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So I set out on my WFB adventure determined to limit the scope of my armies to around the size of each of the starter armies included in 6th, 7th, and 8th. I like variety so I decided to keep things small, therefore have more money to expand to other armies. I actually had bought a used Empire battalion set for the Knights and extra Champion, General, and other bits. I ended up selling most those extras (such as the line troops) that I didn't need for my 700 point army. Same with the extra Orcs I had too.

And everything was fine as I picked up the 7th and 8th starter sets. It wasn't until I picked up the Lizardmen, Wood Elves, and Chaos Warrior battalions did things start changing. All of those sets, in addition to adding heros and wizards to the sets, puts me over my original cap. I had thought of selling off the extra 10 Saurus warriors, or Dryads I didn't need, but to be honest, the variety of the sprues really makes me want to build them. In the case of the Saurus warriors for example, I actually do not have duplicates of my Saurus formations because I can arm 10 with spears and the other 10 with those club things, which is great. AND, in the case of the Lizardmen, the sprues come with those snakes to make up a jungle swarm. So the next thing I know, I actually have, give or take, some 969 points, so I have some points extra to buy some magic items and so on to make 1000.

Wood Elves are the same, just adding a couple of heros, and the Eternal Guard I wanted anyway, I will use my battalion set to make Archers and a small unit of scouts to put me around the same.

Chaos? Might as well use the rest of those Marauders (I was only going to use 10) and arm them differently, and the extra Chieftain I want to add, along with a Chariot, puts me at 925. So points left over for magic and so on.

The only reason I can do any of this is because the sprues for many of these line troops come with their own banner, musician parts, and so on. So I don't even had to hunt down those parts like I had to with the 6th edition set.

I didn't want to spend a ton of money on any army, as I am really in it for the variety, but looking at my Empire bits, I realized I had saved the Mortars from the battalion set along with the crew (I was afraid I purged it), and I have wanted a set of 10 State troops anyway, and I already have an extra Captain on Warhorse. So I actually have close to 1000 for my Empire too.

Orcs and Goblins I will just combine as needed. Although I did pick up an extra Orc boys because I wants to build some with spears, and the ones I have from the starter are the two choppa ones. So that settles them.

For Skaven I want 20 Stormvermin, and that will settle that.

High Elves I really need a core unit, because my starter army really isn't even legal since the Swordmasters and Reavers are Special. But I have an extra noble model too, on horse, I can add. I am not even crazy about the High Elves so not in a hurry on these guys.

Last is the Dwarves. I am iffy on these guys too. I thought about going after Ironbreakers. Not sure yet.

So the path to 1000 is set I guess. I WILL NOT GO TO 2000. 1000 is it. Just saying this because I know it is what some of you wanted.
   
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Adrift within the vortex of my imagination.

A step in the right direction.

You are a collector aren't you. I can tell because you want so many armies. Someone who is gaming orientated might collect more than one army, but its done one at a time, those who are modelling/painting orientated want to showcase their painted stuff or talk about what faction theme they want. Collectors want the toy soldiers they want.

This is no critique, or if it somehow is it is entirely hypocritical. I am a collector through and through, first of a few armies now of many.

My armies are fieldable but often have one of each of everything rather than a specific combat build, I also do my best to limit my collection size. First it was 3k, but moved to 5k for my High Elves to have all the trimmings. then I dropped to 4k but let characters out of the collection limit as they could be swapped out. Meanwhile I started other armies, first one of two, not I am on my twelfth.

I will not go to 2000pts. Not long ago you would not got to 1000pts. I agree with the number of armies you are dollecting I think you can top out at 3000pts, which is about 2300pts plus a selection of characters. It might take a while but you will get there.

This is not a curse, unless you see it as such, its a widening door into a wondrous world of miniatures hobbying and collecting. You are consdiering all the units above, but you haven't had the joy, yet of seeing your ranked up orcs with a a lord on a wyvern towering up behind them. You will and you will love it, and you will want it.
There is no shame in this, said wyvern will rarely see the tabletop because of the inherent problems with monsters, but for a collector that isnt as important.

Ahead of you is the joy of building orcs n such numbers they look impressive on the shelf and you will love them as other would love a painting or an expensive vase. Ahead of you is a Dark Elf army with a monster mash of horrors, hydras, harpies the impressive Dark Elf dragon model and several units with their own aesthetic. Once you come to love the elven factions you will realise you cant do justice to them unless you have good sample of all their many units, they will up the points cap of those armies and in turn you will be tempted to buy more of other things to balance.
You have yet to build an Empire army with massed cavalry a solid gunline and large blocks of infantry, and you have yet to buy one wizard form every college of magic, a warpriest a witch hunter and several other characters for full flavour.
You have yet to add a BSB for every faction then find they are so fun to make the extra special banner that you add another as a mounted variant to widen the tactical vitality of your list building.
You have yet to try and copy an army from Total War Warhammer, and indeed might not, you might want one from the compendiums instead.
You have yet to get the buzz to buy special characters and read into their backstories and find out why they are awesome and beloved by generations of gamers, and you are yet to play out their grudge matches on the tabletop.

