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Picked up the Cygnar Battle Box a couple of weeks ago, finally got it painted between work and kids:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-70973-33963_My%20Cygnar%20Battlebox.html

I have a Squire and the Black 13th on the way in the mail, and I have a painted Siege that I picked up just to paint years ago. I need to get some games under my belt, but I'm trying to look ahead for units/jacks that go well with pStryker or Siege (since those are my only choices atm).

Comments/help from those more experienced would be appreciated.

The stormblades with WA and UA are always a good pick. I've never played with Siege before but they are a staple with all my casters. ATGM w/ UA are very good too.

Long gunners are good with siege because of his foxhole ability. He likes to be able to use foxhole on units that don't need to move much which any cygnar player soon learns moving long gunners is a major mistake.

ATGM w/ UA is always a good choice no matter who the caster is. pStryker is a buff caster so bringing units that can make use of his upkeeps is a good idea. Stormblades are not a bad choice but I do not own them and don't plan on it. I like HHFG and Boomhowler & Co. for my tough units. and ATGM with blur on them is stupid good. If your playing stryker get Ol' rowdy. As far as siege goes Defenders are pretty much auto include and pretty much the only jack that Siege really really loves.

I'd agree- Stormblades don't see a ton of use, because they take a fair amount of support to not just get eaten before they can attack.

Defenders are definitely worth taking, and Ol' Rowdy is expensive but really efficient (unless you convert an ironclad. then it's just really efficient).

Adding the Squire, the Black 13th, and a full unit of Horgenhold Forge Guard will take me to exactly 25. That should hold me for a while until I want to take the next step up. Will definitely be buying Ol' Rowdy and Boomhowler though, love those minis. Hopefully the units I'm planning on will work well with pStryker, I think I'll stick with him for now until I really get the hang of the game.

Ol rowdy is great because he synergises with Stryker so well and is much better than an ironclad.
Then arcane gun mages and UA.
Journeyman for extra arcane shield never goes astray either.

You will find out quickly that having the Charger in the list really kind of hurts Stryker. The charger is so focus hungry that he cannot run efficiently with Stryker trying to run an ironclad at the same time.

I would look at something like this at 25 with those units with one swap.

System: Warmachine
Faction: Cygnar
Casters: 1/1
Points: 25/25
Commander Coleman Stryker (*6pts)
* Lancer (6pts)
* Ol' Rowdy (9pts)
* Squire (2pts)
Black 13th Gun Mage Strike Team (4pts)
Horgenhold Forge Guard (Leader and 9 Grunts) (8pts)
Gorman di Wulfe, Rogue Alchemist (2pts)

Drop the charger turn the ironclad into Ol' Rowdy and add Gorman. Gorman makes the B13th even more effective allowing them to remain in stealth at all times with his smoke bombs. This is how I utilize him I see them as the B13 +1. It makes the B13 much more trouble to deal with.

If your board has enough concealment for them to gain cover from then you might want to consider adding Jonas Murdoch to the HFFG to make them friendly faction so they can benefit from pStryker's feat because it is friendly faction only.

For Siege you want to take a defender or stormwall, a squire and reinholdt.

After that fill in the rest of your list with whatever you want as long as they don't need support from Seige. Seige is very stingy with his focus and does not like to give out more than a couple each turn. I prefer a shooty unit and a melee unit. The melee unit engages and ties things up. The shooty unit helps clear things out. And Seige and his jack kill things including casters.

Some of my favs so far to use; B-13, ATGM w/ marshaled jack (I like hunter), precursors. I have heard boomhowlers and Nyss both work well with him as well. I haven't tried it yet, but I think the gunmage tempests should work well, too. especially on feat turn.

Grats. I am painting a sentinel for a client currently. It's my first model from PP. it will get posted soon. I wish dakka had a separation of PP and GW painted models section...I have been searching these forums for PP models and there's not many or are lost in the GW stuff. I'm glad to see some painted up!