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Hi, I have decided to go with Cygnar as my first army as they look really sweet. Also, a lot of people in my local meta play Khador apparently.

I am wondering where I should start, and what I should start with. I want to make a list for playing small games first. Should I get the battle box?

Some of the things I really like about Cygnar and units I definitely want to incorporate in my army are:

-trencher infantry (and the heavy weapons teams, the HMG looks awesome)
-warjacks (light and heavy, and definitely with guns on them. The cyclone warjack looks AWESOME.)
-darius looks pretty cool too, but I could do without him if he isn't good for starting out.

As for play style, I like shooty, but I want to be able to finish my enemy off in assault.
Money wise, I have about 150$ canadian I can spend on stuff.

So I need all the help I can get. Thanks for reading!

For cyclone should get the gunmage unit and UA, since they can jack marshal the cyclone to give it some very useful buffs to it's ranged attacks [otherwise it's overpriced]

True, thanks. As for trencher infantry, is there a way to make them work in a cygnar list? I dont want the whole focus of the list to be trenchers, just to use a unit of them because they look so cool.

They really need some help to be effective on the attack, but their smoke grenades can help a melee unit close the distance to the enemy unmolested (unless you are against legion), but its very inefficient to use them as a screen for melee troops like that. In terms of attacking, you either want maxwell finn in a position to give them veteran leader, or a caster with snipe/deadeye (imo deadeye is the better one here, although snipe can help, but you'll need to cra to hit anything)

Well, if it effects your decision, I just got darius myself, and you're probably going to be playing against me some. MM sure has a lot of him though.

I think I'm gonna be going with mennoth instead of cygnar, it seems to me that all the units I am a fan I in cygnar are subpar or points inefficient.


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Menoth wise, I think starting with the battlebox seems like the way to go, then a choir, then exemplar errants, bastions and more jacks I guess

Cool! When you have your force set up (or rather, when I do. I still need to find 2 heavy jacks...) we should have a game.

I would only want to use trecnhers in Siege's original theme list, since he makes trenchers and commandos [both overpriced] cost less points.

MaxZ wrote:
I think I'm gonna be going with mennoth instead of cygnar, it seems to me that all the units I am a fan I in cygnar are subpar or points inefficient.


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Menoth wise, I think starting with the battlebox seems like the way to go, then a choir, then exemplar errants, bastions and more jacks I guess

That's literally the same thing I've been thinking.

If you want to start Cygnar then go with the Starter box, pStryker is a good caster to learn with.

If you like Trenchers, then there are several casters that make then useful in on offensive way. pCaine, p/eHaley and Kara Sloan as they all have access to Dead eye.

You really have to decide how you want to play trenchers, either as a screen unit or offensive unit.