Welcome to the Heresy. I'll do my best to answer your questions.
Rahdok wrote:1. Where can i find indexs/faction rules etc? I kinda wanna build a Death Guard or Dark Angels or Alpha Legion. I like the color schemes and lore.
So they main rules are in the
Age of Darkness book. This book contains all the rules needed to play the game as well as all the background information, faction focuses on each legion, miniature showcase, etc.
Army lists for each faction can be found in their own respective
Liber. There are equivalent to
40k codecies.
Liber Astartes has the army lists and legion rules for all 9 of the Loyalist legions. Liber Hereticus has the same but for the Traitor legions. Liber Mechanicum has rules and army lists for Mechanicum, knights, and titans. Liber Imperium has everything for the Solar Auxillia, Custodes and Sister of Silence.
Cults/Militia and Ruinstorm Daemons rules as well as all
FAQs, Legacy units and Exemplary Battles can be found as PDF's
here.
2. Theres a box in GW's main site thats like $360, is that a good set to start out with? How much am I going into ForgeWorld for this?
There's both the Age of Darkness box set and the Battlegroup box. Both are excellent starting points for a marine army. Everything is more then usable for any marine army so you won't be permanently leaving stuff on the shelves to gather dust.
Both box sets are really good value. If you can, i'd recommend starting with the AoD box as that comes with the Rulebook as well.
If you collect marines, you can almost avoid
FW these days as so much has now been moved to plastic kits. If you choose Solar Aux or Custodes/
SoS then you'll still be looking in
FW's direction for stuff.
3. I got no problems supporting GW, but would resin printing my own minis be better?
Printing your own army is a more then viable option if you have a printer. There's plenty of free and paid files readily available if you know where to look or who to ask.
4. Do i have to 3d Print my legions choice of shoulder pads/symbols or is there like a sticker option or something? I already painted a checker board pattern for like 20 Lamenter's and....I don't want to have to free hand a hydra on 50+ minis...
FW does a range of sculpted shoulder pads if that's your jam. There are also decal sheets for each legion, but they can be hard to source as
GW has by and large let them run out of stock. The Dark Angels ones for example have been out of stock for over a year now in Australia with no sign of a restock. Buying them 2nd hand is an option, but people often charge excessive amounts for them.
5. Are all the models resin?
No! Good thing is that a lot of the range has been/and is in the process of being ported over to plastic. You can find it all under the Horus Heresy tab on the
GW website. A lot of the more niche stuff, such as superheavies and legion specific units, as well as characters are still resin, but the core stuff such as power armour, dreadnoughts, rhinos, etc are all plastic.
6. Does 30k have tournaments? It seems much more...Josh and the boys get together and play some HH more then "alright 6 bikers, 10 breachers, 6 jump packs with plasma...." etc. It seems much more free form then 40k, is it?
This depends largely on your local area/community. The community around me is much more casual/narrative based play, with events being non-competitive for the most part. But it will certainly differ from place to place.
The great thing about heresy is that at it's core, it's quite balanced as both loyalist and traitor factions work off the same base army list. Once you add in the Legion specific units it gets a bit skewed one way or the other. But it's not anywhere near the egregiousness that some of the
40k factions are capable of.
7. Are there any Youtube Channels that do 30k? I know WinterSEO has some and I loved watching them and seeing the models, but couldn't find too many more channels that did it.
The few that leap to mind are "The 30k Channel, and "S&N battle reports".
I've got a couple others saved. I'll have to hunt them out though.