skills.

I suggest you go here.

http://privateerpress.com/warmachine/gallery

Has every model in Every Faction currently Available.

Menoth has.
Feora, Thyra, Harbinger As female Caster

Cygnar
Haley, Kara Sloan

Khador
Sorscha Kratikoff, Old Witch

Cyrx.
Denegra, Witch Coven, Skarra (Not really steampunkish as undead)

Retribution
Kaelyssa
Ravyn

pinning

I just take a bit of greenstuff and add glue.It's quick and works like a charm.

Thanks all, she's interested in Cygnar now. I'm doing demo games with her tonight.

 Grey Templar wrote:
Metal isn't that scary, the PP models are relativly simple to put together. Not like some older GW metals that were a nightmare without advanced pinning skills.

I cannot disagree more. Multi parts metal Privateer Press models are a pain to put together. Stuff like Deathjack, Bane Knights, Nyss Raiders, Skorne Titans... leaving alone models that simply don't align correctly (Pureblood Warpwold (metal) and eThagrosh don't rest with all limbs on the same plane and need some support on the base).
I quit WM/Hordes back in the days of 1st edition because I hated assembling the models. I'm come back now because I believed the (not so true) statement that PP was making it plastic...

This said, I'm glad I'm back to the game because its ruleset and its gameplay are (for me, for my taste) the best I've ever played (and I played lots of games).

also, while assembling some GW metal models was a source of blasphemy and profanities, too (I played Tyranids in 1st / 2nd edition), it was nothing compared the worst stuff by PP.

 matphat wrote:
Thanks all, she's interested in Cygnar now. I'm doing demo games with her tonight.

souds great! have fun

Gabbi wrote:

 Grey Templar wrote:
Metal isn't that scary, the PP models are relativly simple to put together. Not like some older GW metals that were a nightmare without advanced pinning skills.

I cannot disagree more. Multi parts metal Privateer Press models are a pain to put together. Stuff like Deathjack, Bane Knights, Nyss Raiders, Skorne Titans... leaving alone models that simply don't align correctly (Pureblood Warpwold (metal) and eThagrosh don't rest with all limbs on the same plane and need some support on the base).

Okay if you buy all of the worst models, yea you will have problems. There are many more that are great fits than there are nyss hunter or deathjack nightmares. There are some metal models that fit together well in spite of their complexity. General Nemo comes to mind. Also, for what it's worth eThagrosh went together very well for me.

 Dais wrote:
Okay if you buy all of the worst models, yea you will have problems. There are many more that are great fits than there are nyss hunter or deathjack nightmares. There are some metal models that fit together well in spite of their complexity. General Nemo comes to mind. Also, for what it's worth eThagrosh went together very well for me.

I was replying to the quoted post, made to a person still not in the game, stating that models are simple to put together, easier than GW's one. That's simply not true (imho, obv) as for as much as I can dislike GW for LOTS of good reasons, their models are enginereed WAY BETTER than PP ones.
About the "worst models" choice, I have not got all of them, I was deliberately listing some of the worst to assemble that came to mind atm, but they're all widely played models, so it's easy that someone finds himself purchasing and assembling one or another. I agree that Pureblood is a self-inflicted punishment, as I could have purchased the plastic one, but the metal one looks waaay better, so it's well worth the effort (again, imho). nonetheless, is a badly, badly enginereed piece: once assembled it does not rest on a plane and needs something massive (more than eThagrosh) under its left leg. (also, I was reporting these two, not as difficult to assemble (while I have pinned every piece of the Pureblood) but as models badly cast/enginereed/whatever as the ending model doesn't have all three limbs on ground).

also, I want to be clear that I'm not stating that there aren't models (metal) easy to assemble and/or with nicely matching parts. even some big ones, standard Cryx helljacks, for example (that reminds me that "crab" ones were a pain, thoug, luckyly now they're plastic).
simply, for me, the worst of GW metal nightmare was no way near the worst by PP, also in PP line(s) they are more frequent...

Gabbi wrote:
I can dislike GW for LOTS of good reasons, their models are enginereed WAY BETTER than PP ones.
for me, the worst of GW metal nightmare was no way near the worst by PP, also in PP line(s) they are more frequent...

You clearly never had the misfortune of having to assemble a metal krootox. The engineering on that thing was an insult to the industry.

I think we can both agree that the medium of metal has far less to do with assembly than how well it was designed. To me, a well engineered metal model is just as fun a build as a well engineered plastic one. Well, except it usually takes longer to build.

almost all the PP metals made in the last four to five years are excellent in their design and assemble easy. The ones that were made before Superiority are the ones that tend to have the most problems.

That said, there are some older PP models that desperately need reculpts to ease assembly. Deathjack and nyss hunters come to mind.

Chongara wrote:
Top Hats? Fashionable Steampunk? Sounds more like Malifaux than Warmachine to me. Either way, it's not gonna be plastic.

And depending on where you play and who you play with you could probably use some of the malifaux models to represent Cygnar ones. Particularly some of the solos/mercs.

Gabbi wrote:

 Grey Templar wrote:
Metal isn't that scary, the PP models are relativly simple to put together. Not like some older GW metals that were a nightmare without advanced pinning skills.

I cannot disagree more. Multi parts metal Privateer Press models are a pain to put together. Stuff like Deathjack, Bane Knights, Nyss Raiders, Skorne Titans... leaving alone models that simply don't align correctly (Pureblood Warpwold (metal) and eThagrosh don't rest with all limbs on the same plane and need some support on the base).
I quit WM/Hordes back in the days of 1st edition because I hated assembling the models. I'm come back now because I believed the (not so true) statement that PP was making it plastic...

This said, I'm glad I'm back to the game because its ruleset and its gameplay are (for me, for my taste) the best I've ever played (and I played lots of games).

also, while assembling some GW metal models was a source of blasphemy and profanities, too (I played Tyranids in 1st / 2nd edition), it was nothing compared the worst stuff by PP.

Odd, I just put together a Titan just last night and had no trouble at all.

Of course I have been assembling metal models for years so my skill might be blinding me.

me too, as I've already said, I played Tyranids in early versions of WH40K (but not limited to that. I've assembled dragons, a steamtank, various SM stuff such as landspeeders and dreadnought, all in metal), and find PP models generally more inclined to be difficult to assemble (or worse, with parts that simply doesn't align correctly) than GW ones. I talk both of raw percentge of models (could list more PP's than GW's) and worseness of the problem.
never assembled the above mentioned Krotox, though.
that said, it's not pointless issue, for me, as the game is well worth the efforts and don't want to play something else as my "main" game.