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Hi, I'm brand new to wargaming and the forums, i'm from Wisconsin.

Not sure where to post this, so I'll post it here...

I'm looking to get into Warhammer AOS or warhammer 40k. Age of Sigmar looks like more fun to me and has really cool fantasy stuff but 40k is more popular and would probably be easier to find games to play, so I'm open to playing whichever game has an army that would suit me better...which means I need to find an army!

I'm not really sure what I need in an army to be honest. In AoS I think the Skaven look like a lot of fun. I love that there are lots of models, they look fun to paint, and they have some sweet siege weaponry. I think that is what I want most in an army- Lots of models to paint, and good siege weaponry. Usually in games I pick whichever faction suits my personality best and stick with them and it works out well...but for these games I have no idea. Other than skaven, Daemons of Nurgle appeal to me. I love their models, the glottkin and forgeworld great unclean one. I found a plague hulk on ebay at a good price, so I have that on the way. Other than my incoming plague hulk I only have the starter box for daemons of khorne and they don't seem cool at all to me, I just wanted something simple to learn to paint with and that's what my LGS had other than boring space marines.

So, essentially what I am looking for in an army, for either game is:

-One with varied and powerful very long-range weaponry (Like the warplock jezzail snipere)
-Lots of units is a pro
-some large monsters is a pro (love the glottkin and some demons are cool)
-Something very unique to the warhammer world and not boring and generic like space marines (Like the classic orcs and goblins, I refuse to say orruks and grots. ew. or the skaven)
-lots of variety in units to pick from (this is the main drawback to demons of nurgle. There just aren't a lot of them....but I love that I could play both games with nurgle forces.)

Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Definite pro if I could use the models in both games since I don't know who i'll be able to find to play with yet. The armies I am leaning towards are Nurgle forces and Skaven, both greatly appeal to me, but nurgle doesn't seem to have any siege or long range abilities and skaven have a ton. So for fantasy I think maybe mixing them would work well? The plague hulk is essentially a soul grinder and would work well with skaven. Other armies that appeal to me aesthetically are Lizardmen, (Seraphon) Sylvaneth, Beastmen (but I think they're not going to be supported anymore? They're hard to find many of on the GW site), tyranids, (though I don't like the ones with literal guns) Orks, and the Skittari.

I guess above all- I need an army that looks cool, and has enough different units to be flexible since I'm new. I don't want to be like "Oh, I guess I like shooting so I better get a new army since mine can't" or anything like that. I need something that can adapt and grow with me.

Any input at all would be GREATLY appreciated. I have no idea what to get at this point. Also, if you could note the typical playstyle for whichever army you recommend and maybe a suggestion of what units I should start with? I came into some capital with selling off my magic collection recently so don't be shy saying I might need a bunch of things! Thank you for your time!


EDIT: Posted this elsewhere but don't think I can delete the thread so I will leave this here.

Welcome to Dakka!

I'm pretty new to AOS but ill try and answer as best I can.

I'm collecting Wood Elves and High Elves, my lovely lady is collecting Skaven and Nurgle.

Skaven and nurgle seem to match well together, skaven have a good mix of horde style units (clan rats, plague monks, ect) Large units (storm vermin, doom wheels) and some siege style weapons (plague furnace and plague claw/warpfire). Good mix of shooting and melee.
Nurgle seem to favor the powerhouse units and single models, high wounds, good saves, strong abilitys, and huge creatures. Major focus on melee.

There are some cases on either side of the fence and im sure others will have better input. just trying to give you a starting point.

In case your wondering, seems the wood elves tend to favor range and magic, and the high elves seem to be a good mix of shooting, magic and melee. But my whole army isnt as good in melee as the skaven and nurgle. If I dont get a couple turns of shooting and magic in before they get close it usually goes bad for me.

~Edit~
From what ive seen, you can pretty much mix and match units from the same grand alliance. So any chaos would work with any chaos I believe rules wise. Might be able to mix everything lol

I think you're right you can just mix and match anything in AoS. I can't even find high elves and wood elves on the GW site. The sorting they have is god awful. All these silly tiny categories of like 2-7 units, why can't it just be sorted by actual factions? lol

Steuern wrote:
I think you're right you can just mix and match anything in AoS. I can't even find high elves and wood elves on the GW site. The sorting they have is god awful. All these silly tiny categories of like 2-7 units, why can't it just be sorted by actual factions? lol

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-JP/Warhammer-Age-of-Sigmar-Rules Is a list of the old armys warscrolls, but I agree the website is a pain to use sometimes. Hope that helps!

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