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Hello all I decided to start up warmachine. I chose the Protectorate to start with and have been reading the Canon of true Law on Privateers forums.

I am looking to understand exactly what the piper does and her points as well as how to build a tournament worthy assassination army. I have a few ideas and will post what I have so far as to my list in progress.

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

A free online army builder for Warmachine/Hordes:

http://www.forwardkommander.com

That'll give you all the points values you need.

I think the best way to build towards a tournament level army is to start at 15 points, play a bunch, move to 25, play a bunch and then 35 and play a bunch. If you want to play in 50 point tournaments, make the addition and play a bunch more games.

You can take someone else's awesome list and not be able to make it work they do. A list that you've made truly yours will be better than one provided for you to try.

The piper has 3 abilities and can give out 1 per turn.
1 +1 def and terror
2 pathfinder
3 tough and fearless
he costs 2 points, hope this helps.

It does thank you so tornys are 50pts? I was told they were 35. anyway I got a start to my list ill post it and ive done a few demos but nothing major untill recently.

35 and 50 are the most common tournament sizes.

Which caster were you thinking of using for assassination? Protectorate isn't the faction that comes to mind when I think straight caster kill, but it's far from impossible.

Kreoss' old pop & drop still works just fine. Now with 100% more Vanquishers! And Deliverer infantry can actually be nasty on his feat turn as well. The trusty Redeemer still does the job though.

I am using Keross with the fire of salvation atm. for the pop n drop style i read about