Welcome to Warhammer, so far you have only dipped your toe in, it goes a whole lot deeper.

There is madness in it too. I already have my orc wyvern, and the wyvevn I have fits the base scale. It is this one:


Though I enjoyed choosing the replacement helmet, one from the plastic warboss kit with horns to match that of his mount. Because sourcing all this is part of the fun too.
Despite having everything worked out I bought this last week, it has yet to arrive and I eagerly await:


Now my new wyvern wont even fit the 50x50 base, I will need to use a custom base and work out with my opponent how that works. I don't care. Look at the beastie, its too damn gorgeous, I must have it.

Someday this might also be how you collect. And I am restrained compared to many.


Tip: Paint slowly carefully and well, the journey is its own reward, soon you may have a wall or two of this stuff, it will look awesome, it will be of interest to those who visit you and you will treasure it all of your days.

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n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.

It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. 
   
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Ironbreakers would be a great addition to the Dwarfs army. Hammerers would also be a nice add-on.


As far as High Elves go, I'd chase down the Battalion box if you can find one. It had a block of Spearmen, a block of Archers, a unit of Silver Helms, AND a plastic Repeater Bolt Thrower. That would shoot you WAY past your points total, but it also gives you enough modularity to build your 1,000 any way you want. If you are looking for JUST enough core to make the army legal, then I'd either just hunt down some Archers OR I'd run the Reavers as Silver Helms.

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Germany

Congrats KTG17. 1000 Points are great for some smaller scale games. Glad we are able to convince you it is a good idea to stock up just a little.

But I don't want to keep you from buidling and painting so you can field your armies in all their glory.


   
Made in us
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Monticello, IN

It's too bad you don't live in Indiana, we'd be more than happy to make time for some games.

www.classichammer.com

For 4-6th WFB, 2-5th 40k, and similar timeframe gaming

Looking for dice from the new AOS boxed set and Dark Imperium on the cheap. Let me know if you can help.
 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Its AoS, it doesn't have to make sense.
 
   
Made in ca
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Gentlemen, when we set out on this journey together, I had every intention to sticking to 700 point armies. Due to some arm twisting and an abundance of minis that come in the battalion sets, I have agreed to bump up my armies to 1000 points.

With that being said, I concluded a deal to acquire a set of Ironbreakers and Longbeards, thus completing my Dwarf army.

I will say this, I do love the idea of the hammer guys, as the set allows me to make those too, but man I hate the helmets. So for that reason going with the Longbeards. Plus fluff-wise it probably makes sense to have some veterans. RH doesn’t give an option to equip those guys with great weapons, which would have been nice. And because of that, just about all of my dwarves are armed with hand weapon and shields :(

I have no idea what Irondrakes are, so just doing the Ironbreakers, which is fine.

So there you have it.

It’s astonishing how much I have bought over the last few months, which is far more than I ever spent on any edition for 40k. To be honest WFB makes 40k feel really bland. I really really enjoy assembling these figures.

Thane 50
- Heavy Armor 4
- Shield 2
- Pistol 7
- Axe of Cleaving 50
Dragon Slayer 90
- +1 Hand Weapon 6
Warriors (10) 70
- Shields (10) 10
- Champion 10
- Standard 10
- Musician 10
Miners (10) 100
- Champion 10
- Standard 10
- Musician 10
Thunderers (10) 120
- Champion 10
- Standard 10
- Musician 10
Dwarf Cannon 100
699


Longbeards (10) 110
- Champion 10
- Standard 10
- Musician 10

Ironbreakers (10) 130
- Champion 10
- Standard 10
- Musician 10



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Oh, and I would like to add that I did pick up the Eternal Guard and Stormvermin I mentioned above. So those armies are complete.

ARE YOU JEALLY?!?


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 Orlanth wrote:
A step in the right direction.

You are a collector aren't you. I can tell because you want so many armies. Someone who is gaming orientated might collect more than one army, but its done one at a time, those who are modelling/painting orientated want to showcase their painted stuff or talk about what faction theme they want. Collectors want the toy soldiers they want.

This is no critique, or if it somehow is it is entirely hypocritical. I am a collector through and through, first of a few armies now of many.

My armies are fieldable but often have one of each of everything rather than a specific combat build, I also do my best to limit my collection size. First it was 3k, but moved to 5k for my High Elves to have all the trimmings. then I dropped to 4k but let characters out of the collection limit as they could be swapped out. Meanwhile I started other armies, first one of two, not I am on my twelfth.

I will not go to 2000pts. Not long ago you would not got to 1000pts. I agree with the number of armies you are dollecting I think you can top out at 3000pts, which is about 2300pts plus a selection of characters. It might take a while but you will get there.

This is not a curse, unless you see it as such, its a widening door into a wondrous world of miniatures hobbying and collecting. You are consdiering all the units above, but you haven't had the joy, yet of seeing your ranked up orcs with a a lord on a wyvern towering up behind them. You will and you will love it, and you will want it.
There is no shame in this, said wyvern will rarely see the tabletop because of the inherent problems with monsters, but for a collector that isnt as important.

Ahead of you is the joy of building orcs n such numbers they look impressive on the shelf and you will love them as other would love a painting or an expensive vase. Ahead of you is a Dark Elf army with a monster mash of horrors, hydras, harpies the impressive Dark Elf dragon model and several units with their own aesthetic. Once you come to love the elven factions you will realise you cant do justice to them unless you have good sample of all their many units, they will up the points cap of those armies and in turn you will be tempted to buy more of other things to balance.
You have yet to build an Empire army with massed cavalry a solid gunline and large blocks of infantry, and you have yet to buy one wizard form every college of magic, a warpriest a witch hunter and several other characters for full flavour.
You have yet to add a BSB for every faction then find they are so fun to make the extra special banner that you add another as a mounted variant to widen the tactical vitality of your list building.
You have yet to try and copy an army from Total War Warhammer, and indeed might not, you might want one from the compendiums instead.
You have yet to get the buzz to buy special characters and read into their backstories and find out why they are awesome and beloved by generations of gamers, and you are yet to play out their grudge matches on the tabletop.

Welcome to Warhammer, so far you have only dipped your toe in, it goes a whole lot deeper.

There is madness in it too. I already have my orc wyvern, and the wyvevn I have fits the base scale. It is this one:


Though I enjoyed choosing the replacement helmet, one from the plastic warboss kit with horns to match that of his mount. Because sourcing all this is part of the fun too.
Despite having everything worked out I bought this last week, it has yet to arrive and I eagerly await:


Now my new wyvern wont even fit the 50x50 base, I will need to use a custom base and work out with my opponent how that works. I don't care. Look at the beastie, its too damn gorgeous, I must have it.

Someday this might also be how you collect. And I am restrained compared to many.


Tip: Paint slowly carefully and well, the journey is its own reward, soon you may have a wall or two of this stuff, it will look awesome, it will be of interest to those who visit you and you will treasure it all of your days.


This was all very interesting and I agree. I do like that Wyvern too. I have them in Man O’ War lol. I think someday I will grab some of these larger models just for the sake of building. I will never have the armies to play them tho.

Unless... unless... I ally these mofos up... !!

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Highlord with a Blackstone Fortress






Adrift within the vortex of my imagination.

That wyvern did arrive and it is as good as it looks.

GW do reruns of old Warhammer characters for a week every now and then. Last week i collected delivery of my Kurt Helborg, Thorik Ironbrow and Thorgrim Grudgebringer models.
I didnt need any of them, but they are extra flavour for my collections.

n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.

It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. 
   
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JUST NAILED A MINT ON SPRUE PLASTIC HIGH ELF BOLT REPEATER! I've been looking and looking at used and beat up Bolt Repeaters (which are kinda pricey to begin with) thinking what it would take to make one in nice condition and stumbled upon this baby. So very happy.

Just need a box of Spearmen now, and my High Elves are complete.
   
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Adrift within the vortex of my imagination.

You can go the Sea Guard route and ignore both spearelves and archers. This is the opposite to what I did, but I got my High Elves when the tree was in fruit. Sea Guard are readily available at least due to the 8th starter set.

A tip with spearelves, they are one of the older plastic boxsets and the scaling is a bit off in parts. Still a good kit though. Paint the hands brown and consider them gloved, this was the oversized hands do not look out of place.

n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.

It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. 
   
Made in us
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Well the Sea Guard have the obvious bows and arrows on the models, so I am kind of being picky about getting actual Spear Men. And you are right, from what I have see online the portions seemed a little off to me as well. Oh well.

BTW, I was organizing my 40k stuff and sorting out my projects and I have to be honest I have lost just about all interest in 40k. All the years of BS rules and disappointing play and I think I really turned the corner on it all. I am keeping what I have, just boxing some of it up for awhile. Maybe some day I will be inspired to come back and finish some things off, but I will be honest I think I am done buying anything new for it, no matter what new editions look like. On the other hand, I am just so excited about WFB and everything I am doing. I never accumulated this much stuff for 40k.
   
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Seaguard are a good mix with regular spears. If you want it to be a seaguard unit, put them in the front. Regular spears, put them in the back.

Having said that, the Archer box and Spearelf box are interchangeable, so you can make seaguard that way too if you want.
   
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Monticello, IN

Actually, the Spearelf set came with quivers and bows SPECIFICALLY to make Seaguard.

www.classichammer.com

For 4-6th WFB, 2-5th 40k, and similar timeframe gaming

Looking for dice from the new AOS boxed set and Dark Imperium on the cheap. Let me know if you can help.
 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Its AoS, it doesn't have to make sense.
 
   
 
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